Sanjee Perera

Dr Sanjee Perera

Senior Lecturer

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Sanjeewa (Sanjee) Perera is Senior Lecturer at UniSA Business and a researcher within the Centre for Workplace Excellence (CWeX). Her research interests include workforce diversity with a special focus on age and gender. Her current research projects examine work experiences of mature age people, and gender diversity practices in organisations. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly and Human Resource Management.
Dr Perera  holds a Bachelor of Humanities and a in PhD Business and Management (University of South Australia). Prior to her academic career, Dr Perera worked as a Human Resource practitioner for several years in both service and manufacturing sectors with her last position as the Human Resource Manager of a multi-national apparel manufacturer with production bases in two countries.

UniSA Business School Research Excellence Awards: Top Research Team (w. Shruti Sardeshmukh & Sukhbir Sandhu) (2019)

My broad research interests are in the areas of emotions in work life, workforce diversity and human resource management.

Year Citation
2025 Perera, S. (2025). Chapter 3 Tricks of the Trade: Customer Service Employee Strategies in Performing Emotion Work. Research on Emotion in Organizations, 6, 75-106.
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2023 Cregan, C., Kulik, C. T., Perera, S., & Sardeshmukh, S. (2023). When time is running out: A growth curve analysis of older workers' retirement intentions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(5), 760-775.
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2019 Sandhu, S., Perera, S., & Sardeshmukh, S. R. (2019). Charted courses and meandering trails: crafting success and impact as business school academics. Academy of management learning and education, 18(2), 153-185.
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2019 Li, Y., Perera, S., Kulik, C. T., & Metz, I. (2019). Inclusion climate: A multilevel investigation of its antecedents and consequences. Human resource management, 58(4), 353-369.
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2016 Kalysh, K., Kulik, C. T., & Perera, S. (2016). Help or hindrance? Work-life practices and women in management. The leadership quarterly, 27(3), 504-518.
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2016 Kulik, C. T., Perera, S., & Cregan, C. (2016). Engage me: The mature-age worker and stereotype threat. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 2132-2156.
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2015 Perera, S., Sardeshmukh, S., & Kulik, C. (2015). In or out: job exits of older workers. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 53(1), 4-21.
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2015 Kulik, C. T., Rae, B., Sardeshmukh, S. R., & Perera, S. (2015). Can we still be friends? The role of exit conversations in facilitating post-exit relationships. Human resource management, 54(6), 893-912.
DOI Scopus18 WoS15

