Madhur Kulkarni
Biographic Data
| ID | 225239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madhur Kulkarni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madhur |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulkarni |
| SIGNATURE | KULKARNI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1564-3650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Organizational Burden or Catalyst for Ideas? Disability as a Driver of Cognitive Flexibility and Creativity
Disability is typically perceived negatively, and employees with a disability are viewed as a burden that requires accommodation. We draw from creativity theory to challenge this view and propose that disability can make workplace imperfections salient, can function as a situational cue that increases coworkers’ cognitive flexibility, and thus can be a catalyst for creativity. We apply a multi-study, multi-method approach to test these prediction…
The anti-DEI agenda: Navigating the impact of Trump’s second term on diversity, equity and inclusion
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Indirectly Disabled yet Empowered by Revealing Vulnerability
Laura is the mother of a child with autism. She is also a university professor and a disability researcher. She reflects, alongside other disability researchers, on how she cares for her disabled child and simultaneously navigates academia. Laura initially complied with ableist norms by making her struggles invisible and trialled taking on a managerial role in which she failed. During this journey, she felt indirectly disabled through her child. …
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings
This article points to the mechanism that reinforces neurotypical norms and inequalities through the internalization of stigma associated with neurodiversity and social class within educational and occupational settings. We draw upon the literatures of neurodiversity, neurotypical norms and the internalization of stigma. We report on two studies conducted in France - one survey-based (324 neurodivergent students) and another interview-based (25 n…
Narrating a Prototypical Disabled Employee
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts
Drawing upon the functional account of emotions—the view that emotions can facilitate adaptive responses—I analyze how Javed Abidi harnessed moral anger to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in India. The data comprise articles obtained from digital archives covering the period from 1993, when Abidi began his work, to 2018, when he passed away. Findings suggest that harnessing moral anger can facilitate social change through two mecha…
Conceptualizing disability accommodation device acceptance by workgroups through a sociomaterial lens
Purpose The provision of accommodation devices is said to aid organizational inclusion of employees with a disability. However, devices that are meant to enable might only partially facilitate productivity, independence, and social inclusion if these devices are not accepted by the user's workgroup. The authors outline a conceptual model of accommodation device acceptance through a sociomaterial lens to suggest conditions influencing workgroup de…
“Running away is easy; it's the leaving that's hard”: Career enactment by former military officers
Hiding but hoping to be found: Workplace Disclosure Dilemmas of Individuals With Hidden Disabilities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe workplace disclosure dilemmas of individuals with hidden mental health conditions who have privately accepted their mental health condition (anxiety and/or depression), but have chosen not to disclose it in their respective workplaces. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with 15 individuals who experience anxiety and/or depression. These individuals work across diverse organizatio…
Earnings of persons with disabilities: Who earns more (less) from entrepreneurial pursuit
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship …
Holding on to let go: Identity work in discontinuous and involuntary career transitions
This study examined the identity work processes of severely disabled soldiers who faced discontinuous and involuntary career transitions. As these individuals engaged in rehabilitation and vocational training at a military-affiliated facility, their identity transitions were not marked by deletions of past identity elements or reference groups. Instead, their transitions involved collectively and contextually edited imaginations of the future tha…
On the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations: A review and research agenda
Human resource practitioners play a crucial role in promoting equitable treatment of persons with disabilities, and practitioner's decisions should be guided by solid evidence‐based research. We offer a systematic review of the empirical research on the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations, using Stone and Colella's seminal theoretical model of the factors influencing the treatment of persons with disabilities in work organizat…
The shaping of sustainable careers post hearing loss: Toward greater understanding of adult onset disability, disability identity, and career transitions
Through this interview-based study with 40 respondents in the United States we have outlined enablers of career transitions and sustainable careers for professionals who have experienced severe hearing loss as adults. To sustain careers after adult onset disability, respondents engaged in a quest for meaning and big picture answers to ‘who am I?’ and ‘am I still successful?’ This included redefining themselves – e.g. I am now both a person with a…
Meaning-making through research
