About

HappLab (Happiness Laboratory) is a personal lab of Prof VK Shrotryia, Senior Professor at Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.  It is initiated with a broader idea of creating database and literature to help scholars interested in the study of happiness.

HappLab aspires to become one stop platform for all those who are interested in exploring the domain of happiness and human well-being.  The HappLab team strongly believes in the philosophy of vasudhaiv kutumbakam (oneness of the world or the world is one family) hence it aims to engage with volunteers and scholars from all across the world.

Belief

Happlab believes that Employees, Customers, Society and the Management are the four pillars of an organisation and if they are happy, organisations would be happy. Employees should have high engagement and satisfaction level, customers should have the best value for their money and the CSR activities carried out by the organizations should improve well-being of the beneficiaries, and the management or promoters should have appropriate financial returns.

Members

Reema Aggrawal

Reema teaches at School of Open Learning, University of Delhi and has obtained doctoral degree from the Univ of Delhi on the relationship of Psychological Capital, Authentic Leadership & Employee Engagement. She explores the domain of positive psychology across individuals and organizations.

Upasana Dhanda

Upasana teaches at International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi. She has taught at Sri Guru Teg Bahadur College, Univ of Delhi. She completed her M Phil on the development of a tool to measure employee engagement. This 16-item tool has been used by many scholars for academic pursuits and Indian Oil Corporation is using it to assess level of engagement of their employees. She obtained Ph D in exploring the importance of people on corporate sustainability. Her interest lies in the study of organizations and their sustainability through people oriented approach.

Himanshi Kalra

Himanshi teaches at Shyamlal College, Delhi. She has taught at Dayal Singh College, University of Delhi and has obtained Ph D on the Behavioral Biases as evidenced in the Indian stock market. She is exploring different dimensions of firm performance and their relationship with other functional areas.

Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh

Shashank teaches at Sri Ram College of Commerce and has completed his doctoral work from the University of Delhi on developing alternatives to GDP for better assessment of human progress. His interest lies in tracking happiness data across globe and the publications in the domain of Human Well-Being. He regularly contributes to policycircle.org on different policy related issues.

Anuradha Sarin

Anuradha is Associate Professor at Acharya Narendra Dev College, Univ of Delhi. She is working on Happy Work Practices as followed by different organisations, more particularly in the dairy sector.

Swati Khanna

Swati teaches at Bharti College, University of Delhi. She obtained her MPhil from Univ of Delhi and at present she is exploring different aspects of employee well-being and their impact on organizational performance.

Kasturi Saikia

Kasturi teaches at Dibrugarh Hanumanbux Surajmal Kanoi Commerce College, Assam. She obtained her Ph D from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong on exploring different dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil Refineries. She has also explored the level of life satisfaction and job satisfaction of employees and the beneficiaries.

Gitika Talukdar

Gitika at present is working in Australia. She obtained her Ph D from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong on studying Work-Life Balance. She has taught in different institutions of repute in Assam and elsewhere.

Pooja Bansal

Pooja teaches at Satyawati College, Univ of Delhi and has obtained M Phil on studying the impact of happiness curriculum on different stakeholders in Delhi. She is pursuing her doctorate from the Univ of Delhi.

Priyanka Yadav

Priyanka teaches at Shyamlal College, University of Delhi. Previously she has taught at Dayal Singh College, Univ of Delhi and has obtained M Phil on the study of CSR disclosure by Indian firms before and after 2014 (when it was made mandatory through the Indian Companies Act). She is pursuing her doctorate from the University of Delhi.

Vanshika Jain

Vanshika teaches at Lady Sri Ram College, Univ of Delhi and at present exploring the role of money and finance in the study of happiness and well-being.

Khem Chand

Khem Chand teaches at Hansraj College, Univ of Delhi. He is studying life satisfaction of special individuals across geographies.

Jyoti Yadav

Jyoti is Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics and has obtained M Phil from the Department of Commerce, University of Delhi.

Poonam

Poonam is teaching at Shyamlal College, University of Delhi and is exploring different dimensions of Happiness at workplaces.

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