Dr. Sadia Ehtisham
PhDLecturer - HRM
School of Business and Law
Centre for Regional Economies and Supply Chains
120 Spencer Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
Dr. Sadia Ehtisham is currently a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Central Queensland University’s Melbourne Campus. With over fifteen years of academic experience, she has made substantial contributions to teaching, research, and program management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in prestigious business schools across Australia and Pakistan.
Sadia completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2024 and holds both an MBA and an MPhil. She also brings valuable industry experience, having worked as an HR Manager for nearly six years.
As an active researcher, Sadia has developed advanced quantitative data analysis skills over twelve years. Her research interests include Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resource Management, Diversity, and a broad range of organisational and employee outcomes at both macro and micro levels. She has authored more than 25 scholarly articles, which have received over 2,000 citations, and her work has been published in highly regarded journals such as the International Journal of Hospitality Management and Tourism Review.
Sadia’s contributions have been recognised with several accolades, including the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Excellence as a Sessional Academic (2023) and the QUT Postgraduate Scholarship (2020-2024).
Background
SELECTED PROCEEDINGS AND CONDUCTED WORKSHOPS
Cheema, S. (2023). How and When Organisations’ Social Responsibility Efforts Become a Challenge: A Systematic Review. Proceedings of the 37th Annual British Academy of Management Conference, UK.
Cheema, S., Ali, M., & French, E. (2023). The Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Organisational Performance: The Role of Branding. Proceedings of the 37th Annual British Academy of Management Conference, UK.
Cheema, S. (2023). Employee Perceived Inconsistent CSR and Corporate Hypocrisy. 4th Managing Tourism Across Continents Conference, Turkey.
Cheema, S. (2023). Antecedents of Customer Loyalty in the Pakistani Hospitality Industry: A Moderated Mediation Study. 11th International Conference on New Ideas in Management, Economics, & Accounting, Spain.
Cheema, S. (2023). Antecedents of Customer Loyalty in the Pakistani Hospitality Industry. 5th International Conference on the Future of Business, Management, & Economics, Italy.
Cheema, S. (2022). Navigating Employees' CSR Perceptions and Leadership Roles: An Individual-Level Study. The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, USA.
Cheema, S., Ali, M., & French, E. (2020). Determinants and Outcomes of CSR: A Multilevel Study. 4th Diversity & Inclusion HDR Conference, Australia.
Cheema, S., Liaquat, M., & Ali, M. (2020). Ethical Leadership and Organisational Commitment: An Investigation of the Mediational Role of Employee-Perceived CSR Among Hotel Employees. Proceedings of the 34th Annual British Academy of Management Conference, UK.
Saira, S., Ishaque, S., Cheema, S., Mansoor, S., & Ali, M. (2020). Does Gender Affect the Outcomes of Diversity Training Effectiveness? An Australian Empirical Study. Proceedings of the 34th Annual British Academy of Management Conference, UK.
Cheema, S. (2019). Research Gap Identification and Conceptual Understanding of Mediation and Moderation. Institute of Management and Sciences, BZU, Pakistan.
Cheema, S. (2024). Data Collection Techniques and Challenges in Quantitative Data Analysis. Business Research Circle, QUT.
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Current Capacity
Human resources and industrial relations - Employment equity and diversity
Corporate social responsibility, Industrial and employee relations, Sustainability, Employee attitudes, and behaviours, Green HRM
