Professor Sarbari Bordia

Sarbari Bordia

RSM

Research School of Management

Position
Professor
HDR Convenor
Email
sarbari.bordia@anu.edu.au
Phone number
+61 2 612 57338
Office
Room 1060, LF Crisp Bld (26)
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/sarbari-bordia
Research areas

Management

Biography

Sarbari Bordia is a Professor of Management and Deputy Director (Research) of the Research School of Management. With multi-disciplinary expertise, Sarbari’s research spans management, applied linguistics, international education and qualitative research methodology in the social sciences. Sarbari’s research interest is at the intersection of linguistics and corporate communication, where she studies the role of linguistic identity in international business and migrant workplace contexts. She also conducts research on the internationalization of management education. Sarbari’s research has been supported by schemes including the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Program, which funded her exploration of career persistence from the socio-cognitive and psychological contract perspectives. Her work has been published in leading academic journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Sarbari was the founding co-editor the Co-Editor of Journal of International Education in Business (2007-2021). Sarbari is a research affiliate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at ANU.

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Research grants and awards

External Grants 

 Eapen, A., Cheng, D., Bordia, S., Amarnani, R., & Kasbekar, C. (2022-24). Academic support for the Deliberately Differentiated Package (DDP) Research Program ($948,360.95). Department of Defence, Australia.

Eapen, A., Cheng, D., Bordia, S., & Amarnani, R. (2021). Academic support for the Deliberately Differentiated Package (DDP) Research Program. Department of Defence, Australia.

Restubog, S.L.D., Bordia, P., & Bordia, S. (2012). Understanding career persistence: Integrating socio-cognitive and psychological contract perspectives. Australian Research Council: Discovery Project. 


Awards

Winner of the Best Paper Award, 2008 US Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA., Management Education and Development Division.

Other Research Projects

Bordia, S., Curtis, S., von Reibnitz, A., & William, J. (in alphabetic order, 2021). Bridging the gap: The role of gender pay gap reporting. Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL), Kings College London and Australian National University.

Research engagement and outreach

Founding Co-editor of the Journal of International Education in Business (JIEB; 2007-2021).

Sarbari Bordia has been an editorial board member for The Academy of Management Learning and Education (2012-18).

Sarbari also has significant experience in academic leadership. She has been the Interim Director for the Research School of Management, ANU (2019); Chair, Gender Equity Committee, College of Business and Economics, ANU (2016-18); Deputy Director for Higher Degree by Research, Research School of Management (2018; 2020-21), and Honours Convenor, Research School of Management (2012-18). She is currently the Deputy Director for Research, Research School of Management, ANU.

Teaching

Sarbari Bordia’s teaching and research expertise are multi-disciplinary, ranging from management, applied linguistics, international education and qualitative research methodology in the social sciences.

Sarbari currently teaches qualitative research methodology (Honours, MPhil and PhD) and cross-cultural management (postgraduate). Her prior teaching experiences include cross-cultural management (undergraduate), on- and off-shore courses on business communication and negotiation as well as English as a second language in USA and Australia. Sarbari has co-authored text books on business communication.


Current Teaching:

Qualitative Research Methods 


Other Teaching:

Cross-cultural Management

Managing Across Cultures

Business Communication