Construction Super Conference 2018

Dr. Romila Singh
Associate Professor



Romila Singh is an Associate Professor in the Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her past appointments included serving as the UWM’s Chancellor’s Designee for Campus Climate at UWM, Associate Research Director at the Center for the Study of Workplace at UWM, and Research Associate at the Institute for Diversity Education and Leadership at UWM. She also served on the Executive Board for the Careers Division of the National Academy of Management. Romila’s research focuses on examining attrition and persistence decisions of women engineers, uncovering the drivers of engineers’ engagement with their workplaces, and identifying effective career management practices for employees, with a special focus on leadership development for women and Under Represented Minority (URM) technical leaders. She was a Co-Principal Investigator on two large National Science Foundation (NSF) grants that investigated engineers’ persistence and turnover decisions and culminated in their groundbreaking report, “Stemming the tide.” Her latest NSF funded research project is on uncovering the dynamics that lead some diverse teams to be more innovative than others. Romila’s research has appeared in leading journals in management and vocational behavior and has been cited in the Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the Guardian. Romila teaches courses in human resources management at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels and has been awarded the School of Business teaching award every year since 2002. Through her research, teaching, and professional activities, she trains, develops, advises, and mentors students and professionals on the best practices in human resource management. She serves as the Faculty Advisor for the student chapter of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) at UWM, and has supervised over 100 HR internships.

Sessions :