Lipika Arif

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Dr. Arif is dedicated to fostering human potential through transformative teaching and learning. With a rich and varied educational background, she focused on an academic career on advancing knowledge in management, particularly in the areas of human resources, organizational behavior, and leadership. Her research interest focuses on leadership, diversity and inclusion, personality, person-environment fit, leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships, and the domains of teaching and learning. Driven by a passion for lifelong learning, she actively engages with scholarly and professional communities to explore emerging perspectives, challenge conventional thinking, and contribute to evidence-based practices in education and human resource development. 

 

Teaching Interests

Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, and First-year Seminar class

Intellectual Contributions

• "Driving Employee Innovative Work Behavior: A moderated mediation model of Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation and Perceived Inclusion," Journal of Managerial Issues (2025).
• "Leader mindfulness and effective LMX: Role of perceived supervisor support and affect-based trust," The Southern Business and Economic Journal (2024).
• "Understanding leader integrity on employees’ perceived inclusion through mediating role of leader member exchange," International Journal of Organizational Leadership (2023).
• "Being social in asocial COVID 19 distancing period: Insights into strategies for employee workplace engagement," International Communication Research Journal (2022).
• "Effectiveness of an innovative application of learning technology in college genetics," Journal of STEM Education: Innovation and Research (2022).
• "Quality workplace relationships and team effectiveness: Intervening effects of team cohesion," International Review of Business and Applied Sciences (2022).
• "The social intelligence of leadership embraces all: An antecedent of perceived inclusion in the workplace," Journal of Strategic and International Studies (2020).

Presentations

• "Effect of perceived inclusion on employees’ positive affect and its subsequent impact on innovative work behavior: Moderating effects of LMX," Eastern Academy of Management (2025).
• "Assessing employee emotions at work to predict organizational citizenship behavior," International Business Analytics Conference (2025).
• "Understanding How Perceived Leader Integrity Affects Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace: A Public School Teachers’ Perspective," Conference on Teaching and Learning (CoTL) (2022).
• "Quality relationships at work: The effect of leader-member relationships and peer relationships on team effectiveness," Midwest Academy of Management (2020).
• "The social intelligence of leadership embraces all: An antecedent of perceived inclusion in the workplace," International Association of Applied Business Research (IAABR) (2020).
• "Designing Effective Course Online," Conference on Teaching and Learning (CoTL) (2019).
• "Measuring the effectiveness of an innovative application of clickers through analyzing student performance data," Process Education (2019).