FACULTY
Prof. Shalaka Shah
Dr. Shalaka Shah is an Assistant Dean, School of Liberal Education (Foundation Year) and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychological Sciences. Prof. Shah has been a researcher in business excellence through her work as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Business Leadership Education and Competency Development at the Steinbeis School of International Business & Entrepreneurship (SIBE), Germany. She has earned a doctorate in work-life balance and career success from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. She holds a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from SNDT, Pune, India, and another Master's in Psychology of Excellence in Business & Education from LMU, Germany. She has acquired practical skills in HR training & change management during her Master's degree in Germany.
Prof. Shah has national and international teaching experience for the last 10 years and has taught courses such as Psychology of Individual Differences, Research Methodology, Educational Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, Youth, Gender & Identity, General Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Industrial Psychology. She is an expert in competence tools such as KODE® (Diagnosis & evaluation of competence) & SCA® (Steinbeis Competence Assessment). Her primary research interests lie in work-life interface, employee well-being, motherhood & work performance, fatherhood & work-life balance, competence development in organizations, and leadership. Her secondary research interests include the socio-emotional learning of children, kindness studies, pets & personality, and migration studies. Dr. Shah has over a decade of experience in psychological testing and counselling as well. She delivers lectures, conducts corporate training, and workshops on Work-life management, Leadership, Enhancing Competencies, and Productivity.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Shah, S.S., Gandhi, P., Shinde, S. et al. (2025). Unmasking the notion of ‘Supermom’ in India: success and strain amongst earning mothers. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, 1440. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05824-6.
- Shah, S. S., Chaudhry, S., & Shinde, S. (2025). Supermoms—Tired, admired, or inspired? Decoding the impact of supermom beliefs: A study on Indian employed mothers. PLoS One, 20(4), e0321665.
- Shah, S. S. & Patki, S. M. (2020). Getting traditionally rooted Indian leadership to embrace digital leadership: challenges and way forward with reference to LMX.Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1365/s42681-020-00013-2
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Shah, S. S., & Patki, S. (2025). Understanding Political and Diplomatic Leadership and Personality Characteristics in Asia through the Lens of Political Psychology. The Future of Indian Diplomacy: Exploring Multidisciplinary Lenses, 90-104.
- Shah, S. S., & Shinde, S. (2024). An Overview of Antecedents of OCB and Recommendations for Improving It in Post-pandemic Work. Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) in India: Emerging Trends and Future Directions, 33-55.
- Jolad, S. & Shah, S. S. (2022). Food Security and Psychological Distress of Migrants during COVID-19 Lockdown. In Rajan, S. I. (Ed.). (2022). India Migration Report 2021: Migrants and Health (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287667
- Agrawal, A., Kumar, P., Shah, S.S. and Budhwar, P. (2021). Work from Home Among Start-ups in India: An Institutional Logics Perspective. In Kumar, P., Agrawal, A. and Budhwar, P. (Ed.) Work from Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, p. 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-661-220210012
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Shah, S. S., & Shinde, S. (2025, 16 January). Can Managerial Coaching influence Organizational Commitment? 10th Indian Academy of Management (INDAM). Available on: https://www.iift.ac.in/indam2025/
- Shah, S. S. (2023, 23 November). Bringing Social-emotional Learning into Focus: Insights from Middle Schoolers in India [Conference Presentation]. The Asian Conference on Education (ACE2023), Tokyo, Japan. Available on https://iafor.org/conference-report-ace2023/
- Shah, S. S., & Jolad, S. (2021, 16 August). Surviving the Waves of Lockdown: Economic & Psychological Distress of Unorganized Migrant Workers during First & Second Wave lockdown in Pune [Conference Presentation]. COVID-19, Economic Disruption and Employment and Livelihoods of Internal Migrants, The International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), India. Available on https://iimad.org/events/covid-19-economic-disruption-and-employment-and-livelihoods-of-internal-migrants/
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- Shah, S. S., Jolad, S. & Prasadh, A. (2024). Developing Children’s Scale for Social-Emotional Learning (CHISSEL) in Government Schools of Maharashtra. Available at: https://www.flame.edu.in/pdfs/conferences/developing-childrens-scale-for-social-emotional-learning-chissel.pdf
- Shah, S. S., Shrivastava, R. & Nawathe, P. (2024). Annual Student Quest Report 2024, IC3 Institute. Available at: https://ic3institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Final-SQR-fULL-Digital-.pdf
- Jolad S., Shah, S. S. & Ravi, C. (2021). Survival of migrants in a crisis: Distress of migrants left behind during COVID-19 Lockdown in Pune. NAPM and FLAME University. Available at: https://www.flame.edu.in/pdfs/faculty-publications/Distress-of-Migrants-in-Pune.pdf and https://napmindia.wordpress.com/documents-and-resources/