Soumendu Biswas

Assistant Professor
Area Lead - Organization Behavior & Human Resource Management

+91-124-4560297
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Profile

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. 
 

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).

 Journals and book chapters    

(2021). Linking employee perceptions and employee attitudes through their levels of organizational identification: A field investigation in India. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, In Press
(2021). Antecedents and consequences of employees’ procedural justice perceptions: A field investigation in India. International Journal of Management Practice, In Press
(2019). Consumer-based determinants of brand love and its consequences: A quantitative research. International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, 11(2), 122-143. (With Ruchi Garg and Jaydeep Mukherjee).
(2017). Linking perceived organizational support and organizational justice to employees’ performance and organizational cynicism through organizational trust: A field investigation in India. Journal of Management Development, 36(5), 696-711. (With Kanwal Kapil).
(2016). Behavioral and attitudinal outcomes of psychological contract violations. Journal of Management Development, 35(2), 261-279.
(2016). An investigation into the concept of brand love and its proximal and distal co-variates. Journal of Relationship Marketing, 15(3), 135-153. (With Ruchi Garg and Jaydeep Mukherjee).
(2015). An investigation into the antecedents and consequences of brand love in India. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, 7(3), 174-196. (With Ruchi Garg, Jaydeep Mukherjee, and Aarti Kataria).
(2015). The relationship between justice perceptions, organizational citizenship behavior, and intention to quit: The mediating role of affective commitment. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(3), 625-637.
(2013). Linking distributive and procedural justice to employee engagement through social exchange: A field study in India. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24 (8), 1570-1587. (with Arup Varma and Aarti Ramaswami).
(2013). The Mediator Analysis of Psychological Contract :Relationship with Employee engagement and Organizational commitment. Vikalpa, 38(1), 27-40 (with Jyotsna Bhatnagar).
(2013). The influence of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behaviour when mediated by job involvement and organizational commitment: Evidences from India. International Journal of Management Development, 1(2), 145-162.  
(2012). Linkages between antecedents of in-role performance and intentions to quit: An investigation in India. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(5), 987- 1005. (with Arup Varma).
(2012).     Impact    of    psychological    climate    and    transformational    leadership    on    employee performance. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(1), 105-119.
(2012). The impact of transformational leadership on employee performance when mediated by job involvement: Test of a latent covariance structure model. Management and Change, 15(1/2), 149-166.
(2012). The basis of organizational commitment and job satisfaction: Test of a mediated model of social exchange. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 5(6), 644-666. (With Jyotsna Bhatnagar).
(2011). Psychological climate and affective commitment as antecedents of sales person’s job performance. Management Insight, 7(2), 1-8.
(2011). Antecedents of employee performance: An investigation in India. Employee Relations, 34(2), 177-192. (with Arup Varma).
(2011). Commitment, involvement, and satisfaction as predictors of employee performance. South Asian Journal of Management, 18(2), 92-107.
(2011). The influence of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behaviour. Asian Journal of Management, 3 (1/2), 17-24.
(2011). Psychological climate as an antecedent of job satisfaction and job involvement. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 46(3), 465-477.
(2011). Relationship between family-work balance, intrinsic motivation, and stress level, and its impact on employee performance and job satisfaction. In Sustaining business in turbulent times: The Indian perspective. New Delhi, India: Excel Books. (with Siddharth S. Padhi).
(2010). Antecedents of employee performance and the role of job satisfaction as a mediator. In Subir Verma (Ed.), Toward the next orbit: A corporate odyssey, pp.111-123. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
(2010) A conceptual proposal of the predictors and outcomes of employee engagement: Implications for the Resource Based View Perspective. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 46(2), 273-286. (With Jyotsna Bhatnagar)
(2010). Relationship between psychological climate and turnover intentions and its impact on organizational effectiveness: A study in Indian organizations. IIMB-Management Review, 22(3), 102-110.
(2010). Behavioural factors in organizations: A study of commitment, climate, involvement, and citizenship behaviour. Perspectives in Management, 2(1), 96-102.
(2010). Commitment as a Mediator between Psychological Climate and Citizenship Behaviour. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 45(3), 411-423.
(2010). Human resource practices as a mediator between organizational structure, transformational leadership, and organizational effectiveness. Singapore Management Review, 32(2), 63-79.
