Faculty - Dr. Vidya M Iyer

Dr. Vidya M Iyer
- Designation: Professor of HR
- Academic Area: Human Resource & Organizational Behavior

In her career spanning over 15 years, she has been a management consultant for organizations of repute across sectors, a trainer and faculty person. Her attachment for the SME segment is special as she has been an active member of quite a few start-up organizations. Mentoring women entrepreneurs has been a passion and her association with ISB- Goldman Sachs program proves her commitment for the cause of women entrepreneurship. ‘Employee Development’ as well as ‘Student Development’ are the areas that she identifies with and continues to research, read and write about. In the past, she has trained and mentored over 100 professionals across Junior to Senior managerial levels in Indian Public and Private sector organizations such as ICSI, IOCL, IVRCL, Vijay Electricals, Kribhco, NTPC, DGM- India to name a few. She is associated with the Non-Profit sector too as a consultant. Keen on understanding business and management issues, working towards finding business solutions across a wide range of organizations has been her forte. A teacher by choice, she enjoys interacting with junior and senior students of HR, Strategy and Analytics. She has been a faculty for executive programs at IIFT, NMIMS, MDU, IBS-Hyderabad and Osmania University and is an AMT (Accredited Management Teacher) from AIMA.

Dr. Vidya has conducted awareness and sensitization programs for faculty, staff and students. She has conducted trainings and workshops for KPOs and large PSUs such a POSOCO and trained 100 executives on ICC and POSH. Her doctoral research was in the area of Employability and she is currently associated with a National Project from ICSSR to study the employability status in North Indian states. She is an alumnus of Osmania University, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad.

Academic Degrees

PhD, MLSU, Udaipur, 2017
MBA, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, 2004
MSc (Maths), Osmania University, 1992
BSc, Osmania University, 1989

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor & Program Chair HR-OB, SSOBD, present
Associate Professor & Area Chair HR-OB, FIIB, 20112-2017
Dy. Chairperson, FIIB Case Research Centre, 2012-2019
Faculty Chair Student Employability and Career Management Cell, FIIB 2015-2019
Assistant Professor, IILM, 2011-2012
Visiting Faculty 2004-2011

Professional Experience

Principal and Co-Founder, Strizon Consulting, 2004- Present
Business Coordinator, Austin Circuits, Bhopal 1996-1998
Teacher (Maths), 1994-1996

Awards and Honors

Accredited Management Teacher- AIMA
President’s Guide 1984

Publications

Research Papers

Vidya Iyer, Kartik Dave and Sharad Chaturvedi (2018) , ‘Holistic Model of Employability- an empirical research on Indian Banking Industry’ ABDC – B – Under review at Career Development International ABDC-B
Dave, k., & Iyer, V. M. (2018). Unlocking Employability Potential: Enhancing the value of employability. Apeejay Business Review, 16-25. (Retrieved from https://www.apeejay.edu/asm/doc/abr/abr-dec-2018-final.pdf)
Vidya M. Iyer and Kartik Dave (2015) “Industry’s role in employability”, Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 47 Iss: 3, pp.151 – 158
Vidya M.Iyer (2010), “Role of HR in Crisis Management”, HRM Review, April, 2010.,ICFAI University Publication
Vidya M.Iyer, (2008) “Biting the Bullet” Case Analysis”, Human Factor, November 2008
Vidya M.Iyer, (2008), “Consulting goes a long way back” Human Factor, March 2008

Conference Proceedings

Amiya Kumar Mohapatra and Vidya M Iyer, ‘Institutional Process Transformation Perspectives on Enhancing Management Graduates’ Employability, The Future of Learning Conference 2019, IIM-Bangalore
Dave, k., & Iyer, V. M. (2017). Employability Challenges in Indian Service Sector – Present and Future, NICOM, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
Iyer, V. M., & Dave, K. (2016). Fresher’s Echelon-Employability Skill Grid. Emerging trends in Management and Public Policy. New Delhi: Regal.
Vidya M. Iyer, Partha Pratim Saikia and Deepankar Chakrabarti (2014), “Realigning Indian Management Education towards Developing Employable Management Graduates”, AIMA Journal of Management & Research, May 2014, Volume 8 Issue 2/4, ISSN 0974 – 497

Case Studies

Tripti Bothra and Vidya Iyer (2019), ‘The Case of Morale Management in Human Resource Crisis’, Bloomsbury Publication from FIIB (copy awaited).
Madhumita Mandal and Vidya Iyer ( 2018) , ‘Combat attrition case study of radiance hospitals’ Katastasi Case Study Competition, FIIB
Neera Agnimitra and Vidya Iyer (2017), Empower Pragati: Transformational Training And Women’s Empowerment, UNDP
Vidya Iyer and Karan Setia (2017) Strategic or Operational? The Case for Employee Engagement, Case Centre
Vidya M. Iyer (2012), People issues in family owned business: PrintArt offset, Case Study on Family Business FIIB Business Review

Others

Dr. Amiya Kumar Mohapatra and Dr. Vidya M. Iyer’s article on “Teaching mechanism fulfills the knowledge acquisition exercise, but sadly leaves less scope for knowledge practices”, has been published in Dailypost e-paper on 24th December 2018.
4Ps, November 2008, comment on Social Networking and recruitment.

Teaching

2019-20

Human Resource Management
Organization Dynamics
Strategic HRM
Global HRM

2018-19

Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
Organization Dynamics
Talent Acquisition and Employee Engagement
Strategic HRM

Conferences, Talks, and Speaking Engagements

Training on POSH, Dunnhumby India, February 2020
Emerging Leaders Program, FarEye, July 2019
Leadership Training for Senior Managers, December 2018
Training on POSH, POSOCO, September 2018
NHRD Panel Discussion, October 2018
https://www.nationalhrd.org/event/nhrdn-delhi-ncr-chapters-young-leadership-summit-leela-ambience-gurugram

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