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

Links

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

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

  • 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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