Professor (Organizational Behaviour & Strategic Management), Xavier’s Labour Research Institute (XLRI)

Prof. Madhukar Shukla  has worked with National Productivity Council and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, before joining XLRI in 1990. During 1993-94, he was a Visiting Professor at ESADE, Barcelona.Prof. Shukla has keen interest in the area of social sector and social entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Advisory Council of University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (founded by Ashoka Foundation and Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University). He was also the Conference Coordinator for the 1st National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship 2009. He was invited on the Jury for the Microfinance Award ’07, instituted by PlaNet Finance, and has been an assessor for the India NGO Awards 2007 & 2008. Currently he also serves on the core-team of Aspen Institute’s Teaching Innovation Program (India), which aims to incorporate the socio-environmental content in the management-school education.
Madhukar is also the President, National HRD Network (Eastern Region), and a member of CII’s National Committee on Skill Development and HR. Earlier, he has served as Dean (Research) of the Indian Society of Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS), as a member of the Academic Council of Academy of HRD, and of the expert panel of Public Enterprise Selection Board for The Study of Competencies for CEOs.

He has authored more than 30 papers to professional journals in these areas and has published three books – Competing through Knowledge: Building a Learning Organisation (Response Books, 1997), Understanding Organisations (Prentice-Hall of India, 1996), and Developing Leadership in Global Era: HRD Perspectives and Initiatives (co-edited with Uma Jain and Dr Udai Pareek, McMillan India, 2005).