Ramadhar Singh was a Lecturer at the Patna University (1968-1973), an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1973-1979), and a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1979-1988). He moved to Singapore in 1988 and retired as a Professor of Psychology from the National University of Singapore in 2010. He spent his sabbaticals at the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford during 2003-04 and at the Purdue University during August through December 2008. During 2010-2016, he was the Distinguished Professor of Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He has been a Distinguished University Professor at Ahmedabad University since July 7, 2016.

Singh’s passion for research is evinced by his regular publications in prime international journals of applied, developmental, and social psychology and management. In recognition of his unusual and outstanding contributions to psychology, he was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (1992), American Psychological Association (1993), Association for Psychological Science (1993), Society of Personality and Social Psychology (1993), Singapore Psychological Society (1993), and National Academy of Psychology (India) (2008). In December 2013, the Association for Psychological Science included him among Faces and Minds of Psychological Science. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IIMB Management Review (2010-) and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, a journal of Wiley, USA (2017-).