Amitabh Kodwani

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Indian Institute of Management Indore

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) authenticity and its relationship with repurchase intentions. In doing so, the current research also investigates the mediating role of perceived CSR (PCSR) and perceived moral judgement. Design/methodology/approach For the current research purpose, a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and provide empirical evidence for the combined effects of individual characteristics, training design factors as well as environmental factors (as pre-training factors) on training transfer. Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected from 235 managerial-level full-time employees in two...

Purpose The present study is an attempt to extend previous findings and examine the role of the trainer's reputation, training nomination and training reputation on pre-training motivation and training effectiveness in a business context. Design/methodology/approach The authors hypothesized that trainer reputation, training nomination and training...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) engagements of firms are persuaded as an important factor shaping decisions on talent management among the generation X and Y. However, there is inadequate research available in the literature investigating the role of CSR in shaping the attitude and behavior of Generation-Z, i.e., the post-millennial. This for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between relationship conflict and the perception of organization politics (POP) and the moderating role of employee engagement. The study hypothesizes that the conflict results in the presence of POP only for those employees who are relatively less engaged with the organization. The p...

Organizations invest in training initiative with an objective to improve the performance of its employees and ultimately organizational performance. However, training literature highlights the gap between the learning and the transfer of learning at the workplace. Thus, there is a need to have a deeper understanding of those variables which contrib...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to decipher the possibility of ensuring the effectiveness of sales training by focusing on selected organization-related variables and thereafter aims at making recommendations for enhancing the overall sales training effectiveness. Variables that are under organizations’ control, like training transfer climate...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of CSR education influencing the choice of organization for prospective employees. The authors have proposed that students who have undergone CSR training in the form of classroom teaching and internships would be more attracted towards organizations who perform better on CSR parameters.

Purpose By undertaking a detailed review of the Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) discourse, the purpose of this paper is to uncover and explicate the power differentials embedded in the social structure of organizations and suggests ways to reconcile them. Design/methodology/approach Methods used are thematic review, content analysis,...

By undertaking a detailed review of the Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) discourse, this article serves to uncover and explicate the power differentials embedded in the social structure of organizations and suggests ways to reconcile them

Purpose The purpose of the study was to understand the influence of change in loneliness on the experience of depression among the students in a business school in India. Building on the literature, we argued the dynamic nature of loneliness and depression and subsequently explored the linkage between change in loneliness and associated change in...

Purpose Organisations invest heavily in training and development initiatives (Miller, 2012). However, a small percentage of what is learnt by the trainees from training gets transferred to the job (Mackay, 2007). The purpose of this study is to extend previous findings and examine various organisational factors, which have not been studied sufficie...

This paper aims to address three major issues related to virtual “communities of the sick”: The first being whether hospitals’ websites can create virtual “communities of the sick” in different cultures, Secondly, if so, how? Finally, how is it possible, using so called global benchmarking, to improve services related to virtual health communities...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of lifestyle orientation and perceived organizational functioning in psychological empowerment perceptions of information technology (IT) professionals. Design/methodology/approach This study is a cross‐sectional survey of 242 IT professionals across ten software product and services compani...

Of late, the Indian economy is booming by leaps and bounds, mainly powered by the service sector. In turn, Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology Enabled Service (ITES) industries are the prime movers of the service sector. Although these two industries are somewhat related, they differ in significant ways. In addition, a large numb...

India has emerged as a global hub for IT industry with the segment having undergone rapid transformation and a phase of accelerated growth. Despite the recent downturn, the IT sector in India has managed to secure a double digit growth rate. With intense global competition, the companies are operating in an environment encompassed by technological...

Presently, Information Technology, IT, companies need individuals with skills and knowledge which help them to face challenging demands and requirements of international assignments. Cultural intelligence, CQ has emerged as an important variable that facilitates expatriates, adjustment, and job performance during an international assignment, where...

People will not accept uncertainty regardless of their status and make their own efforts to structure and interpret the meaning of their commonplace experience of the world. And in the organizational context this experience is what has been classified as careers. Of late, there has been a considerable interest generated in organizations about caree...

Organisations today strive to augment job satisfaction in the workforce for it is conducive to lower employee turnover, higher engagement and greater productivity. The present study examines the impact of work life balance and burnout on job satisfaction in the context of the Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services (ITES) industries. Bu...

Human resource accounting (HRA) is an attempt to identify, quantify and report investment made in Human resources of an organization that are not presently accounted for under conventional accounting practice. Businesses which require a considerable creativity or are science-based show a significant difference between market value and net book valu...

Human resource accounting (HRA) is an attempt to identify, quantify and report investment made in Human resources of an organization that are not presently accounted for under conventional accounting practice. Businesses which require a considerable creativity or are science-based show a significant difference between market value and net book valu...

Business Process Outsourcing has become new mantra in the corporate business world. Modern as well as traditional organizations are now trimming down their employees from their payroll, and thus Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) is slowly becoming the new buzzword. In order to utilize the true worth of the employees to its fullest, one must outsourc...

India has over 1000 business schools. The incidences of high faculty turnover in most of these business schools have raised numerous issues relating to the faculty workload, faculty research and publications, consulting, faculty development and faculty retention. The present paper is an endeavour to understand and suggest possible ways to reconcile...

The mission statement is the foundation on which other intended actions and strategies of an organization is built. The existence of mission statement promotes a sense of shared expectation in employees and is intended to motivate behaviours of organizational members towards common organizational goals. It is however not surprising that little atte...

The emergence of knowledge as human resource management's (HRM) key resource will certainly necessitate radically new management theories and practices. HRM will assume a distinctive role, since employees will make major contributions in productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction. The HRM strategies in the 21st century have to focus on a be...