Muhammad Umar Boodoo

LSE Fellow

Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Faculty Group

Biography

Muhammad Umar Boodoo joined LSE as a Fellow in the Department of Management in September 2015.  Upon completing his doctoral thesis from the University of Toronto in June 2016, he chose to stay at LSE, working on new research projects funded by seed grants from the Department of Management, designing and lecturing a new undergraduate course in human resource management, and continuing to serve the school’s mission.  

Umar has participated and presented at several conferences. His paper on CEO Compensation was a winner at the 67th Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) conference in 2015. He has published a book chapter on human capital and growth in Asian countries, and has also published an article in the Industrial Relations Journal. Currently, he has more articles under review at journals in Employment Relations and Management.  He also writes for the LSE Business Review in an attempt to disseminate research findings to a wider audience.  For a full list of publications and working papers, please consult his CV.

Research interests

• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Income Inequality and Corporate Philanthropy
• Corporate Governance
• Social Entrepreneurship

Recent publications

• Do heavily-unionized companies compensate their CEOs less in periods of financial distress? Evidence from Canadian companies during the financial crisis
  Boodoo, M. U. (Under Review)
• The influence of Unions on Companies' CSR profiles: More Internal Policies and Programs but not always at the expense of External Endeavours
  Boodoo, M. U. (Under Review)
• Does mandatory CSR reporting legislation lead to improved Corporate Social Performance? Evidence from India
  Boodoo, M. U.  (Under Review)
• Why pay packages based on fair criteria matter: Comparing wages between peers affects job satisfaction more than absolute income
  Boodoo, M. U. (2016). LSE Business Review, August 10 2016
• Volkswagen affair: global coordination is needed to enforce ethical corporate behaviour: Is the World ready to review its system of carrots and stick for corporations?
  Boodoo, M. U. (2015). LSE Business Review, October 08 2015.
• Relative income, absolute income and the life satisfaction of older adults: do retirees differ from the non-retired?
  Boodoo, Muhammad Umar, Gomez, Rafael and Gunderson, Morley (2014) Industrial Relations Journal, 45 (4). pp. 281-299. ISSN 1468-2338
• Human capital formation and growth: microeconomic dimensions
  Dobson, Wendy and Boodoo, Muhammad Umar (2013) In: Dobson, Wendy, (ed.) Human capital formation and economic growth in Asia and the Pacific. PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series).First ed., Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780415838832

Complete list of publications