Understanding Psychology in the Context of Relationship, Community, Workplace and Culture (PDF)

University in India and Lecturer (Koushi) at Nagasaki Junior College in Japan. In addition, she provides cross-cultural communication training seminars to business executives and US military personnel. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Ajay K. Jain (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) is Full Professor of Organizational Design and Behaviour at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. He is also Visiting Professor to several international universities including Aarhus University, Denmark; IULM University, Milan, Italy; University of Free State, South Africa; and Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and Ranchi. He has published 45 research articles in journals including Journal of Managerial Psychology, Personnel Review, Journal of Knowledge Management, Psychology and Marketing, Personnel Review, Journal of Management History, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Leadership are among others. He is Recipient of best paper awards from National Academy of Psychology India and Emerald for his research papers. He has received postdoctoral fellowships from Aarhus University, Denmark, and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He delivers training programmes for companies including ABB, Nestle, Taijin, Denso, Suzuki, etc. His training sessions on leadership from within and emotional intelligence have received appreciation from the senior and top managers. He teaches courses on organizational design, leading transformations, emotional intelligence and research methods. He has research interests in the field of distributed leadership, emotional intelligence, organizational citizenship behaviour, employee silence, knowledge management, career orientation, and stress and well-being.
Shabana Bano is Associate Professor of psychology at Banaras Hindu University, India. She received her Ph.D. at Banaras Hindu University. She has been Shastri Fellow at the University of Guelph (Canada). Her research interests are focused on issues of social identity, acculturation, mutual attitudes and intercultural relations of Hindu and Muslim groups in India. Different forms of schooling, such as Sanskrit and Quranic, and their influence on social-psychological development of children and adolescents have been a central theme of her research. She has widely published in scientific journals and edited books in these areas. She is Co-author of a textbook, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which has been published in Hindi. She seeks to apply her research findings for the promotion of harmonious intercultural relationships in the multicultural society of India. In the past two decades, she has participated in cross-cultural research projects based in Canada, Germany, Switzerland and USA.