Associate Professor of Practice
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 
manoj.j@iimbg.ac.inOverview:
Professor Manoj Jaiswal is Associate Professor of Practice at IIM Bodh Gaya. He is also Chair of EMBA program. Before this, he was a Professor and Dean of “The Center of Executive Education for Leadership” at the International School of Business & Media, Bangalore. Prior to this, he was a Professor and Dean of Executive Education (EP) at Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) in Bangalore. He retired as Executive Vice President and Head of the Management Development Center (MDC) of an Indian family Conglomerate. He reported to the Director of HR, a Board Member, who in turn reported to the Chairman of the Group. He had a budget of approx. Rs 8 crores for his function. Under his leadership in the last 2 years, his function got all three of Europe’s most coveted awards in the L&D space from "The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)”. These were Excellence in Practice Gold 2019, Excellence in Practice Finalist 2019 and Excellence in Practice Silver 2020.
MDC, under him, was responsible for anchoring the Business Leader Program (BLP), wherein the best-in-class professionals are selected from executives with 15 years of experience after a rigorous selection process. 20 to 25 Hi Pos are selected from nearly 200 applicants. These executives underwent an 18-month rigorous program with 4 weeks in IIM Ahmedabad. The budget for BLP to train 25 Hi Potentials was Rs 2 crores. The BLP program had been in existence for the last 20 years and had provided talent to the group for nearly two decades.
The Group had earlier launched the Young Leaders program with IIM Ahmedabad. The budget for that program was Rs1.18 crores. The objective was to create a cadre of young leaders by building their leadership competencies. Recently, MDC had diagnosed, conceptualized, designed, and conducted a Leadership program (LP) jointly with ISB Hyderabad for all the Business Leaders and Functional Leaders.
MDC also ran functional leadership programs like the Finance Leadership Program for building the future CFOs for the group and the HR Leadership Program with IIM Bangalore (HRDP).
He was responsible for the leadership assessment of Senior Executives and assisted them in creating their IDPs. He acted as a coach and mentor to the identified few Hi Potentials. The Board reviews these assessments to make decisions on their talent.
He led the business need identification, conceptualization, design, development and delivery of key programs/initiatives aimed at the development and growth of senior management in order to create a robust talent pipeline for the senior management positions across group companies and enable key processes such as succession planning, intra / intercompany rotations, promotions etc.
Academic background:
- in Analysis, Design and Management of Information System from “The London School of Economics and Political Science.”
- B.A from L.N.Mishra Institute of Economic Development and Social Change.
- Bachelors from Allahabad University
Teaching interests:
- HR
- OB
- Organizational Development
Executive Education Expertise:
- Australian Institute of Management
- Coaching from Neuro Leadership Group of David Rock
- Huthwaite Research Group through NIS – SPIN Selling, Account Strategy for Major Sales
- Inscape Publishing Corporation through NIS – Adventures in Attitude, Time Profile, Stress profile, DiSC, Value Profile
- SHL – Assessment Centers
- ISABS completed Basic Lab, Advanced Lab – Certification is in progress-
- TRIZ – I TRIZ – Certification is in progress
- Capstone Business Simulation
- Innovation Style inventory
- Hogan on their Psychometric Tool
- MBTI
- Master Trainer in Behavioral Safety by SAFESTART a Canadian Behavioral Safety Organization
- Business Excellence Model by Infosys
Research interests:
- Moral Potency
- Organizational Consulting
- Organizational Transformation
Publications:
Conference:
- M and Tata. P (2006). ‘Changing the Paradigm in Business English Learning Using TRIZ’, The Second TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2006
- M et.al (2016).’Does Organisational Ethical Culture Influence Sales Personnel’s Job Outcome?’ 30th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference 2016.
- M et.al (2025)” Influence of Moral Potency on Ethical Leadership, Ethical Culture and Job Outcomes in an Indian Conglomerate” 10th PAN-IIM WORLD MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (2025)
Cases:
- Kumar.N, Jaiswal.M, Muncherji.N and Sharma.R (2008) ‘Azure The Cloudless Sky’ Nirma University, Institute of Management published in European Case Clearing House, Case Study, Reference No 808-033-1.
- Bathini, Raju. D, Neharika.V, Jaiswal. M (2016)” Wendt India Limited” Indian Institute of Management, IIM Ahmedabad ,IIMA/OB0219
Publications:
- R, Reddy. C.M, Srinivasan.V, and Jaiswal.M. (2011) “The Leadership. at the Murugappa Group” Vikalpa, Vol. 36(4), PP 104-110, October-December 2011
