Dr. Seema

Name - Dr Seema

Designation -Assistant Professor,Delhi School of Management, DTU 

Qualifications - Ph.D (NIT Kurukshetra), UGC-NET Qualified, MBA (GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi)

Areas of interest - OB/HR, Non-Standard Employments, Agile Workforce, Platform/Gig working, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Algorithmic Management, Portfolio Careers

Phone - +91-826288XXXX Email – seema@dtu.ac.in

Dr. Seema is an Assistant Professor at DSM, DTU in the discipline of Management. She has earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management from NIT Kurukshetra. She previously served as a Visiting Faculty at IIT Jammu and Chitkara University’s Doctoral Research Centre, with more than 10 years of combined experience in industry, teaching, and research. Her doctoral research examined moonlighting intentions among IT professionals, and her core expertise lies in work behaviors especially in non-standard employments, agile workforce, platform/gig working and leadership in contemporary work settings. She has qualified UGC-NET thrice and awarded fellowship at NITK by MHRD (2018-22). She has authored more than 15 research publications in globally reputed outlets published by Elsevier ScienceDirect, SAGE, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, and Springer, with indexing in ABDC, ABS, SSCI, Scopus & Web of Science (WoS). She has actively presented at top-tier conferences hosted by IITs, NITs, and international organizations, with her research contributing to both academic knowledge and policy-level discussions in India’s evolving employment landscape. She also serves as a peer reviewer for reputed international journals such as Behaviour & Information technology, Higher Education Quarterly, Global Business & Organizational Excellence & Cogent Business & Management. She is also an internationally certified trainer and counsellor under The Colombo Plan. Her industry background includes impactful roles in HR leadership at Trident Group and capacity-building programs under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (GoI) projects for Northern India.

Post-PhD Academic Experience

S.No.	Organisations (India)	Courses Taught/Researched
1.	IIT Jammu	*IPO (Entrepreneurship)- Value Proposition Design *IPO             (Entrepreneurship)- Structuring the business *IPO (Entrepreneurship)- Launch & Growth
2.	Chitkara University, Doctoral Research Centre, Chitkara Business School	*Research methodology *Undertook research supervision for PhD candidates (HRM) * Research    in    work behaviors (HRM)
3	Netaji     Subhash     University     of Technology (NSUT)	*Innovation        and       Start-up Ecosystem in India

Industrial Experience:

1	Trident Group of Industries	HR Generalist, Capacity Building and Administration
2	Gunjan Organisation at Dharamshala Designated as Regional Resource & Training Centre North India II by MoSJE, GoI & GNFV	HR Generalist, Capacity Building and Administration

Organisation Development

Human Resource Management

Performance & Compensation Management

Management Process and Organisational Behaviour

Strategic Management

Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility

 

An internationally certified Trainer & Counsellor under 'The Colombo Plan' and a Lifetime member of The Colombo Plan

1. Seema, S., Saini, G. (2025), “ The key to organizational success in the information age: a socio-technical systems perspective on innovative work behaviour in the Indian IT sector”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-03-2025-0182. (ABDC-A, SSCI,ABS,IF 7.6)
2. Seema, Choudhary, V., & Saini, G. (2021), "Effect of job satisfaction on moonlighting intentions: Mediating effect of organizational commitment", European Research on Management and Business Economics, 27(1), Article: 100137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2020.100137  (ABDC-A, SSCI, IF 6.4)
3. Sharma, S., Mittal, A. and Seema, S. (2026)" Does leading through algorithmic management impact the workers’ well-being: a systematic literature review and research agenda",Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-06-2025-0424. (ABDC-B,SSCI,IF 5.2)
4. Sharma, S., Mittal, A. and Seema, S.(2025), “Perils of People Working Through Algorithmic Management Systems: Uncovering the Hidden Workplace Struggles”, Quality & Quantity: An International Journal of Methodology, (Forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02387-1. (ABDC-B, Scopus Q1)
5. Sharma, S., Mittal, A. and Seema, S.(2026), "Mapping research trajectories of platform working and employee well-being: a bibliometric cartography", Kybernetes, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-08-2025-1870. (SCIE, IF 2.9, Scopus)
6. Seema, Saini, G., Mittal, A. and Dhankar, N. (2025), "Green transformational leadership and green management practices-based environmental stewardship: a SEM model with mediation and parallel moderation effects", Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-07-2024-0445 (ABDC-B, Scopus Q1)
7. Seema, S., Sachdeva, G., Mor, K., & Mittal, A. (2025), "Workplace attitudes and work-life challenges-based side-hustling intentions of the tech professionals: A PLS-SEM-based approach", South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1177/23220937241306208 (ABDC-C, ABS, Scopus)
8. Saini, G., Seema, S., & Jaitley, R. (2024), "Understanding postpartum depression through learned helplessness theory", The Open Psychology Journal, 17(1), Article: E18743501307219. https://doi.org/10.2174/0118743501307219. (ScienceDirect, Scopus)
9. Saini, G., & Seema. (2020), "Ramification of mindfulness, subjective vitality on spiritual intelligence and impeding effect of stress in professionals during COVID-19", Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 24(1), pp 193-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/09720510.2020.1833451 (ABDC-C, WoS)
10. Seema, S., Saini, G., Baba, M. M., & Singla, A. (2024), "Need for agile workforce in the new normal: Past, present and future", Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 59 (3), pp. 454–468. (ABDC-C)
11. Saini, G., Shabnam, S., Seema, & Bhatnagar, V. (2022), "The pattern of executive professionals’ thinking styles in relation to cognitive styles and metacognition skills", Cogent Psychology, 9(1), Article: 2068741. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2022.2068741 (Scopus)
12. Saini, G., Bhatnagar, V., Seema, Raja, L., Sharma, S., & Poonia, R. C. (2022), "Structural equation based model to investigate the moderating effect of fear of COVID using partial least square method", Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, 25(3), pp. 703–720. https://doi.org/10.1080/09720502.2021.2016855  (Scopus)
13. Seema & Sachdeva, G. (2019), "Moonlighting intentions of IT professionals: Impact of organizational commitment and entrepreneurial motivation", Journal of Critical Reviews, 7(2), pp 214-220. (Scopus)
14. Seema (2019), "Rising moonlighting of IT/ITES professionals in India", International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), 8, pp. 202–207. (Scopus)
15. Sachdeva, G., & Seema (2019), "Automation giving birth to moonlighting careers with special reference to IT industry", Journal of Strategic Human Resource Management, 8(3), pp 27-35.

