Organisational Behaviour
Premilla D'Cruz is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Her expertise centres around workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment; emotions at work, technology and work; identity and self at work; informal and precarious work and employment; organizational control; positive organizational scholarship; and whistleblowing at work. She is internationally recognized for her pioneering research in the field of workplace bullying.
Professor D'Cruz has published in Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Information and Organization, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Personnel Review, among other reputed peer-reviewed journals. Her well-cited research, which is largely postpositivist in orientation, contextually anchored and encompasses macro-micro linkages, yields theoretical contributions and application recommendations of global relevance. In acknowledgment of her influential work, she has received numerous research awards and grants throughout her academic career. Additionally, her work has been quoted or featured in the popular media including outlets such as The Economic Times, The Times of India, Live Mint, and Outlook, among others.
Professor D'Cruz holds numerous prestigious editorial roles. She is Section Editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics and a member of the Editorial Board of Human Resource Management, both FT50 journals. She is an organizing committee member of the UN Global Compact PRME World Tour Research Paper Development Programme and has been an external expert reviewer for the WHO Mental Health at Work guidelines.
Professor D'Cruz serves as Governance Committee member of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, the foremost global forum for workplace bullying scholarship. She is former President (2016-2018) of the IAWBH.
Primary Area : Organisational Behaviour
Email : pdcruz@iima.ac.in
Phone : +91-79-7152 4933
Secretary : Ankur Sumesra
Phone : +91-79-7152 7936
Website : Personal Website
Ph.D, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Workplace bullying
Emotions at the workplace
Technology and work
Identity and self at work
Organizational control
Positive scholarship
Whistleblowing at work
Informal and precarious work and employment
Senior Visiting Research Scholar,, Department of HRM, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, May 2008
Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University, Spring 2010
Visiting Researcher, Department of HRMM, Portmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, May 2010
Visiting Researcher, AIAS, University of Amsterdam, August 2011
Visiting Researcher, Bergen Bullying Group, University of Bergen , May-June 2012
Visiting Researcher, Department of Organizational and Personnel Studies, Rotterdam School of Management , April-May 2013; September-October 2014
Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, June 2013
Visiting Researcher, AISSR, University of Amsterdam , September-November 2016
Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia Business School, September 2019
Section Editor, Labour Relations and Business Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics
Member, Organizing Committee, UN-PRME World Tour Research Paper Development Programme [UN Global Compact/Principles of Responsible Management], 2021-2024
External Expert Reviewer, WHO Mental Health at Work Guidelines, 2022
Governance Committee, International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, 2020 to date
President , International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, 2016-2018
Secretary, International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, 2010-2016
Board member [SIG co-ordinator] , International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, 2008-2010
Academy of Management, European Group for Organization Studies
European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology International Sociological Association
International Labour and Employment Relations Association Indian Psychiatric Society
‘Country Study: India’ as part of the symposium ‘Human-centred productivity in Asia’ at Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting (4-8 August 2023), Boston, USA. With Ernesto Noronha.
Panel symposium on Leveraging Compassion to Address Inequality at Work: Towards Employee Well-Being and Organizational Flourishing, organized jointly with Jason Kanov, at Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting (4-8 August 2023), Boston, USA.
IAWBH PhD Workshop. Facilitator. 24 November 2021, Virtual.
Identity and control. Presentation during PDW titled Contesting Social Responsibilities: The Manager versus 'the Rest of the World'? AOM 2021 Virtual Meeting, 30 July-3 August 2021.
Negotiating Dirtiness through Identity Work: Experiences of Cleaners in India. With Avina Mendonca and Ernesto Noronha. Presentation during Symposium titled Caste Work in Management Studies: How are Historical Stigma and Inequality Reproduced? AOM 2021 Virtual Meeting, 30 July-3 August 2021.
In search of human-centered business: The India experience. With Ernesto Noronha. Special session on Making and Breaking Boundaries in Work and Employment Relations. ILERA Congress, online, 21–24 June 2021 (Lund, Sweden).
Publishing critical work in Journal of Business Ethics: AOM-CMS-in-touch Virtual PDW, Panel Member, 8 June 2021.
Back to the drawing board: Revisiting the bases of the field of workplace bullying. Keynote address at the 12th IAWBH Conference Virtual/Online, 12-14 April 2021 (Dubai, UAE).
What qualitative research brings to the field of workplace bullying: Substantive insights and methodological considerations. Symposium organizer with Ernesto Noronha at the 12th IAWBH Conference Virtual/Online, 12-14 April 2021 (Dubai, UAE).
Using visual methods in management research, IIMA R & P workshop series. With Ernesto Noronha. 10 February 2021.
Twenty-five years of workplace bullying research: Where do we go from here? Annual Employment Relations Lecture, University of Western Australia, 23rd September 2019, Perth, Australia
Abuse of Child Workers in Bt Cottonseed Global Production Networks: A Study From India. With Ernesto Noronha, Saikat Chakraborty and Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday. Modern Slavery Symposium. 16 September 2019, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
The individual, group and organizational dimensions of depersonalized bullying at work: Etiologies, outcomes and processual dynamics. Presentation at the symposium on Exploring the group dynamics involved in bullying at work. 11th International conference on workplace bullying and harassment, 5-8 June 2018, Bordeaux, France. With Ernesto Noronha.
Global value chains and the Indian IT sector. Presented at the workshop on “Global Value Chains – Economic and Social Upgrading” held between 01 February – 03 February 2018 at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany. With Ernesto Noronha.
‘When tradition meets modernity: Photographing workers’ safety’ at IVSA Conference, 27-29 June 2023, Nairobi, Kenya. With Ernesto Noronha.
