ICCR Rotating Chair Professor (Gastprofessor), Friedrich- Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany; 01.11.2017 to 27.04.2018
Professor (HAG Scale), IIM Kozhikode; Feb 2012 Onwards
Professor, IIM Kozhikode; Feb 2006 - Feb2012
Associate Professor, IIM Kozhikode; Oct 2000 - Feb 2006
Assistant Professor, IIM Calcutta; Jun 1997 - Oct 2000 [lien till March 2002]
Member, Board of Governors (BoG), IIM Kozhikode (IIMK) - Two Tenures: Sep 2012 - Mar 2014 & Jul 2006 - Mar 2008.
Expert Member - Faculty Selection / Promotion / Confirmation Committees or Boards:
@ IIM Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Jodhpur, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, IIM Trichy, IIM Raipur, IIM Rohtak, SMS CUSAT (Cochin Univ., Nominee of Chancellor), Kerala Univ., IMT Dubai, IMT Nagpur, IMT Hyderabad, SOM BML Munjal Univ., GIM (Goa), LM Thapar SOM.
Associate Editor, IIMB Management Review (Elsevier), Oct 2018 Onwards.
Member: Manuscript Review Board, Decision (Springer; IIM Calcutta), July 2008 - Mar 2013.
Member: Editorial Review Panel, IIMB Management Review (Elsevier), May 2008 - Sep 2018.
Member, Board of Governors, Govt. Engg. College Kannur, Kerala: Academic Year 2011-12 to AY 2016-17
Member: Editorial Review Board, IIMK Management & Society (Sage), March 2011 - May 2015
Member, Governing Council, Socio-Economic Unit Foundation [SEUF; a NGO working in the Domains of Waste Mgmt., Toilets for Girls in Schools, Rain Water Harvesting, etc.]: 2003 to 2009
Member: Panel of Jury - Management Corporate / Public Sector Leadership Award 2015-16, Kerala Management Association
Chairperson - Post Graduate Programme (PGP), IIMK [i.e. Director, MBA Programme]; 2006-08.
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), IIM Kozhikode, 2013-14.
Chairperson (Founding) - Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Area, IIM Kozhikode; 2000-03 & 2005-07.
Member, Committee on Future Directions for IIMK (Chair: Professor AH Kalro; Member: Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan), 2002-03.
Chairperson (Founding) - Management [Executive] Development Programme, IIM Kozhikode; 2001-03.
Chairperson, Publications & Research Dissemination, 2005-07.
Jt. Co-ordinator (Founding), [Satellite Based] Interactive Distance Learning Programme, IIM K ozhikode, 2001-02. [IIMK was the pioneer in Asia (and perhaps in Asia-Pacific as well), of this mode of education]
Faculty Advisor (Founding), SPICMCAY, IIMK Chapter, 2001-08.
Chairperson, College Students Council (Elected), TKM Engg. College., Kollam, Kerala, 1987-88.
Editor, Wall Magazine, National Service Scheme (NSS), 1985-86.
School Captain, Sainik [Military] School, Trivandrum, Kerala, 1982-83.
Captain, School Field Hockey Team, 1982-83.
Nair, U. K., & Purani, K. (2018). KHL: Consulting for Managing Sales Force Attrition (A). Asian Journal of Management Cases. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0972820118806399) [Teaching Note available from the authors on request].
Nair, U. K., & Purani, K. (2018). KHL: Consulting for Managing Sales Force Attrition (B). Asian Journal of Management Cases. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0972820118806434). [Teaching Note available from the authors on request].
Nair, U. K., & Tandon, A. (2015). Boundary Objects and End User Engagement: Illustrations from the Social Enterprise Domain. In 'Boundary Spanning Elements and the Marketing Function in Organizations,' Sahadev, S., Purani, K., & Malhotra, N. (Eds.), pp. 137-160, Springer.
