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Chapter II · The scholarship
Dr. Agarwal's research is across a range of disciplines — from organisational behaviour, human resource management and psychosocial safety to leadership, family business, and creative writing and methods.
These four pillars reflect the breadth and depth of Dr. Agarwal's scholarly contributions, connecting idiographic focus in organisational behaviour, innovative pedagogy, psychosocial safety and global business perspectives.
Reflexive and dialogical methods for organisational research — including the Imaginative Integrated Dialogical Approach (IIDA) and creative, fictionalised forms of academic writing.
Student-Centred Experiential Learning (SCEL) — using students' own family and lived experience as the lens through which organisational behaviour is taught.
Conceptual and applied work on leadership formation, engineering leadership, and leader–follower dynamics in an increasingly AI-mediated workplace — including the Shepherding Engineering Leadership (SEL) and Side-by-Side Leading (SSL) methods of leading people and managing organisational tasks.
Psychosocial safety, motivation and dissatisfaction, and the environmental conditions that determine whether people can speak up at work.
Barbera, F., Shi, H.X., Agarwal, A., & Edwards, M. · Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 163, 661–673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04382-7