Savita Kumra

Dr. Savita Kumra is an Associate Professor at AUS. Savita has published two books on gender in organizations and diversity management as well as a number of academic and practitioner journal articles in Academy of Management Perspectives, British Journal of Management, Fordham Law Review, Journal of Business Ethics and Gender, Work and Organization. She has also contributed chapters in key texts within the field of gender and management. Savita's research interests focus on diversity, the gendered nature of the career development process in the professional services and the importance of ...

Teaching Areas

Human Resource Management; Cross Cultural Management, Organizational Studies

Research Areas

Gender in Organizations, Promotion and Advancement processes, Career Management, Meritocracy, Social Capital, Impression Management

Education

• PhD, Study Of The Promotion To Partner Process In A Professional Services Firm: How Women Are Disadvantaged., Cranfield University, United Kingdom, 2003
• MS, Msc (econ) Industrial Relations And Personnel Management, London School of Economics, United Kingdom, 1988
• BA, Ba (hons) Business Studies, Middlesex University, United Kingdom, 1985

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Management, American University of Sharjah, 2017 - Present
• Associate Professor, Middlesex univesity, United Arab Emirates, 2016 - 2017
• Senior Lecturer, Brunel University, United Kingdom, 2009 - 2016
• Senior Lecture, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2008
• Phd Candidate, Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom, 1999 - 2003
• Senior Lecturer, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom, 1996 - 1999
• Senior Lecturer, Greenwich University, United Kingdom, 1993 - 1996

Memberships

• Gender Work and Organization, GWO, International, Gender, Work and Organization is an A * ranked journal, impact factor 1.5. I have been appointed as an Associate Editor for this Journal for the past 5 years and regularly manage the review paper for 4-6 papers per year., 1 May 2015
• European Group on Organizational Studies, EGOS, International, Premier body for thinking and learning on Organizational Studies in Europe. Publisher of the World Leading Journal, Organizational Studies., 1 July 2004
• British Academy of Management, BAM, National, Leading body for scholarship on Business and Management in the UK, 1 September 2000
• Academy of Management, AoM, International, The Academy of the Management is the premier body for scholarship in the field of management and organizations, 10 August 2000
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, CIPD, International, Professional Affiliation to the premier body for HR professionals, 1 October 1988

Publications

• Savita Kumra, Valerie Lindsay And Marie-france Waxin. What can we learn about cross-cultural adjustment from Self-Initiated Expatriates?, Organizational Dynamics, 28 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021
• Angela Kornau And Savita Kumra. Richard Florida's Creative Class: The Global Tolerance Index and its value for Diversity and Inclusion Research, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021
• Marie-france Waxin, Savita Kumra And Fang Zhao. Workforce Localization in the Arab Gulf Countries: How Do Organizations Socialize the Members of a Powerful Minority?, Sustainability, 21 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020
• Savita Kumra, Patricia Lewis, Nick Rumens And Ruth Simpson. Towards a Performative Understanding of Deservingness: Merit, Gender and the BBC Pay Dispute, Gender Work And Organization, March 2020
• Savita Kumra And Nick Rumens. Framing Diversity Management in a Global Bank: A Discursive Political Perspective, 2019
• Linzi Kemp And Savita Kumra. How to Develop a Research Agenda in two days; ‘Gender in Organisations in the MENA region Think Tank’, Equality, Diversity And Inclusion: An International Journal, 6 August 2019
• Savita Kumra And Isabel Metz. Why are self help books for women popular?, Academy Of Management Perspectives, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
• Savita Kumra And Susan Madsen. Reflections on Glass: Second Wave Feminist Thinking in a Third Wave Feminist Age, August 2017
• Savita Kumra. Really saying something: Exploring conceptions of merit in women’s experience of career based tensions inspired by my friend Ruth Simpson, Gender In Management: An International Journal, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017
• Savita Kumra And Ruth Simpson. Postfeminism and the performance of merit, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017
• Savita Kumra And Andreas Werr. Organizing expertise in the professional service firm-meritocracy in theory and practice, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016
• Ruth Simpson And Savita Kumra. The Teflon effect: when the glass slipper meets merit, Gender In Management: An International Journal, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016
• Savita Kumra. Back to the future: A gendered analysis of 'getting on' in the professional services firm, 24 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2015
• Savita Kumra. Busy doing nothing: An exploration of the disconnect between gender equity issues faced by large law firms in the United Kingdom and the diversity management initiatives devised to address them, Fordham Law Review, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2015
• Savita Kumra, Ruth Simpson And Ronald Burke. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2014
• Savita Kumra. Gendered Constructions of Merit and Impression Management within a PSF, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2014
• Savita Kumra, Adelina Broadbridge And Sandra Fielden. A Gendered Analysis of International Career Development: Progress, Pitfall and Prospects, 2013
• Savita Kumra And Simonetta Manfredi. Managing Equality and Diversity: Theory and Practice, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2012
• Savita Kumra, Janet Morse, Linda Dimitroff And Anna Koontz. Considering the qualitative-quantitative language divide, Qualitative Health Research, September 2011
• Savita Kumra And Susan Vinnicombe. Impressing for Success: A gendered analysis of a key social captial accumulation strategy, Gender Work And Organization, September 2010
• Savita Kumra. Exploring career choices of 'work-centred' women in a professional services firm, Gender In Management: An International Journal, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2010
• Savita Kumra And Susan Vinnicombe. A Study of the Promotion to Partner Process in a Professional Services Firm: How women are disadvantaged, British Journal Of Management, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2008
• Savita Kumra, Val Singh And Susan Vinnicombe. Women in formal corporate networks: An Organizational Citizenship Perspective, Women In Management Review, December 2006
• Savita Kumra, Susan Vinnicombe And Val Singh. Making Good Connections: Best Practice for Women's Corporate Networks, May 2004
• Savita Kumra, Val Singh And Susan Vinnicombe. Gender and Impression Management: Playing the Promotion Game, Journal Of Business Ethics, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2002
• Savita Kumra And Hilary Harris. International Manager Development - Cross-culural Training in highly diverse environments, Journal Of Management Development, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2000
• Savita Kumra, Cliff Oswick And David Grant. The Organization as Human Entity, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 1996

Conference Presentations

• Managing Diversity and Inclusion: From Theory to Practice, Nhs Employers Diversity And Inclusion Panel, 9 December 2021
• Making Merit Count: Time to get what we deserve, Women's Economic Empowerment Global Summit, 11 December 2019
• Towards a Performative Understanding of Deservingness: Merit, Gender and the BBC Pay Dispute, Visa, Women's Network, 29 April 2019
• Diversity Management in the UAE, Diversity And Tolerance Symposium, 24 April 2019
• Towards a Performative Understanding of Deservingness: Merit, Gender and the BBC Pay Dispute, Herbert Smith Freehills Business Breakfast, 15 April 2019
• Why are Self-help books for women popular?, Royal Holloway College, Academic Seminar Series, 22 June 2018

Grants And Sponsorships

• Grant, Remembering to forget: An investigation of intentional forgetting in diversity management, AUS, June 2019 - May 2021
• Grant, Multi-cultural Origins and Identity: a New Category of ‘Cultural Nomads’, AUS, June 2018 - May 2020

Awards And Honors

• Best Business and Leadership Textbook, Chartered Institute of Management
• British Academy of Management Gender in Management Track, Best Paper Prize