Lourdes Vijayan R

Prof. Elizabeth Abba

Received certificate of Excellence by Wipro’s Sustainability Programme for mentoring students in the Wipro Earthian project

Prof. Andrew Dutta

An academician since the last 23 years, and Dean of this school, his contributions to the field of management education was recognized in the World Education Congress 2024 wherein he was awarded the prestigious Y.K. Bhushan Most Influential Professor citation.

Prof. Mousumi Padhi

Prof Mousumi Padhi co-authored a paper on Implementation of Spontaneous Policies: Grudging implementers and Long-term Hope that was accepted and presented at 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management August 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Prof Subhra Pattnaik, and Prof Mousumi Padhi received the Best paper award for their paper on “Multi-level Issues in Assessment Centres in Indian Context”, at the International Conference on Global Trends in Business Practices and Management Education , Organized by Birla Global University and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in January , 2020.

Prof Mousumi Padhi co-authored a paper on the “ The Hijras of Odisha, : A study of self-identity of the eunuchs and their identification with stereotypical feminine roles” that received the certificate of best-presentation at the International Conference on Bio-ethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity 2018 conducted by WASET at Paris, in May 2018.

Prof. Suchitra Pal

The Odisha Government nominated Prof. Suchitra Pal as independent director of OPGC May 2023. This achievement is possible after working 14 years as a consultant from XIM University for recruitment and training of the different power generation and distribution companies like NTPC, Powergrid corporation limited, Odisha Coal and Power limited (OCPL), Odisha Power generation corporations (OPGC), and Tata Power.

Prof. Kalpana Sahoo

For her Odia writings she received the prestigious MATIBHASA SIKHYABIT SAMMAN,2023.

Presented a paper in an International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, titled "Personality Predictors of Social Anxiety: Psychological Facilitator and Barrier in Potential CSR Service Providers",Best Paper Award,at Park Rotana, Abu Dhabi,UAE from Nov 21-24, 2017.

Prof. Lalatendu Keshari Jena

Received Best Research Paper Award for the empirical paper titled “Effect of Work-life Balance on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Role of Organizational Commitment”, presented in the track “Leveraging Human Resource in Current Business Environment” at the International Business Research Conference held at International Management Institute (IMI), India (2014).

Sponsored by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) to present a research paper at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan (2016).

Received Best Research Paper Award for the empirical paper titled “Role of Psychological Contract between Organisational Commitment and Employee Retention: Findings from Indian Manufacturing Industries” at the International Conference on Organization and Management in Abu Dhabi, UAE (2016).

“Research Achievement Award” by International Business and Academic Excellence Award committee, Dubai, for Outstanding Performance as Researcher (2019).

On successfully completing 6 certification courses awarded with Fellow of the World HR Board in Strategic Human Resource Management (2021).

Prof. Sanjay Bhattacharya

2012 – University Gold Medal in MA-HRM at Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi.

2017 – Best Research Paper Award in International Research Conference 2017 organised by JBIMS, University of Mumbai.

2019 – Became a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach Practitioner.

2020 – Became a Microsoft Certified Innovative Educator.

2023 – Best Research Paper in S-TEAM Conference, SCMHRD Pune.

2024 – Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in HRD at International Conference on Disruptive HRM Organised by IITM, Bhubaneswar and ISTD – Bhubaneswar Chapter.

2024 – Appointed Member of Advisory Board at The Sparkling Minds, Lucknow.

Dr. Arup Roy Chowdhury

Experienced Talent Management Specialist and an Academician with a PhD in HRM from XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur. Having a demonstrated history of two decades of enriched work experience in different fields of Strategic HRM, Industrial Relations and Academics. Has done extensive research in the area of Management Styles, Performance Management, Competency Mapping, HR Planning, Job Load Adequacy and HR Audit & HR Accounting.

Demonstrated & proven experience of developing & implementing strategic and progressive HR Policies/Practices at Tata Steel like ‘5 Day Work Week’; ‘Work From Home’ ; ‘Satellite Office Operation’ for Officers; ‘Retainership Policy’; ‘Position Class Fitment for Senior Management’; Mentoring Program; ‘Dual Career Path’ for specialists in Research & Development, Automation, Technology Group; Job Rotation & Career Mapping; Identification of Critical Positions etc.

Certified Psychometric Assessor (Thomas Profile, Belbin), Talent Development Centre Assessor, Six Sigma Black Belt, TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model) External Assessor, Lead Auditor ISO/IEC 27001 (ISMS: Information Security Management System), ISO 9001 Auditor, Certified Job Evaluator (Hay Group Methodology). Conducted Assessment Centres cum Development Centres for Private Sector and Public Sector organizations. Authored books on Human Resource Management, Training & Development. Published Papers in Indian & International Journals.

Prof. R G Priyaadarshini

Prof. R G Priyadarshini has authored textbooks titled “Organizational Change and Development” and “Change Management and Organizational Transformation”, published by Cengage Publishing.

She has published over 50+ papers in reputed journals and cases in Harvard Business Cases, Ivey case publishing, SHRM case folio and “Human Capital”. 3. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toledo and San Diego State University, USA and been an adjunct faculty at the State University of New York, USA

She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toledo and San Diego State University, USA and been an adjunct faculty at the State University of New York, USA

She has been a consultant to leading manufacturing, IT and Pharmaceutical companies like Sundaram Brake Linings, Sundaram Fastners, Wipro Technologies, Larsen and Toubro and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

She is a recipient of ‘Ramaswamy P Aiyer Best Young Teacher Award’ by the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), ‘Young Teacher Career Award’ by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India, ‘Industrial Fellowship Award’ by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), ‘Dewang Mehta Award for Best Professor in HRM”, “CII National Best Yi Net Mentor Award”-and CMA-GRD Best Management Faculty Award