Faculty Profile

Dr. Shameem S is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM Trichy). She has over a decade of academic and research experience, having previously served as a faculty member at XLRI Jamshedpur, Great Lakes Institute of Management, and IFMR (Krea University). She has also worked as an HR Officer at National Oxygen Limited and held research positions at the Technical University of Munich, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai.

She holds a Ph.D. from IIT Madras, where her thesis on employee-customer interaction and emotional labor received the Best Thesis Award at the National Academy for Psychology conference in 2016. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology (Industrial Psychology specialization) from Pondicherry University, where she was awarded the Gold Medal for securing the first rank, and a B.Sc. from JIPMER, where she also received a Gold Medal and was recognized as the Best Outgoing Student.

Dr. Shameem has published extensively in top-tier journals, including ABDC-A*, A, and Scopus Q1-ranked publications. Her work has been presented at prestigious conferences such as the Academy of Management (AOM), British Academy of Management (BAM), and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), among others. She has received several prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Paper Award at IIT Madras in 2023, Best Paper Awards at INDAM in 2024 and 2013, and the Best Research Proposal Award at the Yale-Great Lakes International Conference in 2011, to mention a few.

She has designed and delivered courses for PGPM, PGDM, executive, and doctoral programs in Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, Organizational Behavior, Research Methodology, Empirical Research, Agile HR and Contemporary Workplace Challenges, and Digital HR & Workforce Analytics. She has also led consultancy projects, including a Tamil Nadu government-funded project on MSMEs and a study on housing demand trends in Sricity.

Dr. Shameem is actively involved in professional networks such as the Academy of Management (AOM) and serves on the editorial and review boards of leading HR and business journals. She was a DAAD "New Passage to India" Scholar at the Technical University of Munich and continues to engage in interdisciplinary research, focusing on various facets of workplace behavior studies.

She has also designed and delivered Management Development Programs (MDPs) on Strategic Human Resource Planning, Agile HR, Workforce Analytics, and Women Leadership, among other customized programs, helping organizations enhance their HR strategies and leadership capabilities.