email

namita.ruparel@jgu.edu.in

Research Interests

Authentic happiness, Quality of Life, Mental Toughness, Job Crafting, Knowledge Hiding, Recruitment practices using professional social media platforms.

Dr. Namita Ruparel

Assistant Professor

B.A., M. Sc. (St. Francis College for Women, Osmania University), Ph.D. (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)

Dr. Namita Ruparel serves as Assistant Professor at Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences (JIBS), O. P. Jindal Global University. She carries two years of professional experience in teaching and research. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus. Thereafter, she has taught Organizational behaviour and human resource management at Woxsen School of Business. Her research focuses on identifying the antecedents of employee happiness and quality of life. Dr Ruparel has been associated with Division 15 – Psychology Students of International Association of Applied Psychology. In her association, she has served as Asia’s Ambassador (April-19 to March-20) and Secretary (March-20 to January-21). She was selected as a trainee at Advanced Research Training Seminar sponsored by International Associated of Applied Psychology at Montreal, Canada.

Training Experience

Dr Ruparel has taught subjects of Organizational behaviour, Human resource management, Human resource analytics, Talent acquisition and retention, Managing people and organizations and Strategic human resources at reputed business schools of India.

Research Experience

The primary focus of Dr Ruparel’s research is on measuring levels of happiness and quality of life among employees. Her research also branches into scale development and validation. Dr Ruparel has developed and validated the Mental Toughness Scale, which can be used to measure mental toughness among employees. Dr Ruparel has published research papers in areas of personal internet use at workplace, professional social media platforms and recruitment processes, employee knowledge hiding. 

Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Ruparel, N., Bhardwaj, S., Seth, H., & Choubisa, R. (2023). Systematic literature review of professional social media platforms: Development of a behavior adoption career development framework. Journal of Business Research, 156, 113482.
  2. Nagpal, G., Ruparel, N., Seth, H., & Saha, V. (2022). Socially responsible marketing in pandemic times at CoKarma. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 12(4), 1-38.
  3. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Seth, H., & Dubey, S. (2022). Mental toughness for employees: towards conceptual clarity and scale development. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.
  4. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Seth, H., & Nagpal, G. (2022). Does time perspective influence knowledge hiding? Empirical evidence from indian employees. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 36(2), 11-13.
  5. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., & Seth, H. (2022). Imagining positive workplaces: extrapolating relationships between job crafting, mental toughness and authentic happiness in millennial employees. Management Research Review.
  6. Tandon, A., Kaur, P., Ruparel, N., Islam, J. U., & Dhir, A. (2022). Cyberloafing and cyberslacking in the workplace: systematic literature review of past achievements and future promises. Internet Research, 32(1), 55-89.
  7. Seth, H., Chadha, S., Sharma, S. K., & Ruparel, N. (2021). Exploring predictors of working capital management efficiency and their influence on firm performance: An integrated DEA-SEM approach. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 28(4), 1120-1145.
  8. Nagpal, G., Arora, V., Madishetti, S., Seth, H., & Ruparel, N. (2021). Cushioning the Economy From COVID-19: A Commentary on the Approaches Adopted by Major Nations. In Handbook of Research on Reinventing Economies and Organizations Following a Global Health Crisis(pp. 181-201). IGI Global.
  9. Ruparel, N. (2020). Mental toughness: Promising new paradigms for the workplace. Cogent Psychology, 7(1), 1722354.
  10. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Sharma, K., & Seth, H. (2020). Assessing the psychometric properties of cultural intelligence scale among Indian employees. Current Psychology, 1-12
  11. Dubey, S., Ruparel, N., & Choubisa, R. (2020). Does organizational virtuousness and psychological capital impact employee performance: evidence from the banking sector. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 34(5), 17-19.
  12. Ruparel, N., & Choubisa, R. (2020). Knowledge hiding in organizations: A retrospective narrative review and the way forward. Dynamic Relationships Management Journal, 9(1), 5-22.
  13. Ruparel, N., Dhir, A., Tandon, A., Kaur, P., & Islam, J. U. (2020). The influence of online professional social media in human resource management: A systematic literature review. Technology in Society, 63, 101335.
  14. Seth, H., Chadha, S., Ruparel, N., Arora, P. K., & Sharma, S. K. (2020). Assessing working capital management efficiency of Indian manufacturing exporters. Managerial Finance.
  15. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Seth, H. & Nagpal G. (Accepted). Does Time Perspective Influence Knowledge Hiding? Empirical Evidence from Indian Employees. Development and Learning in Organizations.
  16. Tandon, A., Kaur, P., Ruparel, N., Islam, J. & Dhir, A. (Accepted). Cyberloafing and Cyberslacking in the Workplace: Systematic Literature Review of Past Achievements and Future Promises. Internet Research.
  17. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Seth, H. & Dubey, S. (2022). Mental toughness for employees: towards conceptual clarity and scale development, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-01-2021-0011
  18. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R.and Seth, H. (2022), Imagining positive workplaces: extrapolating relationships between job crafting, mental toughness and authentic happiness in millennial employees, Management Research Review, 45 (5), 599-618. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-01-2021-0083
  19. Ruparel, N. (2020). Mental toughness: Promising new paradigms for the workplace. Cogent Psychology, 7(1), 1722354. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2020.1722354
  20. Seth, H., Chadha, S., Sharma, S & Ruparel, N. (2020). Exploring predictors of working capital management efficiency and their influence on firm performance: An integrated DEA-SEM approach. Benchmarking: An International Journal
  21. Ruparel, N., Dhir, A., Tandon, A., Kaur, P., & Islam, J. U. (2020). The influence of online professional social media in human resource management: A systematic literature review. Technology in Society, 101335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101335
  22. Ruparel, N., Choubisa, R., Sharma, K., & Seth, H. Assessing the psychometric properties of cultural intelligence scale among Indian employees. Current Psychology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144- 020-00814-0
  23. Seth, H., Chadha, S., Ruparel, N., Arora, P.K. & Sharma, S.K. (2020). Assessing working capital management efficiency of Indian manufacturing exporters, Managerial Finance, https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-02-2019-0076
  24. Ruparel, N., & Choubisa, R. (2020). Knowledge hiding in organizations: A retrospective narrative review and the way forward. Dynamic Relationships Management Journal. doi:10.17708/DRMJ.2020.v09n01a01
  25. Dubey, S., Ruparel, N. & Choubisa, R. (2019), Does organizational virtuousness and psychological capital impact employee performance: evidence from the banking sector, Development and Learning in Organizations https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-08-2019-0190
  26. Chatterjee, I., Ruparel, N., Dubey, S. & Choubisa, R. (2018). Towards Bridging and Fostering Connections between Ideologies of Prominent Spiritual Awakening Institutions and Positive Psychological Practices. SummerHill: IIAS Review. 24(2), 44-49