Faridahwati Mohd Shamsudin

Specialization:

Human resource management Organizational behavior

Research Interests:

Organizational misbehaviour / deviance; human resource management practices; negative/dysfunctional/ineffective leadership

Education

• PhD in Behavior in Organizations, Lancaster University, UK – 2004
• MSc in Human Resource Management, University of Saskatchewan, Canada – 1993
• BBA, International Islamic University, Malaysia – 1989

Employment History

• September 2021 – [present: Associate Professor of Management, Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah
• August 2019 – August 2020: Associate Professor of Management, School of Business Administration, Al Akhawayn University (AUI) in Ifrane, Morocco.
• September 2020 – May 2021: Adjunct Online Faculty, School of Business Administration, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
• February 2013 – June 2016: Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management, College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman.
• October 1993 – July 2019: Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

Professional Activities

Among others, including:

• Editorial Board Member, International Postgraduate Business Journal / Global Business Management Review (GBMR), Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 2012 - 2019.
• Editorial Board Member, Management Digest, the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), Zaria Chapter, June 2016 - 2018.
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Business Management and Accounting (JBMA), College of Business, UUM, 2010 – 2013.
• Reviewers of manuscripts in journals, such as the Journal of General Management, Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship, Akademika (a journal by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, and EDAMBA 2021 Doctoral Thesis Competition, EDAMBA 2020 Doctoral Thesis Competition, among others.
• External examiner of a doctoral dissertation, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2018.
• External reviewer of the BHRM program, the Gulf University Bahrain, 2019 and 2021.

Teaching Philosophy

Education is a powerful tool for social change. Education is about developing agents of social change who continuously seek to better the community and the world. Education is a crucial vehicle for people to self-reflect and envision a world a better place to live where justice, tolerance, and mutual respect among people of different backgrounds should prevail. It is a mechanism that allows people to be empowered, make informed choices, and take calculated risks to secure a better future. As education is a window of opportunities for many people, it is a right that should be respected and granted.

Based on this principle and belief about the importance of education, I always remind myself about the importance of interacting and engaging with students to play their role in making the world a better place to live. By developing their critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving skills, and other relevant soft skills, I hope to see them become responsible and ethical managers/leaders of the future who understand the consequences of their actions and behavior. To help them achieve this goal, I strive to provide an environment where they learn through experiences to personally observe the link between theory and practice and how their efforts could offer meaningful results to the community. One of my course assignment components involves service/experiential learning, where they would offer their service to give back to the community. In such a learning approach, it is the reflective component that, I think, they learn the most from such an assignment because they would learn how their contribution could affect the community’s well-being, directly and/or indirectly.