Ritu Tripathi

Dr. Ritu Tripathi’s research interests include culture and work motivation, cross-cultural psychology and methodological issues in cross-cultural research. Specifically, her research focuses on how the experience and expression of psychological phenomena such as achievement motivation, autonomy and emotions, vary across diverse national cultures. She uses survey methods and social psychological experiments to explore her research problems. Her research is conducted among employees of multinational corporations and this makes the work relevant to developing culturally-sensitive human resource management and organizational behaviour practices in global work organizations. She has published and presented her research in established peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She currently serves as the Associate Editor of the South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management.

Publications

Tripathi, R. and Kumar, A. (2020), Humanistic Leadership in the Tata group: The Synergy in Personal Values, Organisational Strategy and National Cultural Ethos, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, 27(4), 607-626. Tripathi, R., Cervone, D, & Savani, K. (2018) Are the Motivational Effects of Autonomy-Supportive Conditions Universal? Contrasting Results among Indians and Americans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 44 ( 9), 1287-1301.

​Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Hilpert, P., Cantarero, K., Frackowiak, T., …Tripathi, R., ... Yoo, G. (2017). Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(4), 577-592.

Tripathi, R. (2016). Motivation and values. In R.C.Tripathi and R. Dwivedi (Eds.), Organisational Studies in India (pp.37-60). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Hilpert,P., Randall, A.K., Sorokowski, P., Atkins, D.C., Sorokowska, A.,…Tripathi, R.,…Yoo, G. (2016). The associations of dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction vary between and within nations: A 35-nation study. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1106. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01106.

Tripathi, R (2014). The science and art of learning about cultures: Descriptions, explanations, and reflections In conversation with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living. IIMB Management Review, 26, 122-129

Cervone, D. and Tripathi, R. (2009). The moral functioning of the person as a whole: On moral psychology and personality science. In D. Narvaez and D K. Lapsley (Eds.), Moral Self, Identity, and Character: Prospects for New Field of Study (pp.30-51). NY:Cambridge University Press.

Tripathi, R. and Cervone, D. (2008) Cultural variations in achievement motivation despite equivalent motivational strength: Motivational concerns among Indian and American corporate professionals. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 456–464.

Representative Conference Presentations/Invited Talks

Tripathi, R. (2020) Panelist, ‘What the Editors Say’, Management Research in the Asian context: Opportunities and Challenges, Workshop hosted by BML Munjal University in Partnership with: Indian Academy of Management, Gurgaon, India, Jan 7th, 2020

Tripathi, R. (2019) Panelist, ‘Humanistic Leadership in the Indian Context: Indigenous Values at Tata Group in India’ Panel title: Global Comparisons: Examining Humanistic Leadership from Indigenous Lens, in Academy of International Business, June 24-27, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Tripathi, R., Savani, K, Cervone, D. (2016). Are Motivational Effects of Autonomy Universal? Contrasting Results among Indians and Americans. Academy of Management, Anaheim,USA, Aug 5th-9th, 2016.

Tripathi, R (2016) (Paper Session Chair) Multiple Pathways to Motivation. Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA, Aug 5th-9th, 2016.

Tripathi, R. (2016). Investigating the Cross-cultural Dynamics of Work Motivation: An Experimental Approach, in Silver Jubilee (25th) Convention of National Academy of Psychology, Allahabad, India, Feb 2nd-5th, 2016.

Tripathi, R (2016) (Symposium Convener) Organizational Behavior in a Global Context: The Multiplex of Themes, Theories, and Methodologies. Silver Jubilee (25th) Convention of National Academy of Psychology, Allahabad, India, Feb 2nd-5th, 2016.

Teaching

Ritu teaches the core course of the OB/HRM area, Managing People and Performance in Organizations and her elective Cross-Cultural Management. She teaches short modules on Cultural Competence for Global Business Managers, Socio-cultural Aspects of Doing Business in India, to exchange students and business executives from around the world, as well as to Indian participants engaged in global assignments. These have included companies such as Accenture, Siemens, Bosch, Yahoo!, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Goldman Sachs, Atlas Copco, Stanley Black and Decker. She also served as visiting faculty in the George Town-ESADE Global Executive MBA programme from 2012-2014 for the Indian module of the course.

Awards

• 2014 - South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management Excellence in Peer Review Award
• 2014 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Outstanding Reviewer Award (Organizational Behavior Division)
• 2013 - Dewang Mehta Foundation Award for Best Professor in Human Resource Management
• 2012 - Visiting Research Scholarship. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• 2010 - University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate Student Council Travel Award
• 2008 - Dean’s Scholar Award, University of Illinois at Chicago. The Dean's Scholar Award is the most distinguished award that UIC offers to graduate students, in recognition of a student's scholarly achievement
• 2007 - University of Illinois at Chicago Graduate Student Council Travel Award
• 2007 - Nominated for the Christopher Keys Award for Early Outstanding Research, Department of Psychology, UIC
• 2006 - Award-winning essay in the UIC Office of International Students sponsored by International Education Week
• 2003 - Indian School of Business Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contribution
• 2001 - University Grants Commission (India) Eligibility for Lectureship in Psychology

Service

Administrative Service to the Institute:

2020-current Member, Office of Diversity and Inclusion

2019-current Member, IIMB Institutional Review Board (IRB)

2018-2020 Member, Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP) Committee

2016-2019 Chair, Behavioural Science Lab

2016-2019 Member, Centre for Software and Information Technology Management (CSITM) Committee

2015-2019 Member, CPP Internal Ethics Committee (for review of ethical guidelines in human subject research)

2014-2017 Member, Internal Committee (Gender Sensitivity)

2014-2017 Member, Post Graduate Program in Public Policy (PGPPM) Committee

2013-2018 Member, IIMB Campus Creche Committee

2012-2014 Member, IIMB Admissions Committee

Professional Service:

• Sep 2020 - Associate Editor, Psychological Studies
• March 2015-Associate Editor, South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management
• Ad-hoc reviewer: Cross-cultural and Strategic Management, Academy of Management Conference, Journal of Research in Personality, IIMB Management Review, Psychological Studies, IMR Doctoral Conference, Psychology and Developing Societies
• Member: Psi-Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, Academy of Management, Association for Psychological Science

Education

• PhD (Psychology), University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• MA (Psychology), University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• MA (Psychology), University of Allahabad, India
• BA, University of Allahabad, India