28th Dec 2026 – 3rd Jan 2027Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
A seven-day hands-on programme on scale development, validation and advanced PLS-SEM techniques — including CFA, mediation, moderation, NCA, cIPMA and fsQCA — using SmartPLS 4.0 and SPSS.
Includes a 2-month Professional License Key of SmartPLS 4.0 · Certificate on successful completion
Duration
7 Days
Mode
Offline · Noida
Fee
₹8,000 (non-refundable)
Includes
SmartPLS 4.0 License (2 months)
Established in 2004, Jaipuria Noida is an AACSB-accredited top-ranked B-School — among the top 6% of business schools worldwide — ranked 41 in NIRF 2025 (Management). The institute offers AICTE-approved PGDM programmes and a Doctoral-level Fellow Program in Management (FPM), drawing on in-class discussions, cases, simulations, live projects and industry interface across a four-acre green campus in Sector 62, Noida.
Sessions run 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM with scheduled breaks. Dates: 28 December 2026 to 3 January 2027.
Inaugural Function
Demystifying Concepts, Constructs, Variables, Dimensions, Items; Questionnaire & Scales, Types of Scales, Models; Managing Theoretical Frameworks.
Introduction to Theoretical Modeling; lower- and higher-order constructs; reflective and formative scales; seminal papers for higher-order scaling.
Dimension Identification through deductive and inductive inquiry; Dimension Table; Item Generation; reporting practices of dimensionality.
Face Validation, Content Validation, Content Validity Index; assessment and reporting of item analysis.
Pilot testing through Exploratory Factor Analysis; KMO-Bartlett, Communality, Eigenvalues, Rotation, Factor Generation; hands-on with SPSS.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis; reliability and validity for reflective and formative scales; hands-on with SmartPLS 4.0.
Crafting an effective research paper introduction: establishing rationale, significance, and identifying the gap.
Role of Theory in Research: foundations, relevance, and research gaps as a basis for theory.
Editors' views: The Road to Top Category Journals.
Application of Structural Model Assessments with VB-SEM; hands-on with SmartPLS 4.0.
Higher-Order Constructs: Reflective-Reflective, Reflective-Formative, Formative-Formative; Repeated Indicator and Two-Stage Approach.
PLS Predict, IPMA in SmartPLS 4.0.
Common Method Bias; Marker Variable Analysis; Importance of Control Variables.
Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) as new frontier of research for consumer behavior prediction.
Combined IPMA with NCA to write papers with cIPMA.
Mediation Analysis: Simple, Parallel, Serial and Conditional Mediation.
Categorical and Interaction Moderation.
Mediation in Process Macro in SPSS.
Introduction to fsQCA software and handling non-linear effects.
Truth table, sufficient conditions with necessary functions.
Reporting of fsQCA in Research Papers.
Professor (OB & HR), Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
28+ years as academician, trainer and researcher. Publications in FT 50, A* and A journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Tourism Management, Journal of Business Research and Personnel Review. Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper 2022.
Professor, University School of Management Studies, GGSIP University, Delhi
Certified behavior analyst and PLS-SEM expert. 23 years of industry, teaching and research experience with 150+ research papers and 6 authored books. Awarded ‘Best Professor in Organizational Behavior’ by ET Now, 2019.
Associate Professor, Finance & Accounting, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
18+ years of teaching and corporate experience. Published in A*/A ABDC journals including International Journal of Information Management, Technology Forecasting & Social Change and Annals of Operations Research.
Associate Professor & Dean Research, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Certified SmartPLS trainer from TU Hamburg, Germany. 22 years of teaching. Publications in Technovation, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Knowledge Management. Editor, Management Dynamics Journal.
Associate Professor, Operations & Decision Science, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
21+ years in Information Systems, Research Methods and Decision Science. 78 research papers including 60 Scopus-indexed; h-index of 18. Trainer in IT security, qualitative and quantitative methods.
Faculty members and research scholars from other institutions.
Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Dean Research, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
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