Purpose In outlining the author’s experiences as a researcher and as an individual who engages with persons with a disability, the author wonders what meaningful research means when research subjects are people that society lumps together, largely views as stigmatized, and does not seem to understand. The author also notes how the research journey has impacted the author as an individual in rather unexpected ways. The paper aims to discuss this i…
Workplace inclusion of persons with a disability: Comparison of Indian and German multinationals
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on human resource systems with work on disability management practices to outline how multinationals across India and Germany are engaged in efforts to increase workplace inclusion of persons with a disability. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with respondents from multinational corporations in India and Germany were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed. Findings Emp…
Language‐based diversity and faultlines in organizations
Language‐based diversity is a relatively understudied area within diversity research. Drawing upon the social identity‐based fault lines literature, the present paper describes the effects of language‐based diversity within organizations operating in India. Interview‐based findings indicate that organizationally mandated languages are occasionally disregarded by employees in both national and multinational organizations. Respondents noted how eve…
Childhood victimization, negative mood regulation, and adult PTSD severity
The Validity and Clinical Utility of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Afghanistan
This study examined the validity and utility of PTSD among 320 adults in Afghanistan. Findings support the validity of PTSD in this cultural context: PTSD symptoms were highly prevalent, shared common variance, and correlated as expected with exposure to traumatic stress. However, only limited support was found for the clinical utility of PTSD. Other types of psychiatric symptomatology, including depression and a culturally specific measure of ge…
Beyond trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology: Bridging research and practice with war-affected populations
This article examines the centrality of trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology (TFPE) in research with war-affected populations. The authors question the utility of the dominant focus on posttraumatic stress disorder and other disorders of Western psychiatry, and they identify a set of critical research foci related to mental health work with communities affected by political violence. Core assumptions of TFPE and its roots in logical positivism…
The shaping of sustainable careers post hearing loss: Toward greater understanding of adult onset disability, disability identity, and career transitions
Through this interview-based study with 40 respondents in the United States we have outlined enablers of career transitions and sustainable careers for professionals who have experienced severe hearing loss as adults. To sustain careers after adult onset disability, respondents engaged in a quest for meaning and big picture answers to ‘who am I?’ and ‘am I still successful?’ This included redefining themselves – e.g. I am now both a person with a…
Workplace inclusion of persons with a disability: Comparison of Indian and German multinationals
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on human resource systems with work on disability management practices to outline how multinationals across India and Germany are engaged in efforts to increase workplace inclusion of persons with a disability. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with respondents from multinational corporations in India and Germany were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed. Findings Emp…
Holding on to let go: Identity work in discontinuous and involuntary career transitions
This study examined the identity work processes of severely disabled soldiers who faced discontinuous and involuntary career transitions. As these individuals engaged in rehabilitation and vocational training at a military-affiliated facility, their identity transitions were not marked by deletions of past identity elements or reference groups. Instead, their transitions involved collectively and contextually edited imaginations of the future tha…
The Validity and Clinical Utility of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Afghanistan
This study examined the validity and utility of PTSD among 320 adults in Afghanistan. Findings support the validity of PTSD in this cultural context: PTSD symptoms were highly prevalent, shared common variance, and correlated as expected with exposure to traumatic stress. However, only limited support was found for the clinical utility of PTSD. Other types of psychiatric symptomatology, including depression and a culturally specific measure of ge…
The anti-DEI agenda: Navigating the impact of Trump’s second term on diversity, equity and inclusion
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings
This article points to the mechanism that reinforces neurotypical norms and inequalities through the internalization of stigma associated with neurodiversity and social class within educational and occupational settings. We draw upon the literatures of neurodiversity, neurotypical norms and the internalization of stigma. We report on two studies conducted in France - one survey-based (324 neurodivergent students) and another interview-based (25 n…
