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Professor Vijayalakshmi’s teaching career has been enriched by her research expertise and interest in organisational transformations in public sector organisations, as well as her corporate experience in senior management positions and as a consultant. An expert in organisational behaviour and a Fellow from MDI, Gurgaon, she holds a Master’s degree in Agriculture with a specialisation in Plant Breeding and Agriculture and a PG Diploma in Rural Management from IRMA.
Professor Vijayalakshmi’s research and consulting interests include design and delivery of indigenous psychometric tests in vernacular languages, competency mapping and assessment processes, utilisation of existing psychometrics for HR processes, and the evaluation of HR processes of both for-profit and development sector organisations.
Professor Vijayalakshmi has conducted several workshops in qualitative research and trained hundreds of executives in interpersonal skills and team work. Additionally, she has facilitated workshops using modified T-lab for students titled Journey to Self for understanding one’s behaviour and its impact on others. Her research methods expertise is in the area of qualitative research methods, including ethnography and participatory appraisals, and she has conducted large scale surveys using quantitative methodologies. Professor Vijayalakshmi was part of a DFID funded project on market-linked rural development approaches. Her current engagement includes working with not-for-profit organisations for enhancing sustainable livelihoods among farm families using technological approaches and farmer producer organisations.
Also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, Professor Vijayalakshmi lends support to high-quality research in the area of mental health and homelessness.
Current Research Interests
Entrepreneurship among Low income households
Information Privacy among Low income households
Recent Research Publications
Pandit , S.A, Preethi, K, Wallack, D and Vijayalakshmi C (2015) “Towards Understanding Employability Using Images: An Exploratory Study, Psychological Studies , September 2015, 60( 3) 302-313.
Pandit , S.A, Preethi, K, Wallack, D and Vijayalakshmi C (2015) “Towards Understanding Employability in the Indian Context: A Preliminary Study” Psychology and Developing Societies, 27(1) 81–103.
Raghuraman S, Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi (2014) “Mentoring Social Entrepreneurs in India: Attributes and Functions” International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 11(2) 137 – 154
Awasthy, Richa, Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Gupta Rajen K (2013) Corporate Transformation or a Cosmetic Makeover? A case study of a Public Sector bank in India, The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(1) 67-81.
Awasthy, Richa, Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Gupta Rajen K (2011) Top down change in Public Sector bank: Lessons from Employees’ Lived-In Experiences, Journal of Indian Business Research, 3 (1),1755-4195.
Coauthored with Sinha Jai B.P (part of a research team of OB faculty across India headed by Jai B.P. Sinha) (2010) Exploration of the Indian mindset, Psychological Studies, 55, (1) 3–17
Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Awasthy, Richa, Gupta Rajen K (2009) Assessment of Cultural Shifts in an Indian Public Sector Bank, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2(3)307-325
Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, DhaliwalKamalpreet, Gupta Rajen K (2006) Discrimination in Indian Organizations, Indian Journal of Industrial Research, 41(4) 329-354. Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi (2005) Psychological impacts of Privatization, Indian Journal of Public Administration, 51(4)830-842.
Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Akbar M (2005) Revisiting Greiner’s model- A Dialectical Approach, Amity Global Business Review, (1) 60-67.
Recent Case Studies
Awasthy, Richa, Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Gupta Rajen K (2012) Organizational Changes in Bank of Baroda: Asian Case Research Journal, 16(1) 65-92.
Chandrasekaran, Vijayalakshmi, Kalra Satish, Gupta Rajen K (2005) Autobiography of a Manager, Asian Case Research Journal, 9(2) 283-290
Recent Conference Presentations
“We Do not Retain People, We Retain Capabilities: People Management Model in the Not-for-Profit Space”, (co-authored with Prof S Raghuraman) Divisional Paper session at the 2019 Academy of Management Meeting , Boston, USA, August 11-13 ,2019.
Entrepreneurship among Rural Indians (Coauthored with Karunakaran Arvind, MIT) presented at Academy of Management (AoM), Boston, USA, Aug 4-12, 2012
Churning Organizations and Containing Anxieties: Lessons from Field for Transformational Leaders as part of International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values (ISSWOV) 12th Biennial Conference held at Goa, June 2012.
Predicting employability-a research study, The XXI Annual Convention of the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), India at Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat December 12-14, 2011
Women as Borrowers (Coauthored with Divya Rajan and Dave Wallack) presented at Academy of Management (AoM), Montreal, Canada, Aug4-12, 2010
Research as Act of Compassion – Voicing the unheard stories. As part of Professional Development Workshop conducted as part of First Indian Academy of Management, Jamshedpur, December 28, 2009.
Internalization of Cultural Shifts in an Indian Public Sector Bank, (Coauthored with Richa Awasthy and Rajen Gupta) presented at Academy of Management (AoM), Chicago , USA, Aug4-12,2009
Privatization of Chemco: Birth, Growth and Sale of an Indian PSE (coauthored with Satish K Kalra and Rajen K Gupta) selected at Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) conference, Queensland, Dec6-9, 2006.
Working Papers
Inside Job: A study of deviant behaviours among employees
Courses Taught at IFMR GSB
At MBA level
At PhD level
Qualitative Research