Rahul Chandra Sheel

Dr. Rahul Chandra Sheel is a faculty of Organizational Behaviour at XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur. He is a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) under the supervision of Prof. Neharika Vohra with a specialization in Organizational Behaviour.

His teaching interests are in the area of Organizational Development and Change and Organizational Structure and Design. He has been coordinating and teaching the last five batches of the online management development program from XLRI – Leadership and Change Management and has trained more than 600 executives with an average work experience of 16 years. He has worked with PRADAN (a developmental organization), building development communities and enabling them to co-own community ventures, learning from which he brings to business organizations. He has trained for leadership development for many organizations in public and private sector e.g. Indian Oil, Coca-Cola India, NHPC, NPCIL, Asian Paints, HAL, Mahindra, L&T on Managing Change. He has consulted for various organizations to help them with the leadership development of their senior leaders.

He publishes in various international and national journals and presents his work in various international conferences. His research interests are in the area of organizational cynicism, corporate social responsibility, emotional contagion, framing of communication, and issues related to non-profits.

Experience Detail

• Dec 2013 - till date: Faculty, XLRI, Jamshedpur
• May-Oct 2013 - Faculty, Delhi School of Business
• 2005-2007 - Executive (Projects), PRADAN

Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS

Organisational cynicism, Organisational commitment , Corporate social responsibility, Women leadership, Social sector organisations

Journal Articles-Refereed

Sheel, R. C. & Vohra, N., (2015): Relationship between perceptions of corporate social responsibility and organizational cynicism: the role of employee volunteering, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09585192.2015.1072102

Sheel, R., & Vohra, N. (2014). Fostering Academic Research among Management Scholars in India: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Vikalpa: The Journal For Decision Makers, 39(2), v-xi. Retrieved from http://www.vikalpa.com/pdf/articles/2014/editorial-39-2.pdf

Vohra, N., & Sheel, R. (2012). Corporate social responsibility: practice, theory, and challenges. Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 37(2), 73-116. Retrieved from http://www.vikalpa.com/pdf/articles/2012/Pages-from-Vikalpa37.2-73-116.pdf