Prof. Dr. Premilla D’Cruz
Premilla D’Cruz holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and is currently Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. She is the section editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics and has been President of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH) between 2016-2018 and an organizing committee member of the UN-PRME World Tour Research Paper Development Programme between 2021-2024. Premilla has published numerous papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Information and Organization, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Personnel Review, Economic and Industrial Democracy and International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others, and made several international conference keynote addresses and oral presentations. Premilla has been a visiting scholar at various European (Amsterdam, Erasmus, Bergen, Portsmouth, Strathclyde) and Australian (University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan) universities and has received multi-lateral and bi-lateral study grants, in addition to several awards for outstanding academic and research work throughout her student and professional career. She is the Chief Co-Editor of the Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, Volumes 1-4 (Springer, 2021). Her recent co-edited book focuses on Asian Perspectives on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (Springer, 2021).
Research interests:
- Workplace bullying
- Technology and work
- Emotions at work
- Self and identity at work
- Informal/precarious work and employment
- Whistleblowing at work
- Positive organizational scholarship
- Workplace controls.
Select publications:
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2025). Agility and the transition from uncertainty to recovery: the Indian IT industry and COVID-19. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 22(1), 103-117.
D’Cruz, P., Delannon, N., Kourula, A., McCarthy, L., Moon, J., & Spence, L. J. (2024). Contesting social responsibilities of business: Centring context, experience, and relationality. Human Relations, 77(7), 889-905.
Du, S., Babalola, M., D’Cruz, P., Doci, E., Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Hassan, L., … & van Gils, S. (2024). The Ethical, Societal, and Global Implications of Crowdsourcing Research. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-16.
D’Cruz, P., and Noronha, E. (2024). Bullying. P. M. Bal (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology, pp. 45-51.
D’Cruz, P., and Noronha, E. (2024). Compassion. P. M. Bal (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology, pp. 85-90.
D’Cruz, P., Bjorkelo, B., and Uys, T. (2024). Whistleblowing at work. P. M. Bal (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology, pp. 718-722.
Stapinski, P., Bjørkelo, B., D’Cruz, P., Mikkelsen, E. G., & Gamian-Wilk, M. (2023). A role that takes its toll? The moderating role of leadership in role stress and exposure to workplace bullying. International Journal of Conflict Management, 34(5), 1041-1058.
Abrams, R., Bal, P. M., D’Cruz, P., Hornung, S., Islam, G., McDonald, M., Sanderson, Z., & Tonelli, M. J. (2023). The story of this special issue on critical perspectives in work and organizational psychology. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 72(1), 3-12.
D’Cruz, P., and Noronha, E. (2023). India’s platform economy: A site for the commodification-decommodification dynamic. In I. Ness (Ed.), Platform labour and global logistics: A research companion. Routledge
D’Cruz, P., Du, S., Noronha, E., Parboteeah, K. P., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., & Whelan, G. (2022). Technology, megatrends and work: Thoughts on the future of business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-24.
Ahmad, S., Islam, T., D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2022). Caring for those in your charge: the role of servant leadership and compassion in managing bullying in the workplace. International Journal of Conflict Management, DOI 10.1108/IJCMA-05-2022-0098.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2021). Workplace Bullying in the Context of Robotization: Contemplating the Future of the Field. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, pp. 293-321. Springer.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2021). Mapping ‘varieties of bullying’ The scope of the field. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment. Springer.
Berlingieri, A., & D’Cruz, P. (2021). Depersonalized bullying: An emergent concern in the contemporary workplace. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment. Springer.
Farley, S., Coyne, I. J., & D’Cruz, P. (2018). Cyberbullying at work: Understanding the influence of technology. In P. D’Cruz et al, (Eds). Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment. Springer.
Mendonca, A., D’Cruz, P., and Noronha, E. (2020). Trolling in the Cultural and Creative Industries. In Handbook of Research on Cyberbullying and Online Harassment in the Workplace (pp. 46-71). 2020. IGI Global.
Noronha, E., D’Cruz, P., & Banday, M. U. L. (2020). Navigating embeddedness: experiences of Indian it suppliers and employees in the Netherlands. Journal of Business Ethics, 164(1), 95-113.
Noronha, E., and D’Cruz, P. (2019). Organization advantage: Experience of telework in India. In J. Messenger (Ed.) Telework in the 21st century. Edward Elgar.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2018). Target experiences of workplace bullying on online labour markets: Uncovering the nuances of resilience. Employee Relations, 40(1), 139-154.
D’Cruz, P., & Noronha, E. (2018). Abuse on online labour markets: targets’ coping, power and control. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 13(1), 53-78.