BUSINESS CASES IN ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND HRM PERSPECTIVES FROM INDIA (HB 2023)

This book provides perspectives on various dimensions of organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM) in an ever-changing world. The world has been experiencing disruptions and technological changes at an unprecedented level in the last two decades. This book is a collection of handpicked cases and teaching notes on the various critical dimensions of OB, such as organization transformation, leadership, organization culture, training and development, innovation, CSR, competencies for enhancing entrepreneurship, and women leadership. These dimensions have been covered extensively with an emphasis on COVID-19 pandemic in a few cases. While academicians can use this book to cover the critical concepts and dimensions of change, leadership, and innovation, they can highlight its relevance for young professionals in their journey of growth and development. Through these cases, the postgraduate students are likely to benefit enormously from the recent changes in various industries, MNCs, and Indian organizations operating during changing times. Overall, this book of OB & HRM cases is a great value addition to the management field, equally for the teachers, practitioners, and students. It is a valuable supplement to popular OB & HRM textbooks.

Gopal Mahapatra is a Professor of Practice (OB & HRM area) at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. He is a Fellow from IIMB and comes with more than thirty years of HR leadership roles in MNCs and Indian conglomerates. He has been Programme Director and faculty member in Advanced Management Programme,  and many other Executive Education Programmes at IIMB, in addition to serving as Chairperson Weekend MBA. Prior to this, he served at IIM Indore, and is also visiting faculty at IIM Kolkata and IIM Udaipur. Prof. Mahapatra was President, National HRD (NHRD) Network Bangalore 2006-08, which is an autonomous, not-for-profit, professionally managed organization of HR professionals. He has co-edited three books between 2002-2006, and edited two special issue of NHRD Network Journal on ‘Organisation Development’ in 2008 and ‘Neuro-Science and HR’ in 2018, in addition to having many papers in international and national journals to his credit.