Dr Bhaskar PurohitDr Bhaskar Purohit

Dr Bhaskar Purohit

Lecturer

Organisational Area: Faculty of Law and Business
Department: Peter Faber Business School (Sydney)
Location: North Sydney
Tenison Woods House(Bldg.532 - 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney NSW 2060)-Level 6-Room6.11

Biographical Information

Bhaskar is a Lecturer in Management at ACU's Peter Faber Business School. While completing his PhD from University of Queensland, he worked as a sessional academic for several graduate courses in health systems and global health. Prior to PhD, Bhaskar completed Master's degree in Public Health from Harvard University, USA and another Master's in Health Management from India. He has held academic position at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG) University, India for nine years where he was the course lead for graduate courses in the HRM and Organizational Behaviour in public health. Bhaskar has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, grants and awards and has 18 peer-reviewed publications.

<span class="\\\\\\\\&quotx193iq5w" xeuugli="" x13faqbe="" x1vvkbs="" x1xmvt09="" x6prxxf="" xvq8zen="" xo1l8bm="" xzsf02u\\\\\\\\"="">His PhD and past research touches upon several cross-cutting themes on HRM, bureaucratic inefficiencies, corruption, governance, power, policy implementation and workforce management in public sector. Bhaskar is deeply interested in bringing his research expertise in these areas to address some of the contemporary HRM challenges, particularly in the health sector to address the shortages and maldistribution of workforce. His research interests include HRM systems in public health sector, attraction and retention of health workforce, managerial, individual and role effectiveness and health systems and policy research related to HRM.

Publications

Bhaskar Purohit , Peter S Hill, Posting and Transfer: the experiences of public sector doctors in two Indian states, Health Policy and Planning, 2023, czad031, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad031

Purohit B, Sham Lal and Tathagata Banopadhyay (2021): &ldquoJob Satisfaction Among Public Sector Doctors and Nurses in India&rdquo Journal of Health Management (Sage Publication), Volume 23 Number 4 (October-December 2021)

Purohit B and Hill P (2020): Experience and reflections of using individual work histories and events of public sector doctors to unpack Human Resource Management policies and systems: Job histories as powerful method in Human Resource for Health research: Research square (Pre-print): DOI:10.21203/rs.2.20506/v1

Powell-Jackson, T., Purohit, B., Saxena, D., Golechha, M., Fabbri, C., Ganguly, P.S., Hanson, K., (2018): Measuring management practices in India's district public health bureaucracy, Social Science & Medicine (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.10.031

Purohit B and Vasava P (2017): Role Stress among Auxiliary Nurse Midwives in Gujarat, India: BMC Health Services Research 17:69 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2033-6

Purohit B, Martineau T and Sheikh K (2016): Opening the black box of transfer systems in public sector health services in a Western state in India: BMC Health Services Research: 16:419: DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1675-0

Purohit B and Martineau T (2016): &ldquoIssues and Challenges in Recruitment for Government Doctors in Gujarat, India&rdquo Human Resources for Health. 2016, 14:43 DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0140-9

Purohit B and Martineau T (2016): &ldquoIs the Annual Confidential Report system effective? A study of government appraisal system from Gujarat, India&rdquo Human Resources for Health (BMC) 14:33DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0133-8

Purohit B and Martineau T (2016): &ldquoInitial posting - a critical stage in the employment cycle: lessons from the experience of government doctors in Gujarat, India&rdquo Human Resources for Health. 2016, 14:41 DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0138-3

Purohit B, Maneskar A and Saxena D (2016): &ldquoDeveloping a tool to assess motivation among Healthcare Providers working with Public Health System in India&rdquo Human Resource for Health (BMC). 201614:15 DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0111-1

Purohit B (2015): A case study on processes in team building and performance improvement at Government Health Centers in Rajasthan, India. International Journal of Med Public Health 5:372-7. DOI: 10.4103/2230-8598.165985

Purohit B (2014): Community based health Insurance: Prospects and challenges for India: SCIRP Journal of HEALTH: Vol6, No11 in May issue DOI: 10.4236/health.2014.611152

Purohit B, Patel D, Purohit S: (2014): Organizational Culture Values in Government run Primary Health Centers in India&rdquo Journal of Health Management (Sage Publications) 16(2): 301-311

Purohit B and Banopadhyay T (2014): Manuscript on &ldquoBeyond Money and Job Security- driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India. Human Resources for Health 2014: 12:12 (BMC Publication) doi:10.1186/1478-4491-12-12

Bhatia S and Purohit B (2014): What motivates government doctors in India to perform better in their job&rdquo? 16(1) 149&ndash159 Journal of Health Management (Sage Publications), DOI: 10.1177/0972063413518691

Purohit B and Verma RK (2013): Assessing HRD Climate in Government Health Centres in India. Journal of Health Management (Sage Publications) JHM 15(3) 431-443

Purohit B and Ashok W (2012): Organizational Climate from the viewpoint of motivation in District Hospital, India&rdquo SCIRP Journal of HEALTH. Vol.4, No.7, 400-406 doi:10.4236/health.2012.47063

Singh R and Purohit B (2012): &ldquoLimitations in the functioning of Village Health and Sanitation Committees in India: An experience from a North-western State in India. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health: Vol 2, Issue 3, Jul-Sep, 2012, 39-46. DOI: 10.5530/ijmedph.2.3.9

Dr Bhaskar Purohit

Staff Directory

Have a question?

Live chat with us now

Visit our FAQs page