Rate My Professor Natasha Podgorodnichenko

Dr. Natasha Podgorodnichenko serves as the DBA Programme Director and Lecturer in the Otago Business School at the University of Otago. She earned her MA in Psychology from the Russian State University for Humanities, MSc in Global Human Resource Management from the University of Liverpool, and PhD from the University of Otago. Before entering academia, she worked as a human resource manager. Since joining the University of Otago in 2019, she has taught courses such as Strategy and Growth and Sustainable Business within the DBA programme and supervises doctoral students on a variety of topics including healthcare reforms and sustainability. She is also involved in coordinating activities like the Otago Consulting Club.

Her research specializations include the integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource management (HRM), sustainable HRM, CSR, organizational sustainability, and lean thinking, particularly in healthcare. Podgorodnichenko is affiliated with Human Resources New Zealand (HRNZ) and the Centre for Health Systems & Technology (CHeST). She serves on the editorial board of the journal Labour & Industry. Key publications include 'Putting sustainable human resource management and workplace eudaimonic well-being into cross-cultural context' (2026, European Management Journal, with Wojtczuk-Turek et al.), 'A scoping review of AI for sustainability and sustainable AI in higher education' (2026, Discover Computing, with Daniel and Carr), 'A multi-stakeholder perspective to improve the efficacy of management consulting practice in the New Zealand public health system' (2026, Public Management Review, with Akmal et al.), 'New Zealand Pae Ora Healthcare Reforms 2022: Viable by Design? A Qualitative Study Using the Viable System Model' (2023), ''The rules of the game': How business research journals discourage knowledge translation to practice and what needs to change' (2022, Production Planning & Control), and 'What makes an effective Quality Improvement Manager? A qualitative study in the New Zealand Health System' (2022, BMC Health Services Research). Her scholarship has accumulated over 540 citations, impacting fields of sustainable organizational practices and healthcare quality improvement.