Anand Chand
Associate Professor
School of Management and Public Administration
University of the South Pacific
Fiji
Biography
Dr Anand Chand is an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Public Administration, FBE, USP. He is originally from the Fiji Islands. He has a BA (Tasmania, Australia), Post-Graduate Diploma (USP), Diploma in Business Studies (Canterbury, NZ), MA in Industrial Relations (USP), MA in Research Methods (Manchester, UK), PhD (University of Cardiff, Wales, UK). Dr. Chand has been teaching, conducting research, doing consultations and publishing for the last 32 years. He teaches both undergraduate and post-graduate courses (including MBA) and supervisors Mcom and PhD students. He has published 2 books, 2 monographs, 6 book chapters, and 39 articles. Anand has also presented around 40 papers at international conferences. Dr. Chand specializes in the areas of HRM, Industrial Relations, Employment Relations, Global Supply Chains and other areas of general management. He has extensive experience in conducting researching and doing consultancy for international agencies. For example, he has conducted research for ILO, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), EU/USP Employment and Labour Market Programme, Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF), Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF) and Australian Council of International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and Pacific Agri-business Research for Development Initiative (PARDI). He has visited and taught in a number of South Pacific Islands countries and is well versed about the South Pacific countries.
Research Interest
Dr. Chand specializes in the areas of HRM, Industrial Relations, Employment Relations, Global Supply Chains and other areas of general management.
