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Dr Ginni Chawla is a Faculty of Human Resources (HR) at the LM Thapar School of Management, Thapar University, Patiala, India. Prior to joining Thapar University, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of HR, College of Management and Economic Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. She has also worked in corporate sector with Yes Bank Ltd, Mumbai, as Branch Service Partner. Dr Chawla received the PhD Degree in the field of Industrial Relations from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India, where she was a Fulltime Stipendiary Research Scholar at the School of Management Studies. Dr Chawla received National Scholarship from the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India, in the domain of Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/Labour& Social Welfare/Human Resource Management, in the year 2010. Her areas of interest include industrial relations, talent management, innovative HR practices and management graduate employability. She has published papers in reputed scholarly journals, and has won awards and accolades for paper presentations made at the international conferences in connection with her doctoral work. Dr Chawla is also an active member of two professional bodies, namely, the Indian Society for Training and Development (New Delhi, India), and the International Association of Innovation Professionals (Texas, USA), and she serves as a Reviewer for the prestigious journal publishers like Wiley, Elsevier, Emerald, IGI Global and Allied Publishers, as well as for the papers submitted to reputed Conferences such as EURAM.

Dr Tripti Singh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India, with around 17 years of experience. Her area of specialisation is Strategic Human Resource Management, Competency Mapping and Competitiveness of Micro Small And Medium Enterprises. She has guided several PhD Thesis, under her as well as completed government sponsored projects from University Grants Commission and Indian Council of Social Sciences in the area of Quality of Work Life and Competency Mapping. She has published around 45 papers in Scopus and SSCI Indexed Journals and several in proceedings of reputed International Conferences. She has also won Best paper awards for three of her papers on quality of work life, talent management and on trade unions. Her PhD students have won appreciation and best doctoral thesis awards for their work on Talent Management.

Dr Rupali Singh received a PhD Degree from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and working as Assistant Professor at NR Institute of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration, GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Dr Singh received “IM Nanavati Research Award” from GLS University, “Sant Swami Das Award” from DEI Deemed University, Agra and “Shrestha Shikshak Puraskar” from Sharda Group of Institutions, Agra. Dr Singh is a Reviewer for journals of repute in Emerald, IGI Global, and Inderscience. Dr Singh has in her credit, 14 published research papers, 5 working research papers, and research papers presentations in institutes of repute including NUS Singapore, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies Noida, and Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad.

Dr Sonal Agarwal received a PhD Degree from the School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. She has academic experience with Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. She is working as resource person with Securities and Exchange Board of India. Her areas of interest include: Organizational Innovation, Finance and Human Resource Management. She has to her credit ten publications in international refereed journals and books in the areas of innovation, innovative work practices and employability. She also has eight research paper presentations at prestigious institutes and universities including National University of Singapore and IIM Lucknow. She also has corporate experience with Iffco Tokio General Insurance Co Ltd prior to joining academics.