Sumita Raghuram

Bio

Sumita Raghuram is the Alan and Lori Kessler Endowed Professor in Human Resource Management.

Sumita Raghuram received her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in Human Resource Management. She then was a faculty member at Fordham University, New York and at Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania. With over 30 years of teaching and research experience, she teaches subject areas in Human Resource Management at SJSU. Her primary research areas are in virtual work, international human resource management and tech workers. Topics such as employee identity, employee turnover and engagement, well-being and impact of tech work on human resource management are of particular interest to her. She has published her research in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Organization Behavior. Sumita has also been a visiting faculty at international business schools such as Copenhagen Business School, Bologna Business School, and Indian School of Business.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management (1986 — 1993)
• MBA XLRI Jamshedpur (1978 — 1980)

Companies

• Faculty San Jose State University (2019)
• Associate Professor Pennsylvania State University (2005 — 2019)
• India and USA consulting (1990 — 2012)
• Associate Professor Fordham University (1993 — 2005)