From being bullied to mustering the courage to disclose sexuality: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of Indian lesbians and gays at work. With Nidhi Bisht and Ernesto Noronha. QRM Conference, 4-6 April 2023, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Workplace bullying on online labour markets: A critical hermeneutic phenomenology approach. With Ernesto Noronha. QRM Conference, 4-6 April 2023, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Khemani, Garima, D’Cruz, Premilla, Noronha, Ernesto and Gupta, Parvinder (2022), “Indian food-delivery workers’ lived experiences of bullying in the platform economy: A phenomenological study”, paper presented at the ILPC (International labour process conference) 2023 at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, April, 2023.
Platform work in India. With Ernesto Noronha. Features and Futures of Digital Labor Conference held at Athens, Greece, 3-5 November 2022.
Khemani, Garima, D’Cruz, Premilla, Noronha, Ernesto and Gupta, Parvinder (2022), “Delivering happiness at your door-step (At what cost?) - Indian food-delivery workers’ experiences of bullying”, paper presented at the 38th BAM annual meeting at Alliance Manchester business school, Manchester, UK, August-September, 2022.
Country Study: India as part of the symposium ‘Human-centred HRM in the BRICS countries: Emerging practices in the face of global challenges’. AOM 2022, Seattle, USA (Co-author – Ernesto Noronha)
How Servant Leadership Averts Workplace Bullying: A Moderated-Mediation Examination. With Saima Ahmad, Talat Islam and Ernesto Noronha. Oral presentation at AOM 2021 Virtual Meeting, 30 July-3 August 2021.
Khemani, Garima, D’Cruz, Premilla, Noronha, Ernesto and Gupta, Parvinder (2021) “Workplace bullying targets’ experiences of well-being in the platform economy: The relevance of hedonia and eudaimonia" Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH), Dubai, U.A.E., April, 2021.
Caste: An internationally significant social category triggering workplace bullying. With Ernesto Noronha, Avina Mendonca and Garima Khemani. Oral presentation at the 12th IAWBH Conference Virtual/Online, 12-14 April 2021.
The interface between workplace bullying and dirty work: A new research agenda. With Avina Mendonca. Oral presentation at the 12th IAWBH Conference Virtual/Online, 12-14 April 2021.
Workplace bullying targets’ experiences of well-being in the platform economy: The relevance of hedonia and eudaimonia. With Garima Khemani, Parvinder Gupta and Ernesto Noronha. Oral presentation at the 12th IAWBH Conference Virtual/Online, 12-14 April 2021.
Banday, M. U. L., Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. Being ‘young’: Learning and slogging practices among Indian IT sector workers. 39th International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) 2021 (Online).
Banday, M. U. L., Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. Enterprise discourse and conditional inclusion: Negotiating age and gender in the Indian IT industry. 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021 (Online).
Banday, M. U. L., Noronha, E., & D’Cruz, P. Unionizing as ‘truth telling’: A Foucauldian analysis of unionism in the Indian IT sector. BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2021 (Online).
Chakraborty S., Noronha, E., D'Cruz, P, & Gupta, P. (2021, June 21-24). Dignity implications of client-supplier relationship: A study of Indian security guards and their employers [Paper presentation]. 19th International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress, held virtually.
Chakraborty S., Noronha, E., D'Cruz, P, & Gupta, P. (2021, July 29- August 4). Contracting out to manage: Evidence from security service suppliers and clients in India [Paper presentation]. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), held virtually.
Chakraborty S., Noronha, E., D'Cruz, P, & Gupta, P. (2021, August 25-27). Redefining dignity: Indian security guards’ unionized response to precarity [Paper presentation]. British Sociological Association (BSA) Work, Employment and Society Conference, held virtually.
Tensions of globalisation: Working of Indian IT firms in the Netherlands. With Ernesto Noronha. ILO-RDW conference, 8-10July 2019, Geneva
‘Understanding worker’s resistance: Experience of brick kiln workers in Ahmedabad’. With Ernesto Noronha. IVSA conference, 20-22 June 2019, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.
At the far ends of GPNs: Child labour in hybrid cottonseed production in Western India. With Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Saikat Chakraborty and Ernesto Noronha, ILPC conference, 24-26 April 2019, Vienna.
The Indian IT industry: A GPN perspective. With Ernesto Noronha, 2019. GLU conference, 27-29 March 2019. Berlin.
"Emotional Abuse on Olms: Evidence from Indian Freelancers," Oral Presentation at ISA Congress, 15-21 July 2018, Toronto.
Making the best of the deal: Security guards in India navigating their precariousness. Oral presentation, ILERA conference, 23-27 July 2018, Seoul. With Ernesto Noronha and Saikat Chakraborty.
Overcoming Multiple Marginalizations: The Role of the Prestigious Aspects of Beauty Service Work. Oral presentation, ILERA conference, 23-27 July 2018, Seoul. With Avina Mendonca and Ernesto Noronha.
“When East meets West: Experience of Indians working in the Netherlands” Oral presentation, ILERA conference, 23-27 July 2018, Seoul. With Ernesto Noronha.
Children's portrayal of employers' power on Bt cotton farms in India. IVSA, 25-28 June 2018. Evry, France. With Ernesto Noronha, Muneeb ul Lateef Banday and Saikat Chakraborty.
Understanding workplace cyberbullying: A review of what we know so far. 11th International conference on workplace bullying and harassment, 5-8 June 2018, Bordeaux, France. With Sam Farley and Iain Coyne.
Rewriting the power dynamics of external bullying at work: The occupational dialectics of dirty work. 11th International conference on workplace bullying and harassment, 5-8 June 2018. With Avina Mendonca and Ernesto Noronha
