Seyyed Babak Alavi
- PhD : Education (specialty: team effectiveness), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2002-2005.
- MA : Educational Management, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
- BS : Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran: 1988-1992.
Seyyed Babak Alavi is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Management and Economics at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His research interests, teaching, and consultancy relate to organizational behavior and leadership, and human resource development. More specifically, Babak is cur- rently involved in research on authenticity and self-determination theory in organizational contexts, feedback seeking behaviors, authentic leadership, team leadership, and efficacy beliefs and change processes.