Savita Kumra
Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Summary
Dr Savita Kumra (BA (Hons.), MSc (Econ.), PhD, CIPD) is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel Business School. Savita completed her doctorate at Cranfield School of Management where she is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Management. Savita has held academic posts at Oxford Brookes University, Keele University, University of Buckingham and University of Greenwich. Savita is a committee member of the BAM Special Interest Group on Gender in Management, and on the Editorial Board of Gender in Management: An International Journal. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Savita’s key research interests focus on diversity, the gendered nature of the career development process in the professional services and the importance of developing and deploying key career enhancement strategies, e.g. impression management, and building and leveraging social capital.
Savita teaches Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and has contributed to a number of executive programmes specialising in Women’s Leadership Development for Cranfield School of Management and clients such as the Asian Development Bank, International Power and CERN. She has also undertaken a number of consultancy projects with clients such as Standard Chartered Bank, Asian Development Bank, Clifford Chance, Northern Ireland Staff Commission and Tesco. She is also a regular contributor to women’s corporate networking events, with organisations such as PWc, Deutsche Bank, Rolls Royce and Lloyds TSB.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Human Resource Management
Organisational Behaviour
International Human Resource Management
Research Interests
- Diversity
- Gendered nature of the career development process
- Professional Service firms
- Development and deployment of career enhancement strategies, e.g. impression management and building and leveraging social capital.
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2010) Kumra, S. and Vinnicombe, S., Impressing for success: A gendered analysis of a key social capital accumulation strategy, Gender, Work and Organization 17 (5) : 521- 546
(2011) Morse, JM., Dimitroff, LJ., Harper, R., Koontz, A., Kumra, S., Matthew-Maich, N., Mihas, P. and Murphey, C., Considering the qualitative-quantitative language divide., Qual Health Res 21 (9) : 1302- 1303 Download publication
(2010) Kumra, S., Exploring career “choices” of work-centred women in a professional service firm, Gender in Management: An International Journal 25 (3) : 227- 243
(2008) Kumra, S. and Vinnicombe, S., A study of the promotion to partner process in a professional services firm: how women are disadvantaged, British Journal of Management 19 65- 74
(2008) Kumra, S. and Vinnicombe, S., A study of the promotion to partner process in a professional services firm: how women are disadvantaged, British Journal of Management 19 65- 74
(2006) Singh, V., Vinnicombe, S. and Kumra, S., Women in formal corporate networks: an organisational citizenship perspective, Women in Management Review 21 (6) : 458- 482
(2002) Singh, V., Kumra, S. and Vinnicombe, S., Gender and impression management: Playing the promotion game, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS 37 (1) : 77- 89
Book Chapters
(Forthcoming) Kumra, S., A gendered analysis of International Career Development: Progress, pitfalls and prospects. In: Vinnicombe, S., Burke, S. and Moore, L. eds. Handbook of Gender and Careers.
(Forthcoming) Kumra, S., Gendered Constructions of Merit and Impression Management within Professional Services Firms. In: Burke, S. and Simpson, S. eds. Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations. Oxford University Press
(2007) Kumra, S., Strategic human resource management. In: Strategic human resource management. Pearson Education
Books
(2012) Kumra, S. and Manfredi, S., Managing Equality and Diversity. OUP Oxford
