Santanu Sarkar

*Experience Detail *

• Professor - XLRI, Jamshedpur since 2014
• Associate Professor - XLRI, Jamshedpur (July 2009-July 2014)
• Assistant Professor - XLRI, Jamshedpur (Sept 2007-June 2009)
• Reader - Dept. of PMIR, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai (June 2004-Sept 2007)
• Lecturer - Visva-Bharati University (June 2002-June 2004)
• Lecturer - Indore School of Social Work (Aug 1998-June 2002)
• Senior Officer HR - Kirloskar Brothers Limited, Dewas, M.P (1997-98)

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

• Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellow (2012-13) at the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Eureca Erusmus Mundus (European Union) Visiting Fellow (March - June 2009) at the York Management School, University of York, UK
• MOST Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Labour Research, National Chengchi University, Taipei (October 2019)
• MOST Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Labour Research, National Chengchi University, Taipei (November 2018)
• MOST Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Labour Research, National Chengchi Univeristy, Taipei (May 2017)
• MOST Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Labour Research, National Chengchi University, Taipei (October 2016)
• Visiting Professor at Deptartment of Management Sciences and Decision Making, Tamkang University, Taipei (one semester in 2015)
• Visiting Associate Professor at Dept. of International Business, Shih Chien University, Taiwan (one semester in 2009)
• Visiting Scholar at Department of Management Sciences and Decision Making, Tamkang University, Taipei (2007)

Conference Proceedings-Refereed

• Do firms in industries with higher foreign presence in India pay more resulting in Productivity Dispersion? International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 16 2015. Conference Proceedings.
• Determinants and Antecedents of Workplace Violence and Homicides in India, International Labour Process Conference. Athens, Greece, April 13-15 2015. Conference Proceedings.
• Functional barriers to workers cooperative in getting off the ground: synthesis of a failed case in India, Annual Conference of Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), 31 May, 2015. Conference Proceedings.
• Correlates of Workplace Violence in India, International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 17 2014. Conference Proceedings.
• The Role of Rationality in Self-sustenance of Workers Co-operative in India, International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 18, 2013. Conference Proceedings.
• Inventiveness to feasibility: Case of a failed workers cooperative in India, The British Sociological Association - WES Conference. Warwick, September 04, 2013. Conference Proceedings.
• The Effects of Labor Standards on Labor Quality and Foreign Direct Investment in Manufacturing Industry in Taiwan: Evaluating the "Conventional Wisdom", International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 21 2012. Conference Proceedings (with Lai, Yu-Cheng)
• The effects of compressed work schedule & standard-hours reduction on the labor market: evidence from Taiwan R.O.C., International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 21 2011. Conference Proceedings (with Lai, Yu-Cheng)
• Foreign Direct Investment & the labour cost in India, International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei May 22 2010. Conference Proceedings (with Lai, Yu-Cheng).
• Role Of Work Related Contextual Factors And Individual Dispositional Variables Towards Determining Employees Attitudes Towards Collective Representation, The 2009 International Conference on Management and Information, Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 01 2009.
• Trade unionism in Indian BPO-ITeS industry: a scenario analysis, International Conference in Management Sciences & Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, May 30 2009. Conference Proceedings
• Determinants of Employee Attitude towards Union membership: India and Taiwan, International Conference in Management Sciences and Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 28 2008. (Jointly with Prof. Kuo Long Huang)
• Labour movement in the changing economic and political situation: case study of "independent" trade unions in India and Taiwan, International Conference in Management Sciences and Decision Making. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 02 2007. (with Prof. Kuo Long Huang)
• Impact of Inward FDI on Host Country: case of India, International Conference in Management sciences and Decision Making, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, 17 June 2006.
• Individualism - Colectivism as Predictors of Employee Attituds towards Union Membership: An Empirical Study of employees of BPO sector in India, 65th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, 10 August 2005.
• Cultural Correlates and Determinants of Executives Work Motivation, International Conference in Management sciences and Decision Making, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, 29 May 2004.

Key note presentation

• Digital Capitalism vs. Employment Distributive Justice. "2019 Asia-Pacific International Labor Relations Forum"
• Global Union Federations and local articulation of their campaigns. Invited speaker, National Chengchi University
• How organizing experience of informal sector workers different from others? Invited speaker, National Chengchi University
• State of Women Workers in India. Invited speaker, National Chengchi University
• Effect of economic reforms on the judiciary - case of India. Invited speaker, National Chengchi University
• Relations of independent trade unions and political parties - where are workers benefits? "Kaohsiung Harbor Labor Summit"
• Mayhem in making: A divided society, protracted struggle, repressive overtones, and an out-of-control mob. Invited speaker, National Chengchi University
• Labor dispatching & union organizing- the story of Indian BPO sector unionization, "International Conference on Labor Justice and CSR"
• Trade unionism in Indian BPO-ITeS industry: a scenario analysis, "Forum on Sharing, Outsourcing and Organizing"
• Labour movement in the changing economic & political situation: a case study of independent trade unions in India & Taiwan, "Forum on Sharing, Outsourcing and Organizing"