Arjya Chakravarty - SOIL Institute of Management

Arjya Chakravarty
- Designation: Program Chair and Professor of HR & OB
- Academic Area: Human Resources & Leadership
- Email: arjya.chakravarty@soilindia.net
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjyachakravarty/

Arjya is currently the Program Chair for the Human Resource Leadership Program (PGP-HRL) at SOIL. She has over 26 years of work experience. She has an exposure of 11 years in several Leadership roles in the Human Resource Management function and has spearheaded strategic initiatives in the Automobile, Manufacturing, FMCG and BPO industry. She has worked with Hindustan Motors, Dunlop India Ltd, Godrej Consumer Products Division, GECIS (now GENPACT) and CRY ( Child Relief & You).

Cited by her students as a dedicated, ‘Rockstar’ teacher who creates a unique learning immersion in her classes , she has a background of teaching, research and consulting for 16 years. She has previously taught at ICFAI Business School and Jaipuria Institute of Management. She has been a visiting Faculty Member with SP Jain school of Management, Dubai campus for their Executive MBA program. Her teaching andragogy emphasizes on the ‘learning mindset’ and ‘experiential learning’. Some of the subjects and courses taught by her are Change Management, Learning and Development, Employee Engagement, Leadership , Managing Organizational Change , Organizational Design , Gender and Inclusion . She also works for Consulting assignments along with the Consulting team at SOIL.

She has been instrumental in curating a unique curriculum design which actualizes a distinctive learning journey and offers courses in Liberal Arts, Business and Design Thinking, for SOIL School of Business Design ( Manesar ) which opened its doors to the first batch of students in 2019 .

She sits on the panel of Committees of MNCs as an external member for Gender Diversity initiatives. She is pursuing her research on the topic of ‘gender’ and ‘generations’. She has published research papers and cases in international publications and participated in International Conferences. She is a Certified Coach, having completed the ICF certified Program of Royal Roads University, Canada and has several (one-on-one) coaching hours to her credit.

She has written a book Chapter ‘ HR for responsibility’ in the book ‘Managing for Responsibility’.

She serves on the Advisory Board of Ashima Foundation (a registered Not-for-Profit organization working in skill development ).

Academic Degrees:

BSc (Chem Hons ), MBA (XIMB, Xaviers Institute of Management, Bbsr), Certified Coach( ICF & Royal Roads University, Canada ),
Sangeet Prabhakar( Prayag Sangeet Samiti – Allahabad)

Academic Appointments: Previously HRM Faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research , Jaipuria Institute of Management ( Lucknow ) , ICFAI Business School ( Gurgaon ). Consultant at BRIDGE School of Management to develop curriculum ,courses and online course content.

Professional Experience: 27 years

Courses Taught: HRM , OB , Org Change & Development, Organization Design , Corporate HR strategy, Learning & Development, Employee Engagement ,Competency Mapping , Diversity & Inclusion , Gender & Inclusion .

Awards & Honors:

Awarded for bring a finalist in Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition from ISB ( SEE) in 2005.
Awarded for participation in “Case Teaching’ workshop at ISB in 2005.
Awarded for contribution as a presenter to Indian subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute, held at IIT , Mumbai in the year 2009. Chapter published in the book released.
Paper selected for presentation at International conference of Knowledge Management ( ICKM 2005) at University of Maryland.
Attended various Faculty Development Programs at ICFAI Business School and SP Jain and by AICTE at Jaipuria Institute of Management .
Awarded for successful completion of ‘Thomas International Certification Program ‘. Licensed to administer Thomas Personal Profile analysis.
Awarded for winning second prize for Case Study Competition at Amity Business School (2006). Case- Making it Large – From an Entrepreneurship firm to a Global corporate.
Awarded for completion of Training program on “Hiring The Right People’ at GE India. (2003)
Conducted courses and workshops at National Bank Staff college ( Lucknow) for NABARD and Public sector banks.

Publications & Books:

‘Engendering leadership in the Indian workplace – a framework on cross-level linkages’ published in ‘South Asian Journal of Business Studies’ (SAJBS) and can be viewed online.
HR Policy for Responsibility _ Chapter 11 _Managing for Responsibility: A Source book for An Alternative Paradigm
publication date Mar 1, 2016 ; publication description Business Expert Press, USA.
A Panacea to Gendered Career Constraints: Dilemmas of Sustainability and Building Talent Pipeline at the Bottom of the Economic Pyramid
publication date Oct 1, 2015 ; publication description ECCH- The Case Centre.
http://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/products/view?id=130571

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