Management and Organisation

Program Chair- BBA and Faculty with Ahmedabad University. Pursued Global Faculty Development Program from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Completed PhD on 'Gender Role Congruity in Family Businesses' in 2020.

Involved in teaching and administrative role with Ahmedabad University. Developed skills to analyze & carry out 360 degree feedbacks, CPI analysis and CVF framework, along with designing and teaching courses in the field of Organisational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Presented research work on platforms like Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Decision Sciences, INDAM, UNESCO- APEID, PAN IIM and IIT Conferences. Besides that wrote papers for journals, cases and working papers at IIM- Ahmedabad. Have case studies in Ivey and Harvard Business Review (HBR) collection and opinion pieces in ETHRWorld (an Economic Times vertical).

My work also includes developing new courses in the field of Human Resources viz., Future of Work, Dark side of Organisations and People Analytics. The courses are based on some of the most contemporary issues of the organizations which are rested on pure application. I am associated with the development of Foundation program on water where I am involved in behavior and systems domain of organizations.

Recipient of 2022 Fetzer MSR Scholarship. Recipient of 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program for the course 'Future of Work'. Awarded Best IB Teaching-related panel award by Teaching and Education Shared Interest Group of AIB at AIB, Copenhagen 2019. Panelist, Silver Screen Solutions: Teaching Management Topics Using Recently Released Films, for the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2019. Best Paper Award at iNYS 2019 on Social Interventions in Family businesses of Gujarat at Gujarat University. Won Best Young Case Writer award by ET cases at FLAME conference.

Collaborated for X-Culture and participated in it as an instructor in 2017-18 and 2018-19. X-culture is a virtual business project program.

Podcast talk with The Management Club.

Hiring under ICSSR's Special Call - Collaborative Research Project

Smart Cities Mission (Maharashtra and Gujarat)

1. Research Associate

2. Research Associate

3. Field Investigators

See the call for applications for details (eligibility, JD, no. of positions, duration and remuneration)— LINK

1. UGRP: Project Ahmedabad: Study of Micro-Entrepreneurs and Enterprises Carrying out research work on understading network theory implications in family businesse, along with Prof Rushi Pandya.
2. Carrying out research work on understanding role congruity among female business owners.
3. Ahmedabad under MICRO-scope - Study on Micro Scale Entrepreneurs and Enterprises along with Prof Rushi Pandya.
4. Carrying out research on education for succession planning along with Prof Sudhir Pandey & Prof Amit Diwedi (EDI).
5. Carrying out research on behavioral and decision making styles of young family business owner.
6. Carried out research on interpersonal trust among creative teams at newly formed teams.
7. Carrying out content analysis of open ended 360 feedback reports for R&D organization and PGP batch of IIM Ahmedabad to establish whether base work for understanding 360 feedback really acting as antecedent for  future performance.
8. Field work for understanding inclusive practices adopted by Microsign Products, Bhavnagar, company which has won awards for having 80% differently abled  workforce in Manufacturing sector.
9. Working on experimental designs and its use in OB  teaching going on with Prof Sharvari Dalal.

Journals

• Saxena, S. (2023). Vamika’s Quandary: Navigating through Workplace Mistreatment. Ivey Publishing. Ivey ID: W27251. https://www.iveypublishing.ca/s
• Saxena, S. et al. (2022). Developing the concept of leaveism: From presenteeism/absence to an emergent and expanding domain of employment? Human Resource Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12452
• Saxena, S., & Pandya, R. (2018) "Gauging underdog entrepreneurship for disabled entrepreneurs", Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 12 Issue: 1, pp.3-18, Link
• Dash, S., & Saxena, S. (2015). Anticipated Work-Family Conflict in the Case of Female Management Students-An Empirical Investigation. Training & Development Journal Year : 2015, Volume : 6, Issue : 1 27- 35  Print ISSN : 2231-0681. Online ISSN : 2231-069X.
•  Dash, S., & Saxena, S. (2015). Working Mothers at the Crossroads – Work Family Conflict and Childcare .Siddhant-A Journal of Decision Making Year : 2015, Volume : 15, Issue : 2 134- 142  Print ISSN : 2231-0649. Online ISSN : 2231-0657
• Rao, T.V, Saxena, S., et al (2014). Responding to Industry Needs: Reorienting Management Education . Vikalpa  December Issue. Vol  39 (4) –  ISSN 0256-0909 Impact factor 0.91
•  Saxena, S.,    &  Phagaut, S.(2015). Understanding Organization culture for   Acquiring   Bank using Quinn’s Competing Value Framework - An Empirical Study. Review   of  management .( Forth coming issue) ISSN No 2231-0487‎
•  Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P. (2012)  Employee  volunteerism: Organisation  Oriented   Corporate  Social responsibility. Voice of Research . June Vol 1(1) – ISSN 2277-773

