Rate My Professor Patturaja Selvaraj

Patturaja Selvaraj is an Associate Professor of Management at Gettysburg College, where he joined in August 2017. His academic focus encompasses Human Resource Management and Labor Relations. He earned his PhD in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 2011, an M.Phil. from Alagappa University, an MBA in Marketing from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore in 1996, and a BSc in Computer Science from PSG College of Arts and Science in 1994. Prior to Gettysburg College, Selvaraj served as an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Indian Institute of Management Indore, where he taught graduate and doctoral-level courses, delivered training programs for working executives, and consulted for public sector organizations. Earlier in his career, he spent eight years in the personnel department at National Aerospace Laboratories in Bangalore, India. Additionally, from August 2022 to July 2025, he held the Harold G. Evans Professorship in Eisenhower Leadership Studies at Gettysburg College.

Selvaraj's research interests include entrepreneurship in its social and community context, migrant workers, job insecurity, industrial relations, and disciplinary processes. His scholarship has appeared in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Personnel Review, and International Journal of Conflict Management. Notable publications include 'Decasticization, Dignity, and ‘Dirty Work’ at the Intersections of Caste, Memory, and Disaster' with Ramaswami Mahalingam and Saradon Jagannathan (Business Ethics Quarterly, 2019), 'Ambedkar, Radical Interdependence and Dignity: A Study of Women Mall Janitors in India' with Ramaswami Mahalingam (Journal of Business Ethics, 2022), 'A temporal study on subordinate’s response to destructive leadership: voice withdrawal as a conflict coping mechanism' with Agrata Pandey, Ranjeet Nambudiri, and Ashish Sadh (International Journal of Conflict Management, 2021), and 'Employee Voice Implications for Innovation in a Deliberative Environment Context of Indian Organizations' with Jerome Joseph (Personnel Review, 2020). With over 346 citations documented on Google Scholar, his work advances understandings of organizational ethics, labor dynamics, and socio-cultural influences in emerging economies. He teaches courses including Organization Theory, Labor Relations, Topics in HR Management, International Management, and Advanced Topics in Business Operations Management.