DISHA 2011

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DISHA, a two-day event, was held on September 10^th and 11^th. The theme of DISHA 2011 was “Organisation of the future”. The event came up with insights which proved useful for management students and for the corporate world alike to handle complex situations facing the ever dynamic field of Human Resource Management.

The event was graced by the presence of eminent HR heads of major companies – Mr. K.J.A. Swaroop (General Manager, ITC paperboards and Speciality Papers Division), Mr. Narsimha Prasad from Singapore (Program Manager and Head of People Technology and Operations in JAPAC, Google), Mr. Jacob Jacob (Chief People Officer, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Ltd.), Mr. K. Subramanian (Vice President, Ma Foi Randstad), Mr. Girinarayanan G. (Director, HR, GE Energy), Mr. Anand Rego from Australia (Global Head of Recruitment Marketing, ANZ) and Mr. Benny Augustine (HR Head, Unisys). On day 2, Mr. Mayur Chaturvedi (General Manager Compensation & Benefits , Pepsico India ), Mr. Glenn Brass (founder and principal advisor ,People’s Pulse), and Mr. Venkata Narayanan (Executive VP, HR, Rane Holdings) and Mr. Shivakumar from Ramco would be addressing the students.

The conclave started with the ceremonious lighting of the lamp. Prof. Vasudev Rao, Director of TAPMI welcomed the guests, introducing them to TAPMI and its different achievements. He also emphasized on how the industry exposure would help the aspiring minds meet the inspiring minds.

Prof P.S. James, Senior HR faculty at TAPMI spoke on the theme of the HR-Conclave 2011. He insisted that there is a need for strategic interface and we do not have the manpower of the required nature in the industry. It is because of this that business schools in India find it difficult to create new talents, and hence, emphasized on the fact that B-schools are focussing on interacting with the industry as many times as possible. In this context, he called DISHA a direction setting exercise.

Day 2 began with a lot of events simultaneously held at different venues. The major events of the day were – “Expositus” the inter b-school case analysis contest, “Sophos”, the guest lectures by the eminent leaders of the companies and “Vrondi”, the mock press event.

The Valedictory function was held on the evening of 11th September. The HR Forum at TAPMI thanked all the dignitaries who had flown down to TAPMI and interacted with the students and making the event a grand success.

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