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Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya

Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya

Professor - Organisational Behavior, and Director - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development

Area: Organisational Behavior

Email: [email protected]

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Dr. Bhattacharyya is a FPM (PhD) from IIM Calcutta, and a B.E (Metallurgy) from erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (currently Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology – IIEST). She brings with her total work experience of more than 36 years, including more than 15 years in B-school academics and research, and Industry experience of 21 years, in manufacturing, consulting, and development sectors.

Academic areas of specialization: Organizational Behavior, Organizational Structure and Design, Strategic Negotiation, Management of Change, Managing in International Contexts.

Journal Articles

  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Signalling One's Employability: Another dimension of the New Employment Contract” – Decision, (IIMC), Vol. 28, No. 1, 2001
  • Leena Chatterjee and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Implementation of Downsizing: Issues and Consequences”, Management Review (IIMB), Vol. 13, No. 3, 21-29, 2001
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and  Leena Chatterjee, “Organizational Downsizing: From concepts to practices ”, Vikalpa, Vol.30, No.3, 65-78, 2005
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Leena Chatterjee, “Downsizing in India: Advocating an employee-friendly approach to implementation”, Productivity,  Vol  46, No. 2-3, 398 – 405, 2005
  • Priya Rajeev and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Regret and Disappointment: a conceptualization of their role in ethical decision-making”, Vikalpa, Vol 32, No. 4, 75 – 85, 2007
  • V.Vijaylakshmi, S Bhattacharyya, A Bhartia and R Muthuvel, “Emotional intelligence and social reticence of postgraduate female students”, Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Vol.34, No.1,  93 -100, 2008
  • Sapna Poti and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “OD Interventions for Employer Branding: An ROI Based Approach”, NHRD Network Journal. Vol. 2, No. 3; 81 – 88, 2008
  • T M Srithika and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Facilitating Organizational Unlearning using Appreciative Inquiry as an Intervention” Vikalpa, Vol. 34, No. 4, 67 – 77, 2009
  • Soumyaja Devi, T. J. Kamalanabhan, S. Bhattacharyya, “Development of a Situational Judgement Inventory for measuring Practical Intelligence”, Indore Management Journal, Vol. 2, No.3, 8-28, 2010
  • Shijin S, G Arun Kumar and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “The Relationship between Size, Value and Market Risk: Some Evidence”, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Volume 4, Issue 2, 127 – 149,  2007
  • Shijin S, G Arun Kumar and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Risk and return in the presence of human capital: Some evidence”, Journal of International Business and Economics,  Vol. 7, No.1, 18 - 31, 2007
  • V.Vijaylakshmi and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Emotional Contagion and Team Effectiveness: A Conceptual Model”, International Journal Of Management Practices and Contemporary Thought, Vol. 2, No.1, 35-44, 2007
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Elena Groznaya, “Doing Business in India:  Experiences of an expatriate entrepreneur”, Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review, Vol 3, No. 3, 18 - 23. 2007
  • Sapna Poti, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and T J Kamalanabhan, “Social and Cultural Challenges in ERP Implementation: A Comparative Study across Countries and Cultures”. International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change, Vol. 2, No. 1,  2010
  • P A Job and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Organizational Performance and Organizational Excellence of SMEs: Part-1: A Conceptual Framework”, Measuring Business Excellence.Vol.14, No. 2, 3-11. 2010
  • P A Job and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Measuring Organizational Performance and Organizational Excellence of SMEs: Part-2: An Empirical Study on SMEs in India”, Measuring Business Excellence. Vol. 14, No. 3. 42-52. 2010
  • Sapna Poti, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and T J Kamalanabhan, "Change processes and its impact on individuals: perception of ERP users in India”, International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management. Vol. 4, No. 4, 275-298. 2010
  • Devi Soumyaja, T. J. Kamalanabhan & Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Employee Commitment to Organizational Change: Test of the Three-Component Model in Indian Context”, Journal of Transnational Management, Vol.16, No.4, 239-251, 2011
  • Devi Soumyaja, T. J. Kamalanabhan & Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “An Empirical Study on the Role of Context Factors in Employees' Commitment to Change”, International Journal of Learning and Change, Vol 5, no. 1, 33-50, 2011
  • Devi Soumyaja, T. J. Kamalanabhan & Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Employee Readiness to Change and Individual Intelligence: The Facilitating Role of Process and Contextual factors”, International Journal of Business Insights & Transformation, Vol 4, no. 2, 85-92, 2011
  • Prachi Pandey, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Arshinder Kaur, “Exploring the role of HR practices in supply chain”, Journal of Advances in Management Research.  Vol. 9, No. 1, 113-123, 2012
  • V.Vijaylakshmi and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Emotional Contagion and its Relevance to Individual Behavior and Organizational Processes: A Position Paper”, Journal of Business and Psychology. Vol. 27, No. 3, 363-374. 2012
  • Devi Soumyaja, T. J. Kamalanabhan & Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Antecedents of Employee Readiness for Change: Mediating Effect of Commitment to Change”, Management Studies and Economic Systems, Vol.2, No.1, 11-25, 2015

