Contemporary HR Debate on

This event marked the starting of HR club for this session. The aim of this activity was to come up with a contemporary issue in the form of HR debate wherein students had to come up with the views either for or against.The topic for the debate was “Technology positively impacts work environment”. The judge for the event was Ms. Mansi Vahiya who is a senior external faculty for HR in our college. The parameters for judgement were content. Logic. contemporary understanding, conviction and presentation.12 students were divided into 6 teams of 2 students each.3 teams were for the motion that is they had to convince technology plays an important role and has a positive impact on work atmosphere while the other 3 teams were against the topic. The idea of having two members in a team was that one would be the speaker and other would participate in the rebuttal round and one who participates in rebuttal cannot participate in speaking and vice-versa. This would enhance their team efforts and efficiency as well. After the speakers completed their expression of ideas regarding the topic (For or against) there was a break of 5 minutes to let the pair discuss and warm up for the rebuttal. Till then arrangements were made for the rest 6 to sit in a circle for the discussion. The group was given 15 minutes to discuss and then given a minute to wrap up with their final statement. Finally the winners were declared--- Ajeet Pandey and Jignesh.Overall it was a great learning for the participants and audience as well.

Panel Disussion by 3 imminent personalities at IIPM Ahmedabad

HR Panel was organized on 15th November at IIPM. 3 imminent personalities from different backgrounds were part of the panelist. Mr. Manoj Sharma, Senior VP Adani Infra Pvt Ltd, Ms Nafezza Rao, Social Activist and NGO’s and Mr Arvind Rajshekhar, consultant and an educator. The topic of the discussion was “Does CSR benefits the organization and employees”. Mr. Manoj shared his views on the corporate need towards the society and the relations of society with the organization. He also shared the CSR activity currently being practiced at Adani. He also showed a need to upgrade the NGO working in India. Ms Nafezza Rao, a project officer shared her views about corporate social responsibility and its need in 21st century. She is part of various initiatives and is also a visiting faculty at IIPM. Several real life experiences were shared by her who kept students excited. Mr. Arvind Rajshekar shared a wonderful example which proved the fact that organization need to take CSR seriously as part of their important responsibilities. Students posted various questions to the panelist regarding CSR being a marketing strategy and various issues related to CSR and its future. The session ended with the informal interaction with the panelist and vote of thanks. The discussion last of 1:15mins and various insights and learning took place for students. The exciting part of the discussion was that the panelist belonged to various different backgrounds and each one has different viewpoints of the other party.