About Dr Mohammad Islam
I joined the University as a Lecturer in Business and Management (HRM) in 2024. My role includes teaching and learning, supervision of master's and PhD students, personal academic tutoring, subject development, assessment, research, and other administrative tasks across various undergraduate and postgraduate business courses.
Before joining the University, I was a sessional lecturer at Newcastle University. I taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate business courses, including HRM and the Future of Work, Corporate Communications and Social Media, Managing Change in Organisations and Advanced Global Strategy.
I worked on-campus (Cambridge Education Group) and taught several business and management modules for undergraduate and master’s foundation courses. These include Organisational Behaviour, Academic and Professional Skills for Business (APSB) and Principles of Management. I also worked as a Business Tutor and a Module Leader at Teesside International Study Centre. I taught several business and management modules at Levels 4, 5 and 6. These include Business Enterprises, Business and Economics, Understanding Organisations, Business Enterprise, Human Resource Management (Future of HR) and Research Methods.
I graduated with a first-class honours degree in Business Studies from the University of Wales and gained my MSc in Human Resource Management from King’s College London. I hold a postgraduate research training (PgCert) certificate and a PhD in management studies from Newcastle University.
My teaching interests include HRM, digitalisation, change management, strategic management, ethics and sustainability, cross-cultural management, research methods, organisational behaviour and leadership, and information systems.
My research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data analytics, Industry 4.0, smart HR, Human-Centric AI, Ethical AI, AI-Augmented HRM, Business Model Innovation, Digital Transformation and industrial relations.
My recent research, titled “AI-Augmented HRM: Literature Review and a Proposed Multilevel Framework for Future Research,” is available in the Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal, a highly ranked academic journal rated A on ABDC and 3 on CABS.
I am a UK Higher Education Academy Fellow and a CMBE from the Chartered Association of Business Schools.
Teaching and supervision
I primarily teach the following undergraduate and post graduate HRM modules:
- MGTM20: Organisational Development and Digital Practices
- MGTM26: Developing Research Practitioners and
- MGT201: Managing Self and Others
- MGTM15: HRM in International and Digital Context
- MGTM09: Managing the Employment Relationship
- SPPM 103: People Analytics and AI for Sustainable Business Practices (Module Leader)
- DLMM18: Organisational Development and Change (Module Leader)
- DLMM20: Organisational Behaviour and Cultural Change (Module Leader).
I supervise management reports on MGTM26: Developing Researching Practitioners (MSc HRM).
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Centered AI
- AI-Augmented HRM
- Technology adoption (Digitalisation)
- Fourth Industrial Revolution (I4.0)
- Smart HR
- Business model innovation
- Human resource management
- Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Employment relations
- Automated supply chain system
- Performativity
- Retail 4.0.
Current PhD students (Director of Studies)
1) Fatima Daniel Danjuma
Research Title: The Role of Advanced Technology in Business Model Innovation During Economic Crisis in Nigerian SMEs. A Multiple Case Study.
2) Olusegun Felix Efunkoya
Research Title: The Algorithmic Balance: Exploring the role of organisational approaches in harmonising artificial intelligence implementation and employee well-being in Nigerian SMEs.
Open to supervising PhD projects from the 2026–2027 academic year, particularly in AI, Ethical AI, Human-Centered AI, AI-Augmented HRM, HR4.0, Digital Transformation (fourth industrial revolution) and Business Model Innovation.
Research
My research interests are the fourth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, smart HR, and employment relations. I am particularly interested in how AI impacts employment relations and the core HR functions of an organisation. More precisely, I am interested in employee upskilling and the role of smart HR in managing the fourth industrial revolution.
My recent research, entitled: 'AI-Augmented HRM: Literature Review and a Proposed Multilevel Framework for Future Research', is available in the Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal. A highly ranked academic journal rated A on the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) and 3 on the Chartered Association Business Council journal list (CABS).