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Nrusingh Prasad Panigrahy is based at Dredging Corporation of India Ltd., Paradip, India. He is presently working as a Jt Manager-HR in Dredging Corporation of India Ltd., Paradip, India. He has more than 16 years of experience handling different facets of human resource management. He has published research papers in well-known national and international journals. His research interests include workplace well-being, emotional intelligence, positive and organizational psychology. He has completed a Master's degree in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management and qualified in the UGC-NET exam. NIPM and Coal India Ltd. awarded him for his contributions to the research and HR domain.

Lalatendu Kesari Jena is based at the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is working as an Associate Professor at the School of Human Resource Management (erstwhile XIMB), XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India, in Human Resource Management. He has more than 21 years of experience in academics and corporate HR. He has completed PhD from IIT Kharagpur, India, on “Workplace Spirituality and Human Resource Effectiveness” and a Post Doc. on “Employee Retention and Leadership Challenges” at Loyola Leadership School, Universidad Loyola, Seville, Spain. During his PhD studies, he received the best research paper award at the International Business Research Conference and International Conference on Organization and Management in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has 180 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.

R.G. Priyadarshini is based at the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. R.G. Priyadarshini currently serves as a full Professor of HRM at the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneshwar. She has authored textbooks titled “Organizational Change and Development” and “Change Management and Organizational Transformation”, published by Cengage Publishing. She has published over 40 papers in reputed journals and cases in SHRM case folio and “Human Capital”. Her professional experience spans over 25 years; she has had academic associations with Amrita School of Business, PSG College of Technology, University of Toledo and San Diego State University, USA, and has been a consultant to leading manufacturing, IT and pharmaceutical companies.