Dr. Sardana Islam Khan
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College: Management
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Department: Management
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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sardana.islam.khan@rmit.edu.au
About
Dr. Sardana Khan is a Lecturer and researcher in the School of Management, RMIT University. Her research focuses on human resource management (HRM) and organisational behaviour. Sardana designed and coordinated many HRM and management courses and published in top-tier peer reviewed academic journals. In her additional role, Dr Sardana Khan led 'East West University Center for Research and Training' (overseas) as the Deputy Executive Director. In that role, she successfully initiated and managed a World Bank funded ‘Higher Education Quality Enhancement Program (HEQEP) sub-project under 'Academic Innovaiton Fund (AIF)’ for capacity building and knowledge sharing (2014-2016). She supervised PhD candidates and Research Masters students to completion and examined many PhD theses. She is also a regular and enlisted reviewer of some high-ranking academic journals.
Teaching interests
Dr Sardana Khan published 23 papers in top-tier peer reviewed academic journals such as Personnel Review and Sustainability, among others. She also authored and co-authored seven book chapters and presented 42 papers in international conferences. She edited two volumes of the ‘East West Journal of Business and Social Studies’ as the Assistant Editor. Dr Sardana also serves as a regular reviewer of top ranked academic journals (A or B in ABDC list and Q1 in Scimago), namely APJHR, Personnel review, IJHRM, Industrial Relations and so forth. Her papers have earned several international awards such as GBMF UN OMAHA Best Paper Award 2008, Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences Best Paper Award 2015 and ‘Best Innovative Paper’ award in Sydney International Business Research Conference 2015.
Dr Sardana Khan received (1) distinguished Teacher Award, Management (2024) from Management Teachers Consortium (MTC) Global, (2) ANZAM 2019 Best Stream Reviewer award, (3) ‘AABL Academic Leadership Award’ for outstanding conference coordination of the Melbourne International Business and Social Science Research Conference 2019 and (4) a 'Gold Certificate' for highly rated unit for unit coordination and teaching roles in 2019. She also received AusAid Australian Leadership Award (ALA) for her PhD program in 2009 and La Trobe Gold Leadership award in 2012 for community contribution. In 2021, she received a certificate of recognition for her contribution in academia by the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC).
Research interests
Dr. Sardana Khan's current research interests include high performance work systems, decent work, diversity, sustainable HR, international HRM, staffing challenges in the new economy (Aged care and VET sector), alternative work arrangements and HR analytics.
