Professor N Viswanadham, Executive Director, Centre for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies (GLAMS), at the ISB, was recently selected to receive the prestigious 2006 IBM Faculty Award, for his research in the area of global manufacturing and service strategies.
This Awards programme is a competitive worldwide programme intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development, and services. It recognises the quality of the recipient’s research programme and its importance to the industry. The award carried a cash award of USD 20,000, as a donation to the ISB.
Adding to his distinctions, the Professor has also been appointed as Editor-in-Chief Elect of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, a top tier journal. As Editor In Chief (EIC) Professor Viswanadham is responsible for the strategic and operational planning of the Journal. “The EIC is also responsible for developing and maintaining the publication budget and holding high standards, as we will be working with colleagues in academic and research institutions from all over the world,” summed up the Professor, about his new responsibilities. .
Prior to joining the ISB, Professor Viswanadham held several prestigious positions at institutes

like the National University of Singapore and the Indian Institute of Science. Apart from his books, he has published a number of high impact papers on quantitative performance analysis of manufacturing systems, product development, logistics and supply chain networks. His current research interests include Logistics, Global Manufacturing and Service Networks. He is presently developing a methodology for the design of Six-Sigma, Integrated manufacturing, and service chain networks.
Professor Dishan Kamdar’s paper ‘The Joint Effects of Personality and Workplace Social Exchange Relationships in Predicting Task Performance and Citizenship Performance’ has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology, a top-tier journal in the Organisational Behaviour Area.
The paper examines joint effects of employee personality and social relationships at work, in predicting task performance and citizenship performance. This finding provides insight into conditions when personality is more likely to make a difference in work behaviour. It demonstrates that high quality social exchange relationships can compensate for less desirable personality characteristics. The paper responds to calls for research that examines personality and norms of reciprocity.