Nadia deGama

Nadia deGama Nadia deGama
Email: ndegama@yorku.ca Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 33687
EducationPhD (ABD), Human Resource Management, York University

MHRM, York University

BACS, University of Western Ontario
Nadia deGama completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario, with a major in Human Resources and a minor in Sociology. Nadia continued her studies and pursued her Masters in Human Resource Management from York University, where she won the Top Graduating Student award in 2007. During her Masters, Nadia worked in a financial services firm, acting as a strategic business partner for client groups across Canada. During the three years working as an “HR Practitioner”, Nadia felt that there was an incessant need to fill the deep chasm between HR practice and academia.With a high regard for research and a strong desire to teach, Nadia’s primary purpose for applying to the Ph.D program at York University was to bridge this gap. Nadia’s decision to pursue her Ph.D in HRM at York University stems from the fact that she was very impressed by the quality of the faculty and their research interests. Additionally, she states that, "York’s Ph.D program in HRM places a heavy emphasis on pedagogical training...through a provision of such training, I will be better equipped not only to be a better researcher, but a better teacher in HRM".  Nadia’s research interests are varied and are borrowed from other disciplines such as sociology.  The multi-disciplinary focus of York’s Ph.D program was yet another reason why she chose York, especially because it places an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Global mobility, movement, & migration
  • Global careers
  • Expatriate management & self-initiated international assignees
  • Leader expectations and employee behavior
  • HRM and ethics
  • Qualitative research methods
RESEARCH
 

McKenna, S., Richardson, J., Dickie, C., & deGama, N. (2013-in press).  The Organizational Self-Initiated Expatriate: A Case Study of a Professional Services Firm.  In Haslberger, A., & Vaiman, V (Eds.), Managing Talent of Self-initiated Expatriates: A neglected source of the global talent flow.

deGama, N., McKenna, S., & Peticca-Harris,A. (2012).  An alternative approach to ethical HRM through the discourse and lived experiences of HR professionals.  Journal of Business Ethics, 111, 97-108.

Budworth, M. H., & deGama, N. (2012).  Factors affecting cross-cultural adjustment: Training, experience, and individual differences.  Human Resource Development Quarterly, 23, 331-340. 

Karakowsky, L., deGama, N., & McBey, K. (2012).  Facilitating the Pygmalion Effect:  The Overlooked Role of Subordinate Perceptions of the Leader.  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 85, 579-599.