Dr Sugumar Mariappanadar

Sugumar Mariappanadar is a Senior Lecturer in Management/HRM in the School of Business at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. His teaching and publications cover sustainable human resource management, human resource measurement, organizational behaviour, and culturally indigenous management practices. He has had broad management consulting experience in Australia and India. His consultancy includes employee turnover study for call centres and business process analysis and management systems development. He has been involved along with other IT systems experts in developing eMonstro®, business management (HR) software.

Mariappanadar, S. (2016). Health Harm of Work from the Sustainable HRM perspective: Scale Development and Validation. International Journal of Manpower, 37(6, 924-944 (ABDC - A ranked).

Mariappanadar, S. (2014). Stakeholder harm index: A framework to review work intensification from the critical HRM perspective, Human Resource Management Review, 24(4): 313-329 (ABDC ranked A - Ranked as the world&rsquos top journal in the field of HRM for theoretical research).

Mariappanadar, S. (2014). Sustainable HRM: A counter to minimize the externality of downsizing. In Ina Ehnert, Wesley Harr and Klaus J. Zink (Eds.), Sustainability and Human Resource Management. Springer Publisher, 181 - 203. (Book chapter)

Mariappanadar, S., and Kramar, R. Sustainable HRM (2014). The Synthesis Effect of High Performance Work Systems on Organisational Performance and Employee Harm. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, 6 (3), 206-224. 

• Sustainable Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Capital
• Spirituality and Management
• Motivational Gratification and
• Competencies and HR systems.

Invited to deliver Keynote address

• Invited and accepted to deliver keynote address on The Role of Business Intelligence in Shaping Organizations in emerging Economies in the 9^th International Conference on Management and Economics, 10 & 11 September, 2020, organised by the Faculty of Management and Finance University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
• I delivered Keynote address on The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Human Resource Management in the International Conference on Sustainable HRM, November 1 & 2 2018 at School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. More than 250 researchers from different countries in the South-East Asia region attended the conference.

International Workshops Conducted

I have previously conducted workshops on sustainable HRM for organizational psychologists in Australia, and for HRM researchers and practitioners in Belgium, Germany, India, New Zealand and the Netherlands. My workshop proposals on sustainable HRM have been accepted in the American Academy of Management (AOM) meeting 2019 and International Industrial and Organisational Psychology conference 2019.

• Panel Discussion (2019) &ndash The Cultural Changes Required in a Post Hayne Royal Commission World, AHRI National Convention 2019, Brisbane, Australia, 17 &ndash 19 September.
• Professional Development Workshop - (2019) &ndash Sustainable HRM: The Emerging Future of HRM for Corporate Sustainability, American Academy of Management (AOM) Meeting 2019, Boston, USA, 9 &ndash 13 August. This is an important achievement for me and the field to obtain the support of the HR Division of the AOM to enhance research, practice and teaching in the new and emerging field of sustainable HRM in the US.
• Conference workshop (2019) - What organisational psychologists need to know to Engage Human Resource for Corporate Sustainability? APS 13^th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Adelaide, 11-13 July.
• ANZAM 2018 &ndash Joint workshop with Professor Robin Kramar, topic: Sustainable HRM: A Disruptive Change in the Field of HRM (100 minutes), Auckland, New Zealand, 2018.
• Pre-conference workshop (one-day) &ndash Sustainable HRM: Practices, Policies & Perspectives in South Asia (jointly organized by University of Hyderabad and IBS-ICFAI Business School &ndash Topic: Sustainable HRM: Research and Practices, Hyderabad, India, October 31, 2018.
• Pre-conference workshop (3 hours) - Dutch HRM Network Conference on Sustainable HRM, Topic: Sustainable HRM Workshop for Research and Practice, at Radbound University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 8 November 2017.
• 2^nd International Sustainable HRM Workshop, Workshop topic: Sustainable HRM Workshop for International Research Collaborations (3 hours), at The Institute of Technology and Work (ITA) at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 4 June 2015.
• Professional Development (PD) program for the members of College of Organisational Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society, Workshop topic: Recent Developments in HRM: Sustainable HRM (2 hours), Melbourne, Australia, June 2014.

Academic appointments

2003 - current: Senior Lecturer - Centre for Sustainable HRM and Wellbeing, Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University.

2000 - 2003: Lecturer - Department of Management, Monash University, Australia.

Earlier Dr. Sugumar Mariappanadar also worked as Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and Department of Management Studies, Anna University, Chennai, India.