Abhijeet K. Vadera

Abhijeet K. Vadera serves as Lee Kong Chian Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources at Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business, where he also leads the SMU Resilient Workforces Institute Pillar and coordinates Ethics courses. His academic trajectory includes progression from Assistant Professor (2010-2015) at Indian School of Business to current full Professorship at SMU since 2025, following Associate Professorship (2019-2024) and Assistant Professorship (2015-2019) at the same institution.

His educational background features:

• Ph.D. in Business Administration (Organizational Behavior), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2010)
• Post-Graduate Programme in Management, Indian School of Business (2003)
• Bachelors of Engineering (Civil), VJTI, University of Mumbai (2001)

Vadera's research centers on ethical and unethical organizational behaviors, with dual focus on constructive deviance (whistle-blowing, voice, creativity) and destructive deviance (unethical behaviors, white-collar crime, organizational corruption). His work integrates leadership, cross-cultural management, and positive organizational scholarship through frameworks examining moral identity, status dynamics, and constraint-induced decision-making. Current investigations explore vigilante identity formation and gendered pathways to voice self-efficacy.

Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals consistent exploration of ethical decision-making under constraints, with 40% examining whistleblowing mechanisms and 33% investigating voice behaviors. Temporal trends show increasing focus on future-of-work implications (2022-2025) while maintaining core interest in moral psychology foundations. Methodologically, 73% employ quantitative approaches with longitudinal and experimental designs dominating recent work.

His scientific recognition includes:

• LKCSB Excellence in Teaching Award (2022-2023)
• Poets & Quants 50 Best Undergraduate Professors (2022)
• Two Singapore MOE AcRF grants (Tier 1: 2019-2021; Tier 2: 2020-2023)
• Academy of Management MOC Division Officer (2017-2021)

Vadera actively mentors doctoral candidates including Belinda BOEY Kit Wah (PhD in Business), while securing significant research funding through competitive MOE grants. His teaching excellence spans undergraduate and postgraduate programs, evidenced by multiple Dean's Teaching Honour List recognitions and category-specific teaching awards. Current projects integrate with the SMU Resilient Workforces Institute to examine ethical infrastructure in rapidly transforming Asian workplaces.

He leads research teams within the Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources department focusing on ethical decision architecture, with recent collaborations spanning Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Journal of Applied Psychology outlets. Current initiatives examine cross-cultural manifestations of constructive deviance in ASEAN business contexts.