Faculty

Aarushi Singh

Assistant Professor at School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai.

Phone : (022) 42352723

Email : aarushi.singh@sbm.nmims.edu

Academic and Professional Qualification

  • PhD, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, University School of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, 2025 (Thesis submitted).
  • MBA, University School of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, 2017-2019.
  • BA Economics (Hons.), Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India, 2014-2017.

Honors and Awards:

  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Humor as a Hiring Hook: The Playful Games Organizations Play to Attract Talents”, CERE 2023, IIM Indore, India.
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Are Indian Higher Education Institutions doing their bit towards Gender Empowerment? A study of Public and Private Universities in India”, Conference on Sustainable Development in International Higher Education: Strategies to achieve Gender Equality and Empowerment 2021, JNU & GGSIPU, India.
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Can Metacognition Determine Employee Effectiveness During the Pandemic? An integrative review of the literature. International Doctoral Research E-Conference, 2021, GGSIPU, India.
  • Passed National Eligibility Test (NET) in Management, December, 2018 organized by University Grants Commission (UGC), India.

Courses Taught:

  • Organizational Behaviour
  • Human Resource Management

Teaching Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Human Resource & Behavioral Sciences (HRBS), School of Business Management, SVKM’s NMIMS deemed to be University, Mumbai. April 2025 – Present.
  • Assistant Professor, Human Resource Department, School of Business, Galgotias University, Uttar Pradesh, August 2024-April 2025.
  • Teaching Assistant: University School of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, Dec. 2020 –June 2022.

Industry Experience:

  • Business Analyst, Evalueserve Private Ltd., Gurgaon, India, June 2019- December 2020

Ph.D. Topic:

  • Relationship of Individual Cognitive Variables with Employee Performance: A Study of Select Financial Organizations

Research Interest:

  • Metacognition and need for cognition
  • AI in recruitment and selection
  • Employer branding.

Recent Publications:

    • Thakur, K., Singh, A., & Srimannarayana, M. (2025). May AI Come In? Generative AI Shaping Gender Diverse Recruitment in the Hospitality Industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.104061 (ABDC-A*, SSCI, Scopus)
    • Goel, A., Singh, A., Taneja, U., & Jain, S. (2024). Consumer Adoption of Digital Health Services: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda. International Journal of Consumer Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.13070 (ABDC-A, SSCI, Scopus)
    • Bajaj, B., Jain, S., Singh, A., & Bajaj, A. (2024). Impact of Metacognitive Ability on the Performance of Employees Working in Teams and the Moderating Role of Team Characteristics. Vision. (ABDC-C, Scopus, ESCI), https://doi.org/10.1177/09722629241249532.
    • Jain, S., Singh, A., & Bhalla, R. (2024). Can metacognition determine employee performance in the context of virtual workspace? An empirical investigation. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-03-2023-0066. (Scopus)
    • Jain, S., Bajaj, B., & Singh, A. (2023). Linking Metacognition, Workplace Cognitive Competencies and Performance: An Integrative Review-Based Conceptual Framework. Primenjena psihologija. https://doi.org/10.19090/pp.v16i1.2427. (Scopus and ESCI)

Book Chapters Published:

  • Jain, S., Bajaj, B., & Singh, A. (2022). Are Indian Higher Education Institutions Doing Their Bit Towards Empowerment of Mid-Career Women?: A Study of Public and Private Universities in India. In Women in Higher Education and the Journey to Mid-Career: Challenges and Opportunities. IGI Global. 10.4018/978-1-6684-4451-1.ch007 (Scopus Indexed)

Fellowship:

  • Indraprastha Research Fellowship, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (December 2020- August 2024)

Research in Progress:

  • Singh, A., Jain, S. Metacognitive Ability and Need for Cognition as Antecedents to Employee Performance: the mediating role of decision coping patterns.
  • Thakur, K., Mishra, S., Jain, A., Singh, A. Chit-Chat Cheat! Experimental Investigation of Peer Influence and Fear of Penalty in Academic Cheating.

Conference Proceedings:

  • Singh, A., Thakur, K., Singh, S., Srimannarayana, M. Magnetic Effect: How Employer Branding Through Social Media Affects Organizational Attractiveness. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025 (1), Academy of Management.
  • Thakur, K., Singh, A., Jha, J., Jain, S. Humor as a Hiring Hook: The Playful Games Organizations Play to Attract Talents, CERE 2023.
  • Arora, T., Singh, A., Jain, S., Prakash, D. The role of entrepreneurs metacognition in shaping entrepreneurial orientation and action: A step towards sustainable value creation of firm, INDAM 2023.

Conference Presentations:

  • May AI come in? Impact of impression management as an employer branding tool on hiring outcome (2024, September 30–October 1). 13th EIASM Workshop on Talent Management,Luxembourg,Europe. 
  • Experimental investigation of manipulation and moral disengagement: The game of cheating. (2024, January 11–13). 9th INDAM Conference, Goa Institute of Management, India.
  • Decoding the individual differences in metacognition and need for cognition to understand decision coping patterns of employees in the financial sector (2024, January 11–13). 9th INDAM Conference, Goa Institute of Management, India. 
  • Humor as a hiring hook: Playful games organizations play to attract talents (2023, June 9–11). 13th International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE), IIM Indore, India. 
  • Role of metacognition and cognitive need in explaining decision-coping patterns of employees in the financial sector: An empirical investigation. (2023, April 4–5). BSIM Conference, IIM Ahmedabad, India. 
  • The role of entrepreneurs’ metacognition in shaping entrepreneurial orientation and action: A step towards sustainable value creation of firm. (2023, January 6–8). INDAM Conference, NMIMS Mumbai, India. 
  • A study of metacognitive ability and cognitive needs in relation to employees’ individual performance and investment decision outcome. (2023, January). Doctoral Colloquium, IIT Jodhpur, India. 
  • Can metacognition determine employee performance in the context of virtual workspace? An empirical investigation (2022, June 3–5). 12th International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE), IIM Indore, India. 
  • Measuring state and trait mindfulness at the workplace: Development and validation of a workplace mindfulness scale (2022, February 4–5). International Research Conference on Mindfulness, IIM Bodhgaya, India. 
  • Are Indian higher education institutions doing their bit towards gender empowerment? A study of public-private universities in India (2022, August 10–11). International Conference on Sustainable Development in International Higher Education, JNU & GGS IP University, India. 
  • Can metacognition determine employee effectiveness during the pandemic? An integrative review of literature (2021, July 30–31). International Doctoral Research E-Conference, GGS IP University, India. 
  • Role of metacognition and coping behaviour in managerial virtual teams of the digital age: An exploration of literature (2021, March 26). International E-Conference on Managing in the Digital Age, GGS IP University, India. 
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