Sana Ahmed - Department of Management
Sana Ahmed has been at the University of Memphis - Lambuth since 2021 and teaches our MBA Leadership and Negotiation course, Communications and Career Readiness, and International Management. Her teaching experience covers various other business-related courses, including Human Resource Management and Principles of Marketing.
Additionally, her professional experience in the analytics and data analysis field adds practical knowledge and value to her teaching. She has worked at eBay Inc. as an Attribution Analyst and is a cofounder of Lambda Crunch Inc.
Dr. Ahmed has taught face-to-face, online, and asynchronous undergraduate and graduate
classes including Leadership and Negotiation, International Management, Business Communications,
Human Resources, Principles of Marketing, Business and Society, Career Information,
Business Writing and Organizational Behavior.
- Academy of Management
- British Academy of Management
- International Leadership Association
- Western Academy of Management
Representative Publications
- Simha, A., Prasad, R., Ahmed, S., Rao, N., and Dinesh, A. (2022). Effect of national cultural dimensions and HIV prevalence rates on stigma towards people living with HIV/AIDS. Psychology, Health & Medicine (CPHM). https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2022.2057557
- Simha, A., Prasad, R., Ahmed. S., and Rao, N. (2020). Effect of gender and Clinical-financial vulnerability on Mental Distress due to COVID-19. Archives of Womens Mental Health.
- Simha, A., Ahmed, S., Prasad, R., Dinesh, A., Kandasamy, A., and Rao, N. (forthcoming
in 2021). Effect of national cultural dimensions and consumption rates on stigma towards
alcohol and substance use disorders. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640211028611
Published Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
- Ahmed, S. & Simha, A. (2021). Autocratic Leadership and Abuse. In D. Poff & A.C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics.
- Ahmed, S. & Simha, A. (2021). Differences between Transactional and Transformational
Leadership. In D. Poff & A.C. Michalos (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional
Ethics.
Recent Presentations/Invited Talks
- Ahmed, S., Nae, Eun Young & Simha, A. September 10-12, 2025. Employees’ OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) And Its Impact on Organizational Outcomes. Presentation at the Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB) in Porto, Portugal.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. November 7-10, 2024. Relationship Between Ethical Leadership and Ethical Behavior- Testing A Moderated-Mediation Model. Presentation at the International Leadership Association (ILA) in Chicago, IL.
- Mtetwa, M., & Ahmed, S. August 1-3, 2024. Ordinary Ethical Agents vs Freedom and Justice: The workplace and its effects on levels of social morality and ethics in our communities. Presentation at the Freedom and Justice summer conference: Building Power and Resilience in Our Communities- National Economic Association in Atlanta, GA.
- Mtetwa, M., & Ahmed, S. March 8-9, 2024. Ordinary Ethical Agents vs Economic Violence: The workplace and its effects on social morality and ethics. Presentation at Community, Culture, Cooperation: Innovating Solutions to Economic Violence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, MO.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. (accepted). Relationships Between Ethical Leadership, Employee Loyalty,
Work Family Conflict and Ethical Behavior Performance. Presentation at 2023 Society
of Business Ethics (SBE) in Boston, MA.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. (accepted). A Moderated-Mediated Relationship Between Ethical Leadership, Employee Loyalty, Work Family Conflict and Ethical Behavior Performance. Presentation at 2022 International Association for Business and Society (IABS) in San Francisco, California.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. (accepted). A Moderated-Mediated Relationship Between Ethical Leadership, Employee Loyalty, Work Family Conflict and Ethical Behavior Performance. Presentation at 2021 International Leadership Association (ILA) in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. April 21-23, 2021. Ethical Leadership and Ethical Behavior of Employees in the Workplace: A Moderated-Mediated Link. Presentation at 2021 Western Academy of Management (WAM) remote.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. (accepted). Ethical Leadership and Ethical Behavior of Employees in the Workplace: A Moderated-Mediated Link. Presentation at 2020 Western Academy of Management (WAM) in Hawaii, USA.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. October 24-27, 2019. The Moderating Effects of Autocratic Leadership on the Mediated Link between P-O Fit and Employee Loyalty. Presentation at 2019 International Leadership Association (ILA) in Ottawa, Canada.
- Ahmed, S., & Simha, A. September 4-6, 2018. The Moderated Relationship between P-O Fit and Employee Loyalty. Presentation at 2018 British Academy of Management (BAM) in Bristol, U.K.