Dr. Ashwani Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu, in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area. His academic specialization lies in remote and hybrid working, leadership, personality, and organization transitions towards flexible workplace arrangements. Dr. Ashwani's significant contributions to his field are evident by his publications in prestigious journals indexed in ABDC and ABS rankings and acceptance in prestigious national and international conferences like AOM, EGOS, EURAM, and INDAM
- PhD from IIM Lucknow (2020-2025)
- MBA HRM from Central University of Jammu (2017-2019)
- BSc from University of Jammu (2014-2017)
- Indian Institute of Management Jammu—Current Employer
- Alliance University, Bangalore (2025-2026)
- Ashwani Kumar, Pushpendra Priyadarshi (2025). When (Excessive) Supervisory Control leads improved Performance and Well-being: Role of Relational Energy and Openness to Experience among Remote Workers. Personnel Review, (ABDC A, ABS 2) DOI : https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-05-2024-0509
- Ashwani Kumar, Pushpendra Priyadarshi, Nishant Garg (2024). Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Working: 20-Year Literature Review. Human Resource Development Review, 24(3), (ABDC B, ABS 2), DOI : https://doi.org/10.1177/15344843241305920
- 9th INDAM Conference 2024, hosted at Goa Institute of Management, Goa (January 11–13, 2024): Intellectual Narrative of Remote Working: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review
- 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, hosted by the University of Cagliari, Sardinia/Italy (July 6–8, 2023): Bibliometric Analysis of Intellectual Narrative of Remote Working: A 20-year review
- EURAM Conference 2024, hosted at the University of Bath School of Management, Bath, UK (June 25-28, 2024): Supervision Conundrum in Remote Working: Role of Supervisor Overreach and Relational Energy
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
- National Eligibility Test in Management, University Grant Commission for Junior Research Fellowship (June 2019) and Assistant Professor (Dec 2018)
- 1st prize in the Paryatan Parv Quiz, Central University of Jammu, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, GOI (2018).
- 2nd prize in Women's Day Quiz, Central University of Jammu, organized by Ministry of Women and Child Development (2018)
- 2nd prize at District-level Science Exhibition (2014)