XLRI Jamshedpur organizes Industrial Relation conference

Xavier School of Management concluded the 6th National Industrial Relations Conference Organized by FIRE@X witnessed participation of eminent academicians, industry experts, union activists, and budding managers from institutes like TISS, XIMB, FMS, XISS Ranchi and IIM Ranchi apart from the host institute XLRI. Conference was based on the theme Changing workforce and the transforming IR scenario.

Speaking on the conference Mr. Ramkumar, Executive Director, ICICI Bank Ltd emphasized upon the importance of the managers being the custodians of the people who are working under them, and also of the capital of the shareholders. He also raised pertinent questions about the increasing use of contract labour in organizations and the increasing use of hire and fire policies used. He explicated that the role of the managers was to ensure social justice and productivity of capital. Mr. kumar is also responsible for Human Resources and Operations of ICICI Bank Ltd. Prof. E. A. Ramaswamy, eminent academician and a stalwart in the field of Indian Industrial Relations was the guest of honour.

While the first day witnessed an engrossing panel discussion on Changing Workforce- their aspirations and expectations amongst panelists like Mr. Alfred Osta, EVP- Mahinda & Mahindra;Dr. Debi Saini from MDI; Gautam Mody, General secretary, NTUI; Dr. Prasenjit Bose, Social activist and Dr. N. Ernesto from IIM-A, the second day had the audience captivated by the panel discussion on the theme Management in an era of globalization with speakers like Mr. Dharm Rakshit, AVP, Mondelez International; Prof. Jerome Joseph from IIM-A; Mr. Karthik Shekhar from UNITES; Mr. P. N. Prasad, Chief-HRM, TATA Steel and others. Both the panel discussions witnessed some stimulating exchange of ideas by the enthusiastic participants.

The final round of the Inter B-School Paper presentation competition Sameeksha was held during the conference, where 6 teams out of the more than 50 which had applied and vied for the top spot. While IIM-Ranchi walked away with the first prize in the competition, XLRI bagged the second spot with FMS trailing close behind at the third spot.

XLRI Jamshedpur is a private management institute in India founded in 1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J. in the Steel city of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. FIRE@X Team of XLRI is one of the few committees across B-Schools of the country that focuses entirely on promotion of Industrial Relations. The committee plays an active role in organizing events which act as a source of promotion for Industrial relations. Over the last six decades; XLRI has helped shape responsible business leaders who serve organizations of repute across the globe.

The flagship programmes of XLRI are its two year PGDM (BM) and PGD (HRM) courses having 180 and 120 seats respectively. A total number of 240 students took admissions in the 2013-15 batches. Apart from them the institute provides various courses like PGDBM (part-time), PGDM (Global MBA), FPM, GMP, Exec-PGP (India) Exec-PGP (Dubai), Exec PFM, PGCBM (satellite), PGCLSCM (satellite), PGCRM (satellite), MPOD and XLRI -Accenture Human Capital Management programme. XLRI Jamshedpur holds 4th rank in mbauniverse.com ranking list.

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