Vitae of Dr. C.N.Daftuar with his unique contributions By Prof. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. Chief Mentor, Counselor, Coach and CMD Salahkaar Consultants & Psycho metric Incorporated, Pune, India
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.L.tt. Dr. Daftuar, P.G. IIT Kharagpur and D.Litt. is an internationally known specialist in the areas of Psychometric Testing, Competency Mapping, Assessment Center, Sensitivity Training, Spiritual Intelligence in Management, OD, HRD, Organizational Behavior, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Change Management, Ergonomics & Social Psychology. He is basically an OB, OD & HRD professional by education and training. A product of the Patna University (MA), India, and I.I.T. Kharagpur, India, where he obtained his Honors Degrees at both graduate and postgraduate levels and his D.I.I.T Diploma (IIT., Kharagpur). Dr. Daftuar is the only D. Litt. in OB in India. Currently he is taking interest in school psychology as a social responsibility.
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.L.tt. -2 A recipient of the prestigious title Man of Year-1997 by the ABI, USA and quoted thrice, in Marquis WHO S WHO among world eminent scholars. He has been the HOD, Psychology, M.S. University, Baroda, India He won several awards (including Times Research Foundation Award, 1985, and Distinguished Leadership Award by ABI, USA) He has 40+ years of Consulting, training, teaching & research experiences. He was selected a National Associate of the University Grant Commission (UGC) at an early age of 28 years. He has been visiting scholar/faculty to several national and international institutions like the University of Technology, Loughbourough, U.K. (twice), University of Cambridge, U.K., Railway Staff College, Baroda (Several times), Bank of Baroda Staff College (several times), Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad (ran a big consulting project), IIT, Kanpur, Academy of HRD, etc., to name a few.
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C.N.Daftuar, D.L.tt.-3 Prof. Daftuar has published 3 books, 6 course material for P-G Diploma courses including one for the ISTD diploma course and over 100 research based articles in Indian and International academic Journals & Management Magazines. He has guided over a dozen PhDs. and post-doctoral students as also several prestigious Research, Training and Consultancy projects. He has also constructed and published about two dozen behavioral and psychological tests and HRD/training tools. Besides being a consultant trainer to several organizations (The list runs like Who s- Who of the Global 100, Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. He has participated in numerous International and National seminars and conferences and had the honor of presiding over many of them.
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C.N.Daftuar, D.L.tt.-4 Prof. Daftuar has edited research journals like, Behaviorometric, ASHRAM News Letter and has been associated with several other journals as advisor or consulting editor. He is the founder Chairman of the Association of Stress Research and Management (ASHRAM) and The Council of Behavioral Research. He was also the Western Regional Chairman of the Indian Association of the Applied Psychology. His areas of current interest of research and intervention span a wide variety of subjects with special focus on Emotional Intelligence, Spirituality in management and Psychology, Stress and Trauma, Psychometric profiling, Competency Mapping for selection and recruitment, T-Groups for Change Management, etc. After leaving the M. S. University of Baroda as Professor and the HOD of Psychology in 2002, he is engaged full time in management consulting..
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C.N.Daftuar, D.Litt.-5 Dr. Daftuar is also a subject-matter expert on Change Management where he has worked with reputed companies, helping them increase people engagement and meet organizational objectives through effective changes in the system and people interaction. In this context, Dr. Daftuar can claim an unique distinction of conducting about 45 groups of Sensitivity Training (T-Groups / PGL) in one company single-handed in a time span of about two and half years and again for a full one year. This kind of unique experience (i.e. 45 groups in one company and single handed) is unique at the global level as well. To the best of our knowledge no one in the world let alone in India can claim this distinction. Apart from this, his method (developed by him) is also unique. He puts in lot of spirituality in the program including meditation techniques. This method achieved spectacular results. Some of the groups formed in this series of programs are still functioning in the company after 20 years ( Schaffler India, Vadodara, a German MNC ). Above that, he specializes in in-house sensitivity training. Another highlight of his method is that he does not leave any issue raised in the program by the participants unresolved.
