Prof. Abhishek kumar Totawar

Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Dr. Abhishek Totawar is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at IIM Trichy.

He currently teaches students and executives of the MBA and Executive MBA programs nuances of organizational behaviour, organizational change, and various aspects of leadership and change management. His courses include Micro Organizational Behavior (MIOB: Ist year core course) and Leading Organizational Change (MLOC: nd year elective). He also leads IIM Trichy’s e-learning program on Leadership and change Management for working executives (EPLCM).

Abhishek’s research focuses on organizational justice, leadership, culture, and organizational change. His work was presented to the Academy of Management (AOM), the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), the International Congress of Psychology (ICP), the European Congress of Psychology (ECP) and subsequently published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Human Resource Development Review, Measuring Business Excellence, South Asian Journal of Management, and Development & Learning in Organizations. He has also co-authored some case studies published with Ivey Publications (available at Harvard Business School Publishing) and the Case Centre.

Abhishek facilitated leadership and organizational change sessions/programs for mid and senior executives of L&T Ltd., Indian Oil Corp. Ltd., TAFE Ltd., VDart Inc., NLC India Ltd., Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd., Omega Healthcare, Mannapuram Finance, UDS Ltd., Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd., Datamatics Ltd., Roca India Ltd., Novo Nordisk India Pvt Ltd., AP Cooperative Bank, and Servier Laboratories.

Abhishek holds an MA in Psychology from BHU (Banaras Hindu University) and a PhD in management from the Indian Institute of Management Indore. He has attended the Participant-Centered Learning Program (Executive Education) at the Harvard Business School, Boston.

Dr . Pawan Kumar Singh

Organizational Behavior

Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh is Director of Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli. He has served as Director of Management Development Institute Gurgaon and Director In-charge of Indian Institute of Management Indore. In the role of mentoring of Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, he served as the first Chairperson of Academic Committee and as a Nodal Officer of IIM Sambalpur. Dr. Singh is in academics for more than three decades including being Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Indian Institute of Management Indore for about 15 years and had earlier served as faculty at National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai, Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, Kanpur University, and Vikram University at Ujjain. Prior to joining academics, he worked for Bank of India as Industrial Relations Officer having served at Jamshepur and Ranchi. He has guided research, provided consultancy, and trained about 20000 personnel of all levels from almost all professions. He has published research articles and has presented academic papers in more than 75 national and international seminars. Dr. Singh has published books on Managing Interpersonal Conflict, Management Sutras from Sanskrit Scriptures, Jeevan Prabandhan kee Shaayaree, Poetic Hindi Translation of Thirukkural, and a booklet on Human Resource Management for Technical Personnel. He has been member of high profile committees of the government and various institutions. His talks and interviews have been broadcasted on national channels of television and radios. As hobbies Dr. Singh enjoys travelling, music, cricket, poetry, astronomy, and reading quotations. His one of the favourite quotes is – We are always preparing to live but never living.

Prof. Suresh Paul Antony

Marketing

Prof. Suresh Paul Antony, aka SPA, a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and an MBA from Madurai Kamaraj University, is a practitioner-academic.

He underwent certification at Paris with StratX Simulations. Besides, he has attended the Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning and the Case Workshop at the Harvard Business School held in Boston and Shanghai.

Following a mid-career shift to academics in 1999, he served at XLRI [Jamshedpur], IIM [Kozhikode] and Thiagarajar School of Management [Madurai]. Likewise, he has held visiting academic appointments at the Asian Institute of Management [The Philippines], IIM [Lucknow], and Amrita School of Business [Coimbatore]. Besides, he has taught working executives in Singapore and Dubai.

Since 2012 with IIM Tiruchirappalli, SPA has taught two elective courses - Product & Brand Management and Strategic Marketing in Action, both taught using simulation and occasionally Services Marketing and Marketing Metrics for Growth.

SPA’s training & consulting interests lie in products, services, brands, and marketing strategy. He has worked with executives of leading organisations in Asia's private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on themes covering products, services, brands, customer centricity and marketing strategy. His recent engagements have been with the Textiles Division of Ramco and the Titan Company Ltd.

His 14 years of experience from 1985 across the automotive, financial services, direct selling, and music retailing industries spans business and consumer markets, as well as rural and urban.

The conceptual understanding gained through decades of reflection, learning, coaching, and consulting brings value to both boardrooms and classrooms in creating appropriate business strategies and developing customer orientation.

As an Independent Director at Manappuram Home Finance Ltd., SPA chairs the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and serves on two committees - Stakeholder Relationship & Securities Transfer and Information Technology Strategy.

