Roma Puri

Education : FPM (IIM Calcutta)

Specialization : Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Area of Interest : Sustainability, Change Management, DEI

Designation : Associate Professor

Contact: +91-33-6652 9653

Email: r.puri@imi-k.edu.in

About Roma Puri

Dr. Roma Puri is an Associate Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at IMI Kolkata. She is the Chairperson -Accreditations and Regulatory Affairs at IMI Kolkata.

  • Ketkar, S., & Puri, R. (2025). Investigating the ‘mission and profit’paradox: Case study of an ecopreneurial organisation in India. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 16(1), 46-67.
  • Sengupta, P., & Puri, R. (2022). Gender pay gap in India: A reality and the way forward—An empirical approach using quantile regression technique. Studies in Microeconomics, 10(1), 50-81.
  • Sengupta, P., & Puri, R. (2020). Exploration of relationship between FDI and GDP: A comparison between India and its neighbouring countries. Global Business Review, 21(2), 473-489

Book Published: Agrawal, S., & Puri, R. (2021). Green HRM: A Climate-conscious Route to Triple Bottom Line. SAGE Publications Pvt Ltd.

Book Chapters:
  • Application of Statistics in Human Resource Management in Statistical Tools and Analysis in Human Resources Management, IGI Global Scientific Publishing, 2018
  • “Green HR Practices and Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour” in Comparative Development of India & China: Economic, Technological, Sectoral & Socio-cultural Insights, Sage Publications, 2020
  • “Bridging the Gender Pay Gap” in Bridging the Ingenuity Gap: Ideas for a Vibrant G20, Observer Research Foundation, 2024
  • “Readiness of Indian teachers to integrate education for sustainable development (ESD) into their teaching” at International Conference on Sustainable Business Practices (3-5 January 2025) at IMI Kolkata
  • “Strategic Responses to contextual factors: an Investigation into Social Enterprises in India” co-authored with Dr. Sumita Ketkar presented at BAM 2024 conference (Sept 4-6, 2024).
  • “Antecedents of Environment oriented Green HRM Practices on Organizational Performance” co-authored with Dr. Soni Agrawal presented at ISDSI-Global Conference 2021: IIM Nagpur (December 27-30, 2021)
  • A study on the adoption of the Triple Bottom-Line Approach by Select Indian Manufacturing Organizations in becoming Sustainable (December 27-30, 2021)
  • Exploring the Leadership Phenomenon in a Ecopreneurial Organization-Using a Heuristic Framework, co-authored with Dr. Sumita Ketkar presented at ISDSI-Global Conference 2021: IIM Nagpur( December 27-30, 2021)
  • Understanding Sustainability Initiatives and their Drivers among Select Indian Organizations,co-authored with Dr. Soni Agrawal presented at IMI Kolkata Research Colloquium 2021 (December 8-10, 2021
  • Ecopreneurs’ Responses to Paradoxical Challenges In India, co-authored with Dr. Sumita Ketkar presented at BAM 2020:BAM 2020 Conference In The Cloud September 2-4, 2020
  • Role Green Human Resource Management Practices on Perceived Organization Benefit and Workplace Behaviour ” co-authored with Dr. Soni Agrawal pesented at ISDSI Conference to be held from 27th to 30th December 2018 at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India.
  • “HR Analytics- The Data Driven Human Resource Management: Applications and Challenges- co-authored with Dr. P. Sengupta at the Annual International Conference 2017 on Business Analytics and Actionable Intelligence at IISWBM
  • “Green HRM: Role of HRM in Promoting Sustainability Initiatives in Organizations” presented at the Conference on Strategic Issues in Management 2017 at J.D. Birla
  • “Human Resource Practices and Organizational Ambidexterity” co-authored With Dr. S. Ketkar and presented at ‘International Conference on Strategies in Volatile and Uncertain Environment for Emerging Markets- 2017’ at IIT Delhi
  • “Achieving Employee Engagement in a Digital World through Ambidexterity” co-authored with Dr. S.Ketkar and accepted for presentation at 5th PAN-IIM World Management Conference, 2017 at IIM Lucknow
  • “Digitization and Futuristic Organizations: Implications for Human Resource Management in Indian Organizations” Accepted for presentation at 11th SDSI International Conference 2017 to be held at IIM Trichy.
  • “Employee Engagement and Corporate Sustainability: Multipronged Strategy to promote Employee pro-environmental Behaviour” co-authored with Dr. S.Ketkar Accepted for presentation at 11th SDSI International Conference 2017 to be held at IIM Trichy.

She is interested in research in the area of sustainability and is actively working on Social Enterprises in the Waste Management Industry.

  • Awards
  • Teaching
  • Subject taught- Organizational Behaviour, Recruitment and Selection, Management of Change and Strategic HRM
  • MDPs- She has been aa resource person in the Management Development Programmes conducted for GRSE, India Post, CESC, LIC , PCBL
  • FDP – She has bee a resource person for FDPs on Organizatinal Behaviour, Sustainable Change Management and Personal Effectiveness.