Satish Kumar Kalra, Raman Munjal chaired professor at the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, New Delhi, India, was a visiting scholar in November at the Center for Human Resource Management Studies, College at Florham.

Richard Ottaway, management, and director, Center for Human Resource Management Studies (Flor), shook hands with guest Satish Kumar Kalra, Raman Munjal chaired professor at the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, New Delhi, India, before Kalra’s presentation at the College at Florham.

Kalra’s expertise is in the area of effective managerial leadership styles. He has developed definitions for management styles indigenous to the Indian culture and compared them to several Western definitions, such as those of Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard, Geert Hofstede and Rensis Likert.

While at FDU, he lectured in classes and met with students and business practitioners to share his ideas and experiences. His FDU Research Seminar focused on the problems that arise when Western companies doing business in India and other Asian countries transplant their management practices and styles directly into the new cultural context. Kalra has a long history of working with practitioners, and this seminar was particularly relevant for persons interested in cross-cultural issues.

Kalra was in the United States to give a paper on effective managerial leadership styles in the Indian context at the Annual Conference of the International Leadership Association: Bridging Boundaries and Borders in Leadership, held in Washington, D.C.

Kalra’s host for his visit was Richard Ottaway, management, and director, Center for Human Resource Management Studies (Flor).

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