Faculty

Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya

Director - Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development
Professor

Area: Organisational Behavior

Dr. Bhattacharyya is an FPM 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 35 years, including nearly 14 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, Management of Change, Cross-Cultural Management

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 the 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
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

'Can Green Credit Programme Change Behaviors Towards A Sustainable Future?', co-authored by Dr. Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay & Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya published by India Times (2023)
'How summer school empowers management career aspirants,' authored by Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya published by India Today (2023)
'The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Development,' authored by Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya published by HCM Excellence Magazine (2023)
'How India Fares On Sustainable Development Goals,' authored by Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya published by ABP Live (2023)
Interview on 'UNSDGs need to be Introduced into Curriculum to Prepare Skilled Managers to Lead Firms in Sustainable Development' published by CSR Universe (2023)
'What B-Schools Must Focus on to Groom Future Leaders - Five Essentials', by Dr. Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya, published by ABP News (2023)

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