Dr. Santosh Dhar
Dr. Santosh Dhar
Social Scientist
Dr. Santosh Dhar,a social scientist, is Director& Professor Emeritus,People Development FoundationIndia(PDFI). She has been engaged in teaching, research, corporate training and consultancy for the last forty-three years. She has widely published her work and has more than 458 publications to her credit. Her earlier assignments have been Rector & Dean – Faculty of Doctoral Studies and Research at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Professor, Shri Vaishnav Institute of Management, Indore; Professor, Amity Business School, Amity University, Greater Noida campus; Professor, Institute of Management and Dean – Research, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur; Senior Professor, OB/HR, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur; Professor and Chairperson – OB/HR Area, Institute of Management, Nirma University.
, Ahmedabad and Guest Faculty at IIM Kolkata and MICA Ahmedabad. Twenty research scholars have been awarded Ph.D degree under her supervision. She has designed and conducted management development programs for the executives of several business houses, such as Grasim Industries, JK Tyre, Bridgestone, Hindustan Motors, ONGC and GAIL to name a few. She has been on the Panel of PeerReviewers of Oxford University Press and Tata McGraw-Hill.
She was Managing Editor of Prestige Journal of Management and Research and Prestige Research Abstracts. She has been Chairperson of Indian Society for Training and Development (Indore and Jaipur Chapters) and was on the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Training and Development. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences / seminars and had the opportunity to visit Kathmandu (Nepal), Male (Maldives), Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing, Shangai, Guanzhou, Shenzen, Hong Kong (China), Seoul (South Korea), Dubai (UAE), Tumu (Myanmar), Poland, United States, Italy and Francein connection with various professional and academic assignments.
Dr. Dhar had coordinated the implementation of a project on the Empowerment of Women through Enterprise in North India (2000-2002), which was funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has completed the research projects on Problems of WomenTrainers in India and Quality of Work Life as a Determinant of Mental Healthin Pharmaceutical Industry. She has also been principal investigator for Asian Development Bank funded and Rajasthan Government sponsored RUIDP Consultancy project on Capacity Building of ULBs of Different Towns of Rajasthan. She has twice been chairperson of Indian Society for Training and Development Jaipur and Indore Chapter & Chairperson of the Best Paper Award of the IndianJournal for Training and Development, New Delhi.
Dr. Dhar was conferred National Fellowship for her contributions to HR by the Indian Society for Training and Development in 2006-07. She is life member of Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), National Human Resource Development Network (NHRDN), and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
