PhD student in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Biography
Veronica completed a Joint Bachelor´s and Master´s Degree of Laws in 1999 in ESADE (Barcelona), majoring in Business Law. Upon graduation, she worked as a lawyer for 5 years in top law firms in Barcelona (Landwell and Cuatrecasas Abogados) and Madrid (K-Legal), where she specialized in IP and IT law. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Media Studies (studied part-time and on personal interest in cinema) and a BSc in Psychology, with a major in clinical psychology. Her strong interest during her MBA in the organisational behaviour arena motivated her to study a PhD at the LSE in this area, where she is currently a PhD candidate in the Management Department (EROB group).
She is currently working as a class teacher at the LSE, leading seminars on organizational behavior and change for undergraduate students. She also works as an executive coach at the London Business School.
During the first years of her PhD Veronica worked as a research assistant at the London Business School for the Entrepreneurship Department coding data on the Global Business Impact of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Lent and Summer Term 2007) and for the Organisational Behaviour Department analyzing data on the influence of weather as a proxy for mood in top management teams´ decision making (Michaelmas Term 2007).
She has also been working as an executive coach for the last 3 years, coaching MBA Executives and full time students from the LBS´ EMBA, SEMBA, GLAM, DLEMBA and NISM programmes on their Leadership and Negotiation Skills (London and Dubai LBS campuses, 2007 to present). She goes to Dubai twice a year to coach executive MBAs, where she uses group and individual sessions to raise awareness of key interpersonal and teamwork skills necessary for cross-cultural leadership and teamwork, in order to help them develop effective personal and team action plans for success in the global business environment.
Veronica received a British Journal of Industrial Relations Teaching Fellowship 2009/2010 (EROB, LSE, UK).
Veronica is native in Spanish and Catalan and speaks fluent Portuguese and English. Having lived for 8 months in Paris and for 2 months in Florence she has basic knowledge of both French and Italian.
Research Interests
Subject areas: Social Exchange Theory, Interdependence Theory, Psychological Contracts, the Employment Relationship, LMX, POS, Individual differences, Social Cognition and Emotion.
The focus of her research is in employment relationship processes at the individual level, with a special interest in the impact relationship quality has on individual reactions to perceptions of psychological contract breach, aiming to understand how and why some relationships persist through difficult times while others don´t by using social exchange theory, interdependence theory and social cognition theory.
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