Prof. Saravanan P

Finance & Accounting

Dr.P.Saravanan is currently Professor in the area of Finance and Accounting. Earlier, he was a professor in IIM Shillong. His areas of interest are corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management, corporate governance and project finance. He has published 36 articles in various journals including ‘A’ category journals, which are ranked as per the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) classification. Six of his case studies on NSE and BSE listed companies were published by Ivey Business School and available in Harvard Business School case repository collection. He is a regular columnist in leading business newspapers like Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, Financial Express and Mint. He has written three books in the area of accounting and financial management published by McGraw Hill, Oxford and Pearson Education publishers.

He has evaluated and adjudicated eighty seven Ph.D Theses in the field of Management, Humanities and Social Science and Commerce as the Chairman of the panel of examiners for the institutions such as IIT-Madras, IIM Indore, XLRI Jamshedpur, Birla Institute of Technology Pilani, JNTU Hyderabad, Visvesvaraya Technological University, University of Madras, Osmania University Hyderabad, Madurai Kamaraj University, etc.

He conducted around hundred corporate training programme on topics such as finance for medical professionals, corporate governance, project finance and data analytics and his client list includes UNDP-India Office, LIC, Oil India Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, HDFC Bank, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences and leading state and central public sector undertakings across the country. His consulting client list includes Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Department of Public Sector Enterprise, Government of India; Department of food civil supplies and consumer affairs, Government of Assam; Department of Police, Government of Meghalaya, Department of commerce and Industries, Governments of Meghalaya, Assam, Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, etc. He was formerly Independent Director in the Board of Directors of Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation Ltd. He is an associate member of the Institute of Financial Accountants UK and Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) Australia.

He is also a visiting professor to IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, XLRI, Jamshedpur, etc. His teaching feedback ranges from 3.80 to 4.93 out of 5, across all programmes.

Prof. Papri Nath

Organizational Behavior

Papri Nath is a PhD from IIT Kharagpur. Currently she is a faculty in the area of Organizational Behavior at IIM Trichy. She holds a master’s degree in Psychology (specialization: Organizational Behavior) from Banaras Hindu University. She is a University level Gold Medalist in Psychology at Graduation level. She received 'Mother Theodosia A.C. Memorial Scholarship' for the same. She is also a recipient of the 'Junior Research Fellowship' granted by University Grants Commission (UGC-JRF). Her thesis was nominated in the 'best five thesis' category by ' Prof. Durganand Sinha Dissertation Award Trust'. Her areas of research interest are positive emotions, psychological resilience, attributional style, retirement planning, and mindfulness. She has attended conferences like International Congress of Psychology and International Congress of Applied Psychology. She has offered training programmes to National Judicial Academy, India Post, NLC India, Saint Gobain, CTSTI, ITI, NSTI, CPCL etc. She teaches Post graduate and Research students at IIM Trichy.

Prof. Manikandan K S

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

K S Manikandan is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at IIM Tiruchirappalli. He holds a doctorate in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Manikandan's research focuses on the growth and governance of organizations. His research has been published in leading global management journals such as the Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and has been cited in international business journals like The Economist. He has also presented his research at leading international conferences, including the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society.

Manikandan is the recipient of the AIS Learning Action Award (2020), EFMD Best Case Award (2017), Director's Merit Award (IIM Bangalore), SAP Labs Scholarship (IIM Bangalore), University Gold Medal (Anna University), and the Foundation for Excellence Scholarship (FFE, USA).

At IIM Tiruchirappalli, he teaches courses on Design Thinking, Strategy, The Entrepreneurial Manager, Strategies for Growth, and Strategic Leadership.

Manikandan has conducted growth strategy sessions for executives of organizations such as VDart Corporation, Pratham Software, and United Health Group. He has also facilitated a design thinking workshop for managers at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.

Additionally, Manikandan has delivered sessions on various strategy-related topics to executives from organizations like Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited, India Post, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, and Powergrid Corporation of India.

Before joining academia, Manikandan worked at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, an aerospace company, and TVS Motors Limited, an automotive firm. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy.

Prof. Jang Bahadur Singh

Information Systems and Analytics

Prof. Jang Bahadur Singh is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Analytics Area, IIM Tiruchirappalli. He holds a doctorate from IIM Bangalore and M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. His current research focuses on understanding information technology related societal issues in India (such as digital divide and digital literacy) using large scale publicly available datasets. His interest also encompasses application of machine learning techniques for business-decision making. His teaching interest includes management information systems, business analytics and artificial intelligence for managers. He has conducted sessions in business analytics related management development programs for working executives at IIM Trichy and other leading management institutes. He has co-authored a teaching case titled "Cure.fit: A Health Check", which received first prize at the Association of Information Systems (AIS)- Covid-19 Learning Action Awards for the Asia and Pacific region.