Human Resources Management
Promila Agarwal is Associate Professor at IIMA. She joined IIMA in the year 2013. She is primary member of HRM Area and secondary member of Strategy Area. Before joining IIMA she worked with Ernst & Young. She is also involved with several disruptive startups in designing business models.
Promila’s consulting expertise lies in the area of Leadership Development, Leadership Capability building, HRM audit, cultural audit, Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment, HR Transformation, HR Due Diligence, Organization Design and Structuring, and cost minimization, Performance Management Systems, Change Management, and Employee Engagement. She has handled client in the following industries/sector: Automobile, Cement, Telecom, Banking, Information Technology, FMCG, and conglomerate. She has worked on key projects of government such as Seventh pay Commission.
Promila has both national and international publications to her credit in prestigious journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Business research to name a few. Her research interest includes High-performance work systems, Dark Triad Personality, Resource theories, well-being, and Employee Engagement.
Primary Area : Human Resources Management
Secondary Area : Strategy
Email : promila@iima.ac.in
Phone : +91-79-7152 4824
Secretary : Kavitha Sudheeran
Phone : +91-79-7152 7930
Website : Personal Website
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Ph.D, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, New Delhi
MA, Applied Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, New Delhi
BA (Hons.), Psychology, University of Delhi - (Merit Student of University of Delhi)
UGC NET Qualified
Human Resource Management, Global Talent Management, Neuroscience of Leadership, Psychology at Workplace, Positive Psychology, Social Psychology of Organizations
Courses
MBA-PGP (Two Year Post Graduate Programme in Management)
- First Year: Human Resource Management-I and Human Resource Management-II
- Second Year: Games People Play: Psychology of Human Resource Management
MBA-PGPX (One Year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives)
- Games People Play: Psychology of Human Resource Management
Faculty Development Programme (FDP)
- Perspectives on Contemporary HRM Research
Executive Education
- Talent Management in 21st Century
- Psychology of Strategic Leadership: Young Women Program
PhD/Fellow Program in Management
- Foundations of Research in HRM
- Strategic Management and Psychology
High-Performance Work Systems
Dark Triad Personality and Managerial Derailment
Psychological Capital and Psychological Safety
Employee Engagement
Identity-conscious HR Structures
Creativity Implementation
Chairperson, Committee of Managing Gender Issues (IC) , IIMA, 2017-2019
Ad-Hoc Article Editor, Sage Open
Board Member, Human Resource Management Journal, Wiley
Authbridge
Redbreed
Ernst and Young
National HRD Network
All India Management Association
Academy of Management
Promila has been consultant to leading organizations in the area of employee engagement, talent management, leadership development, performance management system, behavioral and technical competency framework, change management, proprietary HR and OB tools/models/products development. She has designed psychological tests for several organizations. She also worked for Seventh Pay Commission, Ministry of HRD in 2015.
Advisory Board Member, Prizmatics (March 2021 to present)
Advisory Board Member, Vconnekt (March 2021 to present)
Independent Director, Mitcon Limited (2004 to present)
Advisory Member, Total Rewards, NSE IX (2004 to present)
Seventh Pay Commission
2019- present - Editoral Board Member, Human Resource Management Journal, Wiley 2019- present
2019 - Prof Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leader Award, World Education Congress
2017-2019 - Chairperson, Committee of Managing Gender Issues, IIMA 2017-2019
2017 - Aditya Birla Faculty Scholarship
2017 - Academy of Management Best Paper, 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held in Atlanta, USA
2014 - Think Tank Scholarship from Aon Hewitt
2011 - Emerald/IAM Management Research Award for "Does Leadership make a difference in the Corporate Social Responsibility?". Emerald Group Publishing Limited, United Kingdom
Business World , 2020
ET Hospitality World, 2021
Financial Express, 2022
