Leadership
How leaders shape the conditions under which people thrive, struggle, and stay engaged.
- Leader behaviour
- Influence
- Employee well-being
University of Cincinnati · Lindner College of Business
Sodiq Babatunde
Studying how people lead, endure stigma, and make meaning of time at work.I’m a doctoral researcher in Management studying leadership, dirty work, and the role of time in organizations.
Management Researcher
Leadership · Stigma · Time
Bridging rigorous organizational-behaviour research and the real experience of work.
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Peer-reviewed publications
57
Total citations
5
h-index
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Research
Three questions that drive my work
Dirty Work & Occupational Stigma
Why some workers in stigmatized jobs stay satisfied while others burn out.
- Occupational stigma
- Emotional exhaustion
- Self-consciousness
Time & Temporality
How the experience of time shapes work, leadership, and organizational life.
- Temporality
- Pacing
- Organizational rhythm
Featured publication
Shake it off: The role of self-consciousness in dictating whether dirty work reduces satisfaction through emotional exhaustion
Sodiq O. Babatunde, Scott Dust, Ben Fagan · Journal of Management & Organization (2025)
Drawing on Job Demand-Resource theory and a four-week time-lag survey of 234 workers in stigmatized 'dirty' occupations, this study shows that self-consciousness shapes whether dirty work erodes satisfaction. Dirty work is positively associated with emotional exhaustion — which reduces job, career, and life satisfaction — but workers less preoccupied with how society judges them experience lower exhaustion.
Speaking
Research that leaves the page
I regularly present my work at management conferences — most recently “Shake It Off: Dirty Work and Employee Satisfaction” at the 2025 Southern Management Association Annual Meeting in Greenville, South Carolina.
Teaching
Turning research into the classroom
I teach undergraduate management at the University of Cincinnati, helping students translate organizational-behaviour evidence into practical leadership skills.
See teaching →MGMT 3080
Management
Instructor · University of Cincinnati
Let’s talk research, collaboration, or speaking
Open to research collaborations, doctoral conversations, and invitations to present my work on leadership and the lived experience of work.
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