Nair, U. K. (2003). Middle Managers Score Fewer Goals and Make more Fouls: Findings from a Computerized Top Mgmt. Simulation. Simulation & Gaming, Vol. 34, No. 3, 387-408. [Special Issue on Asian Experiences in Simulation & Gaming]
Nair, U. K. (2001a). Adaptation to Creation: The Progress of Organizational Learning and Increasing Complexity of Learning Systems. Behavioral Science and Systems Research. Vol. 18, 505-521.
Nair, U. K. (2001b). Cognitive maps of managers and complex problem solving. In Z. Shapira and T. Land (Eds.), Organizational Cognition: Computation and Interpretation, Ch. 10, pp. 211-239. Series Editors: J. P. Walsh & A. P. Brief, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Won the Best Research Paper Award, Assn. of Indian Mgmt. Schools,1998]
Nair, U. K., & Ramnarayan, S. (2000). Individual Differences in Need for Cognition and Complex Problem Solving. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 2, 305-328.
Ramnarayan, S., & Nair, U. K. (1999). Fostering Organizational Learning Process: Evidence from an R&D Organization. Journal of Euro-Asian Mgmt., 5, 2, 113-142.
Nair, U. K. (1996). Managerial Implications of Postmodernism. IIMB Management Review, 8 ( 3 & 4 ): 65 - 73 [
Pre-Testing Servicescape Designs for Marketing Advantage , Working Paper, 2022
Diminishing marginal utility of the ~next~ attribute: cognitive complexity & complex decisions , Working Paper, 2006
Enactment of knowledge brokering: Agents, roles, processes and the impact of immersion , Working Paper, 2015
Implicit Boundaries, Boundary Configurations And Key Agents: Tracing Social Enterprise Learning , Working Paper, 2014
Factors Influencing Co-Worker’s Attribution of Workplace Romance Motives , Working Paper, 2019
Perceived Workplace Romance Motives and Their Measurement , Working Paper, 2019
Perceived Workplace Romance Motives and Their Consequences , Working Paper, 2019
Strong Identities in Unexpected Quarters: Identity Construction by Traffic Police Personnel , Working Paper, 2017
Corporate / Public Sector Leadership
Managerial Cognition & Complex Decisions
Azeez, N., Nair, U.K., & Jeyavelu, S. (2018). 'Factors Influencing Co-worker?s Attribution of Workplace Romance Motives,' Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2018, No. 1. 78th Annual Meeting of US Academy of Management, Chicago, August 10-14.
Nair, U. K. (2018). 'Impressions on Corporate / Public Sector Leadership: Select Episodes from the Life of Mohandas K Gandhi.' The ICCR India Lecture, 20 Apr 2018 , Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.
Tandon, A., & Nair, U. K. (2015). Organizational learning in social enterprises: Navigating implicit and dynamic boundaries. 75th Annual Meeting of US Academy of Management, Vancouver, Aug 7-11
Tandon, A., & Nair, U. K. (2015). Enactment of knowledge brokering: Agents, roles, processes and the impact of immersion. 75th Annual Meeting of US Academy of Management, Vancouver, Aug 7-11
Tandon, A., & Nair, U. K. (2014). Learning about learning routines: Insights from the Indian social enterprise sector. 2nd PAN IIM World Management Conference, IIM Kozhikode, Nov 5-8. Emerald Best Research Paper Award [& Cash Prize of GBP 500]
Nair, U. K. (2014). 'Executive Learning, Education & Development: An Indian Scenario Scan.' Keynote Address. 2nd HR Dialogue (& 1st HR Conference), Deptt. of HRM, Sri Jayewardenepura University, Sri Lanka, 29 Nov 2014. Video at: http://mgt.sjp.ac.lk/hrm/2nd-hr-dialogue-2014/
Nair, U. K., & Chatterjee, D. (2014). Documenting Organizational Culture: Not just a Top-Down or Bottom-Up Act. Management Consulting Division Paper. 74th Annual Meeting of US Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Aug 1-5.
