I don’t want to switch! So, am I trapped? An in-depth qualitative inquiry of resistance to change leading to competency trap Available to Purchase

Alisha Rath is a Doctoral Scholar at the School of HRM, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has completed her graduation and post-graduation with Psychology as her major and OBHR as a specialization from Utkal University. She has done her internship. in the field of OBHR at Kalkaji, New Delhi, as store HR. She is a passionate doctoral scholar in the second year of her PhD. Her interest areas have been positive psychology, well-being, competency trap, and knowledge management. In her doctoral journey, she has participated in multiple conferences and was selected for HR Conclave- 40 under 40, which took place at MIT-World Peace University, Pune. She has also been a part of the Multivariate Data Analysis Course at the prestigious IIT-Kharagpur very recently, in June 2023. She is very keen on writing and debates and has been exploring multiple avenues of well-being and competency traps for her thesis work.

Lalatendu Kesari Jena is working as an Associate Professor (HRM) at the School of Human Resource Management (erstwhile XIMB), XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 20 years of experience in academics and corporate HR. He has completed PhD from IIT Kharagpur, India, on “Workplace Spirituality and Human Resource Effectiveness” and Post Doc. on “Employee Retention and Leadership Challenges” at Loyola Leadership School, Universidad Loyola, Seville, Spain. During his PhD, he bagged the best research paper award at the International Business Research Conference, India and the International Conference on Organization and Management in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has 190 peer-reviewed international publications in reputed journals like – International Journal of Change Management, Employee Relations, Personnel Review, International Journal of Conflict Management, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Evidence-based HRM, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, IIMB Management Review, Journal of Workplace Learning and Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration to name a few. He predominantly follows the case teaching methodology and other pedagogical techniques in the classroom.