Sunday, March 21, 2010

Udai Pareek - the Stalwart in HR & OD




Prof. Udai Pareek who was the Chairman of the FRED Governing Council, Mysore, Chairman of the HR Labs of EMPI, New Delhi and distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Health Management, Jaipur, India is no longer with us. He passed away yesterday i.e 21-Mar-2010 in Jaipur.

He was the only Asian to become Fellow of the National Training Laboratories (which category was later discontinued by NTL), and the only Fellow from India of the Society for the Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). He was Fellow of the Indian Society of Extension Education.
He was US-AID HRD/OD Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Government of Indonesia; L&T Professor of Organizational Behavior, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Director, School of Basic Sciences and Humanities, University of Udaipur; Director in SIET Institute, Hyderabad; and Professor at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and the National Institute of Health Administration and Education, New Delhi. He was HRD Advisor to the Bank of Baroda.

He was Editor of the Journal of Health Management, and had been Consulting Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. He was on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Human Resource Development International, Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, Indian Journal of Training and Development, Human Capital, Abhigyan, IBAT Journal of Management, LBS Journal of Management, Prestige Journal of Management, Journal of Community Guidance and Research etc. He was the first editor of Vikalpa, and had been on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization and Group Studies, Psychologia.

He has authored or edited about 50 books and more than 350 papers. He has been given several national awards and has been cited in a large number of national and international biographical reference books.