Riccardo Peccei is an Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.

Born in Turin, Italy, Riccardo received a BA in History from Harvard University and a BPhil and DPhil in Sociology from Oxford University. Before joining King’s in 2000, he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science for nearly twenty years. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the Industrial Sociology Unit at Imperial College and a Senior Research Officer at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

He has been involved in a range of international research projects and has held a number of academic appointments outside of the UK, including Visiting Research Fellow and Chair at Erasmus University (2003-2007) and Tilburg University (2007-2015) in The Netherlands, and Visiting Research Fellow at Ghent University in Belgium (2022-23).

He has published widely in the areas of industrial democracy and partnership, employee participation, customer service behaviour and the analysis of service work, HRM, employee well-being and organisational performance, the multilevel analysis of HRM systems, and conceptual and measurement issues in the field of HRM. His publications have appeared in many of the top journals in the field of management, organisational behaviour and human resource management, including Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management.

His current research is on workplace inequality and, together with colleagues at the Free University in Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam Business School and Tilburg University, he is currently working on the application of machine learning to the analysis of the HRM-performance relationship, problems and issues in the conceptualisations and measurement of HR practices, and employee well-being profiles in Europe.

While at the LSE and then at King’s he supervised over 15 Ph.D. dissertations to successful completion and was the internal and external examiner for over 40 Ph.D. theses from a number of universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.

At King’s, he taught Human Resource Management, Organisation Theory and Behaviour and Research Methods on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, helped to launch the MSc in Human Resource Management and Organisational Analysis in the Department in 2002, and was its Director for over 15 years.