Anil Verma
Director, Centre of Industrial Relations & HR Professor of Industrial Relations and HR Management at Rotman School of Management
Schools
- Rotman School of Management
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Biography
Rotman School of Management
Bio
Anil Verma is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Rotman and Director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources. His primary research interests are in the area of management responses to unionization, participative forms of work organization, wage and employment outcomes, and the contribution of workplace innovations to organizational performance. He serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Labour and Income Statistics at Statistics Canada and on the Board of Directors of COSTI Immigration Services, the largest such non-profit agency in Canada.
Academic Positions
1989-Present Professor; University of Toronto
2009-2015 Director, Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources; University of Toronto
2005-2011 Visiting Associate Professor; Middlesex University Business School
1987-1988 Visiting Professor; University of California Los Angeles
1983-1988 Assistant Professor; University of British Columbia
1978-1980 Lecturer; University of Saskatchewan
Honors and Awards
2011-present Member, Editorial Board; Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia)
2015-present Editorial Board; The Mowat Centre, School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
2015-present Editorial Board; UTP/Rotman Imprint, University of Toronto Press
2013-14 Chair, Ontario Minimum Wage Advisory Panel; Government of Ontario
2012-16 Member, Advisory Board, Trade Agreements and Labour Project; International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
2011-15 Member, Advisory Committee on Labour Statistics; Statistics Canada
2011-15 Member, Board of Directors; COSTI Immigrant Services, Toronto
2012-15 Chair, Selection Committee; Bora Laskin Award awarded for contributions to labour law in Canada
2009 Best Paper Award; HR Division, Academy of Management, (with Jing Wang)
2006 Invited Member, Strategic Planning Committee; Labor & Employment Relations Association
2006 Lead Coordinator, Scientific Program Committee; 14th World Congress, International Industrial Relations Association, Lima, Peru
2006 Member, Judging Panel, Immigrant Success Awards; Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and the Maytree Foundation
1996-1997 President; Canadian Industrial Relations Association
Videos
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Books
Employment Relations in India; Sundar, Shyam and Anil Verma; In Bamber, G.J., Lansbury, R.D. Wailes, N. & Wright, C.F. (eds). International and Comparative Employment Relations: Regulation, Globalisation and Change, 6th ed. Sydney: Allen & Unwin; London: Sage; Issue: 6th edition; 2015; Pages: 316-340
Non-standard Employment in government: an overview from Canada and Brazil; Verma, Anil and Ana Gomes; Geneva: International Labour Organization; 2014; Pages: 1-40
The International Regulation Of Domestic Work: Challenges and Opportunities In Applying ILO Convention 189 in India, Brazil and Canada; Gomes, Ana and Anil Verma; In Malcolm Sargent and Martina Ori, eds., Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Working. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2013; Pages: 163-183
Do Employee Relations Occur in a Vacuum? Recent Evidence on Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Relations in Canada; Verma, Anil and Rafael Gomez; in Paul-Andre Lapointe, ed., Perspectives on Changes in Work. Quebec: Les Presses de l’Universite Laval; 2011; Pages: 53-64
Employment Relations in India; Venkata Ratnam, C.S. and Anil Verma; In Greg Bamber, Russell Lansbury and Nick Wailes, eds. International and Comparative Employment Relations. London: SAGE, 5th ed.; 2010; Pages: 330-356
Global Challenges for Development of Human Resources; Verma, Anil and Qian He; In Ian C. Roper, Rea Prouska, Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, eds., Critical Issues in Human Resource Management. London : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; 2010; Pages: 359-373
Employee Involvement in the Workplace; Verma, Anil and Daphne Taras; in Morley Gunderson and Daphne Taras, eds., Union-Management Relations in Canada, 5th Edition. Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley; 2008; Pages: p. 447-485
Just Having it is not Enough: Labour’s Voice on Pension Boards; Weststar, Johanna and Anil Verma; in J. Quarter, I. Carmichael, and S. Ryan (Eds.). Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press; 2008
Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective; Verma, Anil. and Thomas A. Kochan (Eds); in London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2004; Pages: 267p
Papers
- Employment Relations in India; Sundar, Shyam and Anil Verma; In Bamber, G.J., Lansbury, R.D. Wailes, N. & Wright, C.F. (eds). International and Comparative Employment Relations: Regulation, Globalisation and Change, 6th ed. Sydney: Allen & Unwin; London: Sage; Issue: 6th edition; 2015; Pages: 316-340
- Non-standard Employment in government: an overview from Canada and Brazil; Verma, Anil and Ana Gomes; Geneva: International Labour Organization; 2014; Pages: 1-40
- The International Regulation Of Domestic Work: Challenges and Opportunities In Applying ILO Convention 189 in India, Brazil and Canada; Gomes, Ana and Anil Verma; In Malcolm Sargent and Martina Ori, eds., Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Working. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2013; Pages: 163-183
- Do Employee Relations Occur in a Vacuum? Recent Evidence on Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Relations in Canada; Verma, Anil and Rafael Gomez; in Paul-Andre Lapointe, ed., Perspectives on Changes in Work. Quebec: Les Presses de l’Universite Laval; 2011; Pages: 53-64
- Employment Relations in India; Venkata Ratnam, C.S. and Anil Verma; In Greg Bamber, Russell Lansbury and Nick Wailes, eds. International and Comparative Employment Relations. London: SAGE, 5th ed.; 2010; Pages: 330-356
- Global Challenges for Development of Human Resources; Verma, Anil and Qian He; In Ian C. Roper, Rea Prouska, Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, eds., Critical Issues in Human Resource Management. London : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; 2010; Pages: 359-373
- Employee Involvement in the Workplace; Verma, Anil and Daphne Taras; in Morley Gunderson and Daphne Taras, eds., Union-Management Relations in Canada, 5th Edition. Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley; 2008; Pages: p. 447-485
- Just Having it is not Enough: Labour’s Voice on Pension Boards; Weststar, Johanna and Anil Verma; in J. Quarter, I. Carmichael, and S. Ryan (Eds.). Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press; 2008
- Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective; Verma, Anil. and Thomas A. Kochan (Eds); in London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2004; Pages: 267p
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