(2010). Society, culture, and organizations in post-industrialization era. APJ Business Review, 10(1/2), 8-16.
(2010) Psychological climate as a predictor of job satisfaction. International Journal of Management Excellence, 1(1), 16-21.
(2009). Chinese Host Country Nationals' Willingness to Support Expatriates: The Role of Collectivism, Interpersonal Affect and Guanxi. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 9(2), 199-216. (With Arup Varma, Shaun Pichler, and Pawan Budhwar)
(2009). Implications of Psychological Factors on Job Satisfaction: A Study of Indian Organizations. International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 3(1), 88- 97.
(2009). Antecedents organizational communication: Evidences from Indian manufacturing organizations. Journal of Taiwan Business Academy, 5(2), 79-85.
(2009). Human resource practices as a mediator between organizational culture, transformational leadership, intention to quit, and employee performance. Psychological Studies, 54(2), 114-123.
(2009). Organizational culture and transformational leadership as predictors of employee performance and intention to quit. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 44(4), 611-627.
(2009). Psychological climate and transformational leadership as predictors of organizational effectiveness. Management and Change, 12(2), 47-67.
(2009). Job satisfaction and job involvement as mediators of the relationship between psychological climate and turnover intention. South Asian Journal of Management, 16(1), 27-43.
(2009). Organizational culture, its development, definition, and measurement: Evidences from literature. Management and Change, 13(2), 143-167.
(2009). Affective commitment as a mediator between psychological climate and job involvement. Journal of Management and Public Policy, 1(1), 22-42.
(2009). Psychological climate as a predictor of job involvement. Management Insight, V(I), 74-79.
(2009). Psychological climate, affective commitment, and job involvement: An empirical investigation in Indian organizations. Perspectives in Management, 1(2/3), 1-11.
(2009). Changing perspectives about development economics: Indications from literature on the history of economic thought. Asian Journal of Management, 1(2), 62-79.
(2009). Human resource practices as predicted by the interaction between organizational culture and organizational structure. Asia-Pacific Business Review, IV (1), 102-108.
(2009). Organizational communication as a predictor of employee performance and intention to quit. International Journal of Management Studies, 5(1), 7-16.
(2009). Job involvement as a predictor of turnover intention. LBS Journal of Management and research, VI(1/2), 32-37.
(2009). Organizational identification and disidentification as predictors of turnover intention. Pratibimb, 10(1), 12-17.
(2009). Organizational identification and disidentification as predictors of job satisfaction. Samadhan, 13, 70-75.
(2009). Changes in management of disciplinary issues in Indian industries. Review of Professional Management, 7(1),28-32.
(2009). HR practices, work values, and perceived organizational support as antecedents of goal clarity and job overload: A short note. Journal of IPM Meerut, 9(2), 39-39.
(2008). Affective commitment as a mediator between psychological climate, job involvement, and citizenship behaviour: A quasi-experimental field study in India. Management and Labour Studies, 33(4), 488-503.
(2008). Social Comparison and Materialism as Predictors of Organizational Effectiveness. APJ Business Review, 9(1/2), 5-17.
(2007). Psychological climate and individual performance in India: Test of a mediated model (with Arup Varma). Employee Relations, 29(6), 664 - 676.
(2007). Human resource management, individual behaviour, and organizational effectiveness (with Kailash B. L. Srivastava). Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 43(1), 33-50.
(2007). Organizational culture and human resource practices (with Kailash B. L. Srivastava). In M.B. Sharan and D. Suar (eds.) Psychology Matters: Development, Health, and Organizations, pp. 163-170. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
(2007). Predictors of job satisfaction and turnover intentions: A quasi-experimental field research in Indian organizations. In Anirudh Prasad and Beni A. Ekka, Sj (eds.), Social research methodologies in action, pp. 575-583. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
(2007). Assessing the impact of organizational culture and communication on employee performance and organizational effectiveness. Psychological Studies, 52(1), 20-28 (with Vijai N. Giri & Kailash B. L. Srivastava).
(2006). Examining the role of HR practices in improving individual performance and organizational effectiveness. Management and Labour Studies, 31(2), 111-133 (with Vijai N. Giri & Kailash B. L. Srivastava).
(2004). Cultural changes through stages of economic development. Asian Economic Review, 46(3), 570.
(2002). Employee motivation and its impact upon job shifting. Indian Journal of Training and Development. XVIII: 5 – 11.
(2000). Off the beaten track. Human Capital, 4(2), 30-35.

Working papers    

(2022). Linking perceived organizational culture and employer brand through multiple mediators. South Asian Journal of Business Studies. In Review.
(2022). Strengthening positive and attenuating negative employee attitudes through the test of a latent variable model. International Journal of Management Practice. In Review
 

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. 
 

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