Dr. Kalpana Sahoo is an Assistant Professor in the area of OB at Xavier School of Human Resource Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published several papers in the areas of learned optimism, positive psychology, competency mapping, employee engagement, emotional intelligence and personality in referred journals. She has forty-two research publications in national and international referred journals to her credit and has contributed fifteen chapters in edited books published by well-known publishers like, Excel Publication, Macmillan Advanced Research Series, Bloomsbury Publishing limited and IGI Global Publisher. Her teaching interests are in the areas of quality of work life, EQ & SQ, Psychological wellbeing, personality and leadership.
