Dharma Raju Bathini

Dharma Raju Bathini

Designation

Associate Professor
Academic Group: Human Resource Management

Contact

Phone No.: +91 33 2467 8300 (Extn. 2135)
Email ID.: dharmab

Biography

Personal Details:

Flexible work arrangements, Platform work, Gig work, Telework

Academics

Academic Background:

PhD (FPM) - OB - 91心頭利 Ahmedabad
B Tech - Mechanical Engineering - NIT Warangal

Courses Taught:

Human Resource Management (PGDM, PDPEX, PGDBA) International Human Resource Management (PGDM elective) Management control and employee resistance (FPM)

Awards:

Renault - Polytechnique HEC chair award for the best research project on multicultural management and corporate performance at Paris during internship at Renault-Nissan in 2011 Merit scholarship during B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering (NIT Warangal)

Current Projects:

Working only on personal research projects at present

Experience

Work Experience:

Manager - Project Planning, Ashok Leyland, Chennai (2005-10)

Research

Journal Publications:

Bathini, D.R., & Kandathil, G.M. (2020). "Bother me only if the client complains:

  • Control and resistance in home-based telework in India". Employee Relations Mishra, S., & Bathini, D. R. (2019). "Ubers Entrepreneurship Discourse and its Neoliberal Appeal: Analysis of Coverage in English-language Dailies in India". Critical Discourse Studies. . 
  • Paresha, N. S., & Bathini, D. R. (2019). "Resistance towards dominant US work practices in emerging markets: A case study of enacting mimicry at an Indian fast-food outlet." Critical Perspectives on International Business. Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. M. (2017). "An orchestrated negotiated exchange: Trading home-based telework for intensified work." Journal of Business Ethics.  
  • Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. (2015). Work from home: A boon or a bane? The missing piece of employee cost. The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(4), 568574. 
     
    Pathak, A. A., Bathini, D. R., & Kandathil, G. M. (2015). The ban on working from home makes sense for Yahoo. 
  • Human Resource Management International Digest, 23(3), 1214. 
    . Bathini, D. R., & Vohra, N. (2014). Volunteering: The role of individual-level psychological variables. Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 39(2), 113126. 
     
    Bathini, D. R. (2012). Book review of Millennials in the workplace: Challenges for architecting the organizations of tomorrow. Vikalpa: The Jounal of Decision Makers, 37(3).

Conferences:

  • Bathini, D.R., Sinha, P. (2016). Workers' Resisting Standardization but Not Exploitation?: Work in Indian Fast Food Chain Outlet(s). Proceedings of the 76th Annual Meeting and Academy of Management. Anaheim, USA.  
  • Bathini, D.R., Kandathil. G. (2015). Don't Bother Me as Long as The Client Has No Issues: Control and Resistance in Telework. Proceedings of the 75th Annual meeting of Academy of Management. Vancouver, Canada.

Research Interests:

work-life balance, flexible work arrangements (telework, virtual work), management control and employee resistance, interpretive research methods

Articles/Cases:

  • Bathini, D. R., Pathak, A. (2016). Tata Consultancy Services: Protecting a corporate reputation. Ivey Publishing.  
  • Verma, V., Pathak, A., Bathini, D. R., & Pereira, A. (2014). EnterAll Info Sec Solutions Growing an Ethical Hacking Business. Ivey Publishing.