Year Citation
2022 Kulik, C., Sandhu, S., Perera, S., & Jarvis, S. (2022). Gender equality in organizations: the dynamics of space. In Source details - Title: Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth (pp. 169-188). UK: Edward Elgar.
2022 Perera, S., & Li, Y. (2022). I-deals: not ideal for employee diversity?. In S. Anand, & Y. Rofcanin (Eds.), Source details - Title: Idiosyncratic Deals at Work: Exploring Individual, Organizational, and Societal Perspectives (pp. 211-235). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2022 Kulik, C. T., Sandhu, S., Perera, S., & Jarvis, S. A. (2022). Gender equality in organizations: The dynamics of space. In Handbook on the Business of Sustainability the Organization Implementation and Practice of Sustainable Growth (pp. 170-188).
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2019 Perera, S. (2019). For better or worse? human resource practices and women in leadership. In A. S. Antoniou, C. Cooper, & C. Gatrell (Eds.), Source details - Title: Women, Business and Leadership: Gender and Organisations (pp. 61-76). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2018 Perera, S. (2018). Diversity selection: selecting a site engineer. In S. C. Crossman (Ed.), Source details - Title: Teaching human resource management: an experiential approach (pp. 101-103). UK: Edward Elgar.
2017 Crossman, J., & Perera, S. (2017). Time theft: an integrity based approach to its management. In M. Orlitzky, & M. Monga (Eds.), Source details - Title: Integrity in business and management: cases and theory (pp. 40-65). US: Routledge.
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2015 Ostroff, C., & Perera, S. (2015). Diversity in work teams. In J. Stone (Ed.), Source details - Title: Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and nationalism (pp. 1-4). Wiley Blackwell.
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2015 Perera, S., & Kulik, C. T. (2015). Using expertise as a firewall: exploring emotion work of novices and experts. In N. M. Ashkanasy, W. J. Zerbe, & C. E. J. Härtel (Eds.), Source details - Title: New ways of studying emotions in organizations (Vol. 11, pp. 341-368). UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
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2011 Perera, S. (2011). Tricks of the trade: customer service employee strategies in performing emotion work. In C. Härtel, N. Ashkanasy, & W. Zerbe (Eds.), Source details - Title: What have we learned ten years on (Vol. 7, pp. 75-106). UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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Year Citation
2023 Maier, J. A., Kulik, C., & Perera, S. (2023). Challenges of Being a Social Enterprise: When Being a Business for Good Means Being a Good Business. In Changing management values and practices for a sustainable future: 36th ANZAM conference (pp. 829-846). Australia: Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
2023 Rae, B., Kulik, C., & Perera, S. (2023). Gendered Displays: Managers' Use of Negative Emotion to Influence Employee Behaviour. In Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) (pp. 928-946). Australia: Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).
2023 Perera, S., Kulik, C. T., & Sandhu, S. (2023). Rally the troops first: startup action on gender equality. In Changing management values and practices for a sustainable future: 36th ANZAM conference (pp. 1-16). New Zealand: ANZAM.
2023 Sandhu, S., Kulik, C. T., & Sanjeewa, P. (2023). Friends with benefits: interconnections between environmental sustainability and gender equality. In Changing management values and practices for a sustainable future: 36th ANZAM conference (pp. 1-18). New Zealand: ANZAM.
2012 Perera, S., Sardeshmukh, S. R., & Kulik, C. T. (2012). Stay; go or pause: older workers' employment decisions. In S. Werner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (pp. 1-17). Queensland: ANZAM - Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
2012 Kulik, C. T., Tovale, B. R., Sardeshmukh, S. R., Perera, S., & Wijesinghe, G. (2012). Can we still be friends? The role of exit conversations in facilitating post-exit relationships. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings Vol. 2012 (pp. 225-230). Academy of Management.
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2011 Sardeshmukh, S. R., Scott Young, C. M., & Perera, S. (2011). Emotion work, conflict, and family business performance. In M. A (Ed.), 8th AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference Proceedings. Australia: Swinburne University of Technology.
2010 Perera, S., Sardeshmukh, S. R., & Scott Young, C. M. (2010). Emotion work in family business. In B. Gurd (Ed.), Proceedings of th 24th annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference (ANZAM 2010). Australia: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
2010 Perera, S. (2010). Exploring how competence in emotion work impact negative consequences of emotion work. In B. Barrett, & S. Steven (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Annual Pacific Employment Relations Association Conference. Australia: Pacific Employment Relations Association.

  • The Mature Workers in the Public Sector Stage 2, Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, 01/12/2025 - 30/07/2027

  • Mature-Age Employees - South Australian Public Sector, SA - Department for Health and Wellbeing, 06/06/2024 - 31/12/2024

Courses I teach

  • BUSS 5425 Managing People and Organisations (2025)
  • BUSS 5425 Managing People and Organisations (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 External Supervisor Become an Inclusive Leader: How Managers Can Enhance Support for Autistic Employees in Neurodiverse Teams Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Cecilia Tournour
2025 Co-Supervisor 658 - Developing Hybrid Public Private Partnership on Indonesian Road Projects Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Kingkin Fitoriani
2025 Principal Supervisor Become an Inclusive Leader: How Managers Can Enhance Support for Autistic Employees in Neurodiverse Teams Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Cecilia Tournour
2025 Co-Supervisor Digital Innovation in Healthcare Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Lucie Anne Marsh-Smith
2020 Co-Supervisor Will you forgive me? The moral licensing of social enterprises Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Julia-Anna Maier

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