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Mani P. Sam

Mani P. Sam Email-ID: manipsam@rajagiri.edu

<p><span style="color:null"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:#fbfbfb">He has 32+ years of multi-functional corporate experience. Last assignment was as Vice President (Operations) with CAMS. He was associated with the first B2B auction portal (auctionindia.com) as Vice President. He was Vice President (Special Projects) with CSS Group and was a Director on Board of its Polish subsidiary CSS sp.zo.o Poland. He also worked with &nbsp;TVS Electronics Ltd, Tat Telecom Ltd., Crompton Greaves and the Murugappa Group. He is also UGC NET qualified in management.</span></span></span></span></p>

Educational Qualification

  • B.E. R.E.C, Bhopal (MANIT)
  • D.I.I.Sc (I.I.Sc,Bangalore)
  • PGDM.(I.I.M. Calcutta),
  • FCMA (Institute of Cost Accountants of India)

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

  • Vice President - Operations of a Chennai based Financial Services company (CAMS)
  • Vice President, NIBM & Advisor – Rockon Construction Systems
  • Vice President (Special Projects)& Director on board of CSS sp. zo. o Poland- Cybernet Slash Support , Chennai     
  • VP - AuctionIndia.com/Head - Telecom SBU- TVS Electronics Ltd,  Chennai  
  • Cybernet Slash Support, Chennai,VP – auctionIndia.com
  • General Manager – Recruitment -Chemplast Sanmar Ltd 
  • General Manager -OMAM Consultants Pvt. Ltd,                    
  • National Head of Sales, Marketing, Customer Support -Crompton Greaves Ltd 
  • Sr Manager - Product Management & Exports- Tatafone
  • Project Management- Facit Asia Ltd
  • Finance & Project Management - Murugappa Group

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

  • Project Management, Revenue Management, Future of Work & Organizations of the Future
  • Very keen on promoting Business Simulations as an effective mode for learning (MDP and FDP)

Consultancy

  • Consultancy Projects with CESIM for Project Management (6- 7 May, 2025)
  • MDP- STFL on “Productivity Improvement Techniques for Executives (January 16, 2025)

Journal Publication

  • Babu, D., Sam, M.P., & Ahmed Khan, I. (2025). Looking through the lens of gender difference: Self-esteem and job satisfaction of Indian bpo employees. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, 29(S2), 1-11. [ABDC B]
  • Mani P. Sam & Abhilash G. Nambudiri  (January 15, 2020) "Sourcing Dilemma: Building Quality at the Source"  SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529711868. 
  • Mani P. Sam, Imran Ahmed Khan, Deepak Babu (September 2, 2019) "Impact of job location on relationship between job satisfaction and self‐esteem of employees: Evidence from the Indian BPOs".DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2006 . [SCOPUS Q3 & ABDC B]
  • Outsourcing dilemma and after-effects at Grand Insurance Company, SAGE Business Cases (Online ISBN: 9781526459862 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526459862, (2019)
  • Ivey case : Bikes & Co. Ltd.: Business Turnaround - Product Number: 9B19M086, Publication Date: 08/15/2019, Length: 10 pages (9 pages of text) Product Type: Case (GenExp) (https://www.iveycases.com/ProductView.aspx?id=104897)
  • Mani P Sam, Imran Ahmed Khan, Deepak Babu,(May 2020)Journal of Public Affairs, Impact of job location on relationship between job satisfaction and self‐esteem of employees. DOI: 10.1002/pa.2006 [SCOPUS Q3 & ABDC B]
  • Mani P Sam, Abhilash G Nambudiri,(April 2020) SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals DOI: http://Sourcing dilemma: Building quality at the source 
  • Mani P Sam, Issac K. Varghese (September 2020) "Automated Underwriting Solutions – A Disruptive Innovation in the Insurance Industry”. The Management Accountant
  • Mani P Sam, Issac K. Varghese (November 2020)"Indonesian journal of Business & Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25134/ijbe.v3i1.3522

Conferences / MDPs Organised / FDPs Organised

  • Teaching Session- Business Model Canvas-Sessions at MANIT, Bhopal (February 10, 2025)
  • MDP- Project Management-Simulation (February 19, 2025)
  • MDP- One Day MDP at SIFL (January 6, 2025)
  • FDP- Experiential Methods on 3 days (2024)
  • FDP- CUSAT Teaching with Simulations (October 3-6, 2024)
  • FDP- Teaching with Simulations- ASB (July 29, 2024)

Workshops / Training Attended

  • Big Data Analysis Training program conducted by CDS (April 28-May 22, 2025)

Professional Memberships

  • Member-Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  • Member – System Dynamics Society
  • Member-Indian Academy of Management
  • Fellow Institute of Cost accountants of India

Awards And Achievements

  • Member- Editorial Advisory Board – Emerald Emerging Market case Studies

International Exposure

  • Delivered lectures at Vives University of Applied Sciences - International Teaching Week (Dec 2021)

Administrative Roles

  • Co-ordinator - Centre for Excellence in Experiential Learning (2023-24)
  • Co-ordinator - CESIM Centre for Excellence _Simulations (2022-23)
  • Institute Innovation Council – Member since inception
  • Area Chair 2020-2023

Other Details

  • Peer Reviewer- AU Hybrid International Conference 2024 (Conference Proceedings)
  • Peer Reviewer- Manuscript ID EEMCS-07-2023-0242.R2 for the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies
  •  Peer Reviewer- 42nd International System Dynamics Conference (Conference Proceedings)
  • Peer Reviewer- Computer Applications in Engineering Education
  • Peer Reviewer- Asian Journal of Management Cases