Vikas Rai Bhatnagar- Fellow in Management (Doctorate) from MDI Gurgaon India; MPhil; MBA (HR); MA (Psychology); B.Sc. (Maths and Physics)
- Chief Executive Officer at Hyperspace Action Research Services
Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
- Fellow in Management (Doctorate) from MDI Gurgaon India; MPhil; MBA (HR); MA (Psychology); B.Sc. (Maths and Physics)
- Chief Executive Officer at Hyperspace Action Research Services
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Introduction
A unique profile that spans wide spectrum of management value chain; practiced management in senior leadership roles across industries and presented/published new, novel, and impactful research in leading international journals and conferences [Academy of Management (AOM), USA Annual Conferences]. Presented the new Theory of Profitable Humanization at the AOM Conference in Seattle in 2022. AACSB Insights has published three thought leadership articles.
Current institution
Hyperspace Action Research Services
Current position
- Chief Executive Officer
Publications
Publications (26)
This article is on 'Personalized Education" and I am happy to also share the link to deep dive video on the article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTmITASYWBk
This article is published in AACSB Insights and the link to access it is https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2024/02/we-must-deliver-transformational-education
This article is published in AACSB Insights and the link to access it is https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/08/reframing-our-purpose-through-dharma
This research was slated for presentation at the AOM TLC in the year 2023. However, due to Visa, I could not present it. Will present it in 2024.
This research was accepted for presentation at the AOM TLC 2023. Due to Visa, we were not able to take part in 2023 and will present in 2024.
This article is published in AACSB Insights and the link to access it is https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/08/reframing-our-purpose-through-dharma
This article is published in AACSB Insights and the link to the publication is https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/03/an-integrated-model-for-creating-conscious-leaders
A recent survey discloses 93% of graduating management students from Indian business schools are unemployable. Several business schools have closed due to their chronic non-viability. This action research study in an Indian business school employs local systemic intervention, and the viable systems model to diagnose the school’s chronic pathology....
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Utilizing employee strengths contributes to humanizing organizations. However, the current concept of strengths has evolved from the domain of social work, advanced by personality and positive psychologists and adopted in management. The trait-like conceptualization of strengths conceptualized by psychologists is of lesser relevance to orga...
Purpose
Practitioners’ literature on coaching has swelled as compared to the theoretical grounding and academic research on coaching, thereby questioning if coaching is a profession. Furthermore, the increasing investments in coaching seek a higher return on investments. These trends call for a deeper theoretical grounding of coaching and evolving...
Purpose
With growing stress at work, the need for scholars to focus on humanizing organizations is pressing. Scholars agree five factors lead to humanizing organizations. This study dwells upon one factor – employee strengths at work (ESAW) – problematizes, identifies the gap in its conceptualization, deploys critical social systems theory and reco...
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There is a compelling need for developing constructs in management science for higher relevance rather than adapting constructs developed in other domains and applying them in organizations. An inquiry in the relevance of the construct of strength developed in personality psychology and applied to organizations is compelling, as deploying s...
This insider action research study differentiates between developing leaders and leadership, evolves a systemic leadership model, and intervenes on the human, social and processes dimensions for developing leadership. This is a real-time study and responds to the organizational reality of fast pace of change and its systemic nature. Consequently, t...
Influenced by Morgan’s eight metaphors for understanding organizations, this conceptual paper uses critical theory and disciplined imagination in inducting, developing and action researching a new metaphor termed “Organizations as Enablers of Happiness”. It highlights relevance, and identifies gaps of Morgan’s metaphors, particularly the dehumanizi...
The paper uses action research methodology for addressing the conceptual limitations of the current performance management system (PMS). The current PMS is grounded in the ‘rational man’ model of neo-classical economics and gives precedence to the cognitive dimension of people while underplaying the important social, emotional and spiritual attribu...
The paper uses insider action research (IAR) methodology for developing a holistic approach for increasing consciousness and thereby happiness of people. The Integrated, Unified and Systemic Model of Consciousness developed in an earlier action research is used in current action research leading to development of Intentionality as a metaphor for un...
The paper uses insider action research methodology in an Indian cement company for overcoming the ineffectiveness and mere annual ritualism associated with the current Performance Management System (PMS) by carrying out conceptual innovation, paradigm shifts and re-theorizing on the current theoretical groundings of the PMS. The paradigm shifts lea...
This paper uses action research methodology for systemically developing leadership in an automotive component manufacturing organization. Identifying gaps in leadership development that emerged from practice, and subsequently also realizing that grey areas existed in literature related to leadership and philosophy, the paper proposes a consciousnes...
This is a qualitative study that uses insider action research methodology and investigates how the crisis of leadership, and thereby the threat to business sustainability is responded to and converted into a major change initiative in an entrepreneurial organization. The change initiative holds the promise of building robust leadership pipeline acr...
The paper attempts to provide reasons and necessity for the resurgence of awareness, interest and research in the discipline of consciousness. The need for a systemic global developmental approach for minimizing the ill-effects of a model of development that has been focused on exploiting the physical forces is highlighted. A few basic concepts rel...
Danah Zohar, in her book Quantum Self, has attempted understanding of the Self through the lens of recent developments in physics, namely quantum physics. Some of the key postulates emerging from the quantum physics and that have been vividly enumerated by Danah Zohar, enabling insights into the understanding of the Self are given below. Infinite S...
The theory and practice of leadership is evolving and newer dimensions are being realized of this complex topic that has the potential to make a difference to any enterprise. So far each theory has been able to successfully highlight some dimension of leadership, but there were gaps un-addressed. Sublimational Model of leadership is yet another att...
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I am researching a phenomenon that has many theoretical perspectives. If I have to unify the various sub-components of the phenomenon, I need to get out of the system to get a clearer vision...something like the 'boiling frog syndrome'. Can there be a theoretical explanation why it is better to be outside the system to bring about integration rather than being within the system?
I have attached a figure to enable visualization of my predicament. I will deeply value your insights.
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I am researching on authentic leadership style and require a self-reported questionnaire to measure it. Can you please suggest the questionnaire? I will be obliged if you share it with me.
Regards,
Vikas.
Research has focused on the phenomenon of sexual exploitation at the workplace. However, many have observed the phenomenon of people using gender and human frailties to further their careers--with huge damage to the organization. Do you think this phenomenon is wide-spread and under-researched?
What are the different forms toxic leadership can take in higher education? How does toxic leadership in higher education manifest?
I am currently carrying out an exploratory study on experiences at work that surpass one's expectations. I personally have had many such instances where I was pleasantly surprised by the role, challenges, and compensation offered to me.
If you have any such experiences, I will be grateful if you share them. I do not want to take a phenomenological approach to explore this phenomenon, hence seeking your help. The distinguishing feature of the event should be "THE EVENT EXCEEDED YOUR EXPECTATIONS."
