IITKGP
Short Term Course on "Planning and Managing Human Resources: Tools & Techniques", 13-27 March 2017, Organised by Dr.Rabindra Kumar Pradhan, Associate Professor, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur | Short Term Course on Human Happiness, Health , and Flourishing: Exploring the Possibilities of Positive Psychology, during 19-24 August 2016 in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. |

Research Areas

  • Industrial and Organisational Psychology
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Human Resources Development & Management
  • Health Psychology
  • Positive Psychology
My specialisations include Positive Psychology,Health Psychology,Industrial & Organisational Psychology,Organizational Behaviour,Human Resource Development and Management. Currently I am working in the area of Leadership,Supervision, Employee perfermance,Workplace spirituality, OCB, Cherishing, Emotional intelligence, Emotional labour, Workplace Health, Happiness & Wellbeing, HR effectiveness, Organisational resilience, etc. I am a trained assessor in psychometry for personnel selection. I impart traning to people across industries, institutions and organisations in the feild of OB, HR & Soft skills.
  • What makes organization-assigned expatriates perform in the host country? A moderated mediation analysis in the India-China context, by Panda M., Pradhan R. K., Singh S. K. Journal of Business Resaerch 142 663-673 (2022)
  • Transformational Leadership and Job Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Meaningful Work by Pradhan S., Pradhan R. K. Global Business Rivew 17 173S-185S (2016)
  • A dual-pathway model of knowledge exchange: linking human and psychosocial capital with prosocial knowledge effectiveness by Singh S.K., Mittal S., Sengupta A., Pradhan R.K. Journal of Knowledge Management 23 889-914 (2019)
  • Transformational leadership and psychological empowerment: The mediating effect of organizational culture in Indian retail industry by Pradhan R. K., Panda M. , Jena L. K. Journal of Enterprise Information Management 30 82-95 (2017)
  • Exploring Cherishing: A Qualitative Approach by Bhattacharyya P., Pradhan R. K. The Qualitative Report 24 1511-1536 (2019)
  • Cherishing: Developing a measurement for objects of cherishing. by Bhattacharrya P., Pradhan R. K. Current Psychology - (2021)
  • Self-efficacy and workplace well-being: moderating role of sustainability practices by Singh S. K., Pradhan R. K., Panigrahy N. P., Jena L. K. Benchmarking: An International Journal 26 1692-1708 (2019)
  • Impact of organizational citizenship behavior on job performance in Indian healthcare industries: The mediating role of social capital by Basu E., Pradhan R. K., Tewari H. R. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 6 - (2017)
  • Does emotional intelligence contribute to contentment? Exploring the association between work-life balance and job satisfaction by Pradhan R. K., Pattnaik R. , Jena L. . International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion 07 180-197 (2016)
  • Impact of psychological capital on organizational citizenship behavior: Moderating role of emotional intelligence by Pradhan R. K., Jena L. J., Bhattacharyya P. Cogent Business & Management 03 1-16 (2016)
  • Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Kailash Jandu

Area of Research: Positive Psychology

Madhulika Chaturvedi

Area of Research: Applied Psychology

Nrusingh Prasad Panigrahy

Area of Research: Human Resource Management

Peeyush Anand

Area of Research: Emotional Intelligence

Poonam Kumari

Area of Research: Stress and Health

Sajeet Pradhan

Area of Research: Leadership

Shagnik Saha

Area of Research: Understanding Gender: A Multi Level Approach

Shilpa Sabu

Area of Research: Organisational behaviour

Shivani

Area of Research: Applied Positive Psychology

Shubham Raj

Area of Research: Employee Resilience

Sureshwari Gupta

Area of Research: Stress and Wellbeing

Susmita Poddar

Area of Research: Human Resource Management