Designation: Associate Professor Email: archana.choudhary@bgu.ac.in Area: HR & OB
Brief Profile
Dr. Archana Choudhary is a faculty in the area of OB and HR at Birla Global University. She has done her MBA from L.N. Mishra Institute, Patna, and Ph.D. from KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. She has nineteen years of experience in teaching and research. She has attended a number of FDPs and workshops at IIT Kharagpur and XIMB. She has also held the responsibility of FDP and National Seminar Coordinator for conducting a number of AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programs and National Seminars. She has a number of publications to her credit. She has reviewed a number of papers of different publication houses. She has conducted a number of MDPs and FDPs. Dr. Choudhary has been invited to chair sessions in HR and OB conferences. She teaches Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Training and Development, HR Analytics, Compensation Management etc. to the post-graduate students. She has also attended workshops on Research Methodology at Cornell University, New York, USA. Her research interests are in the area of turnaround management, learning and its implications, organizational change, and career management. She has presented a number of papers at national and international conferences.
Educational Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy:
PHD. from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
Masters :
MBA L. N. Mishra Institute, Patna
Bachelors :
B. Sc. (Chemistry) Magadha University
Research Interest
Organization Change
Turnaround Management
Career Management
Academic Experience
Programme Coordinator of MBA since 2014 at Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar
Conducted a number of national and international conferences as Convenors.
BIITM, Bhubaneswar September 2004-May 2014
Played an active part in institution building since the inception of MBA program of BIITM.
Editor, BIITM Business Review
Visiting Faculty, KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar.
Held the responsibility of FDP and National Seminar Coordinator for conducting several AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programs and National Seminars.
Selected Publications
Jena, B.P., Choudhary, A., Pal, M.K. and Misra, S. (2024), “The effect of job content plateau on career commitment: exploring moderated and mediated role of proactive personality and job crafting”, Management Research Review, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-06-2022-0411 (Scopus, ABDC-C).
Jena, B.P., Choudhary, A., Pal, M.K. and Misra, S. (2024), “Job content plateau and career commitment: the mediating role of developmental i-deals and the moderating role of proactive personality”, Evidence-based HRM, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-07-2022-0163 [Scopus, ABDC-B]
Mohapatra, S., & Choudhary, A. (2024), Hiring process and contemporary methods: an empirical insight using Grey relational analysis. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 42(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpqm.2024.138184 [Scopus]
Choudhary, A., Jena, B. P., & Patre, S. (2024). Unveiling the veil of workplace Loneliness: A Theory-Concept-Methodology (TCM) framework. Psychology Hub, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.13133/2724-2943/17820 [Scopus]
Joshi, M.P., Pandit, D., Tiwari, S.R. and Choudhary, A. (2024), “Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial communities in India: does gender really play a role?”, Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 392-414. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-10-2022-0145 [Scopus, ABDC-C]
Muduli, A., Verma, S., Choudhary, A. & Singh U. (2022). High-performance human resource practices in Indian banks: an examination from the institutional perspective. Journal of Financial Services Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41264-022-00193-6, [Scopus, ABDC-B]
Choudhary A. & Bala Subramanian R (2021). Role of community-based organization in the pandemic: Opportunities for growth, challenges to survival in an edited book published by IGI Global, ISBN- 9781799 874959. [Scopus]
Jena, Biswa Prakash; Choudhary, Archana; Pal, Manas Kumar (2022) Managing Job Content Plateau through Proactive Personality: A Conceptual Framework, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2022.10049048 [Scopus]
Biswa Prakash Jena, Archana Choudhary, Manas Kumar Pal (2022.) Job Content Plateau and Career Commitment: Double Mediation of intervening factors at Indian public sector, International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management. [Scopus] (Accepted for publication)
Choudhary A. and Chintaluri M G (2021). Manufacturing vs Services: The Pandemic Impact in an edited book published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Publication, ISBN 9780367646479. (Scopus]
Choudhary A. & Bala Subramanian R (2021). Impact of power distance on protégés development: A Study on Academic Mentoring, India, Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol XVII, Issue 4. [ABDC -C]
Dhal S., Pal M. K., Choudhary A., & Rath M. (2020). Impact of Technology on Human Resource Information System and Achieving Business Intelligence in Organizations in an edited book published by Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, ISBN-978-0-367-41727-7.
Choudhary A. & Manoj Gour Chintaluri 2020). Ensuring Well Being Of Employees In The New Normal: Some Insights From Manufacturing And Service Industries in an edited book published by Bloomsbury Publication
Choudhary A., Mohanty S. K., Bala Subramanian R (2020). Steering the cycle: how to revive the cycle? published by Bloomsbury Publication
Choudhary A., Bala Subramanian R, & Jagdeesh K TNV (2018). Organizational culture – A comparative study of public and private sector banks in India in an edited book published by Excel India Publishers, ISBN 978-93-8674-464-9
Bala Subramanian R. & Choudhary A. (2017). SR Software and its entrepreneurial attempt in a franchisee model of business, Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship And Sustainability, Vol XVII 13, Issue 3. [ABDC-C]
Dash B. & Choudhary A., (2014), Human relations from HRD perspective with a reference to Axis Bank, in an edited book published by Himalaya Publishing House, ISBN- 978-93-5142-641-7.
Choudhary A. (2010). HR Strategies for Sustainability of Turnaround – a Case Study of Rourkela Steel Plant, Management and Labour Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 3. [Scopus, ABDC-C]
Choudhary A., Nayak P., Tripathy S. (2012) HR Strategies for Turnaround Management: A Case Study of Rourkela Steel Plant, International Journal of Business and Management Tomorrow 2 No. 5.
Achievements and Awards
Got Best Paper Award (Ist Runner up) on my paper titled Job Crafting as a Mediator Between Job Content Plateau and Career Commitment: A Study of Indian Executives at 9th PAN IIM World Management Conference-2023 held at IIM- Sambalpur on January 22-24, 2024.
Got Certificate of Appreciation (2nd Prize) in recognition of the number of research publications in SCOPUS-indexed journals from Birla Global University.
Guided my first research Scholar Mr. Biswa Prakash Jena, Assistant Professor, Alliance University, Bangaluru for award of his Ph.D. degree in May 2024. The title of his thesis was “Influence of Job Crafting and Developmental Idiosyncratic Deals on Job Content Plateau and Career Commitment of Indian ITES Executives”.
Completed a seed-funded project on Crisis Led Innovations among Women-Led MSMEs in a Pandemic Environment: Insights from Odisha
Awarded a prize by the European Union for selection of a Policy Paper on Private Financing in Renewable Energy for presentation in the European India Experts’ Workshop under the EU India Think Tanks Twinning Initiative (2020-22).
Attended few workshops in Cornell University, New York, USA.
Bhavishya Jyoti Scholarship from NIIT, Patna
Graduate employment eligibility test conducted by Center for Policy Research, New Delhi