Conference Proceedings

  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Paramita Dasgupta. “Problems & prospects of non-ferrous foundries in India”. Awarded first prize – paper presented at Inter-Engineering College Academic meet, 1987, held in B.E College, Shibpur, 1987
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Leena Chatterjee, “Negotiating a New Psychological Contract”, presented at conference on “Role of HR: A New Agenda” held at the School of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, 9th – 10th September, 2000
  • Shijin S, G Arun Kumar and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Asset Pricing and Optimal Portfolio Choice in the presence of Human Capital”, presented at the 10th UTI Capital markets Conference held in Mumbai, December 2006
  • P A Job and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Creativity and Innovation for Competitive Excellence in Organizations” presented at the conference on Global Competition and Competitiveness of Indian Corporates at IIM Kozhikode on 18th – 19th May 2007
  • Priya Nair, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and S Pandian, “The Leadership Ladder: Business Transformation through high trust leadership” presented at the conference on Global Competition and Competitiveness of Indian Corporates at IIM Kozhikode on 18th – 19th May 2007
  • Sapna Poti, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and T J Kamalanabhan, “Impact of Innovative Organizational Change Drivers on Individual-level Outcomes During ERP Implementation in the SME Sector” accepted for presentation at the Euro-India ICT Cooperation conference at Delhi, 10th – 11th December 2009
  • Poornima Gupta, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Alok Kumar (2024). Understanding pro-environmental behavior among students using a Theory of Planned Behavior approach, IMC IRC conference at XLRI Jamshedpur, 19th – 20th Sept 2024
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Theory of Interpersonal Perception and Social Exchange Theories: A combined approach for understanding and managing organizational relationships” accepted for presentation at the XXIII Annual Graduate Student Conference of Industrial Organizational / Organizational Behavior (IOOB 2002), Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, USA, March 2002
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Leena Chatterjee, “Managing the Human Capital Paradox: Challenge for the Indian Organization” presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, June 2002
  • S M Michael, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Deepak Khemani, “Organizational Structure Changes to Improve Exploitation of Knowledge Engineering and Management Systems in Manufacturing” presented at the International Conference on Innovation and Technology Management (ICITM-2006) conducted by the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, January 2006
  • Alexander Mathew and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Organizational Network Analysis: A Diagnostic Tool for Planned Organizational Change", presented at the International Conference on Social Network Analysis held at ISI, Kolkata, February 2007
  • Priya Rajeev and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, "Role of post decision affect on Ethical decision-making" accepted for presentation at the 7th Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, May 2007
  • Shijin S, G Arun Kumar and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Risk and return in the presence of human capital: Some evidence” accepted for presentation at the IABE-2007 (International Academy of Business and Economics) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, October 2007
  • Shijin S, G Arun Kumar and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Human Capital and Predictable Stock Returns: A Dynamic Asset Pricing Approach” accepted for presentation at the 20th Annual Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC), Sidney, 12th – 14th December, 2007
  • TM Srithika and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Training Interventions, Organisational Learning and Value Chain Progression in Business Process Outsourcing organizations: A conceptual Model” presented at the 5th AIMS International Conference on Management, IBS, Hyderabad, 27th – 30th December, 2007
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Elena Groznaya, “Challenges and Opportunities of doing business in India: A cultural analysis” presented at the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS), held in Izmir, Turkey, 21st – 22nd August, 2008

Books

  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Introduction to Organization Theory: Structure and Design of Organizations”, New Delhi: Universities Press, 2011
  • S P Robbins, D A DeCenzo, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and Madhushree N Agarwal, “Fundamentals of Management”, 6e, New Delhi: Pearson, 2009
  • Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Multi-cultural team project: an experiential exercise in Cross-Cultural Management” chapter in “Lost in Transnation: Towards an Intercultural Dimension on Campus” (edited by Jutta Berninghausen and Connie Gunderson, University of Bremen, Germany); pp 157 – 163, 2009
  • V.Vijaylakshmi and Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, “Emotional Contagion and Team Effectiveness: A Conceptual Framework” chapter in “Enabling Execution Excellence: Global Agenda” (edited by Akhilesh, KB, Gurtoo, A and Mahapatra, G); Himalaya Publishing House, Bangalore; pg 143-156, 2006
  • G Arun Kumar, Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya and D Acharya (IIT Madras), “Public Perceptions of Security in India”, commissioned by Centre for Security Analysis (CSA), Chennai, 2005

MDPs

  • Workshop on “Stress Management for School Teachers”, sponsored by the Times of India Group, Calcutta, as a part of their “Newspaper in Education (NIE)” initiative (2000)
  • Training program for Gammon India in Chennai on “Group Dynamics and the art of delegation” (2004)
  • “Public Perceptions of Security in India”, commissioned by Centre for Security Analysis (CSA), Chennai. 2004-2005
  • Training program for SIPTECH Ltd, Chennai, on “Stress Management at the workplace” (2005)
  • Management Development Programme for MRF Ltd. (Project cost – Rs 1,32,240) (2005)
  • Training programs for PHC Ltd, Chennai, on “Team building”, “Leadership” and “Management of Change” (2006)
  • Leadership Training Programme for ICICI Firstsource (2009)

Mainstream Press

Associations

  • IIT Stuart School of Business
  • BABSON
  • BAUER
  • University of Bordeaux
  • HKUST
  • UMKC
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