Volley Ball Tournament

The volley ball matches that have been running for the past couple of days culminated in a highly anticipated final match held between II year Marketing and Finance students. The much awaited match opened to clear skies and an overwhelming crowd at the IMT-D grounds this evening. Red and black colour shirts donned by the Marketing and Finance teams respectively, added to the unbridled excitement.

The match kick-started with the Finance team winning the first of the four sets. The Marketing team backfired by winning the second set but the Finance team countered their score with a win in the third set.
The turning point of the game was the final set that saw the Marketing team battling it out on the field, in the hope of levelling the scores. But a brilliant performance by the Finance team ensured that victory was on their hands.

Nikhil Tyagi, Rohan Popli and Arpit were some of the key players who propelled their team to a successful win. The Marketing team put up a praise-worthy performance and players Deepak Nagar and Nishant Chaudhary deserves a special mention.


Team METH...!!

Human Resource Professionals: Being Facilitators

“People never fail Organizations, Organizations fail people!” says Seema Hallon, the Regional Manager of Dun and Bradstreet for Southeast Asia and MENA region.

On the 9th of February, Ms. Seema Hallon, visited the campus for a second time and delivered a powerful discourse to the students of IMT-D.

The session highlighted the importance of an HR department in an organization. The HR department analyses and evaluates key performance indicators, identifies the key customers, the business model and the business’s investment plans before making the policies and implementing them.An HR department does not coordinate, they facilitate effective decision making. HR professionals are not line managers; they are the strategic partners of a business who help develop policies that are relevant to the current situation.

The HR department also functions as an employee champion. Creation of policies that are beneficial both to the employee and the organization is no easy task. When an employee is happy in the organization, they perform. For, performance is nothing but the sum of knowledge, skill and attitude of an individual.

Last but not the least; she encouraged the students to take an introspective journey so that they can face the challenges that occur during recessionary times.

Team METH...!!

Human Resource Management - Because No One Understands Employees Better!!

"The fastest survive!" People who believe this haven't heard Mr. Partho Bhattacharya's discourse. For, the Director of Human Resources of Better Homes strongly believes, that in the world of Human Resource Management, the fittest survive. Better Homes has been the leading real estate agency in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for over 23 years with over 40 percent market share and a workforce of over 500 employees. And therefore, on the 2nd February 2010, IMT-D was infinitely fortunate to have his esteemed presence in the campus.

Mr. Bhattacharya in his presentation emphasized on being an all round HR professional. "An all rounder ", he says should have experience in all subsystems of HR. Then only does one truly become an HR Manager."

He discussed with the audience the importance of HR in an organization, how it contributes to the business strategic management and helps in putting the right people on the right job. He described HR to be the direct link between success of the organization and the quality of people management.

The HR process he said constitutes of manpower planning, requirements and selection, performance management, training and development; and employee compensation and benefits management so that it added value to its firm and its employees.

He affirmed that as a result of recession, most real estate brokerage firms have had to close shop because they were not able to maintain their overheads relative to low sales volume and high liabilities. He discussed this through an interactive case study where he pointed to his audience the difference between downsizing and rightsizing. He recommends rightsizing because it singles out those employees who are performers and will keep on performing well even during hard times for the company; retains them and develops them to grow in the organization.

Before he concluded, he pointed out that it took more than a professional degree to be an HR manager. One had to be a peoples' person; have sound communication skills and knowledge of HRIS. One should also be able address diverse groups but most of all one should have a strong emotional constituency to deal with employee grievances and layoffs.

A company is strong and sharp when their workforce is able to meet the demands of the organization's targets and perform accordingly to achieve them.

Team M.E.T.H..!!