Meghna Sabharwal
Meghna Sabharwal is a full professor at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Public and Nonprofit Management program. Her research expertise lies in public human resource management, specifically related to workplace diversity, job satisfaction, performance, comparative human resource management, and high-skilled immigration.
She won the best paper award from ROPPA in 2013 for a co-authored paper titled: “Charting Ethics in Asia-Pacific HRM: Does East Meet West, Ethically?” Meghna is also the recipient of the Julia J. Henderson International Award (2015) by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on Women in Public Administration, which recognizes demonstrated commitment to international public administration, in particular, or to international public service. She also won the best article award for the Journal of Public Affairs Education in 2013 titled: “Advancing Underrepresented Populations in the Public Sector: Approaches and practices in the Instructional Pipeline.”
To date, she has published a) More than 45 peer-reviewed publications (including forthcoming) in well-regarded, discipline-specific and general public administration/management journals. b) guest-edited a special issue in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis on immigration and its impact on human capital development; c) one co-edited book on Public Administration in South Asia; d) one co-authored book on Public Personnel Administration (6th Edition).
Meghna has presented in over 100 international, national, and regional conferences, and has been invited to over two dozen presentations or talks at national and international professional meetings, seminars, or colloquia. So far she has received two National Science Foundation grants, one in 2013 ($197,189) and the other in 2016 ($217,155). She also received a $5,000 internal Economic Political and Policy Science Advisory grant, and $10,000 for a Seed Grant in 2020 from UTD.
Meghna serves on the editorial boards of Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Personnel Management, Indian Journal of Public Administration - leading journal of Public Administration being published regularly by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, since the early 1960s, and Governance and Management Review research journal by Institute of Administrative Sciences at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. She regularly reviews manuscripts for several public administration, public policy, social science and higher education journals. She has reviewed approximately a dozen manuscripts for ROPPA. She received her Ph.D. in public administration from Arizona State University and a Post-doctoral fellowship from City College, City University in New York.
She won the best paper award from ROPPA in 2013 for a co-authored paper titled: “Charting Ethics in Asia-Pacific HRM: Does East Meet West, Ethically?” Meghna is also the recipient of the Julia J. Henderson International Award (2015) by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on Women in Public Administration, which recognizes demonstrated commitment to international public administration, in particular, or to international public service. She also won the best article award for the Journal of Public Affairs Education in 2013 titled: “Advancing Underrepresented Populations in the Public Sector: Approaches and practices in the Instructional Pipeline.”
To date, she has published a) More than 45 peer-reviewed publications (including forthcoming) in well-regarded, discipline-specific and general public administration/management journals. b) guest-edited a special issue in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis on immigration and its impact on human capital development; c) one co-edited book on Public Administration in South Asia; d) one co-authored book on Public Personnel Administration (6th Edition).
Meghna has presented in over 100 international, national, and regional conferences, and has been invited to over two dozen presentations or talks at national and international professional meetings, seminars, or colloquia. So far she has received two National Science Foundation grants, one in 2013 ($197,189) and the other in 2016 ($217,155). She also received a $5,000 internal Economic Political and Policy Science Advisory grant, and $10,000 for a Seed Grant in 2020 from UTD.
Meghna serves on the editorial boards of Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Personnel Management, Indian Journal of Public Administration - leading journal of Public Administration being published regularly by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, since the early 1960s, and Governance and Management Review research journal by Institute of Administrative Sciences at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. She regularly reviews manuscripts for several public administration, public policy, social science and higher education journals. She has reviewed approximately a dozen manuscripts for ROPPA. She received her Ph.D. in public administration from Arizona State University and a Post-doctoral fellowship from City College, City University in New York.
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While diversity is now a standard topic in books on public personnel and human resource management, authors Rashmi Chordiya and Meghna Sabharwal offer a deeper, nuanced, and reflective understanding of many of the systematic and often covert ways in which marginalized and minoritized groups can face barriers to full and equal participation in decision-making, access to resources, and opportunities for advancement and growth. Taking a holistic, liberatory public service approach, the book explores what it would mean if public service systems were reimagined, and goals aligned and transformed, to serve an “all means all” public.
Other unique features of this book include developing a nuanced understanding of trauma of oppression from neurobiological, sociological, and historical perspectives. This book supports the reader in exploring ways of cultivating individual and organizational competencies and capacities for envisioning and implementing trauma-informed, repair and healing-centered approaches to public service that compassionately center the margins. To encourage learner engagement and to connect theory to practice, this book offers several case studies. Each chapter contains a description of big ideas, big questions, and key concepts and teachings offered in that chapter, as well as chapter summaries and deep dive resources. Throughout the book, the authors offer boxed invitations to pause and use reflective prompts to engage readers with the core concepts and key teachings of the book. Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations is required reading for all current and future public administrators and nonprofit leaders.
have documented the barriers confronted by this group (Bowling, Kelleher, Jones, & Wright, 2006; Cayer & Sigelman, 1980; Miller, Kerr, & Reid, 1999; Newman, 1994; Reid,
Kerr, & Miller, 2003; Riccucci & Saidel, 1997; Selden & Selden, 2001). Several of these authors contend that women are often over-represented in low-paying jobs, are slow to rise to management positions, and thus do not have the capacity to influence policy. However, much attention has been paid to studying the gender gap that exists in federal, state, and local agencies; academia as a profession is considered problem free and thus lacking studies that examine issues of productivity and leadership from a gendered perspective.