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Asha Bhandarker
Professor
Organizational Behavior
Chairperson PGP-IM
email: ashab@mdi.ac.in
Contact no: 0124-4560114
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Dr Asha Bhandarker is currently the Raman Munjal Chair Professor for Leadership Studies at MDI¸ Gurgaon. She is a psychologist by training with a Ph.d in Business Management. She has spent time working fulltime in consulting as also in teaching and research. She has extensive cross national experience having lived and worked in different parts of the world- USA¸ UK¸ Egypt¸ Mauritius¸ SriLanka.
Experience:
Aug-2004- May 2005 Visiting Professor at the Darden School of Business ¸ UVA¸ USA
Sept-Nov 2004- Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy¸ GMU¸ USA
Nov. 2000¸ Visiting Professor at the ICBT¸ Sri-Lanka
Consulting assignments in Egypt and Mauritius
March - June 1990 Visiting Fellow¸ The London Business School¸ London¸ U.K.
She has three books to her credit: Corporate Success and Transformational Leadership( Wiley Eastern);
IAS Profile: Myths and Realities (Wiley Eastern); and
Winning the Corporate Olympiad: The Renaissance Paradigm (Vikas Publishing House).
She has also published 15 research papers on Leadership and related issues.
Research publications include articles and papers on topics like Leadership¸ Culture Building¸ Executive Stress¸ Profiles of Indian Executives on Innovation and Ambiguity Tolerance and Value Profile of Indian Executives
Current research:
Completing a book on the impact of B School education on the profiles of graduates from India’s top B Schools.
Consulting:
Consulted extensively with various Public¸ Private¸ Cooperative sector and MNCs since 1989 in India. Egypt and Mauritius.
a) Top Management Workshops:
Conducted many top management workshops on themes like - Building Work Culture¸ Leadership Development¸ Organisational Vision Building¸ Team Building . Such work has been done for companies like¸ Escorts¸ SM Dyechem Ltd.¸ Bajaj Auto¸ Vikram Ispat¸ Indo-Gulf¸ Hindalco¸ Rajashree Cement¸ Grasim Industries¸ Power Grid¸ Indian Rayon¸ Siemens¸ NTPC¸IBP_Balmer-LAwrie¸ Western Coalfields¸ National Fertilizers¸ IFFCO – Phulpur ¸ .Krishak Bharati Cooperative ¸ Idea Cellular¸ Maruti Udyog Ltd.¸ Enron Oil and Gas¸ Alexandria Carbon Black¸ Egypt
b)Organizational diagnostics for Change Management:
Organizational diagnostics have been done as a prelude to work on themes like Corporate Transformation ¸ Management of Change¸ Culture Building¸ HRD Strategy Building. [Siemens¸ Bayer¸ Indo-Gulf¸ Alexandria Carbon Black (Egypt)¸ Birla Copper¸ Power Grid Corporation¸ Grasim Industries¸ Kribhco¸ Hughes Software¸ Rajashree Cement etc.]
c) Talent Assessment and Counseling :
Conducted for high fliers identified by the company for the purpose of identifying their growth potential in the company through psychological assessment; Such work has been done for companies like Bayer India¸ Indo-Gulf¸ Birla Copper¸ Maruti Udyog¸ Idea Cellular¸ etc.
d)Training has been conducted for numerous companies at middle levels across public¸ private¸ and multinational.
Awards & Honors:
Senior Fulbright Fellowship to study the Best Practices of US Business Schools 2004-2005
Awarded the Best Book Award by the DMA and the ISTD for the book ‘ Winning the Corporate Olympiad: Renaissance Paradigm ‘
Areas of Interest:
Current research and teaching interests include Leadership and Strategic Thinking for Corporate Transformation¸ Emotional Intelligence and Personality Assessment for Potential Identification. I teach PGP courses on Organizational Behavior¸ Self Development and Interpersonal Relations¸ Leadership and Managerial Effectiveness. I also teach FPM level courses on Self Transformation. She likes to experiment with various pedagogical tools like outbound and theatre techniques for developing leadership competencies.
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