Researcher Profile

Dr Sugumar Mariappanadar

Faculty of Law and Business, Peter Faber School of Business

Areas of expertise: Sustainable HRM, Sustainability, HRM and Organisational Psychology.

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0352-4275

Phone: +61 3 99533167

Email: sugumar.mariappanadar@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

Dr. Sugumar Mariappanadar is one of the top two internationally acclaimed researchers who have shaped the field of sustainable HRM since 2000 to facilitate organisations to achieve ESG sustainability outcomes. Mariappanadar, is Fellow – College of Organisational Psychologists – Australian Psychological Society (APS), and Certified Academic HR (CAHR) of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI). He has published more than fifty research articles in peer reviewed international journals, book chapters and refereed conference publications. He has the distinction of publishing the first international book on Sustainable Human Resource Management: Strategies, Practices and Challenges published by Macmillan International, London (2019).
Delivered keynote address to various international conferences. Conducted workshops on sustainability and sustainable HRM in the American Academy of Management (AOM) Annual meetings (2019, 2020 and 2021), and conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Engaged with media based on his research on sustainability and sustainable HRM and contributed to changes to international work health and safety standards (GRI 403 - 2018) of Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) for Sustainability, Amsterdam. His consultancy includes employee turnover study for call centres and business process analysis and management systems development. He has conceptualized and developed management analytics software for businesses.

Select publications:

Sustainable HRM and Sustainability

• Mariappanadar, S., Muller-Camen, M., Maurer, I & Kramar, R. Is it a Sententious Claim? An Examination of the Quality of Occupational Health, Safety and Well-Being Disclosures in Global Reporting Initiative Reports Across Industries and Countries. In press, International Business Review (ABDC “A” ranked).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2020a). Do HRM systems impose restrictions on employee quality of life? Evidence from a sustainable HRM perspective. Journal of Business Research, 118, 38-48. (ABDC “A” ranked).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2020b). Characteristics of sustainable HRM system and practices for implementing corporate sustainability. In Sustainable Human Resource Management (pp. 9-35). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5656-2_2 (Book chapter)
• Mariappanadar, S. (2019). Sustainable Human Resource Management: Strategies, Practices and Challenges, Macmillan International Publisher, London. This internationally first research monograph is published as part of the Management, Work & Organisations series.
• Mariappanadar, S. and Aust, I. (2018). The Dark Side of Overwork: An Empirical Evidence of Social Harm of Work from a Sustainable HRM perspective, International Studies of Management and Organization, 47, 372 -387. (ABDC “B” ranked).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2016). Health Harm of Work from the Sustainable HRM perspective: Scale Development and Validation. International Journal of Manpower 37 (6), 924-944 (ABDC “A” ranked).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2014). Stakeholder harm index: A framework to review work intensification from the critical HRM perspective, Human Resource Management Review, 24(4): 313-329 (ABDC – ranked A – Ranked as the world’s top journal in the field of HRM for theoretical research).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2014). Sustainable HRM: A counter to minimize the externality of downsizing. In Ina Ehnert, Wesley Harr and Klaus J. Zink (Eds.), Sustainability and Human Resource Management. Springer Publisher, 181 – 203. (Book chapter)
• Mariappanadar, S., and Kramar, R. (2014). The Synthesis Effect of High Performance Work Systems on Organisational Performance and Employee Harm. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, 6 (3), 206-224. (ABDC – ranked C)
• Mariappanadar, S. (2013) A Conceptual Framework for Cost Measures of Harm of HRM practices. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration. 5 (2): 15-39. (ABDC – ranked C)
• Mariappanadar, S. (2012). Harm of efficiency oriented HRM practices on stakeholders: An ethical issue for sustainability, Society and Business Review, 7(2): 168 – 184. (ABDC – ranked B)
• Mariappanadar, S. (2012).The harm indicators of negative externality of efficiency focused organizational practices, International Journal of Social Economics, 39 (3): 209 – 220 (ABDC – ranked B).
  

Organisational Psychology and Leadership

• Mariappanadar, S. (2018). The impact of dissonance in schema based leadership perceptions on employee engagement. Personnel Review, 47, 1309-1329 (ABDC “A” ranked).

