Soumendu Biswas

Dr. Soumendu Biswas received his PhD degree in Organizational/Industrial Psychology from IIT Kharagpur. Before MDI Gurgaon, Dr. Biswas’ experience includes teaching Organizational Behaviour¸ Research Methodology¸ and Human Resource Management at the Xavier Institute of Social Services¸ Ranchi. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur as a Research Scholar¸ he was associated with XLRI Jamshedpur as a Research Associate in the OB/HR Area.

Dr. Biswas has published articles in national and international journals. He has also presented papers in several international conferences such as the annual conference of the Academy of Management¸ the European Academy of Management¸ the Asian Academy of Management¸ the Australia-New Zealand Academy of Management¸ the American Society of Training and Development¸ the National Academy of Psychology¸ and the Indian Congress of Social Science Research.

Dr. Biswas is currently serving as the Area Lead – OBHR, MDI, Gurgaon after having served as the Associate Editor of VISION, The Journal of Business Perspective.

Teaching

Dr. Soumendu Biswas currently teaches courses both in the two-year post graduate programmes as well as the doctoral programmes at MDI Gurgaon. He currently teaches the following courses at MDI Gurgaon:

• Human Resource Management (Core course)
• Human Resource Analytics (Elective)
• Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis (Elective)

Awards and honours .

2009-10: Award for Excellence in Research¸ MDI Gurgaon

Conference and proceeding papers

• (2016). Resonant Leadership as an enabler of positivity in the organizations. Paper accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, August 5-9, 2016, Annaheim, CA: USA. (with Rupali Pardasani and Radha R. Sharma).
• (2016). Organizational virtuousness: A measure of positivity and its implications at the Indian workplace. Paper submitted at the XXV Annual Conference of the National Academy of Psychology (NAoP), February 2-5, 2016, Allahabad, UP, India
• (2012). Culture as a moderator of the commitment-citizenship behavior relationship in organizations: A field study in India. Paper submitted for presentation at the XXII Annual Conference of the National Academy of Psychology (NAoP), December 10-12, 2012, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• (2012). Host country national social categorization of expatriates. Paper accepted for presentation at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP), April 26-28, 2012, San Diego, CA: USA (with Pawan Budhwar, Arup Varma, and Shaun Pichler).
• (2011). Job satisfaction and job involvement as predictors of turnover intention. Paper accepted for presentation at the Indian Academy of Management (IAoM) Conference, December 18-22, 2011, IIM Bangalore.
• (2011). The influence of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behaviour when mediated by job involvement: Evidences from India. Paper accepted for presentation at the National Academy of Psychology (NAoP) Conference, December 18-20, 2011, IRMA Anand.
• (2011). Antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB): Test of a moderated latent variable model in the Indian context. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP), April 14-16, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA (with Arup Varma).
• (2011). Relationship between family-work balance, intrinsic motivation and stress level and its impact on employee performance and job satisfaction. Paper presented at the National Management Conference, February 9-11, 2011, Bhubaneshwar, India. (with Siddhartha S. Padhi).
• (2011). Psychological climate and affective commitment as antecedents of sales employees’ performance. Paper presented at the 4th IIMA Conference on Marketing and Emerging Economies, IIM Ahmedabad, January 5-11, 2011, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. (with Kanwal N Kapil).
• (2010). Job satisfaction and job involvement as predictors of turnover intentions. Paper presented at the 31st Annual International Industrial Relations and Human Resources (IIRHR) Conference, October 22- 23, 2010, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
• (2010). Empirical analysis of antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement in India: Implications for the resource based perspective. Paper presented at the 11th International Human Resource Management (IHRM) Conference, June 9-12, 2010, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK. (with Jyotsna Bhatnagar).
• (2010). The mediating role of OCB: A study in Indian organizations. Paper presented at the XIX National Academy of Psychology Conference, March 6-8, 2010, Department of Psychology, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.
• (2009). Human resource practices and their influences on individuals: A study in Indian organizations. Paper presented at the Indian Academy of Management Conference, December 28-30, 2009, XLRI- Jamshedpur, India.
• (2009). A conceptual proposal of the antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement: Implications for the Resource Based View Perspective. Paper presented at the Indian Academy of Management Conference, December 28-30, 2009, XLRI-Jamshedpur, India (with Jyotsna Bhatnagar).
• (2008). Diagnostics regarding organizational behaviour. Paper presented at the XVIII National Academy of Psychology (NAoP) Annual Meeting, December 14-17, 2008, IIT-Guwahati, India. .
• (2007). The impact of psychological climate on individual performance. Paper presented at the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) Conference, June 12-15, 2007, Telon, Estonia. (with Arup Varma & Pawan Budhwar)
• (2006). Host Country National Willingness to Help Expatriates: The Role of Collectivisim and Interpersonal Relationships. Paper presented at the Asia Academy of Management (AAoM) Conference, December 19-21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. (with Arup Varma & Shaun Pichler).
• (2006). Organizational culture and structure as predictors of human resource practices in organizations. Paper presented at the XVI National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Annual Meeting, December 14-16, 2006, IIT-Bombay, India. (with Kailash B.L. Srivastava).
• (2006). A quasi-experimental field study of Chinese HCNs’ willingness to help expatriates. Paper presented at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, August 11-16, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (with Arup Varma, Pawan Budhwar, & Soo Min Toh).
• (2005). A quasi-experimental field study of host workers perceptions on expatriate adjustment. Paper presented at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, August 5-10, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii. (with Arup Varma, Pawan Budhwar, & Soo Min Toh).
• (2005). An empirical investigation of host country national categorization of expatriates in the United Kingdom. Paper presented at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, May 2005, Munich, Germany. (with Arup Varma, Pawan Budhwar, & Soo Min Toh).
• (2005). The interaction of organizational culture with organizational structure in predicting firms’ human resource practices. Paper presented at the XV National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) Annual Meeting, March 4-6, 2005, Faizabad, India. (with Kailash B. L. Srivastava).
• (2005). The mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior between organizational identification and its consequences. Paper presented at the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) Conference, February 24-27, 2005, Colorado. (with S. Pattnaik).

Training

• 08/12. ‘Leadership for Agency Skills’ two-day programme for SBAs of LIC of India.
• 09/12. ‘Leadership skills’ one-day programme for senior executives of Bharat Electrical Limited.

Consultancy

• 11/10. ‘Employee satisfaction’ at INNODATA, Noida, India