CASE

•  Saxena, S. & Thaker, N. (2017) Management lessons not learnt from the visit to Mausar: A perspective on rathyatra Ahmedabad. Presented at IIM Raipur.
•  Saxena, S. (2015).WBS Merchandise the case of lost exclusivity. Case presented at FLAME conference. Shortlisted for publication by ET cases.comin there case repository
• Vohra, N., & Saxena, S. (2015). Microsign. Registered case at IIM Ahmedabad(OB Temp221). ( Under Review).
• Saxena, S.S., Pandey, S.K. (2014). We Want MR-F (Multi-Rater Feedback). Journal of Rural and Industrial Development. Vol. 2 (1), April. ISSN: 2321-1873

TEACHING NOTE

• Vohra, N., Saxena, S.,& Dadhich, H.(2015). Microsign(Teaching note). Registered at IIM Ahmedabad( OB Temp221). ( Under Review)

  BOOK

• Saxena, S., Dash, S. (2015) Women at Workplace: Work Family Interfaceby Lambert publication. ISBN 978-3659709715.

BOOK CHAPTER

• Saxena, S. (2015).Value creation throughSocial Entrepreneurship : A collection ofFive Caselets.InCSR & Social Entrepreneurship. Black well publication .
• Saxena, S.(2015). Corporate socialresponsibility : A preview of practices inIndia. In “Advance Management Practices in Business” with ISBN 978-93-83241-64-4.BookRix Gmbh & Co. KgMünchen, Germany.
• Saxena, S. & Arora, R. (2015). Human Capital Management -A New Look to Old Tools. Book publication to be announced
• Saxena, S. & Arora, R. (2015). Human Capital Management -CSR and  Its impact on Human Resource Management in India”. Book publication to be announced.
• Dash, S., & Saxena , S. (2015) . Emergingtrends of Innovative Human resource practices in India: An Insight. “ Innovative Processesfor TransformingHR”. Page no 138-144. Publisher: Excel Publication New delhi
• Neerpal, R., & Saxena, S .(2011). Influence of Employee Well-Being of  Organizational Commitment". “Organizations in the New Millennium:   Challenges  and Opportunities” .Page no. 182-187, Publisher: Macmillan  Publishers New Delhi

Article

• Saxena, S. (2012). New  Paradigms of  Leadership and Governance . IIM-A Alumnus  Magazine. Vol 44(3). IIM Ahmedabad .

Working papers at IIM Ahmedabad

• Rao, T.V. , & Saxena, S. (2014). Measuring and Managing Institutional Environment Of Institutes of Professional Education. IIM Ahmedabad. Working paper  W.P. No.  IIM Ahmedabad. Working paper . W.P. No.2014-03-05.
• Rao, T.V.,Saxena, S., Sherry Chand, V. et.al (2014). What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: Rebalancing the management education curriculum WP2014- 06-05

