Expertise





Dr. Ansari has over 30 years of active teaching, consultancy, and research experience in the fields of human resources management, leadership and influence, organizational behavior, and cross-cultural management.


  • My current program of research focuses on leadership and spins around three inter-related streams of research: (a) The Power-Influence Approach to Leadership, (b) Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), and (c) the Cultural Context of Leadership and Social Influence.


  • He has supervised some 20 doctoral dissertations (leading to PhD/DBA degree) and 50 master's theses, leading to MBA/MSc degree (see Research).


  • He conducts consulting and training programs on a fairly, regular basis with MNCs and government sectors.

  • He has authored two books: Managing people at work and Managing dyadic interactions in organizational leadership--both published by Sage in 1990 and 2000, respectively (see Publications).

  • To his credit, Dr. Ansari has over 80 refereed journal articles and book chapters and has delivered over 100 presentations at several professional meetings in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Taiwan, Turkey, and India--See more at: http://mahfoozaansari.blogspot.com/. (see Publications).

  • Dr. Ansari's work has appeared in such journals as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Sex Roles, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Management and Organization Review, Management Research, and Journal of Social Psychology (see Publications).