Ananda Jayawardana

Dr. Ananda Jayawardana is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra. His academic work focuses on organizational behavior, leadership, and human resource management, particularly in cultural and gendered contexts.

• Research Themes: Work engagement, regulatory focus in leadership, work-family conflict, absorptive capacity, and brain drain mitigation.
• Recent Publications (2022-2024) examine temporal flexibility in BPO industries, unethical decision-making dynamics, and digital economy impacts on remote work.

Publications Trends: A strong emphasis on Sri Lankan organizational contexts, blended with global frameworks like transformational leadership and problem-based learning. His work spans from 1993 to 2024, showing enduring interest in self-managed production, textile operations, and cooperative governance.