Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Professor of Management and
Culture and Community Psychology
College of
Business Administration
University of Hawaií at Manoa
2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
OFFICE: C 402 C, Shidler
College of Business
Office Hours: By Appointment
Telephone: (808)
956 – 8732
Home Phone: (808) 955 – 2052
Cell Phone:
(808) 342 - 2939
FAX:
(808) 956 - 2774
E-Mail:
Bhawuk@Hawaii.Edu
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Course Offering
Summer 2009-2010
- India and Bangladesh Field
Study: Leadership Development in Global Microfinance &
Sustainable Enterprises
Spring 2011 & 2009 (Ph. D. Seminar)
· BUS 701: Cross-Cultural Management
Fall 2010 & Spring 2009 (Executive MHRM Program)
· HRM 664: Training and Development
Fall 2010 & Summer 2009, 2008
· MGT 670G: Global International Business Communication
· MGT 670D: Management of Multinational Corporations
Fall & Spring 2010
· MGT 343 W & E: Comparative Management: US and Japan
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is a Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is originally from Nepal (US citizen and resident of Hawaii), and started his intercultural journey with a month at international children’s camp in Artek, USSR, in 1972. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (B. Tech., Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (1979). He earned an MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1989) as a degree participant at the East-West Center during 1987-1989, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989) and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student of the Year award in 1990. He developed a measure of intercultural sensitivity using the theory of individualism and collectivism for his master’s thesis, and a paper based on this research was published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations (1992). He received his Ph. D. in Industrial Relations (with specialization in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995) under the supervision of Professor Harry C. Triandis. His dissertation, The Role of Culture Theory in Cross-Cultural Training: A Comparative Evaluation of Culture-Specific, Culture-General, and Culture Theory-Based Assimilators, supported the hypothesis that people learn better from a theory-based assimilator than from other kinds of culture assimilators. Articles based on his dissertation using a multimethod approach to measure the effects of cross-cultural training were published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (1998), International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2001), and Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management (1996).
Bhawuk has research interests in indigenous psychology and management, cross-cultural training, intercultural sensitivity, diversity in the workplace, individualism and collectivism, culture and creativity, and spirituality. He has published more than 50 papers and book chapters and made more than 150 presentations at international conferences and universities. He has edited special issues of journals on Globalization and Diversity (IJIR, 2008, volume 32, no. 4) and Indian Psychology (PDS, 2010, volume 22, no. 1). He is author of the book Spirituality and Indian Psychology: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita (Springer, 2011) and co-editor of the book Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (Sage, 1996). He has organized two international conferences, one for the Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR) in Honolulu, Hawaii, during August 15-19, 2009 on the theme of World Peace through Intercultural Understanding, and the second one for the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology in Kathmandu, Nepal, during Jan 1-3, 1992 (Fourth Asian Regional Conference).
His work has appeared in various Handbooks and edited volumes as well journals such as the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, International Journal of Psychology, Cross-Cultural Research, Applied Psychology: International Review, Psychology and Developing Societies, Indian Psychological Review, Delhi Business Review, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Policy, and Journal of Management.
Prior to coming to academia, he worked in the airline industry (Nepal Airlines) for about ten years and was the head of Airlines Training Center when he left the airlines. He has conducted training programs for organizations like the American Peace Corps, German Volunteer Program, Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), International Labor Organization, Korean Airlines, POSCO (Pohang Steel Company) of Korea, and so forth. Students who are interested in the development related work or in developing countries in general may also like to work with him. He has consulted with international organizations like the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and also with local organizations like the City of Champaign, Illinois.
He has received many awards and honors including H Smith Richardson, Jr. Visiting Fellow, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina (2009-2010), Rupe Chilsom Best Theory to Practice Paper Award from the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management (2009), for the paper “From Social Engineering to Community Transformation: Amul, Grameen Bank, and Mondragon as Exemplar Cooperatives” (Bhawuk, Mrazek, & Munusamy, 2009), Professor of the Semester, Fall 2007, MHRM Program, Shidler College of Business, Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), for the paper, Development of a culture theory-based assimilator: Applications of individualism and collectivism in cross-cultural training, Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989) and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990).
He is married and has two sons. His wife, Poonam, is a homemaker. His older son, Atma,
is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at UH Manoa
(B.S. in Bio-Engineering from UH Manoa), and the
younger son, Ananta, is a senior in Bio-Engineering,
also at UH Manoa. He likes to do yoga and meditation.
He loves to swim and jog. He likes to start his class with jokes, and you may
actually laugh J
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