Farooq Ahmad
Lecturer in Management
Dr. Ahmad is a lecturer in Managementat at Siena University School of Business where he teaches courses in Introduction to Business and Introduction to Management.
Prior to his role at Siena University, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Southampton. His professional experience encompasses work at several higher education institutions in the UK and USA, including the University of Southampton, Imperial College London, the University of Winchester.
Dr. Ahmad's research encompasses two major streams in the field of organization theory and organizational behavior. The first area focuses on institutional change and how actors within the field navigate and reposition themselves in response to these changes. He examines concepts such as resistance to change, threat to professional identity, and reasons for the failure of reform efforts in public institutions. The second area of focus involves the "dark side" of organizational behavior and encompasses topics such as organizational corruption and unethical behavior. Aiming to shed light on unethical behavior within noble professions such as healthcare, Dr. Ahmad investigates why highly-skilled employees (e.g., senior healthcare professionals) engage in unethical practices and how they utilize specialized knowledge, professional identity, and networking for their own benefit.
He has received vaulable support from a number of well-known institutions, including the Universities of Southampton and Cardiff in the UK and the Higher Education Commission in Pakistan. He has also been the recipient of competitive-based scholarships during his PhD studies at the University of Southampton.
| Degree | Program | University |
|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Organizational Behavior | University of Southampton |
| M.Sc. | Human Resource Management | University of Bradford |
| M.B.A. | Management | Liverpool John Moores University |
| B.Sc. | Orthopedic Technology | University of Peshawar |
My Professional Experience
| Year | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - Now | Lecturer in Management | Siena University (formerly Siena College) |
| 2019 - 2019 | Lecturer/Module Leader | University of Winchester |
| 2019 - 2019 | Teaching Assistant | Imperial College London |
| 2019 - 2022 | Research Fellow | University of Southampton |
| 2018 - 2019 | Lecturer | University of Southampton |
| 2014 - 2018 | Teaching Assistant | University of Southampton |
Articles & Book Reviews
- Collective Corruption in Public Healthcare: The Defensive Institutional Work of Elite Healthcare Pro
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, vol. 2025
2025 - Identity Work in the Context of Competing Logics: Senior Physicians' Response to Healthcare Reform
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, vol. 2025
2025 - Back to the future revisited: A systematic literature review of performance-related pay in the public sector
International Public Management
2024 - Financial Incentives and Prosocial Motivation Among Physicians in a Faith-Based Society
Public Performance & Management Review
2024 - Identity Threat, Identity Work, and Identity Construction: A Study of Physicians in Public Hospitals
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2024 - Building community resilience during COVID-19: Learning from rural Bangladesh
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, vol. 30
2022
Awards & Distinctions
- Best Paper Award
Category: Research
Academy of Management (CM Division), 2025 - DEI Junior Faculty Consortium
Category: Research
Academy of Management, 2025 - Best Reviewer Award
Category: Service-Professional
Academy of Management (OB Division), 2024 - Emerging scholar program
Category: Research
Government of Pakistan, 2017 - PhD funding (Competition-based scholarship)
Category: Research
University of Southampton, 2016 - PhD funding (Competition-based scholarship)
Category: Research
University of Southampton, 2016 - Societal impact program
Category: Research
University of Southampton, 2016
Books & Book Chapters
- Cultural Marginalization in Communities and Organizations: Seeds for Peace
2025 - Postcolonial feminism in organization studies: Critical perspectives from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Routledge
2023
Presentations
- Collective Corruption in Public Healthcare: The Defensive Institutional Work of Elite Healthcare Professionals
July, 2025
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark - Identity Threat, Identity Work, and Identity Construction: A Case of Senior Physicians in Public Hospitals
July, 2025
EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece - Identity Work in the Context of Competing Logics: Senior Physicians' Response to Healthcare Reform
July, 2025
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark - Identity Threat, Identity Work, and Indentity Construction: A Study of Physicians in Public Hospitals
August, 2024
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois - Escape from the iron cage? Organizational change and isomorphic pressure on the public healthcare sector
April, 2018
Breaking Silos - Transferring Research and Practice Through Cross-Disciplinary Insights in Business, Law and Art, Southhampton, United Kingdom - Public healthcare reforms: Rhetoric, mimicking and resistance
2017
Department of Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Research Group, Southampton, United Kingdom - A realistic perspective on healthcare reforms in the KP public healthcare sector: Multiple-case study
2016
19th Annual Conference International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), Cardiff, United Kingdom - Stakeholders' perspectives on performance-related pay in the public sector: Multiple-case study
2016
9th International European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Public Sector Conference, Lisbon, Portugal - What is the future of performance-related pay in the public sector? A systematic review
2016
9th International European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Public Sector Conference, Lisbon, Portugal