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Ritu Tripathi

Ritu Tripathi

  • Associate Professor of Instruction

Contact

ritu.tripathi@northwestern.edu
Room #2431, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Website

Academic Area

Learning and Organizational Change
Social and Economic Policy

Biography

Dr. Ritu Tripathi is an applied social and cross-cultural psychologist. She teaches in the LOC undergraduate and Master’s degree (MSLOC and MSSEP) programs. Her courses include: Global Organizations and Leadership, Global Teamwork, Leading Global Change, and International Negotiations for Policy Administrators. At MSLOC, she also teaches in Executive Education programs and does research advising on Capstone Projects.

Prior to Northwestern, Ritu worked as an Assistant Professor (2010-2022, tenured/permanent) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Ritu received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with Dr. Daniel Cervone as her Ph.D. advisor. Her dissertation focused on cultural variations in the motivational impact of autonomy and obligations among Indian and American corporate professionals. At UIC, she was the recipient of the prestigious Dean’s Scholar Award, which is the most distinguished award that UIC offers to graduate students in recognition of a student’s scholarly achievement. Prior to UIC, Ritu received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Psychology from the University of Allahabad, India. Ritu has published in scholarly journals such as Human Resource Management, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Research in Personality, Cross-cultural and Strategic Management.

Education

  • PhD, Psychology (Major concentration: Social & Personality Psychology, Minor: Cross-cultural Psychology), University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010
  • MA, Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007
  • MA, Psychology, University of Allahabad, India, 1998
  • BA, Psychology & English Literature, University of Allahabad, India, 1996

Awards and Honors

First Place Winner in Global Case Writing Competition: Brown, A., Tripathi, R. (2024) Global Firm Local Labor: Delivering Paid Parental Leave, WDI Publishing at the University of Michigan

Selected Publications

Tripathi, R. (2026, March 11). Autonomy, culture, and the voice of silence. Stanford Social Innovation Review. 

Tripathi, R. (2026). Navigating Organizational Paradoxes in Indian Context: The Role of Cultural Metacognition. In R.C. Tripathi & A.Prakash. (Eds.) Organizational dynamics in India: Rethinking systemic issues in global environment. Springer, Singapore. 

Karumathil, A., & Tripathi, R. (2025). Combating survey bots in online Research: An integrative literature review of insights and strategies. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 17(1), 80-109. 

Tripathi, R., & Karumathil, A. (2024). Humanistic Leadership and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Sustainability and Profitability: A Case Study of the Tata Group in India. In P. Fu (Ed.) Humanistic leadership practices: Exemplary cases from different cultures (pp. 237-265). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Tripathi, R., Bhullar, N. (2022) Seeking convergence between experimental and survey methods for investigating organizational behaviour in a virtually connected world. In R.C. Tripathi, B.R. Kar, N. Pande (Eds.) Towards An Integrative Psychological Science: Issues, Approaches and Applications (pp. 45-62).New Delhi: Springer

Tripathi, R., Thite, M., Varma, A., Mahapatra, G. (2021) Appraising the revamped performance management system in Indian IT multinational enterprises: The employees’ perspective. Human Resource Management, 1– 14. 

Karumathil, A*., & Tripathi, R. (2021). Culture and Attitudes Towards Euthanasia: An Integrative Review. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying. 

Tripathi, R., & Kumar, A. (2020). Humanistic leadership in the Tata group: the synergy inpersonal values, organisational strategy and national cultural ethos. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management. 27(4), 607-626. 

Ramesh, G., Tripathi, R., & Raj, P. (2020) Kumbh 2019: An Integrative Assessment. Report submitted to the Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran, Uttar Pradesh State Government, India

Tripathi, R., Cervone, D, & Savani, K.(2018) Are the motivational effects of autonomy-supportive conditions universal? Contrasting results among Indians and Americans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44 ( 9), 1287-1301. 

Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Hilpert, P., Cantarero, K., Frackowiak, T., …Tripathi, R., ... Yoo, G. (2017). Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(4), 577-592.

Tripathi, R. (2016). Motivation and values. In R.C.Tripathi and R. Dwivedi (Eds.), Organisational Studies In India (pp.37-60). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Cervone, D., & Tripathi, R. (2009). The moral functioning of the person as a whole: On moral psychology and personality science. In D. Narvaez & D. K. Lapsley (Eds.), Moral Self, Identity, and Character:Prospects for New Field of Study (pp.30-51). NY: Cambridge University Press.

Tripathi, R., & Cervone, D. (2008) Cultural variations in achievement motivation despite equivalent motivational strength: Motivational concerns among Indian and American corporate professionals. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 456–464.