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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.

Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Organizational Communication (IRGOC)

Office: 107, 558 King Edward Avenue
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2538
E-mail: jperuvem@uOttawa.ca

University degrees

• BA (Hons) Sociology, University of Delhi, India
• MA Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
• PhD Organizational Behaviour (Business Administration), University of Rhode Island USA

Fields of interest

• Intercultural and cross cultural communication
• Organizational and interpersonal communication
• Gender diversity and multiculturalism in the workplace
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Pedagogy issues especially in cross cultural and international education.

Ongoing research

My research program is focused on immigrants’ experiences, immigrant women’s experiences, with a particular interest in Indian and South Asian immigrants’ experiences and the impact in the workplace including identity construction and formation processes and interpersonal communication. I am presently completing the report on the project on anti violence work in Atlantic Canada with my collaborators for submission to Status of Women Canada.

Selected publications

Journal articles

Randall, Linda M., & Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2006). “Using Grounded Theory to Unravel Complex and Context-rich Business Environments: A Study of the Russian Manager and Business Environment”. Forthcoming. Journal of East West Business

Swanson, Jennifer A., Kowalski, Kellyann, B., & Jaya, Peruvemba S (2006). “An International Business Experience: Culture in the Classroom”. Forthcoming. Journal of the Academy of Business Education.

Jaya, Peruvemba S. & Roy, M.H. (2001). “Placing the Entrepreneur in Context: Lessons from the Leadership Literature for Asia-Pacific region”.  Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship. 8(2): 133-151

Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2001). “Do we really ‘know’ and ‘profess’?: De-colonizing management knowledge”.Organization. 8(2): 227-233.

Barbuto, J.E. & Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2000). “Communication Breakdowns in Interpersonal Settings: An Experiential Application of a Process Based Model.”The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management   Vol. 2 (1): 25-31.

Reports

Porter, MARILYN & Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2004). “Recent Immigrant Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: Problems and Perspectives”.  Report submitted to the Gender Diversity and Migration/Immigrant Women Domain of the Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence for Research in Immigration, Integration and Cultural Diversity.

Workshops presented

Ku, JANE & Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2005). “Gender and Transnational Migration: Cross National Comparisons, Regional Perspectives” in the 10th International Metropolis Conference held in Toronto, Canada. Presented “Recent Immigrant Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: Problems and Perspectives “co-authored with PORTERMARILYN.  Session part of the adjudicated workshops of the conference.

Tastsoglou, Evangelia & Jaya, Peruvemba S. (2006).”Gender and Transnational Migration: Local, Regional and National Perspectives” Chaired panel at the 8th National Metropolis Conference held in Vancouver Presented on “‘If the Job Issue was resolved, I wouldn’t be thinking of going to Toronto’: Employment experiences of recent immigrant women, Newfoundland and Labrador”. Session part of the adjudicated workshops of the conference.Co-authored with PORTER, MARILYN.

JAYA PERUVEMBA S. & TASTSOGLOU, EVANGELIA. (2005) Organized workshop of the Gender Diversity and Migration/Immigrant Women Domain of the Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence in Research in Integration Immigration and Cultural Diversity. Presented on “Recent Immigrant Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: Problems and Perspectives”. Co authored with PORTER, MARILYN.

Invited presentations and conferences

JAYA, PERUVEMBA S. (2004).Atlantic Metropolis Retreat. Spoke on the panel for the Gender Diversity and Immigrant Women Domain. Moncton, Canada.

Brown, Travor & Jaya, Peruvemba.S. (2004)  “The Effects of Situational Interviews, Patterned Behaviour Description Interviews and Conventional Structured Interviews on Sexual Orientation Bias”.   Business Research Day at Faculty of Business, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada. 2004.

JAYA, PERUVEMBA S (2003) “Research Priorities in an Unbalanced World”. Research colloquium held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Participated in the Managing in a Developing World stream.

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