Research and Projects
PUBLICATIONS
Soumyaja, S., Sowmya , C.S., & Joy, A. (2022). Emotional Labour and Job Satisfaction of nurses working in public hospitals: Testing the mediating role of burn out and moderating role of gender. International Journal of Work Organization and Emotion. Accepted for publication.
Soumyaja, D., & Kamalanabhan, T.J (2022). Study on Executives’ Self -Other rater agreement on HEXACO Personality and OCB. Management and Labour Studies. Accepted for publication.
Krishna, A & Soumyaja,D. (2020). Playing safe games – thematic analysis of victims’ perspectives on gendered bullying in academia. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. 12 (4), 197-208. . https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-03-2020-0478
Soumyaja, D.& Sowmya, C.S. Knowledge Management and Innovation Performance in Knowledge Intensive Organizations: The role of HR Practices. International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies. Accepted for publication.
Philip, J. & Soumyaja, D. (2019). Workplace diversity and inclusion: policies and best practices for organisations employing transgender people in India. International Journal of Public Policy. 15(3/4), 299-314. https://doi.org/10.1504/ IJPP.2019.103011
Tom, M & Soumyaja, D. (2019). Determinants of employee ecoinitiatives in Indian hotel industry. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment. 5(1), 51-69.https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEWE.2019.097150
Soumyaja, D., Kamalanabhan, T.J., and Bhattacharyya, S. (2018).Antecedents of employee readiness for change in the IT and Manufacturing sector: A comparative study. International Journal of Human Resource Development and Management.18(3/4), 237-256.https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHRDM.2018.093444
Roy, P & Soumyaja, D. (2017).A study on the mediating effect of resilience on coping mechanism and emotional intelligence among post graduate management students, Pacific Business Review International. 10 (6), 33-42.
Soumyaja, D and Leyah Alexander (2016) A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG WORKING PROFESSIONALS IN THE INDIAN TECHNICAL ORGANIZATIONS. Pacific Business Review International. 9(5), 12-19.
Soumyaja,D., T.J.Kamalanabhan and S.Bhattacharyya(2015).Antecedents of Employee Readiness for Change: Mediating Effect of Commitment to Change. Management studies and economic systems. 2(1),11-25.E-ISSN: 2313-5166,P- ISSN: 2408-9583
Soumyaja, D., T.J.Kamalanabhan and S.Bhattacharyya, (2011).Employee commitment to organizational change: Test of the three component model in Indian context. Journal of Transnational Management, 16, 239-251.https://doi.org/ 10.1080/15475778.2011.623654
S.Bhattacharyya and Soumyaja, D., (2011). Development of a Situational Judgement Inventory for measuring Practical Intelligence. Indore Management Journal, 2 (3), 8-28.
Soumyaja, D., T.J.Kamalanabhan and S.Bhattacharyya, (2011). Employee readiness for change: The facilitating role of process and contextual factors. International Journal of Business Insights and Transformation, 4 (2), 85-91.
Soumyaja,D., T.J.Kamalanabhan and S.Bhattacharyya,(2011). An empirical study on the role of context factors in employees’ commitment to change. International Journal of Learning and Change, 5(1), 33-50.
FUNDED PROJECTS
ACADEMIC BULLYING: ROLE OF GENDER AND CULTURE-Ongoing- PI
Funded by Fulbright-Nehru fellowship for 6 months, USD 31000
This is a cross cultural study to understand the forms , perceprions and responses to workplace bullying among faculty. This mixed method study also attempts to understand the cultural and gender dimensions of academic bullying
Factors affecting scalability of micro enterprises in Kerala -Ongoing- Co-PI
Funded by National commission for women, Government of India for 1 year, Rs.1111000
The study will be done in the context of Kudumbashris in Kerala and the scalability will be studied from economic, human capital and legal perspectives. This study will be carried out among selected Kudumabshri units from all the 14 districts in the state of Kerala
Attitude and awareness about menstrual cups- An exploratory study in the state of Kerala -Ongoing-PI
Funder by Kerala State Higher Education Council, for 2 years , Rs.24,000,00
The major objectives of the study are to check awareness about sustainable menstruation among young women , to
study the factors influencing the use of menstrual cup among young women and their attitude towards them and to study the level of satisfaction among menstrual cup users.The study will be exploratory in nature and mixed methodology will be used. For the first two objectives of the study, the population will be young menstruating women in the age group of 18-24 in the state of Kerala. A mixed method approach will be used to check the awareness and attitude of young women towards sustainable menstruation and in specific menstrual cups.
Emotional Labour, Job Burn Out and Job Satisfaction among Nurses in Kerala: A study of Managed Hearts -Completed-PI
Funded by Cochin University of Science and Technology for 2 years, Rs. 2,00,000.
The study was done among a sample of 341 nurses working in public sector hospitals in Kerala, India through survey . Traditionally nursing has been considered as a female dominated profession but recently the n umb e r o f ma l e n u r s e s h a s increased.To understand the gender differences on the indirect influence of surface acting and deep acting emotional labour via burnout gender was studied as the moderator variable The study also aimed to check the mediating effect of burnout on the relationship between emotional labour and job satisfaction. Surface acting was found to have full mediation effect and deep acting had partial mediation on the relationship between emotional labour strategies and job satisfaction The most impor-tant finding of the study through moderated mediation analysis is that gender was found to moderate the indirect effect from surface acting and deep acting to job satisfaction via burnout.
The mediating effect of HR Practices on the relationship between Knowledge Management Practices and IP creation in Knowledge Intensive Organizations -Completed-PI
Funded by Inter University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT for 1 year for Rs.1,00,000.
Knowledge intensive organisations survive and sustain through effective knowledge management practices. The study attempts to understand the interplay of knowledge management, human resource practices and innovation performance in knowledge-intensive organisations. In-depth interviews were carried out with five subject matter experts using semi-structured interview schedule for finalising the conceptual model. The model was empirically tested using a questionnaire on a sample of 152 respondents and the results are discussed. Organisation memory was found to be the most significant predictor of innovation performance followed by knowledge acquisition
PhD supervision
Aarthi Krishna- Workplace Bullying-Ongoing
Mythili R- Idiosyncratic deals at workplace-Ongoing
Surumi M- Workplace Ostracism-Ongoing
Students looking for PhD guidance can contact me at devisoumyaja@cusat.ac.in. Students with UGC-JRF qualification will be given preference