S Pavan Kumar

Designation:

Associate Professor & Head

Date of Joining at NITK:

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Professional Experience:

Total Experience: 25 Years (Academic), 2 Years (Industry), 9 years at NITK

Contact Details

E-mail:

saraf_pavan [at] rediffmail.com

pavankumar [at] nitk.ac.in

Telephone:

+91 824 2474000 (Extn.4227) (H), +91 824 2474000 (Extn.3233) (O), +917760020200 (M)

Academic Background

• Ph.D (IIT Kharagpur)& Year of Completion (Aug. 2011)
• M.Tech (IIT Kharagpur) & Year of Passing (2006)
• B.Tech (Amravati University)& Year of Passing (June 2001)

Areas of Interest

• Human Resource Management& Organizational Behaviour
• Information Systems
• HR and BusinessAnalytics
• Industrial Relations
• Research Methodology

Supervision of Ph.D

2- completed, 6- ongoing

Significant Publications

Kumar, S. P. (2021). Exploring the relationship between students’ inclination to sports and their entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 34, 57-63.
Kumar, S. P. (2021). Antecedents of satisfaction with teamwork in higher education: An empirical study. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 34, 579-583.
Kumar, S. P. (2021). Impact of Online Learning Readiness on Students Satisfaction in Higher Educational Institutions. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 34, 64-70.
Kumar, S. P. (2020). Workplace Spirituality as an Antecedent of University Teachers' Subjective Well-Being: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and Job Performance. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 33, 137-146.
Mishra, S., & Kumar, S. P. (2019). Prospecting the enablers for adoption of e-recruitment practices in organisations: a proposed framework. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 5(3), 235-246.
Mishra. S., & Kumar, S. P. (2019). E-recruitment and Training Comprehensiveness: Untapped Antecedents of Employee Branding, Industrial and Commercial Training, 51 (2), 125-136.
Saha, S., & Kumar, S. P. (2018). Organization culture as moderator between affective commitment and job satisfaction: an empirical evidence from Indian Public Sector Undertakings, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 31(2), 184-206.

Achievements

Best paper award was conferred in the track “Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation” for the research paper “Exploring the Relationship between Students’ Inclination to Sports and Their Entrepreneurial Intentions” in Eighth International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2021). Organized by IUCEE, held online during 8th – 10th January 2021.
"Engineering Education Research Leader" award was conferred by the IUCEE during Seventh International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE 2020) for research paper on "Workplace Spirituality as an Antecedent of University Teachers’ Subjective Well-being: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and Job Performance", held during 5th-8th January, 2020 at Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad.
Best research paper award for the paper on “An empirical examination of the dimensions, antecedents and consequences of corporate reputation” presented at 5rd International conference on applied business and economic research. Organized by serial publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India during 20-21 May 2017.
Best research paper award for the paper on “Antecedents of employee turnover intension in Indian automotive industry” presented at 3rd International conference on applied business and economic research. Organized by serial publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India during 30-31 July 2016.
Outstanding paper award for the research paper on “Assessing the relationship between participating in decision making and organizational citizenship behavior: Mediating role of organizational commitment” presented at HR Summit (High-Tech people, High-Touch HR: Are we missing the human touch?), Organized by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), February 8-10, 2013.
Member on advisory board of “MIVO Software Technology Solutions Private Limited”, Hyderabad from 05.03.2014.
Member on advisory board of “WorClaTra” a management consulting Start-up Company located in Indore, India.