Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 11: Continuing its flagship event series, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu successfully organized Day two of the HR conclave today. The session began with the quote “To win the marketplace, you have to win at the workplace” by Prof Rajni Ranjan Placement, Officer, IIM Jammu, followed by Prof. Jabir Ali, Chairperson – Placement, IIM Jammu, emphasizing the remarkable journey of the Institute from the day of its establishment till date.
The insightful words of Prof B.S. Sahay, Director, IIM Jammu, “Management is not to be taught, but it has to be practiced,” set the tone for the discussion of panel one.
The topic of Panel One was ‘Need of DQ – Decoding Diversity and Inclusion, which was moderated by Ms. Ruchira Garg, Senior Director-HR Services, VMware. The panel comprised of businesswomen visionaries, namely, Ms. Amreeta Mazumdar – Director – Talent Acquisition – Global, ChargeBee; Ms. Ify Iyadi – HR Manager, Tolaram Group; Ms. Sumi George – Lead HRBP & TL&OD Lead – India, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Pratima Dubey – Senior Associate & Talent Acquisition Specialist, State Street, Tanvi Sharma – Head – Strategy and Business Development, Raychen RPG, Neha Sharma – Director – HR, TrueBlue India LLP, Shalu Manan – VP – HR Transformation, Genpact.
The industry experts had their primary focus on exchanging ideas on how diversity and inclusion are shaping the organizational structure. Some of the prominent aspects that keynote speakers highlighted were Tokenism, Different Dimensions of Diversity, Consumer Diversity, Impact of Amalgamation of Different Diversity, Belongingness, Difference between Diversity and Inclusion, and, Sympathy vs. Empathy.
The second panel discussion revolved around “Is the 4-day work week really the future of work”. Anindya Ghosh, Associate Partner, IBM, moderated the session and was presided over by Sajjad Ahmed, Senior Director – Human Resources, Capgemini; Charles Godwin P., HR Leader, Zoho Corporation; Yukti Mittal, Senior Manager – Strategic Talent Management, Vedantu; Srikanth Kalyanasundaram, Deputy General Manager – Human Resources, John Cockerill India Ltd.; Colin Mendes, Head of Human Resources, VoltasBeko; Abraham Zachariah, SVP HR – Leadership Development & Talent Management, GSC’s & Technology, HSBC.
The conversation started with the keynote speaker highlighting the key trends in work-life.
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