IIM Calcutta
Executive Programme in Strategic Human Resource Management

Professor Dharma Raju Bathini is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management area at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for a decade now. His research interest lies in work-life balance, flexible work arrangements (telework, virtual work), management control and employee resistance, temporality, and interpretive research methods. He completed his Ph.D. (FPM) in Organisational Behaviour from IIM Ahmedabad and his graduation in B.Tech – Mechanical Engineering from NIT Warangal. He teaches the following courses: Human Resource Management (PGDM, PDPEX, PGDBA), International Human Resource Management (PGDM elective), Management Control and Employee Resistance (FPM). He was awarded by Renault – Polytechnique – HEC’ chair award for the best research project on ‘multicultural management and corporate performance’ at Paris during internship at Renault-Nissan in 2011. He also worked as a Project Planning Manager with Ashok Leyland, Chennai (2005-10).

Professor Amit Dhiman is an Associate Professor in the Human Resource Management Group and has been associated with IIMC since 2008. He is a Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad and holds a master’s degree in human resource management and BE degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked for more than seven years in industry in the private sector, mainly in Human Resource Management and Organisational Development functions. He has research, teaching and consulting interests in the areas of Performance Management, Accountability, Stress Management, Strategic Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management in Services. In above areas and others, he has publications in acclaimed international journals. He has consulted in organisations in private sector, public sector, government, and NGOs across industries such as Oil, Education, Housing Finance and so on. He has received training in various pedagogies at prestigious institutions including Harvard Business School.

Professor Dharma Raju Bathini is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management area at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for a decade now. His research interest lies in work-life balance, flexible work arrangements (telework, virtual work), management control and employee resistance, temporality, and interpretive research methods. He completed his Ph.D. (FPM) in Organisational Behaviour from IIM Ahmedabad and his graduation in B.Tech – Mechanical Engineering from NIT Warangal. He teaches the following courses: Human Resource Management (PGDM, PDPEX, PGDBA), International Human Resource Management (PGDM elective), Management Control and Employee Resistance (FPM). He was awarded by Renault – Polytechnique – HEC’ chair award for the best research project on ‘multicultural management and corporate performance’ at Paris during internship at Renault-Nissan in 2011. He also worked as a Project Planning Manager with Ashok Leyland, Chennai (2005-10).