Dr. Vidyut Lata Dhir
M.A., M.Phil., PhD
Associate Professor, SPJIMR
Licensed Practicing Psychologist from the Rehabilitation Council of India
Prof. Dhir is a psychologist and a multi-skilled, higher education professional with more
than 22 years of teaching experience including 10 years at S.P. Jain Institute of
Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India, one of India’s leading B-schools. In
management education, she specializes in Organizational behaviour, Leadership and
Personal Growth Labs and intertwines western frameworks with eastern processes.She
conducts regular personal and professional counseling for the MBA students as an ongoing
process. Her 12 years of corporate training include designing and delivery of management
development programs, training, and consultancy. Her research interest lies in the areas of
Leadership, Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Attribution
of Responsibility and Emotional Intelligence.She has to her credit a number of articles and
cases in peer reviewed journals.
She has been awarded a Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from European Union. She is also
associated with European Business School, Germany as an external contributor for Quest 3C
an interdisciplinary simulation and has conducted a program, ‘Identifying the Leader in
You’ for students across courses at Reutlingen University, Germany.She conducts regular
personal and professional counseling for the MBA students as an ongoing process at SPJIMR.
She has completed a certificate course from Harvard Business School on Global Colloquium
on Participant-Centered Learning (GCPCL) and a certificate course on Leadership Beyond
Boundaries (LBB) and Training the Trainers program on Leadership Development from
Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), USA.
Published Work
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Dhir, V.L.& Lalwani, S.(2006) The Indian Cricket Saga ECCH
Dhir, V.L. & Kanekar, S. (1994) Indian Merchant Navy Officers’ Judgments on
Causality, Blameworthiness and Punishment for a Shipping Accident. Applied
Psychology: An International Review, 1994, 43 (1) 75-87.
Difference in Perception of Sexual Harassment of Women in India. The Journal of
Social Psychology, 133(1), 119-120.
Kanekar, S.& Dhir, V.L. (1998) The Effect of Agential Distance for a
Positiveoutcome. Psychological Reports, 1998, 83, 990.
Working Paper – Dhir, V.L. & Das, S. (2013-2014) Gauging employee commitment
and citizenship behavior in SMEs and LSEs in Indian context.
Working Paper - Pedagogic Innovations in teaching Leadership in B-Schools 2014
Working Paper – Dhir, V.L. & Das S. (2012-13) - Tracing Emotional Intelligence of
MBA students in India: A Longitudinal Study.
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List of Training Received and Certification
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License to practice as Counseling Psychologist Rehabilitation Council of India:
CertificateNo.RCI/A03544.
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Leadership Beyond Boundaries, Centre for Creative Leadership at Mumbai, 1st
September, 2008.
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Leadership Essentials, Centre for Creative Leadership at Mumbai, 26th August 2008.
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Certificate program at the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA on ‘Participant
Centered Learning’ (June 2009)
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Program on Case writing conducted by Harvard Business School at the Harvard
center, Shanghai. (Jan 2010)
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Design Thinking, Creative Thinking and Innovation, Led by Dr.Srikant Datar
(Professor, Harvard Business School)
Professional Achievements
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Recipient of Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from the European Union for Pedagogic
Innovations in Leadership - 2014
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European School of Business invited to conduct Leadership Development program
for students of Reutlingen University, Germany - 2014
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External contributor for an Interdisciplinary Simulation at ESB Quest 3C - 2014
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Developed a Questionnaire to assess the Assessment and Development of
Managerial Administrative Potential a unique initiative at SPJIMR - 2011
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Developed a Psychometric Questionnaire to assess the fit of the incoming students
to the values of the institute duringthe admissions process - 2010
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Presented the unique pedagogy at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference
(OBTC) conference held at Charleston, USA June – 2009
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Pioneered the Integration of the Personal Growth Lab and Organizational Behavior
and developed a unique pedagogy for teaching organizational Behavior - 2006
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Trained post-graduate and executive education students in some of the best
business management schools in the Asia Pacific - 2005, 2006
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Designed, developed and delivered training for junior, middle, senior, & top-level
managers at some of best multi-national organizations - 2000 onwards
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Consistently received very high rating for all teaching & training projects.
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Recognized in India as a competent consultant trainer in my areas of specialization.
Designed, developed and delivered training for middle, senior, & top-level managers at
some of best National and Multi-National organizations. Corporate Programs for UTI,
Bank(AXIS bank), Great Eastern Shipping, ICICI Bank, ICICI Select, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank,
Eureka Forbes, Indian Registry of Shipping, L & T, Kodak, UTI Bank, Aventis, Sir Sorabji
Pochkhanwala bankers Training College, Aditya Training and Maritime Services, NIIT, LEDA
GTL, KPMG, Johnson & Johnson and SKF PPG Asian Paints.
Counseling Psychologist having private practice and visiting Psychologist at the Sunflower
Nursing Home.
Visiting Psychologist for various schools like JamnaBai Narsee School, Utpal Sanghvi School
from 1996 to 1999.
Designed and delivered Personal Growth Lab for the researchers and scientists
at the Micro – Bio Research Centre at the Bhavans Campus , Mumbai in 2011.
Other Responsibilities at the Institute
Faculty Facilitator for ADMAP, DOCC, ABHYUDAYA, MDP’s and also the Lead Faculty for HR
Conclave.