Teaching (Post graduate and Executive Education)
The Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management area of Indian Institute of Management Indore is composed of faculty members of diverse backgrounds. The faculty members have academic and research interests ranging from understanding individual and group behaviour, human resource practices in transnational organizations, contemporary views on labour and industrial relations, etc. The area members teach core and elective courses across the entire breadth of academic programmes offered by the Institute. Area members are also actively involved in crafting in company training programmes for private and public sector organizations. Faculty members are also part of multiple governmental and private sector consulting projects.

Research
Faculty members are involved in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and have published in influential high impact academic journals such as Human Resource Management; Journal of Business Ethics; International Journal of Human Resource Management; International Journal of Operations & Production Management; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Personnel Review etc. The prominent area of research are:
• Subordinate Superior Communication | • Team performance | • Leadership | • Human Resource Flexibility | • Managing Human Capital in Projects | • HR Practices in Family Business | • Organizational Learning | • Organizational and Group Psychological Capital | • Organisation Design | • Organizational Structures and Processes | • Social Network Analysis of Groups and Organizations | • Performance Management | • Marginal Workers and Precarious Labour | • Complexity Theory | • Negotiations | • Industrial Relations and Disciplinary Processes | • Business Ethics
The faculty members are also guiding multiple student industry projects and doctoral dissertations. Currently, the area is mentoring twenty doctoral students (13 FPM and 7 FPM-Industry). Faculty members are also involved in developing managerial cases from primary as well as secondary material. These cases are actively utilized as teaching aids in the postgraduate and management development programmes.

Special initiative by the area
The OB&HRM area of Indian Institute of Management Indore supports a niche two-year post-graduate program titled PGP-HRM. The program is rooted in business rationalities and aims to hone the skills of participants in various functions of human resource management. More information is available on the program page of the website.