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Contact Details:

M 411, New Academic Block, Joka, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata 700104, West Bengal

Website:

www.linkedin.com/in/rajashik-roy-choudhury-56b23934

Academics

Academic Background:

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
PhD in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur
Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (now IIEST)
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
 

Awards:

• Best Paper in HR Division, Academy of Management (2024)
• Director’s Merit Award, IIM Bangalore (2021, 2020)
• Super Team, KPMG (2018)
• Super Employee, KPMG (2018)
• KUDOS, KPMG (2017, 2013)
• Finalist in Young Thought Leaders Contest, NHRD Network’s 15th National Conference (2011)
• Merit Scholarship, Bengal Engineering & Science University (2006-07, 2005-06)
   

Consulting Interests:

Change management, Organization design, Workforce (manpower) planning, Competency framework design, Role profiling and JD, HR process and policy design, HR due diligence, HR diagnostics

 

Experience

Work Experience:

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (2024-till date)
Assistant Professor - HRM Academic Group

 

KPMG (2015-2018)
Manager - Deal Advisory

• Assistance to GSK Consumer Healthcare for its sale of Health Food Drinks division to HUL in a share-swap deal
• Assistance to Blackstone Group (PE) in HR and labour law diligence for their acquisition of Comstar
• Assistance to General Atlantic (PE) in organization design & workforce projection for Absolute Barbecue
• HR integration and labour law advisory to Lixil Group (Japan) in the inbound acquisition of Sentini Sanitariware
• Buy-side HR diligence for Tata Communication on its buyout plan of enterprise business of Tata Teleservices
• Assistance to Westbridge Capital (PE) in HR and labour law diligence for their potential investment in Bikaji
• Assistance to the merger of three entities of Horizon Packs Private Limited with a focus on HR cost synergies
• Carve out assistance to Aegis Global (BPO) with a focus on managing HR issues
• HR transformation for Montecarlo Limited with a focus on organization structure, JDs, and competency
• HR transformation for Sanctum Wealth Management with a focus on compensation and talent management
• Setting up the HR function for Bloom Dekor, including the design of HR processes & policies
• HR diagnostic using KPMG’s 5C methodology and PCMM V2.0 framework for L&T Technology Services
• Employee engagement for GAIL (India) Limited

 

RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group (2014-2015)
Assistant Manager - HR

• Execution of compensation benchmarking and design of compensation structure, pay ranges and pay mix
• Assessment of ‘As-Is’ organization and recommendation on ‘To-Be’ organization structure
• Design & implementation of a Management Development Programme for officers in HR and IR
• HR analytics with a focus on employee separation, workforce projection, HR costs etc.
• Design of Recruitment Policy and coordination of the entire process for B-school Campus Recruitment
• Design & administration of Employee Satisfaction Survey and initiation of employee engagement interventions

 

KPMG (2012-2014)
Consultant - People & Change 

• Large-scale change management and HR transformation for Adani Ports SEZ
• Facilitation of Assessment Centre/Development Centre for eClerx
• Study on the recruitment of expatriate manual labour for the Ministry of Labour, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tata Consultancy Services (2007-2010)
Assistant Systems Engineer

• Guidance to OWB developers as a member of COE-OWB
• Design and development of user applications for customers of British Telecom
• Capability development & induction management on data warehouse, project architecture and technology
   

Research

Journal Publications:

• Roy Choudhury, R. Book Review - Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Journal of Management History. Forthcoming. (ABDC-B)
• Roy Choudhury, R. Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets (Product Review). Contemporary Sociology. Forthcoming. (ABDC-C)
• Roy Choudhury, R., & Gupta, V. 2011. Impact of Age on Pay Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Leading to Turnover Intention: A Study of Young Working Professionals in India. Management and Labour Studies, 36(4): 353-363.  (ABDC-C)
• Gupta, V., & Roy Choudhury, R. 2012. Impact of Work Experience on Pay Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Leading to Turnover Intention: A Study of Young Working Professionals in India. Kolkata Kindle (NHRD Network, Kolkata Chapter), 1(4): 8-11.

 

Conferences:

• Roy Choudhury, R. 2024. “Aren’t We Doing the Same Old Thing?” Applying Kautilyan Vintage Paradigm to 21st Century Management. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois. (9-13 August)
• Ojha, A. K., & Roy Choudhury, R. 2024. HR is Not on Mute: Assisting Organizations during Exogenous Shocks. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois. (9-13 August)
• Roy Choudhury, R., & Ojha, A. K. 2024. “What Should I Do Now?” A Career Construction Approach Linking Career Shocks and Protean Career. 18th International Conference of the AGBRP, Singapore. (4-6 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R., & Ojha, A. K. 2023. Memento Vivere: Organizational Response to Severe Exogenous Shocks through Activation of Double-Loop Learning. British Academy of Management (BAM), Sussex. (4-6 September)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2022. “How do We Achieve it?” A Relational View of Service Quality Enhancement in High-involvement Service. 7th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Rohtak. (7-9 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2022. “What Should I Do Now?” A Career Construction Approach Linking Career Shocks and Protean Career. 7th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Rohtak. (7-9 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2022. Does goal-setting autonomy lead to the selection of difficult goals? Analysing contextual effects of performance history, intrinsic motivation and leader-member congruence on expected contribution. 7th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Rohtak. (7-9 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2021. “How do We Achieve it?” A Relational View of Service Quality Enhancement in High-involvement Service. 8th PAN IIM World Management Conference, IIM Kozhikode. (16-18 December)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2021. “How do We Achieve it?” A Relational View of Service Quality Enhancement in High-involvement Service. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual. (30 July – 3 August)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2021. “How do We Achieve it?” A Relational View of Service Quality Enhancement in High-involvement Service. 37th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam. (8-10 July)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2020. Does ‘freedom’ always lead to positive outcomes? Case of employees selecting their own performance goals. 6th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Trichy. (2-4 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2020. Can top performers have cliques in the workplace? The paradox of performance. 6th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Trichy. (2-4 January)
• Roy Choudhury, R. 2020. Social climate impacting performance and Individual silence behaviour is not a rumour: An ethnic minority perspective. 6th Biennial Conference of INDAM, IIM Trichy. (2-4 January)

• Gupta, V., & Roy Choudhury, R. 2011. Impact of Work Experience on Pay Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Leading to Turnover Intention: A Study of Young Working Professionals in India. NHRD Network’s 15th National Conference. (16 November)

   

Research Interests:

• Careers, Performance Evaluation, Strategic & Operational HRM (HR)
• Loneliness, Employee Voice, Power and Status, Decision-making (Micro OB)
• Crisis Management, Organization Identity and Image (OT)