Purani, K., & Nair, U. K. (2009). Project Zero-D : Managing Sales Force Attrition at Karnavati Healthcare Limited. Annual Meeting of the North American Case Research Asscociation (NACRA), Santa Cruz, California, October 29-31 [Purani participated].
Nair, U. K. (2006). Diminishing Marginal Utility of the 'Next Attribute': Cognitive Complexity & Complex Decisions. In the MOC Division, Annual Meeting of the US Academy of Management, Atlanta, August.
Das, H., & Nair, U. K. (2007). Attitudes of Indian MBAs toward Unions: Some Correlates and Implications. South East Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Savannah, Georgia, February. [Das participated].
Das, H., Chhokar, J., & Nair, U. K. (2005). 'Preparing For Global Business Careers: Findings >From India' Conference on Post Globalization: Higher Education Institutions Facing the Knowledge Society, Veracruz, Mexico, July. [Das & Chhokar participated].
Nair, U. K. (2001d). Middle managers score less goals and make more fouls: Musings from a Computer simulated top management game. Selected in the refereed section, Annual Meeting of Australian & New Zealand Association of Management (ANZAM), Dec. 5-8, 2001 at Auckland. [Couldn?t participate - funding constraints. Later published in Simulation & Gaming.]
Nair, U. K. (1998). Cognitive Maps of Managers and Complex Problem Solving. Int. Conf. on Managerial & Orgn?l. Cognition, Stern School of Business, NYU, May. [Couldn?t participate - funding constraints, but the paper was presented by the organizers and then selected to be a Chapter in the Book edited by T.Lant & Z. Shapira].
Nair, U. K. (1996). 'Ethical Dilemmas of Managers: Moral Reasoning and Teaching Ethics.' Int. Conf. on Mgmt. & Business, McGill Univ. & Lahore Univ. of Mgmt. Sciences, at Lahore, June 3-5, 1996. [Couldn't participate owing to delay in issue of Visa]
Strategy Formulation Workshop (Strategic Retreat) for the Top & Very Senior Mgmt. of Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), towards Vision 2030 for CSL (with Prof. Abhislash S. Nair; June 2017)
Marketing Strategies & Organization Development towards Oushadhi Vision 2020 (with Professors Keyoor Purani & Rajesh Upadhyayula; March 2017)
Documenting Organizational Culture - of A Leading US Media Research Firm (with Prof. Debabrata Chatterjee; Oct 2013)
Restructuring Kerala Tourism Department (Completed; 2003)
Restructuring National Testing Houses (while at IIM Calcutta, 1998-99; with Professors Ramachandran & Bani Sinha)
Kurian, R. E., & Nair, K. U. 2024. Best Full Paper Award. 'Organisational Transformation, Change and Development' Track, 'British Academy of Management' Annual Conference (BAM 2024), 2-6 Sep., Nottingham Trent University. [Paper Title: 'Role of cliques, enabling leadership and interactions in emergence: A network analysis approach of the complex adaptive system dynamics'].
Tandon, A., & Nair, K. U. 2014. [Emerald] Best Research Paper Award (& Cash Prize of GBP 500). 2nd Pan IIM World Management Conference, 5-8 Nov 2014, IIM Kozhikode. [Paper Title: Learning about Learning Routines: Insights from the Indian Social Enterprise Sector]
Nair, K. U. 1998. Best Research Paper, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) Annual Conference, New Delhi. [Paper Title: Cognitive Maps of Managers and Effectiveness of Negotiating Ill-Structured Situations]. (while at IIM Calcutta)
Best Thesis Proposal Awards, while at IIM Ahmedabad, from: [1]. Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI), March 1996; and [2]. Choudhury-Padmanabhan-Pant IIMA FPM Alumni Trust, March 1996.
Fellowship for Doctoral Research from PD Agarwal Foundation. [while at IIM Ahmedabad].
First Rank, University Gold Medal, May 1988 for B Tech. in Mechanical Engineering; Kerala University.
National Talent Search Scholarship from NCERT, Oct 1981.
IIMK Campus P. O, Kozhikode, Kerala, India,
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