Associate Professor Venkataraman Nilakant

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 8621
Office: Homestead Ln K Block 152

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Fields of Research

• Human resource management
• Management development & training
• Management of change

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Researcher Summary

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Subject Area: Disciplines

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Research Groups

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Key Methodologies

• Human resource management
• Management development and training
• Management of change

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Publications

• Nilakant, V., Walker, B. and Rochford, K. (2013) Post-disaster Management of Human Resources: Learning From an Extended Crisis. Resilient Organisations Research Group. 25. (Working Paper)

• Buckingham, J. and Nilakant, V. (Ed.) (2012) Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham: Gower. 284pp. (Edited Book)

• Nilakant, V. and Ramnarayan, S. (2011) Changing Mindsets: Indian Railways' Experience. In S. Ramnarayan and T.V. Rao (Ed.), Organization Development: Accelerating Learning and Transformation (2nd ed.): 351-355. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter in Book)

• Ramnarayan, S. and Nilakant, V. (2011) Diagnosing Organizational Issues through Training Workshops. In S. Ramnarayan and T.V. Rao (Ed.), Organization Development: Accelerating Learning and Transformation. Response Books (2nd ed.): 277-289. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter in Book)

• Malik, A. and Nilakant, V. (2010) Extending the "size matters" debate: Drivers of training in three business process outsourcing SMEs in India. Management Research Review 34(1): 111-132. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01409171111096504. (Journal Article)

• Malik, A., Nilakant, V. and Wordsworth, R. (2010) Impulsive Itinerant and Deliberate Departer: Dominant pathways of employee turnover in IT firms. Montréal, Canada: 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 6-10 Aug 2010. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)

• Nilakant, V. and Ramnarayan, S. (2009) Changing Tracks: Reinventing the Spirit of Indian Railways. New Delhi: Collins Business. 236pp. http://www.harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=2460. (Authored Book)

• Lips-Wiersma, M.S. and Nilakant, V. (2007) Practical Compassion: Towards a critical spiritual foundation for CSR. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Academy of Management, 3-8 Aug 2007. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)

• Nilakant, V. (2006) Bridging Theory and Practice in the Management of Organizational Change. Atlanta, GA, USA: 2006 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 11-16 Aug 2006. http://meetings.aomonline.org/2006/. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)

• Nilakant, V. and Ramnarayan, S. (2006) Change Management: Altering Mindsets in a Global Context. New Delhi: Response Books. 355pp. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book229357/toc. (Authored Book)

• Venkateswarlu, P. and Nilakant, V. (2005) Adoption and persistence of TQM programmes - case studies of five New Zealand organizations. Total Quality Management 16(7): 807-825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14783360500077310. (Journal Article)

• Forster, T.H. and Nilakant, V. (2005) Role of Trust in Privatization: Transformation of the Electricity Utility in the Gambia. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 41(3): 348-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886305276414. (Journal Article)

• Nilakant, V., Floyd, C.J. and Gordon, M.E. (2004) A model for the choice of organizational form in International Franchising. In L.P. Dana (Ed.), Handbook of Research on International Entrepreneurship: 822. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (Chapter in Book)

• Duncan, M., Mouly, S. and Nilakant, V. (2001) Discontinuous change in the New Zealand police service: A case study. Journal of Managerial Psychology 16(1): 6--19. (Journal Article)

• Mouly, V.S. and Nilakant, V. (1999) A case study of a university in transition in New Zealand. Higher Education Management 11(2): 95--112. (Journal Article)

• Daellenbach, H.G. and Nilakant, V. (1999) Comments on rethinking value elicitation for personal consequential decisions by Wright, G. & Goodwin, P.. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 8(1): 17--19. (Journal Article)

• Nilakant, V. and Addison, R. (1999) Ethics in action: the management of intangibles. In P. Werhane & A.E. Singer (Ed.), Business ethics in theory and practice : contributions from Asia and New Zealand: 131--44. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. (Chapter in Book)

• Nilakant, V. and Mouly, V.S. (1998) An ethnography of organisational change in a New Zealand university. King's College, London: Procs. of the Third International Conference on Organisational Discourse: Pretext, Subtext and Context, 'July 1998'. (Conference Contribution - Other)

• Nilakant, V. and Ramnarayan, S. (1998) Managing organisational change. New Delhi: Sage. 380. (Authored Book)

• Nilakant, V. and Ramnarayan, S. (1998) Reminiscences of two unrepentant OD consultants. In Ramnarayan, S., Rao, T.V. and Singh, K. (Ed.), Organizational development: interventions and strategies: 185--95. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter in Book)

• Ramnarayan, S. and Nilakant, V. (1998) Training-based OD interventions: diagnosing organizational issues through training workshops. In Ramnarayan, S., Rao, T.V. and Singh, K. (Ed.), Organizational development: interventions and strategies: 62--75. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter in Book)