Hiding but hoping to be found: Workplace Disclosure Dilemmas of Individuals With Hidden Disabilities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe workplace disclosure dilemmas of individuals with hidden mental health conditions who have privately accepted their mental health condition (anxiety and/or depression), but have chosen not to disclose it in their respective workplaces. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with 15 individuals who experience anxiety and/or depression. These individuals work across diverse organizatio…
Language‐based diversity and faultlines in organizations
Language‐based diversity is a relatively understudied area within diversity research. Drawing upon the social identity‐based fault lines literature, the present paper describes the effects of language‐based diversity within organizations operating in India. Interview‐based findings indicate that organizationally mandated languages are occasionally disregarded by employees in both national and multinational organizations. Respondents noted how eve…
Meaning-making through research
Purpose In outlining the author’s experiences as a researcher and as an individual who engages with persons with a disability, the author wonders what meaningful research means when research subjects are people that society lumps together, largely views as stigmatized, and does not seem to understand. The author also notes how the research journey has impacted the author as an individual in rather unexpected ways. The paper aims to discuss this i…
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts
Drawing upon the functional account of emotions—the view that emotions can facilitate adaptive responses—I analyze how Javed Abidi harnessed moral anger to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in India. The data comprise articles obtained from digital archives covering the period from 1993, when Abidi began his work, to 2018, when he passed away. Findings suggest that harnessing moral anger can facilitate social change through two mecha…
Earnings of persons with disabilities: Who earns more (less) from entrepreneurial pursuit
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship …
Indirectly Disabled yet Empowered by Revealing Vulnerability
Laura is the mother of a child with autism. She is also a university professor and a disability researcher. She reflects, alongside other disability researchers, on how she cares for her disabled child and simultaneously navigates academia. Laura initially complied with ableist norms by making her struggles invisible and trialled taking on a managerial role in which she failed. During this journey, she felt indirectly disabled through her child. …
Conceptualizing disability accommodation device acceptance by workgroups through a sociomaterial lens
Purpose The provision of accommodation devices is said to aid organizational inclusion of employees with a disability. However, devices that are meant to enable might only partially facilitate productivity, independence, and social inclusion if these devices are not accepted by the user's workgroup. The authors outline a conceptual model of accommodation device acceptance through a sociomaterial lens to suggest conditions influencing workgroup de…
Beyond trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology: Bridging research and practice with war-affected populations
This article examines the centrality of trauma-focused psychiatric epidemiology (TFPE) in research with war-affected populations. The authors question the utility of the dominant focus on posttraumatic stress disorder and other disorders of Western psychiatry, and they identify a set of critical research foci related to mental health work with communities affected by political violence. Core assumptions of TFPE and its roots in logical positivism…
The Validity and Clinical Utility of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Afghanistan
This study examined the validity and utility of PTSD among 320 adults in Afghanistan. Findings support the validity of PTSD in this cultural context: PTSD symptoms were highly prevalent, shared common variance, and correlated as expected with exposure to traumatic stress. However, only limited support was found for the clinical utility of PTSD. Other types of psychiatric symptomatology, including depression and a culturally specific measure of ge…
Childhood victimization, negative mood regulation, and adult PTSD severity
Language‐based diversity and faultlines in organizations
Language‐based diversity is a relatively understudied area within diversity research. Drawing upon the social identity‐based fault lines literature, the present paper describes the effects of language‐based diversity within organizations operating in India. Interview‐based findings indicate that organizationally mandated languages are occasionally disregarded by employees in both national and multinational organizations. Respondents noted how eve…
Workplace inclusion of persons with a disability: Comparison of Indian and German multinationals
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on human resource systems with work on disability management practices to outline how multinationals across India and Germany are engaged in efforts to increase workplace inclusion of persons with a disability. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews with respondents from multinational corporations in India and Germany were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed. Findings Emp…
The shaping of sustainable careers post hearing loss: Toward greater understanding of adult onset disability, disability identity, and career transitions
Through this interview-based study with 40 respondents in the United States we have outlined enablers of career transitions and sustainable careers for professionals who have experienced severe hearing loss as adults. To sustain careers after adult onset disability, respondents engaged in a quest for meaning and big picture answers to ‘who am I?’ and ‘am I still successful?’ This included redefining themselves – e.g. I am now both a person with a…
