Associate Professor
Management of Organizations (MORS), Berkeley-Haas
Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley (by courtesy)

Official Faculty Profile
arunar@berkeley.edu
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Publications

• When the Tasks Line Up: How the Nature of Supplementary Tasks affects Worker Productivity
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Forthcoming
  
• Identification and Worker Responses to Workplace Change: Evidence from Four Cases in India
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021
  
• Work-Family Programs and Non-Work Networks:Within-Group Inequality, Network Activation, and Labor Market Attachment
  Organization Science, 2020 (with David Pedulla)
  (Clayman Institute coverage)
• Getting their Hands Dirty: How Female Managers Motivate Female Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work
  Management Science, 2020 (with Ranjitha Shivaram)
  
• A Numbers Game: Quantification of Work, Auto-Gamification and Worker Productivity
  American Sociological Review, 2020 (with Alan Benson)
  (WSJ Coverage, GSB Coverage)
• The Production of Merit: How Managers Understand and Apply Merit in the Workplace
  Organization Science, 2020 (with Emilio Castilla)
  (Press coverage)
• Train Them to Retain Them: Work-Readiness and the Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India
  Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
  (Editor's Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, King Center coverage, Responsible Research in Management and Business Article)
• The Artisan and His Audience: Identification with Work and Price-Setting in a Handicraft Cluster in Southern India
  Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018
  (Editor's Summary, ASQ Blog Interview, Stanford GSB Insights, ASA Economic Sociology interview, ASA Work In Progress blog, VoxDev)
• Professionalization and Market Closure: The Case of Plumbing in India
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013
• Globalization and Outsourcing: Confronting New Human Resource Challenges in India's BPO Industry
  Industrial Relations Journal, 2010 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
• Economic Development Strategies and Macro and Micro Level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India's Outsourcing Industry
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
Working Papers

• In a Class of Their Own: Using Cultural Capital to Win Jurisdiction (with Joshua Hurwitz)
  
• Singing Your Own Praises: Digital Cultural Production and Gender Inequality (with Abhishek Nagaraj)
  
• Girl Uninterrupted: Asynchronous Teamwork and Gender Differences in Performance (with Aayan Das)
  
• Remote Control: How Organizations Decide Whether to Adopt Remote Work (with Rebecca Hinds)
  
Ongoing Projects

• Remote Work and Worker Voice
  
• Gender Inequality on the Pandora Music Platform
• Crowdwork among Qawwali Musicians in India
• Full-Cycle Research Methodology
Book Chapter

• Highly Educated Workers Performing Low-Skill Work in a High Tech Environment: Employee Turnover and the Culture of Fun in the Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India
  In Kociatkiewic & Jemielniak (eds.) Management Practices in High-Tech Environments, 2008 (with Sarosh Kuruvilla)
Teaching

• HRMGT 286: Managing People in the Global Context
• OB 684: Full-Cycle Research Design
Media

• Ethnography Atelier interview on using full-cycle research methods in your research
• Stanford GSB article profiling my academic journey