Faculty Profile

RAHUL SUKUMARAN

Assistant Professor and Co-Chair – MBA-HRM Program

Area:

HR, Organizational Behaviour & Communications

Edu:

PhD (IIM Trichy)

Date of Joining:

June 1st, 2022

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Biography

Rahul Sukumaran is a PhD, from IIM Trichy, in the area of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of identity (the concept of the self or ‘who am I?’) and organizational change. Several of his papers have been presented at prestigious international venues such as EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies), ECP (European Congress of Psychology) etc. He has worked as a faculty member with Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore in the past two years. And he has taught courses such as Organizational Behavior, Qualitative Research Methods and Leadership, in both the MBA and PhD programs, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. In addition, he has also worked in corporate houses such as Pearson, Oxford, etc. Essentially, he has worked in both corporate and academic environments. Rahul believes in setting a continuous growth mindset for himself and encourages others around him to follow their passion. As a part of this vision, he runs a YouTube channel and writes blogs in his free time.

Teaching

Organizational Behavior; Qualitative Research Methods (PhD); Labor and Employment Law; Employee Relations; Human Resources Management.

Research

Research interests lie at the intersection of identity and change literatures, largely viewed from an interpretive perspective.

Publications

#1 Investors, why look at board meetings? – The Financial Express, 8th September, 2019 .
#2 ‘Un-hiding’ Knowledge in Organizations: The role of Climate for Innovation, Social Exchange and Social Identification – Development and Learning in Organizations.

Conferences and Workshops

July 2019: EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies), Edinburgh, U.K. Emotions? I’m a Knight, battering beneath my armor! Diffident selves, masculine subjection and identity work in a liminal, performative space (presented).
July 2019: EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies), Edinburgh, U.K. – The hyperreal discourse: A surveilled society of pejorative techne’, distorted ideologues and (non)discursive action (presented).
June 2019: ICMS (International Critical Management Studies), London, U.K. –
Abode of masculine (wo)men and God: A feminine counter-discourse (presented).
June 2019: ECP (European Congress of Psychology), Moscow, Russia – The Dual CEO: An analysis of BRICS Nations (accepted).
June 2019: ECP (European Congress of Psychology), Moscow, Russia – Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction and Commitment: Explaining Underlying Mechanisms Through QWL and PsyCap (accepted).
January 2019: APAEA (Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association), Changsha University of Science and Technology, China. Impact of CEO Duality on Debt: Evidence from BRICS Countries.
November 2018: COSMAR, IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru, India – A multi-level model of response to identity threats (presented).
December 2018: ISDSI, SPJIMR Mumbai, India – The Impact of CEO Duality on Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Emerging Countries (accepted).
September 2018: Sustainable Human Resource Management: Practices, Policies and Perspectives in South Asia, IBS Hyderabad – A Mechanism towards Sustainable HRM: Theorizing the Green Citizen (accepted).
December 2017: ISDSI, IIM Trichy, India – Perfect Images in An Imperfect World: Role of Ideal Image, Self- Efficacy and Attribution Style (presented).
December 2017: ISDSI, IIM Trichy, India – Cultural Intelligence and Expatriate Adjustment: A Social Identity Theory Perspective (presented).
December 2017: NAOP (National Academy of Psychology), IIT Kharagpur, India – The Positive Millennial Triad: Authentic Leadership, Psychological Capital and Positive Identity (accepted).
December 2017: ICRBS, IIT Roorkee – Delineating a Sustainable Workforce: The
Role of Socialization, Person-Organisation Fit and Organisational Identification (accepted).

Scholar co-authored conferences

December 2021: PAN-IIM WRC, IIM Kozhikode – The Phoenix: Death and Resurrection – Lives of subaltern daily wage women workers in patriarchal society amidst COVID 19 (to be presented)
December 2021: PAN-IIM WRC, IIM Kozhikode – Dark side of online learning ecosystem during the COVID 19 pandemic (to be presented)
December 2021: PAN-IIM WRC, IIM Kozhikode – Teachers actioninaction in e-learning during COVID 19 qualitative inquiry into selfdetermination theory (to be presented)
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – Top-Down Knowledge Hiding and Counterproductive Work Behavior: CoR Theory in a Fluid Workplace
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – The Impact of Employees’ Perception of CSR on Knowledge Un-hiding: A Fluid Psychological Contract
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – The effect of career success on knowledge hiding behavior: COR theory in a fluid environment
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – The impact of linguistic identity on
knowledge hiding: Role of SIT in a fluid environment
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – Unfolding Knowledge Hiding in Repatriates: Effect of Reverse Cultural Shock in a Fluid Environment
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – Relationship between Abusive Supervision and Knowledge Hiding: The role of Workplace Resistance
December 2021: ISDSI, IIM Nagpur – The pandemic, disinformation and knowledge hiding: Image Restoration Theory in a fluid world
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – Reinstating digital eco-systems for competitive advantage: The role of HRIS during the pandemic
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – Workplace solitude, cognitive disparity, and mental health of millennials in digital eco-system: A COVID19 model
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – Learning eco-systems, digital stakeholders and psychological distress: The emergence of virtual university amidst the pandemic
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – Co-constructing a sense of community amongst virtual teams: Unfolding remote working practices during the pandemic
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – Building organizational agility and resilience during the pandemic: The role of HRIS
November 2020: ISDSI, IIM Raipur – The impact of Augmented Reality on Hedonic and Utilitarian buying motivation among online shoppers: An Exploration during COVID19

Workshops

July 2019: EGOS, Pre-colloquium PhD Workshop, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, U.K. This is a globally selective workshop and my thesis work was one
amongst 70 selected papers at this prestigious doctoral workshop. The key
discussant and round table head was Prof. Mirjam Werner, Rotterdam School of
Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands.
June 2019: ICMS, Research writing and media workshop, Open University, London,
U.K. This is a highly selective workshop where my paper was one amongst 20
selected. The key discussant was Prof. Katie Beavan, Harvard University, USA.

Awards

Accepted as Visiting Research Scholar at the Cass Business School, City
University of London, under the guidance of Prof. Hugh Willmott – who is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of Management Studies (September 2019 -2020).

Accepted and funded as Student Ambassador, European Society of Opinion, Marketing and Research (ESOMAR), Amsterdam for the World Research Conference held at Jakarta (2014); and, was one amongst five student ambassadors selected globally.

Amongst top 10 percent of the MBA class (2012-2014), Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Batch topper in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE 2005-2009), AMCET, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Media Coverage

#1 Investors, why look at board meetings? – The Financial Express, 8th September, 2019.