| Name | M.J. Arul *** |
| Address | Roshan Apartments (First Floor)
9-Asheervad Colony, Horamavu Road
P.O. Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore-560043 (INDIA).
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Home Phone: + 91-80-2542-6516
Cellphone: + 91-98455-88239 |
| Date of birth | May 10, 1946 |
| Total work experience | 35 years (Cf. Job History, below.) |
| Educational qualification | - Advanced FIRO Training from Dr. Will Schutz (1998 batch, California).
- Ph.D.: FIRO needs of managers and management students; S.P.U. Gujarat.
- M.A. in Psychology; MS University of Baroda-1972. |
| Recent positions held | - Professor of OB & HR, SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore.
- Dean, Presidency College, Bangalore.
- Professor of OB & HR, S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research, Bombay.
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| Current position | Director of the B-school at Presidency College, Bangalore. |
| Experience: Job content ... |
1. Teaching in the regular PGP and MDP programmes:
Individual & Group Behavior | Mgmt of Change | Creativity in Management | OT |
| 2. In-company training - I've, in the past, offered training programmes to: corporate-company executives, managers of cooperatives, NGO managers, trainers & field workers, and government forest-department officials.
- More recently, I conducted, jointly with Mr. Gary Copeland, two human-element workshops at Bangkok for the UN Officers in Thailand (March 2006).
- Designed and offered two training programmes in January-February 2007: one was a three-day MDP and the other was a six-day ToT. Both were done in and for BRAC, a large international NGO, headquartered at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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| 3.Administrative responsibilities
- Chairman, Student Conduct Committee at SDM-IMD, Mysore (2005)
- Co-ordinator, SPJIMR's Collaborative PhD Programme with BITS, Pilani (2002-2003)
- Co-ordinator, IRMA Admissions (1988-1991 & May-Oct 1998)
- Chairman, Faculty Induction & Dev. Committee (Mar. 1996-Jan. 1997)
- Co-ordinator, The One-Year Postgraduate Programme (OYP1996-97)
- Member, PRM Curriculum Review Committee (1997)
- Chairman, OYP Review Committee (1994-95)
- Member, Admissions Committee (1992-1998)
- Member, Staff Affairs Committee (1996-97)
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| 4. Consulting assignments
- An organizational study of the U.P. Apple and Fruit Growers' Co-operative Marketing Federation (December 1987).
- Public Distribution System in the Rural Areas of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (may 1988).
- Rural Development -- the ASSEFA way: A case study of Natham Block (October 1989).
- Process Documentation of Joint Forest Management for an NGO (November 1996).
- Self-Help Groups in the Kerala Horticulture Development Programme (May 1998).
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| Professional membership | - Indian Academy of Applied Psychology
- The Indian Society of Extension Education
- The National HRD Network (India) |
| Papers written | 1. Measurement of attitudes (1977). Working paper #158, IIM-Ahmedabad. |
| 2. Removal of untouchability: some social psychological aspects (1980). (Presented at the Seminar on Removal of Untouchability, Gujarat University.) |
| 3. A study of IRMA admissions (1983). |
| 4. HRD: Not Everyone's Cup of Tea (1989a). (Presented at the Seminar on Emerging Trends in HRD for Poverty Alleviation, NIRD, Hyderabad.) |
| 5. Operation Flood and management development (1989b). Managemnt in Government , XXI (1-3), pp 91-97. |
| 6. The elan vital of rural development (1992). Working paper #38, IRMA. |
| 7. Managerial qualities of some Indian co-operative dairy managers. (Paper presented at the International Symposium on Rural Co-operatives, held at Anand, December 7-11, 1992.) |
| 8. Managerial qualities in the Indian co-operative dairy sector (1993). Indian Dairyman, XLV (9), pp 391-399. |
| 9. A comparative analysis of managerial attributes in five different agencies of rural development (1994). Working paper #51, IRMA. |
| 10. Participatory Management of Forests (1998). Working paper #119, IRMA. | | 11. My First Experience with Process Documentation (1998). Presented at the State-level Working Committee on JFM, Gujarat. | |
| 12. Elan in Rural Development (1999). New Renaissance: A Journal of Social and Spiritual Awakening, VIII (4), pp 22-23 & 40. | | 13. Firo Needs of Managers and Management Students in an Indian Cooperative Sector (2001): Accepted for presentation at the Firo International Conference, San Francisco. |
Job History:
| PERIOD | ORGANIZATION | POSITION | NATURE OF JOB | |
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| Feb 2006 - | Presidency Business School, Bangalore. | Director | - Academic administration
- Teaching OB
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| June 2005 - Jan 2006 | SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. | Professor of OB & HR | Teaching in PGP & MDP |
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| Dec 2003 - June 2005 | Presidency College, Bangalore. | Dean | Academic administration |
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| April 2001 - Dec 2003 | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. | Professor of OB & HR | Teaching in PGP & MDP |
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| Nov 1998 - April 2000 | Centre for Management Studies, DDIT, Nadiad.
IIM-Ahmedabad | Professor & Head
Visiting Faculty
| Teaching & administration
Teaching
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| Sep 1994 - Oct 1998 | Institute of Rural Management, Anand.
IIM-Ahmedabad | Professor
Visiting Faculty
| Teaching, training & consulting
Teaching
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| Nov 1989 - Aug 1994 | Institute of Rural Management, Anand. | Associate Professor | ---- do ---- | |
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| 1988 - 1991 | - do - | Admissions Co-ordinator | The whole function of admissions to the PG course | |
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| Jan - 1986 - Oct 1989 | - do - | Assistant Professor | Teaching & consulting | |
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| July 1980 - Dec 1985 | - do - | Faculty Associate | Teaching | |
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| July 1979 - Apr 1981 | Bhavan's Institute of Communication and Management, Ahmedabad. | Visiting Faculty | Teaching: Personnel Management | |
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| Jan 1978 - June 1980 | IIM-Ahmedabad | Course Associate | Preparation of teaching material, setting questions, evaluation of exam papers & assignments on Organizational Behavior. | |
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| - do - | - do - | - do - | Facilitator in workshops on Creative Problem Solving | |
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| - do - | National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. | Visiting Faculty | Teaching: Psychology (as a foundation course) | |
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| Feb 1975 - Dec 1977 | IIM-Ahmedabad | Course Assistant | Assisting the Faculty in the conduct of OB courses | |
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| Oct 1973 - Feb 1975 | - do - | Research Assistant | Assisted in a project: Gujarat Government Agriculture Development Programme | |
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| May 1973 - Oct 1973 | Space Application Centre (ISRO) | Research Assistant | Assistance in selection of villages and preparation of audience profiles for the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE). | |
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| Aug 1972 - Apr 1973 | Avery India Limited | Sales Representative | Procuring orders for new goods and service contracts. | |
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