A Brief Note to Introduce Dr. C.N.Daftuar, D.Litt.-6 Dr. Daftuar has managed to handle large scale assignments on Competency Mapping and Assessment centers. Some of these assignments were as large as to cover 500 to 1000 senior and top management employees to the junior level employees. He is assisted by a big team of his associate consultants. Jindal Steel and Power Ltd., Tata Motors are two such giant among other companies where Salahkaar Consultants have conducted Assessment Centers spread all over India under the leadership of Dr. Daftuar.
The list of the FIRSTS by Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. 1. Was the first person to opt for Educational Psychology at MA level when Patna University started teaching the subject in 1961. Later shifted to I/O Psychology and IR in 1963 when joined IIT, Kharagpur (Kgp) for a P-G Diploma in I/O Psychology and IR (1963-64). 2. While in MA, he did the first work on what was later known as Experimental Social Psychology in India. His work was Effect of Prestige Suggestions on Decision Process. This work was done under the guidance of Professor S.M. Mohasin 3. While at IIT(Kgp) for his Ph.D. wrote a research article A study of task- structure and centrality in a management decision making game (1967). Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, 5(1), 11-19. It was the first ever work in India on this topic and was perhaps the first work on Experimental OB/Social Psychology in India using business games. To the best of our knowledge the type of this work has not been replicated in this country till the day.
The list of the FIRSTS by Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. 4. While in IIT (Kgp) he got interested in ergonomics and he first time conducted a research on what is now known as Architectural Psychology (1963-64). 5. His first publication was in an American journal called Engineering Psychology. His article, Application of Carburiser s Human Scale to the layout of workspace for typewriting job (1966). Journal of Engineering Psychology (USA) was the precursor of Architectural Psychology (world-wide). 6. He also wrote an article expounding the concept of Architectural Psychology and IIT (Kgp) designed its first course on Architectural Psychology for their B.Arch. Students as confirmed by Late Dr. A. Chatterjee (A professor of IIT, Kgp.). The paper was: Some psychological problems for building designers: A human engineering point of view (1971). Indian Journal of psychology, 46(1), 163-171.
The list of the FIRSTS by Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. 7. The long series of ergonomic studies by Dr. Daftuar brought him international recognition in terms of an Invitation by Prof. Alphonse Chapanis one of the founding fathers of the modern Ergonomics to participate in the first ever international symposium on Cross Cultural Human Factors Engineering at Tilburg (1971), Netherlands, sponsored by the NATO. 8. His symposium paper, was again the first on the theme of cross cultural Ergonomics in India and as (named) published entitled : The role of human factors engineering in under-developed countries, with special reference to India, in A Chapanis (Ed.) Ethnic Variables in Human Factors Engineering. The John Hopkins University Press, 91-113. He was the only invitee from India and one of the three invitees from Asia (two from Japan).
The list of the FIRSTS by Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. 9. By mid 1070s Dr. Daftuar had attained the status of a third world expert in Ergonomics. 10. In the pre-independence India, Air-Force did some studies on the alphanumeric characters for the Royal Air Force to designing altimeter for Royal Air Force fighters. After that (a long gap) Dr. Daftuar broke the lull in 1981 when he published his research entitled Legibility of types faces (1981, Journal of Psychological Researches, 25(2), 108-110). USA. 11. Another big credit of doing FIRST goes to Dr. Daftuar for starting a NEW, the first ever, full fledged PG Diploma course of HRD in the Indian university system in 1983 under the department of Psychology of the M. S. University of Baroda. And that created a history.
The list of the FIRSTS by Dr. C. N. Daftuar, D.Litt. 12. Dr. Daftuar has been the only Psychologist in India to receive the coveted Times Research Foundation Award in 1985. 13. Created and produced the first Indian research based psychometric test to measure human personality with a new concept called Enneagram (a Sufi concept). 1999. To date this remain the only test of the Indian origin. 14.Created the first test of Spiritual Intelligence-SI (now in the third version) and validated it on Indian Managers, house wives and students (2001). To the best of our knowledge it is claimed to be the first test of SI in the world. The third version is named as SQit 15.Created the first Indian test of Emotional Intelligence (now in forth version) and validated on Indian Managers (2001). The third version is called EQit. The original version was based on Bar-On model.