1) Sachdeva, G. & Seema (2019). New Civilisation of Portfolio Careers in I.T. Industry on its Way: Credit goes to Moonlighting through Exploitation of Science & Technology. In Science, Spirituality and Civilization (119-139). Pothi Publishers

2) Sachdeva, G. & Seema (2019). Knowledge Management Systems Leveraging the Competitive Advantage of Top I.T. organizations: A Multi-case Study of Benchmarking Practices. In Information and communication technology for competitive strategies (53-63). Springer, Singapore.

In Conference Proceedings/ Presented

Sharma, S., Mittal, A., & Seema, S. (2025, December). Impact of algorithmic management on workers' well- being: A systematic Literature review. Presented In Taylors University, Malaysia

Sharma, S., Mittal, A., & Seema, S. (2025, December). Algorithmic Management in Digital Workspaces: The Mediating Role of Emotional Capital in Knowledge Contribution. Presented In India Management Research Conference 2025 IIM Ahmedabad, India.

Sharma, S., Mittal, A., & Seema, S. (2024, November). Algorithmic management and work motivation: Employee voice behavior of platform workers in Industry 4.0. In Proceedings of the 2024 3rd Edition of IEEE Delhi Section Flagship Conference (DELCON). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DELCON64804.2024.10866434

Bhatnagar, V., Saini, G., Seema, & Raja, L. (2023, June). Job decision latitude and gig working fashions towards work life integration in the new normal workplaces. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2699). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139644

Saini, G., Seema, & Mor, K. (2021, March). Machine learning and prophecy of behavior: a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 1099, No. 1, p. 012026). IOP Publishing.

Sachdeva, G. & Seema (2019, June). Crowdsourcing: Evolution of Information Ecology in the Digital Workplaces. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Informatics for Computing Research (ICAICR '19) (1-6). ACM

Sachdeva, G. & Seema (2018, April). Opportunities Creation in IT/ITes Industry in India in the Dynamics of Rightsizing due to Emerging Computing Technologies. Presented in International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Management and Education. Panjab University, Chandigarh & London School of Management Education (UK).

Sachdeva, G., & Seema (2018, June). Crowd work enabling moonlighting & entrepreneurship: A study of Indian IT industry. In Proceedings of the First PAN IIT International Management Conference 2018 (PANIITIMC-18).

Sachdeva, G., & Seema (2018, December). Knowledge management systems leveraging the competitive advantage of top IT organizations: A multi-case study of benchmarking practices. In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Vol. 40, pp. 53–63). Springer Nature Singapore.

Sachdeva, G. & Seema (2017, Dec). A Tryst Between Moonlighting IT/ITes Professionals and the Great Evolution of Start-ups in India. In Proceedings of National Conference on Sustainable Development, NIT Kurukshetra (76-82).

1 Patent Published.

1. Qualified UGC NET & Awarded MHRD scholarship during PhD.

Peer Reviewer for following journals:- 

1.Behaviour & Information technology (ABDC-A)

2. International Journal of Emerging Markets (ABDC-B)

3. Higher Education Quarterly

4. Global Business & Organizational Excellence

Google Scholar link

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=01nuZ4gAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus link

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57136663100

Orcid Link

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6545-0780