Prof. (Dr.) Asim Talukdar is currently a Professor in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior (HR & OB) at Jindal Global Business School at O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University). Dr. Talukdar holds BSc (Honours in Chemistry) degrees from Calcutta University, PGDM (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, (IIMC) and he is a Fellow in Management (Ph.D.) from XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India. Before joining Jindal Global Business School, he held a visiting faculty position at IMT, Ghaziabad. He has over 6 years of academic experience, both in the domain of teaching and research, and 33 years of experience in the industry. His research interest includes Strategic Human Resource Management, Performance Management, Compensation Management, and knowledge management.

His work has been published in international journals like the Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, and Knowledge and Process Management. Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, Journal for Global Business Advancement, and also in the Indian Journal of Industrial Relations. Two research papers of Dr. Talukdar’s received the “Best Paper” award at two international conferences. He was conferred with the award of the distinguished scholar by the Academy of Global Business Advancement, USA, at their international conferences in Malaysia, in  2012. He was a recipient of the Rasbic award for “Best in Class in Recruitment” in 2006.

Dr. Talukdar has extensive consultancy experience with quite a few reputed MNCs like PepsiCo India, J Mitra & Co. Pvt. Ltd. as well as with some of the public sectors in India like Rites India, NTPC, etc. He on behalf of Sriram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management has run two consecutive part-time certificate courses on Industrial Relations in 2013 for working professionals, where he was the course designer and the core faculty. He also has conducted several management development programs in the field of Human Resource Management like competency management, Performance Management, and Behavioral Event Interviewing Skills.

Dr. Talukdar has more than 33 years of industry experience. He worked in the top leadership team of three large organizations in India, namely NIIT Ltd, HT Media, and Maruti Suzuki Ltd. as Head of Human Resource Management. Besides, he was also in the senior HR leadership roles at Whirlpool of India, PepsiCo India, Britannia Industries Ltd., and BOC (India) Ltd. His area of experience is majorly in the areas of Organizational transformations & Change Management as well as Strategic Human Resource Management.

Dr. Talukdar is a Fellow of the Academy of Global Business Advancement, USA.