Vipin Kumar Chathayam is an Assistant Professor in the area of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Goa Institute of Management. His PhD is in Human Resource Management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His doctoral thesis, “Essays on Public-Sector Volunteers in India,” examines how the state organises essential public work without granting workers the status of employees. His research spans public-sector volunteer management, control and resistance at work, liminal careers, and the moral economy of work, using labour process theory and ethnographic methods.

His work is published in the Journal of Business Ethics and Economic & Political Weekly, with papers under review at various high ranked journals. He has presented at international conferences including the Academy of Management, the International Labour Process Conference, and the European Network for Public Administration, and reviews for leading management conferences. His teaching interests include Human Resource Management, AI for Human Resource Management, and HR in the Social Sector, and he brings applied, discussion-based learning to the classroom.

Before academia, he worked with the United Nations Development Programme and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan on youth and volunteer development in rural India, and earlier in healthcare marketing in Dubai.

Journals

• Bathini, D. R., Chathayam, V. K., & Suravi, S. (2026). Cheating, plain and simple: Asymmetric moral negotiation and the contestation of corporate sovereignty in the digital workplace. Journal of Business Ethics. (ABDC A / ABS 3)
• Chathayam, V. K., & Bathini, D. R. (2025). Parallel policing and patronage: Examining the crisis of the West Bengal civic volunteer system. Economic & Political Weekly. (ABDC B)

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vipin-Kumar-Chathayam
 

Chathayam, V. K., & Chakraborty, S. Between worlds of liminal spaces: A narrative of new career struggles.

• Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), Philadelphia, USA (July 2026)
• Western Academy of Management, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (March 2026)
• International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Göttingen, Germany (April 2024)

Chathayam, V. K., & Bathini, D. R. Para-bureaucratic clientelism: Employment status ambiguity and political control over public service delivery.

• European Network for Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania (April 2026)

Chathayam, V. K., & Dhiman, A. Advancing the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework: Empowering community health workers through contextualized HRM practices.

• European Network for Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania (April 2026)
• ILO Regulating for Decent Work Conference, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2025)
• Indian Academy of Management (INDAM), Goa, India (2024)

Bathini, D. R., Chathayam, V. K., & Suravi, S. Cheating, Plain and Simple: Asymmetric Moral Negotiation and the Contestation of Corporate Sovereignty in the Digital Workplace.

• Midwest Academy of Management, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (October 2025)
• Southern Management Association, South Carolina, USA (October 2025)

Suravi, S., Chathayam, V. K., & Bathini, D. R. Control, Resistance, and Moonlighting in the Digital Workplace: Evidence from the Indian Information Technology Sector.

• Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), Denmark (July 2025)

Chakraborty, S., & Chathayam, V. K. On 'failing-forward' in co-creating research and impact.

• The Qualitative Report Annual Conference, Florida, USA (March 2025)

• District Youth Officer, UNDP and UNV — Strengthening NYKS & NSS Project, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India), 2019–2021
• Program Coordinator, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (Government of India), 2018–2019
• Assistant Manager – Marketing, Burjeel Hospital, Dubai, UAE, 2013–2017
• Visiting Faculty (part-time), Anata Civil Service Academy, Kerala, 2018–2021
   

Ad-hoc Reviewer: Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Western Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, Indian Academy of Management (INDAM)