Rate My Professor Prashant Bordia

Prashant Bordia is a Professor of Management in the Research School of Management at the Australian National University. His research applies insights from social and organisational psychology to individual behaviour, group processes, and organisational practices. He has studied rumour transmission, communication and uncertainty management during organisational change, developmental processes in teams, and employee-employer psychological contracts. His current research interests centre on work and ageing, encompassing post-retirement engagement with work, role identity processes in transition to retirement, and work stress over the lifespan. Bordia founded and coordinates the Work and Ageing Research Network at ANU. His research appears in leading journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Human Communication Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and Social Psychology Quarterly.

Bordia joined ANU in 2010, following positions at the University of Queensland (1996-2005), where he contributed to the organisational psychology group and directed the Masters of Organisational Psychology program, and the University of South Australia School of Management (2005-2010), where he developed and co-directed the Centre for Human Resource Management from 2007 to 2010. He co-authored the book Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches with Nicholas DiFonzo in 2007, which received the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in Psychology. His scholarship has earned multiple best paper awards at Academy of Management annual meetings (2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2011), Editorial Board Outstanding Reviewer Awards from Academy of Management Journal (2014, 2016), and the University of Queensland Foundation Early Career Research Excellence Award (2003). Bordia serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal and Journal of Organizational Behavior and was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2013-2015). His research has received funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage Programs, a Key Centre in Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology, and the US National Science Foundation. He has supervised nine PhD students, 16 coursework Masters, and over 20 Honours students to completion.