Human Resource Management

• Mariappanadar, S. and Kairoz, A (2017). Influence of Human Resource Capital Information Disclosure on Investors’ Share Purchase Decision - An Australian Study. Personnel Review, 46 (3), 551-571. (ABDC “A” ranked).
• Mariappanadar, S. (2013). Do retirement anxieties determine bridge employment preference? A study among pre-retirees in the Australian Construction Industry. Personnel Review, 42 (2): 176 - 204. (ABDC – ranked A)
• Mariappanadar, S. (2011). An emic approach to develop hybrid value system for global companies in Africa. In Littrell, R.F. & Nel, P.S., Leadership & management studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Volumes II and II, San Diego, CA, USA: University Readers, pp. 156-172.

Projects:

University and Faculty funding for research projects

• Agency: Faculty of Law & Business Mini Research Grant – ACU (2015) - $ 3,000
  Title: To explore the moderated and mediated relationships of perceived organizational support and exchange ideology between HRM practices and organizational performance, employee health and social harm of work
• Agency: University Research Committee–ACU (2012 & 2013) - $ 30,000
  Title: Leading indicators for health and family well-being outcomes of work: A prevention strategy for occupational health
• Title: Sustainable Human Resource Team – Research Support Team (RST)
  Purpose: To assist this RST to build research capacity, develop industry partnership and collaborative research relationships so that the RST can prepare and submit at least one ARC grant application in the field of sustainable HRM.
• Agency: Faculty of Business Mini Research Grant – ACU (2012 - 2013) - $ 1,000
  Title: Empirical study on sustainable HRM
  Purpose: To support the researcher to develop a tool to measure the harm of work practices on employees, their families and communities based on his published theories on sustainable HRM. Currently there is no research tool to measure the harm of work practices in the literature, and hence this research capability will complement the preparation of a future ARC grant application.

Accolades and awards:

• Invited to deliver Keynote address
• Invited and accepted to deliver keynote address on The Role of Business Intelligence in Shaping Organizations in emerging Economies in the 9th International Conference on Management and Economics, 10 & 11 September, 2020, organised by the Faculty of Management and Finance University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
• I delivered Keynote address on The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Human Resource Management in the International Conference on Sustainable HRM, November 1 & 2 2018 at School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. More than 250 researchers from different countries in the South-East Asia region attended the conference.

Appointments and affiliations:

• ACU Senior Lecture in Management/HRM June 2003 till date
• Monash Department of Management Lecturer Aug 2000 – June 2003
• Swinburne University of Technology Enterprise Management Lecturer Feb 1998 - Aug 2000
• Anna University, Madras India, Department of Management Studies Lecturer Jan 1992 - Jan 1998
• Organisation of the State Government (ITCOT), Madras India, Industrial and Technical Consultant Nov. 1988 -Jan 1992
• Psycho Behavioural Clinical, Madras India, Consulting Psychologist April 1987 - Nov. 1997
  

Professional affiliations

• Fellow - APS College of Organisational Psychologists
• Elected Member - Australian Psychological Society (APS)
• Certified Academic HR- Australian Human Resources Institute
• Member - Academy of Management (US)

Editorial roles:

• Appointed by the Board of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) as one of the Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology for 2013-2017.
• Invited by the Editor-in-Chief of Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration to act as a Guest Editor for a special issue on “sustainable HRM in the Asia Pacific region” in 2013. The special issue was published in 2014.

International Journal review panel:

• Human Resource Management (Journal - US); Human Resource Management Review; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Personnel Review
• International journal review reference

Public Engagement

• Contributed to changes to international work health and safety standards GRI-403 (2018):
• Submissions made to Global Report Initiatives (GRI) for Sustainability, Amsterdam for revising international standards (GRI 403) on occupational health through International public consultations. My submission was based on my research publications on sustainable HRM in which I indicated the need for providing an explanation for leading indicators of occupational health in the GRI 403 standards. I also emphasized in the submission that the explanations for leading indicators for occupational health standards will engage large corporations to develop management practices that can prevent and improve the occupational health of employees and to disclose this in their GRI reports. The Global Sustainability Standards Board accepted my submission and incorporated it in the final published standards.
• Media engagement based on my research on Sustainable HRM to communicate research findings:
• Expert live Interview - ABC Radio National - "Life matters" program - "Is it time organisations took responsibility for overworked employees?" 5th April 2019, National audience.
• Research cited in The New Daily Newspaper article on "Treating your weekend like a holiday: Tips for overworked Australians", 4th April 2019, National audience.
• Research cited in "In the Black" magazine article on "Burnout - and prevention as a shared responsibility between employee and employer". 1st December 2019. Australia’s flagship publication by the Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) Australia.