Research Areas:
21st Century Corporate Leaders, 2004- Nationally funded project by the AICTE. Published as "Shaping Business Leaders: What B schools don't do" by Sage India, 2008

Establishing Success Criteria and Baselines for Performance in relation to Social Skills, Transparency and Responsiveness of Indian Police: A UNDP Project, IIM Bangalore, India, 1999

Organizational Transformation Strategies for BWSSB through Manpower planning. IIM Bangalore, India, 1997

Turnaround of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited, IIM Bangalore, India, 1990

Developing Performance Appraisal and Counseling system for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. IIM Bangalore, 1989

Evaluation of District Industries Centre (DIC) Program, Centre for Small Business Management, IIM Bangalore, India, 1988

Total Solar Eclipse: Understanding the dynamics of superstitious behavior. Applied Psychology Cell, Department of Psychology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India 1981

Skylab Dives: A psychological study into panic behavior. Applied Psychology Cell, Department of Psychology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India 1980

Students' Interaction with Delhi Transport Corporation, Council for Social Development, Delhi, 1979

Recent Consulting:
Power Trading Corporation, Delhi
National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad

Current Projects:
Strategic Institution Building

Web-based Education

Managing Diversity
Global Managerial Skills
Performance Management
Designing and Implementing Change
Managing Across Cultures
Transferable Leadership
Managing Collectivity
Enhancing Managerial Assertiveness
Managing Professionals
Managing on the Edge
Negotiations and Organizational Transformation

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: October 1986- present
Associate Faculty Member Applied Behavioral Sciences (ABS) Division at the National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training, Hyderabad, India, March 1983 - June 1986
Member of Faculty Post-Graduate Center for Management Studies, University of Berhampur, Berhampur, India, March 1982 - March 1983
Researcher Applied Psychology Cell, Department of Psychology, Osmania University Hyderabad, India, June 1979 - June 1981
Short-term faculty Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, January - April 1978
Department of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 1992
Visiting Professor Escuela Superior de Administracion Y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE), Barcelona, Spain, October 1992 - June 1993
Visiting Consultant Department of Management, College of Commerce and Economics, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, September - December 2001

Professional Appointments & Memberships:
Member, American Psychological Association
Academy of Management (USA)
Indian Society of Organizational Behavior
Committees:
Expert Member, Corporate Awards Committee, National HRD Network, India, 2004
Member, Expert Committee - Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003
Expert Member, Corporate Awards Committee, National HRD Network, India, 2002
Subject Expert Member, UPSC Reforms Committee, Government of India, India, 2002
Governing Councils/Boards:
Academy of Human Resources Development, Hyderabad
All India Board of Management Studies - All India Council of Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, Government of India
Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad
Editorial Boards:
Chanakya: Management Journal
International Journal of Leadership Education
Managerial Psychology Journal
LBS Journal of Management

Awards:
Recipient of Fellowships from Association of Management Development in South Asia (AMDISA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)

Significant Publications:
1. International Journal of Commerce and Management, 2006- Comparing Correlates of Organizational-citizenship versus In-Role Behavior of Sales Representatives in India

2. International Journal of Commerce and Management, 2005- Relationship of Organizational Citizenship behavior and Objective productivity to Managerial evaluations of performance among pharmaceutical sales representatives in India

3. Vision, 2005- Poor Change Preparedness in Indian Business Culture: A Need for Periodic Indian Business Culture Surveys

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Auckland, December 2001- Correlates of Organizational Citizenship Behavior versus In-Role Performance

5. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2001- Perceived organizational support as a mediator of the relationship of perceived situational factors to affective organizational commitment

6. An innovative approach to managing stress, Ascent, Times of India, 25 January 1994