Asha Bhandarker
Professor
asha.bhandarker@mahindrauniversity.edu.in
Dr. Bhandarker is one of the prominent researchers and scholars in India in the field of Org Behavior, HR, and Leadership and Change Management. She was a professor at MDI-Gurgaon and IMI-Delhi.
She was a senior Fulbright Fellow at the Darden School of Business and at George Mason University in Virginia, USA.
She was an Independent Director on the Board of Punjab National Bank and is currently an HR expert on the Board of Bank of Maharashtra. Further, she has worked closely with the Banking sector and Corporate sector as a member of their selection committees for senior levels, consulting (competency mapping and assessment, culture building, HR initiatives), coaching and mentoring, as well as training for senior levels (public and private sector) to build leaders and teams.
She has also received many awards for academic contributions throughout her career.
Education
- Ph.D. – Department of Business Management OU and ASCI Hyderabad
- M.A. – Psychology with specialization in Industrial Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, Osmania University, Hyderabad
- Advanced behavioural science and coaching training from Tavistock Institute, UK; NTL labs USA; and from the Jungian Coaching School, Israel
Experience
40 plus years of experience in research, teaching, and HR consulting, having worked as Professor and Dean in leading management schools like MDI-Gurgaon and IMI-Delhi.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
BOOKS:
- Dr Pritam Singh, Alchemist Guru, Nov. 2021, Sage Pub, with Subrat Kumar
- Towards Sustainable competitive edge: Role of Boards, Jan 2021, Sage Pub with P Singh, and S Verma
- Leadership Odyssey- Darkness to Light, Nov 2015, pub Sage, with P Singh and Snigdha Rai
- Millennials Meaning of Workplace: Challenges for building the organizations of the future. (Sage International New Delhi, Singapore, London, San Francisco). With P Singh and S Rai, 2012
- In Search of Change Maestros (Sage International New Delhi, Singapore, London, San Francisco) with P Singh, 2011
- Shaping Future Leaders: What B Schools Don’t Do., Sage Publications, December 2008
- Future of Work: Mastering Change, eds, Singh, Bhatnagar and Bhandarker, Pub. Excel Books, Delhi, 2006
- Winning the Corporate Olympiad: Renaissance Paradigm, Vikas Pub, 2002 (with Dr P Singh)
- The IAS Profile: Myths and Realities Pub. Wiley Eastern,1993(with Dr P. Singh)
- Corporate Success and Transformational Leadership, Pub. Wiley Eastern, 1989. (with Dr P. Singh).
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AS WELL AS TEACHING CASES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
- "Organizational memory and institution theory: A postcolonial perspective, in Thunderbird International Business Review, with M Lahiri and A Behrens, July 2021;1–15.
- Kumar, S. and Bhandarker, A. (2021),"Transformational leadership in AICTE: lessons for organizational excellence", Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, Vol. 11 No. 3.