Conference  Proceedings

• Saxena, S. & Pandya R. (2019). Role congruity intersection in Family Businesses at Family Enterprise Research Conference 2019 at Grossman School of Business. The University of Vermont.
• Pandya, R. Saxena, S. (2019). Dynamics of conflict resolution through emotions and ego-netwrorks: '12 Angry Men', Quebec, Canada.
• Saxena, S. & Pandya, R. (2018). Hidden Culture of Entrepreneurial Communities of Old Ahmedabad City, at Seventhg Subsistence Marketplaces Conference. This conference is organised by the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
• Saxena, S. & Gokhru, A. (2018). Gender Riole Congruity in Family businesses. Academy of International Business South East Asian Region (Hong Kong)
• Saxena, S. & Gokhru, A. (2018). Study of Gender Social provisions for Role Congruity within DFamily businesses. PAN IIM Conference 2018 at IIM Banglore
• Saxena, S. & Srivastava S.(2015). Institutional Environment Measuring Press using Stern’s activity index for a B school at Managing in the Indian Institutional Context at 4th Biennial Conference, IIM Lucknow.
• Saxena, S. &  Neerpal,R  .(2015).  Measuring OCB  in  Learning  Organisation : An empirical study at Managing in the Indian Institutional Context at 4th Biennial Conference, IIM Lucknow.
• Saxena, S., & Saxena , A. (2014). MBAs- What employers want- an indicative   study. Conference Proceedings  Second  Pan IIM Conference . New Delhi :  Emerald
• Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P. (2010). Sustainable Development and Organizational       Growth Through Spiritual Leadership.   ISOL Foundation. A joint conference by IIT   Roorkee and ISOL foundation .
• Saxena, S. & Das, S. (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility: A game changer today and  tomorrow.  Paper uploaded at  Teach CSR.com, Managed by IIM Bangalore.
• Saxena, S, Rathi, N.& Premapuri, P. (2013). Talent Management as a competitive advantage Nurturing excellence. South Asian Management Research and Case Conference, 2013. IIM Banagalore.
• Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P.(2010). Social Entrepreneurship for creating sustainable business models   in India. ICOD  at  IMT Ghaizabad , New Delhi.
• Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P. (2010). Corporate  –  CSR  collaboration for creating sustainable business models  in India. IIM Shillong
• Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P. (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): An influence of organizational environment and individual personalities. IIM Shillong
• Saxena, S. & Premapuri, P. (2010). Organizational Growth Through Spiritual Leadership. SMS  Varanasi, in Conference on Spirituality and Ethics in Management.
• Saxena, S., & Rao, T.V. (2015). Measuring and Managing Institutional Environment of Institutes- A representative study. BITS  Pilani  ICEBM 2015.
• Saxena, S. &  Vishwanathan, S. (2012). Framework/s to Improve Entrepreneurial Potential of Developing Countries. 15th UNESCO-APEID International Conference, Jakarta, Indonesia (Paper available  on http://www.unescobkk.org/education/apeid/apeid-international-conference/apeidconf11/ )

Teaching Interests: Counterproductive Work Behavior, Leaveism, People Analytics, Network Theory.

Involved in teaching the following courses:

• Future of Work
• Dark Side of Organisations
• People Analytics
• Industrial relations and Labour Laws
• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Strategic Human Resource Management
• Organisation Process
• Human Capital Management
• Behavior Lab
• Identity and Behavior
• Network & Behaviour [involves SNA (Social Network Analysis)]

• Worked on Route camp with Beardo (Marico Group)
• Worked on Route camp with Tracomm
• Worked on Route camp with RUDI- SEWA
• Consulted SEWA (Self Employed Women Association)

• Recipient of 2022 Fetzer MSR Scholarship by the Fetzer Institute and Management, Spirituality and Religion (MSR) Interest group of the Academy of Management.
• Recipient of 2020 Ideas Worth Teaching Award by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program for the course 'Future of Work'.
• Among the top 6 finalists for the 2021 Fox International Business Case Writing Competition organized by Fox School of Business, Temple Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and Ivey Publishing.
• Microsimulation Vaccine in the times of pandemic was awarded third position in the GBSN’21 Microsimulation Lab competition in 2021. It is registered with Capsim as an inbox microsimulation.
• Recipient of AIMS International Outstanding Young Management Teacher Award, 2020.
• Recipient of Chairman’s Award for Teaching by Ahmedabad University on the Founder’s Day 2021 and Chairman’s Award For Institution Building as part of the Foundation Program Team (Water Domain).
• Awarded Best IB Teaching-related panel award by Teaching and Education Shared Interest Group of AIB at AIB, Copenhagen 2019.
• Panelist, Silver Screen Solutions: Teaching Management Topics Using Recently Released Films, for the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2019.
• Best Paper Award at iNYS 2020 on Research on Family businesses at Gujarat University.
• Best Paper Award at iNYS 2019 on Social Interventions in Family businesses of Gujarat at Gujarat University.
• Won Best Young Case Writer award by ET cases at FLAME conference.