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Venkat R. Krishnan http://www.rkvenkat.org

Venkat R. Krishnan Director Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research & Vasantha-Bala Chair Professor of Management Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India. Home Ph: 91 (44) 30809260. Work Ph: 91 (44) 30809220 (direct), or 30809000 (operator). Work Fax: 91 (44) 30809001.

Work Information

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

Guiding Doctoral Dissertations and Masters’ Theses.

Other Responsibilities: 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.

Reviewer for (1) African Journal of Business Management; (2) Gender in Management; (3) International Journal of Hospitality Management; (4) Journal of Business Ethics Education; (5) Journal of Religion and Business Ethics; (6) Journal of Management Development; (7) Journal of Managerial Psychology; (8) Journal of Knowledge Globalization; (9) Organization Management Journal; (10) Social Behavior and Personality; (11) South Asian Journal of Global Business Research.

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

Organizing the annual Karma-Yoga Convention, at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

Teaching MBA courses -- (1) Leadership Experiential Project: Karma-Yoga, (2) Intelligently Interacting with Others, (3) Leadership, Influence, and Power, (4) Upanishads and Transformational Leadership, and (5) Self-Presentation.

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); speccialization 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. American Psychological Association, 3. Asia Academy of Management, 4. International Leadership Association.

Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.