- Organizational Transformation: Agenda for Indian Banks, in Transformational Leadership in Banking: Anil Khandelwal, Sage Pub 2021
- Humanistic Leadership and its impact on Organizational Effectiveness, in The New Normal Reinventing Professional Life and Familial Bonding in the Post COVID 19 Era, Blooms berry, Jan 21, Subrat Kumar and P Agarwal
- Experiential Learning and its Efficacy in Management Education, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): Purushartha, Dec. 2020, with Subrat Kumar
- Toxic Leadership: Emotional Distress and Coping Strategy", International Journal of Organizational theory and behaviour, 2019
- Leadership: Indian Perspectives, (book chapter) in Global Leadership Perspectives, Insights and Analyses, eds, Simon Western & Eric Jean Garcia, Sage UK 2018
- Vinod Rai: Leading the Government Audit of Spectrum Auction (book chapter) in Humanistic Management, Leadership and Trust, Volume I: Foundations, Cases, and Exercises, editor, J Bachani, Pirson and Bachani, Business Expert Press, USA, 2018 (with Dr P Singh)
- “Managing Effectively in Collectivist Societies: Lessons from Samba Schools and Dabbawalas”, A Behrens, P Singh, A Bhandarker - Thunderbird International Business Review, 2016
- Bank of Baroda, Ivey Case Centre (Toronto, Canada), with S Rai, 2015-16
- "Positive transformational leadership: case study of an Indian public sector bank", Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, (2015) Vol. 7 Iss: 1, pp. 34 – 55
- New Holland Tractors India: Community Management and Employee relations, Published by Ivey Case Centre (Toronto, Canada), 2015, 9B14C058, with Subrat Kumar
- Changing Business Context: Challenges and Opportunities: Dialogue with Thought Leaders, Global Business Review, 2014, vol. 15, issue 3, pages 611-621
- Odyssey to Leadership: Mantras to Lead, Pritam Singh, Dr., Asha Bhandarker, Dr. Nhrdn journal, August 27, 2014
- Ken Limited, Ivey Case Center (Toronto, Canada), 2013 (with P, Rupali) Ken Private Limited: Digitization Project, Ivey Case Center (Toronto, Canada), 9B13C025, 2013 (with P, Rupali)
- Relationship between values and workplace: An exploratory analysis’, Facilities, (Emerald Publishing, UK), 29 (11/12) with Singh, P., Rai, S. & Jain, A.K. (2012).
- Effective Leadership at Zensar Technologies: Riding the Wave of Change, Asian Case Research Centre (ACRC), Hong Kong (with Sumita Rai), January 2011.
- Catapulted to Leadership’ published in JOBE –Journal of Business Education, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA, Jan 2011 (with M Lahiri)
- Maruti Udyog- HR as Transformation Partner, 2011, Ivey Case Center (Toronto, Canada), (2011) with Anita Ollapally
- ‘CEO Leadership, Organizational Culture and Employee Affect Response at the Workplace’, A Bhandarker, A Goswami and Kshipra Rustogi, p179-194, in ‘Towards the Next Orbit, A Corporate Odyssey’, Sage Response, S Verma (ed), 2010
- ‘Routes to Peaks for Building Corporate Renaissance’, in Towards the Next Orbit-A Corporate Odyssey, Sage Response, S Verma (ed) 2010
- ‘In Search of a Leader: Followers’ Quest’, P Singh, A Bhandarker and AK Jain, in Managing and Organizing in the era of Globalization, P Singh and S Verma (eds), p 414-432, Sage, 2010
- ‘Meaning of Work’, in Future of Work: Mastering Change, eds, Singh, Bhatnagar and Bhandarker (eds), Excel Books, Delhi, ‘06
- Interview with Noel Tichy: Distinguished Thinker, Asha Bhandarker, Vision: Journal of Business Perspective, April 1, 2005
- ‘Building Corporate Transformation: New HR Agenda’, Vision: Journal of Business Perspective, 2003, p 1-23
- ‘10 Commandments for Building Corporate Renaissance’, Vol 14, IIM-B Management Review, No1, p 9 – 26, (with Dr P Singh), March 2002
- ‘Leading to Win in 21st Century’, A. Bhandarker and P Singh, in, High Performing Organizations ", S Singh, New Age, 2002.
- ‘Contours of 21st Century Corporation’, Singh and Bhandarker, ed, S G Bhargava, Excel Books, 2002
- ‘Leading to Win’, IIMB Management Review, Vol 13, No 1, p61 - 71, A Bhandarker and P Singh, March 2001
- ‘Road Map to Transformational Leadership’, IIMB Management Review, Vol.11 (No:1), Mar 1999, pp. 39-50
- ‘Parenting Transformational Leaders’ Vision, The Journal of Business Perspective, Vol.3 (No: 1), Jan-Jun 1999, Pp 1 -13.
