Venkat R. Krishnan
Director
Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research
&
Professor (Organizational Behavior)
Great Lakes Institute of Management,
Chennai, India.

Home Ph: 91 (44) 30809260.

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Work Information

Research Activities:

• Currently working in the areas of transformational leadership, value systems of individuals in organizations, and Indian philosophy.

• Guided 5 Doctoral theses and 74 Masters’ theses, and currently guiding 2 Doctoral theses.

• List of publications (with full text) and papers presented at conferences.

Other Responsibilities:

• Member of the Education Panel of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Tamil Nadu State Council.

• Editor of Great Lakes Herald and member of editorial board of (1) Leadership & Organization Development Journal, and
  (2) Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies.

• Chair of "Management, Spirituality, & Religion" Division, Indian Academy of Management.

• Organizing the annual Yale-Great Lakes International Research Conference, at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, during December.

• Teaching MBA courses --
  (1) Leadership Experiential Project: Karma-Yoga,
  (2) Leadership, Influence, and Power, and
  (3) Upanishads and Transformational Leadership.

• Conducting workshops (in-company management development programs) on "Transformational Leadership," "Influencing Skills," and "Leadership Excellence through Upanishads."

Biographical Information

College or university attended:

• 1991-1996: Temple University, Philadelphia -- Ph.D. (Business Administration); specialization in organizational behavior; doctoral thesis on transformational leadership.

• 1989-1991: Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

• Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati: M.A. (Philosophy).

• Vivekananda College, Chennai: B.Sc. (Mathematics).

Past work experience:

• 1996-2006: Professor (Organizational Behavior), XLRI Jamshedpur, India. Taught MBA courses -- (1) Leadership, Influence and Power, (2) Indian Philosophy for Leadership Excellence, (3) Impression Management, (4) Group Dynamics, and (5) Individual Behavior in Organizations. See the Farewell Note published in XLRI magazine X-Factor, Feb-Mar 2006.
  

• Adjunct faculty, Temple University: Taught undergraduate courses -- (1) Organization and Management, and (2) Introduction to Human Resource Administration.

• Manager (probationary officer) in State Bank of India.

Professional association memberships:

• Member of
  1. Academy of Management,
  2. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada,
  3. American Psychological Association,
  4. Asia Academy of Management,
  5. International Association of Applied Psychology, and
  6. International Leadership Association.
  
  

• Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.

Personal Interests:

• Advaita Vedanta philosophy and ancient Sanskrit literature (you could glance through some of my favorite books).

• Listening to classical south Indian music.

Useful Links:

Indian History Sourcebook

Social Psychology Network

Venkat's List of Journals

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