Meaning-making through research
Purpose In outlining the author’s experiences as a researcher and as an individual who engages with persons with a disability, the author wonders what meaningful research means when research subjects are people that society lumps together, largely views as stigmatized, and does not seem to understand. The author also notes how the research journey has impacted the author as an individual in rather unexpected ways. The paper aims to discuss this i…
On the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations: A review and research agenda
Human resource practitioners play a crucial role in promoting equitable treatment of persons with disabilities, and practitioner's decisions should be guided by solid evidence‐based research. We offer a systematic review of the empirical research on the treatment of persons with disabilities in organizations, using Stone and Colella's seminal theoretical model of the factors influencing the treatment of persons with disabilities in work organizat…
Holding on to let go: Identity work in discontinuous and involuntary career transitions
This study examined the identity work processes of severely disabled soldiers who faced discontinuous and involuntary career transitions. As these individuals engaged in rehabilitation and vocational training at a military-affiliated facility, their identity transitions were not marked by deletions of past identity elements or reference groups. Instead, their transitions involved collectively and contextually edited imaginations of the future tha…
“Running away is easy; it's the leaving that's hard”: Career enactment by former military officers
Hiding but hoping to be found: Workplace Disclosure Dilemmas of Individuals With Hidden Disabilities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe workplace disclosure dilemmas of individuals with hidden mental health conditions who have privately accepted their mental health condition (anxiety and/or depression), but have chosen not to disclose it in their respective workplaces. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with 15 individuals who experience anxiety and/or depression. These individuals work across diverse organizatio…
Earnings of persons with disabilities: Who earns more (less) from entrepreneurial pursuit
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion, and equality, yet few studies have investigated earning variation among PWD. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), and the disability employment and entrepreneurship …
The Role of Moral Anger in Social Change Efforts
Drawing upon the functional account of emotions—the view that emotions can facilitate adaptive responses—I analyze how Javed Abidi harnessed moral anger to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in India. The data comprise articles obtained from digital archives covering the period from 1993, when Abidi began his work, to 2018, when he passed away. Findings suggest that harnessing moral anger can facilitate social change through two mecha…
Conceptualizing disability accommodation device acceptance by workgroups through a sociomaterial lens
Purpose The provision of accommodation devices is said to aid organizational inclusion of employees with a disability. However, devices that are meant to enable might only partially facilitate productivity, independence, and social inclusion if these devices are not accepted by the user's workgroup. The authors outline a conceptual model of accommodation device acceptance through a sociomaterial lens to suggest conditions influencing workgroup de…
Narrating a Prototypical Disabled Employee
Organizational Burden or Catalyst for Ideas? Disability as a Driver of Cognitive Flexibility and Creativity
Disability is typically perceived negatively, and employees with a disability are viewed as a burden that requires accommodation. We draw from creativity theory to challenge this view and propose that disability can make workplace imperfections salient, can function as a situational cue that increases coworkers’ cognitive flexibility, and thus can be a catalyst for creativity. We apply a multi-study, multi-method approach to test these prediction…
The anti-DEI agenda: Navigating the impact of Trump’s second term on diversity, equity and inclusion
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Indirectly Disabled yet Empowered by Revealing Vulnerability
Laura is the mother of a child with autism. She is also a university professor and a disability researcher. She reflects, alongside other disability researchers, on how she cares for her disabled child and simultaneously navigates academia. Laura initially complied with ableist norms by making her struggles invisible and trialled taking on a managerial role in which she failed. During this journey, she felt indirectly disabled through her child. …
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings
This article points to the mechanism that reinforces neurotypical norms and inequalities through the internalization of stigma associated with neurodiversity and social class within educational and occupational settings. We draw upon the literatures of neurodiversity, neurotypical norms and the internalization of stigma. We report on two studies conducted in France - one survey-based (324 neurodivergent students) and another interview-based (25 n…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Disability Education and Employment (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Law (5 works)