- ‘Road Map to Transformational Leadership’, with Dr. P. Singh, IIMB Management Review, Vol.11 (No:1), Mar 1999. Pp 39-50
- ‘Five Mantras to Lead’, Vision: The Journal of Business Perspectives, Vol.1, (No.2), July-Dec 1997, Pp1-10, (with Dr P Singh)
- ‘Paradigm Shifts in the Indian industry: The need for Tolerance of Ambiguity’, Vision: Journal of Business Perspective, Vol. 9 (NO. 2), July 1996. Pp 2-24.
- ‘Dilemma of Change: Managing through Leadership’, in Management of Change in South Asia ed., Rahim B. Talukdar, Pub. University Press Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1993; (with Dr. P. Singh).
- ‘Corporate Transformation: Indian Perspectives’, in Public Enterprises Manager in the Nineties, T.L. Sankar, R.Nandagopal, R.K.Mishra (eds) 1993.
- ‘Strategic Thinking: New Agenda for the Indian Corporate Sector’, in ‘Innovations In Management for development’, ed., B.L. Maheshwari, Tata McGraw Hill, May 1992; (with Dr. P. Singh)
- ‘Transformational Leaders: A study of their Leadership Profile’, Public Enterprise (ICPE, Ljubljana), Vol. 9. Nos.3-4, Pp 281-295, Dec. 1989;
- ‘Cultural Ethos in the Organizational Milieu: A Framework for Organization Building’, (coauthor Dr P Singh), Indian Management, Vol. 27, No. 10, Pp 4-18, Oct. 1988
- ‘Managerial Stress: A Study in Cyclical Perspective’, Abhigyan, Pp 7-34, Autumn, 1986.
- Managerial Role: The Need for Clarity, (co-author P Singh) ASCI Journal of Management, Vol. 13, No.1, Sept. 1983
Under publication:
- ‘Toxic encounters at the workplace: Surviving Bad bosses’ - with Mimamsa Khanduri
- ‘What Could Be Accomplished Through Better Ways to Identify, Help or Avoid Bad Leaders?’ invited chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Bad Leadership- with Snigdha Rai
PAPERS PRESENTED:
- AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:
- Caucus presentation on Humanistic Management at the Annual conference of the AOM -Academy of Management, Atlanta, USA, August 2017
- ‘Tomorrow’s Leaders vs Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs- what does the MBA develop and is there a difference? Addressed an international conference of educators from 60 countries on AMBA Conference, Hangzhou, China Nov 2013
- ‘In Search of a Leader-Followers’ Quest’ Paper presented in the 12th colloquium of APROS (Asia –Pacific Researchers in Organizational Studies),, December 2007
- ‘Dilemma of Change: Managing through Leadership’, AMDISA (Association for Management in South Asia) conference, in Bangladesh, Feb.1994.
- ‘Strategic Thinking: New Agenda for the Indian Corporate Sector’, the AMDISA (Association for Management in South Asia) conference, Nepal, 1992.
- AT NATIONAL LEVEL CONFERENCES:
- ‘Transformational leadership in AICTE: lessons for organizational excellence’, paper presented at the INDAM conference, 2019, IIM-Trichy
- ‘Leading in 21st Century: Lessons for winning the Corporate Olympiad’, Bhandarker and Singh, Paper presented at a Conference on High Performing Organizations, IIM-Lucknow, March, 2000
- ‘Transformational Leadership: Case of IFFCO, Phulpur’ presented at the International Conference on “Leadership Motivation and Training Issues in Developing Countries” organized by ICPE - and IPE at IPE, Hyderabad, India, Dec. 1990.
- ‘Cultural Ethos in Organizational Milieu - Framework for Organizational Building’ paper presented at the International Conference on “Organizational Behaviour for Social Development” at IIM Ahmedabad, 1986.
Conducted funded (AICTE, ICSSR, and AIMA) empirical research studying the Role of Boards in the Indian corporate sector, CEO Leadership and Work Culture, Managing Change and Organizational development, Toxic and Virtuous Leadership, Profile of IAS officers- motivations and profile. Other topics include Values and workplace behavior, Teaching pedagogy, Experiential Learning, etc.
