Raina Chhajer

Raina has a Ph.D. in Psychology from MLS University, Udaipur. She worked as a research associate at IIM Udaipur and was a visiting scholar at IIM Bangalore. She was a visiting doctoral student at the Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan for winter, 2017. She nominated and led two award winning Positive Business Project teams – UAE Exchange and F5 Escapes. Before joining IIM Indore, she worked at FLAME University, Pune as an assistant professor of psychology. Her doctoral research focuses on practices, enablers and impact of a positive business initiative implemented at a Middle Eastern financial services firm. Specifically, examining roles of psychological capital, social connections, and job engagement in positive change. Previously, she did her undergraduate study in Business Management and Masters in Psychology (organizational) at MLS University, Udaipur.

Research Interest: High quality connections, Thriving, Mindfulness, Playfulness at work

Teaching Interest: Positive psychology, Positive organizational psychology, Managing excellence at work

Publications

BOOK UAE Exchange: The RACE for Positive Organizational change Wayne Baker, Thomas Joseph and Raina Chhajer 2018 | WDI Publishing at the University of Michigan

JOURNAL Role of Self-efficacy, Optimism and Job Engagement in Positive Change: Evidence from the Middle East Raina Chhajer, Rose E.L. and Joseph T. 2018 | SAGE Publications Ltd

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Fostering positive relational ties at work – A qualitative study Raina Chhajer 2017

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Role of social connectivity and job engagement in positive change: Evidence from the Middle East Raina Chhajer, Tanusree Dutta and Thomas Joseph 2017

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Linking psychological capital and performance: Mediating role of positive affect and work intensity Raina Chhajer, Joseph, T. and Rose E. L. 2016

Linking positive social capital and MNE performance: The mediating role of job engagement in a multi-cultural Middle East context Joseph, T. and Raina Chhajer 2015

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING Developing positive psychological capital for job satisfaction and individual performance: Evidence from the Middle East Joseph, T., Ramani, V. and Raina Chhajer 2014

Positive Organizational Change: Practices, Mechanisms, and Impact. Raina Chhajer, Tandon, A. and Joseph, T.

Examining the mediating roles of positive affect and work intensity in the psychological capital-performance link: Evidence from the Middle East Raina Chhajer, Rose E. L. and Joseph, T.