Prof. Vivek G Nair

Dr. Vivek G Nair is an Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi. He teaches courses for the B. Tech, MBA and doctoral programs. He has over 12 years of experience as a researcher and practitioner. His research explores new-age careers, mentoring and mindfulness. Prior to his PhD, he has close to 5 years of corporate work experience at Oracle, Mahindra & Mahindra, and T.I.M.E. He holds a B.Tech degree from NIT Calicut, PGDM/MBA from IIM Bangalore and PhD from IIM Calcutta.
Those keen to pursue a full-time PhD program in Organizational Behavior or Human Resource Management from any of the top IITs/IIMs may write to Dr Nair to discuss their ideas. However, it is useful to discuss research ideas once an aspirant has done some pre-work. This could be in the form of reading the latest and relevant academic journal articles from reputed sources such as FT50 Journals (The list of journals is available here: https://www.ft.com/content/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0). Access to these papers can typically be obtained through websites like ResearchGate or Google Scholar.

Email: nairvivek@iitd.ac.in
One could also explore any of the below references.

Core textbooks:
Robbins, S. P., Judge, T. A., & Vohra, N. (2018). Organizational behavior 16e. Pearson.
DeCenzo, D. A., Robbins, S. P., & Verhulst, S. L. (2016). Fundamentals of human resource management. John Wiley & Sons.
Dessler, G., & Varrkey, B. (2005). Human Resource Management, 15e. Pearson Education India.
Jones, G. R. (2013). Organizational theory, design, and change. Pearson.

Research Methodology:
Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2018). Multivariate Data Analysis (8th edition). Cengage India Private Limited.
Creswell, J. W., & Poth, C. N. (2016). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. Sage publications.
Patton, M. Q. (2014). Qualitative research & evaluation methods: Integrating theory and practice. Sage publications.

More Accessible Reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained/dp/1465458565
Books by Adam Grant
Famous Books:
Frankl, V. E. (1985). Man’s search for meaning. Simon and Schuster.
Dweck, C. (2017). Mindset-updated edition: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential. Hachette UK.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (2013). Full catastrophe living, revised edition: how to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation. Hachette uK.

Daniel, Kahneman. Thinking, fast and slow. 2017.

Online Courses:
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/social-science
https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-people-analytics
https://www.coursera.org/learn/human-resources-analytics