From The Financial Express, National Edition, January 24, 2004
The Tata Iron & Steel Company (Tisco) plans to bring down its workforce from 40,000 to around 20,000 in the next five years.
Also, the company is soon going to sign an agreement with its colliery union which would keep the company outside the ambit of National Coal Wage Award (NCWA).
“Tata Steel used to be an 80,000-employee company (in the early 1990s) producing 2 million tonne of steel; at present, we are 40,000, producing 5 million tonne and in five years we will be going 7.5 million tonne with 20,000 (employees),” said Niroop Mahanty, vice-president (HR), Tisco, on Saturday. He was delivering the keynote address here at the 5th National Industrial Relations Conference organized by the XLRI’s Forum for Industrial Relations (FIREX). “My productivity has gone up eight times,” he said. Answering how it happened, Mr Mahanty said, “We made them (the union) partners (in our plans)”.
Read Full Story on the Business Standard Site
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Making her own Rules - Nidhi Reddy - 80 Batch
For Nidhi Reddy, XLRI alumnus, who runs Chennai-based Nidhi Reddy Consultants, success has been largely thanks to her “immense self-belief and being able to chart out her own path”, which has helped her face adversities and challenges with ease.
"I have not had any mentor in particular. I am glad that I have been able to trace my own path and have always done what I believed in..."
Read the full article from the Eco Times
"I have not had any mentor in particular. I am glad that I have been able to trace my own path and have always done what I believed in..."
Read the full article from the Eco Times
Saturday, January 22, 2005
XLRI hosting IR meet
Business Standard, Friday, Jan 21, 2005
Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, which specialises in personnel management and industrial relations among other disciplines, is hosting the fifth National Industrial Relations Conference (NIRC 2005) beginning January 22.
Organised by Forum for Industrial Relations, the industrial relations society of XLRI, the theme of the convention is —New economy bandwagon. NIRC will highlight latest labour law developments in the BPO industry, their implications and how to leverage them to achieve harmonious relationships.
The conference is divided into sessions on issues like attrition management, union consciousness and labour laws, people relations, performance management and career management.
The keynote speaker will be Niroop Mahanty, vice-president-HR, Tata Steel.
Consultants from companies like IBM, Tata Steel, Hyundai, Asian Paints Ltd, HSBC, Nalco, Accenture, Tata Motors and ITC would be attending the conference.
Read full story here
Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur, which specialises in personnel management and industrial relations among other disciplines, is hosting the fifth National Industrial Relations Conference (NIRC 2005) beginning January 22.
Organised by Forum for Industrial Relations, the industrial relations society of XLRI, the theme of the convention is —New economy bandwagon. NIRC will highlight latest labour law developments in the BPO industry, their implications and how to leverage them to achieve harmonious relationships.
The conference is divided into sessions on issues like attrition management, union consciousness and labour laws, people relations, performance management and career management.
The keynote speaker will be Niroop Mahanty, vice-president-HR, Tata Steel.
Consultants from companies like IBM, Tata Steel, Hyundai, Asian Paints Ltd, HSBC, Nalco, Accenture, Tata Motors and ITC would be attending the conference.
Read full story here
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Mayor of Chandigarh is wife of Prof Deepak Kapur @ XL
Prof. Deepak Kapur sent a short email sometime back
"Dear All,
You would be glad to know that my wife Ms Anu Chatrath has been elected as the 'Mayor of Chandigarh'. She contested the elections as a candidate of the Indian National Congress and has defeated the combined BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate by a record margin of votes.
She has been administered the oath of office as Mayor and has taken charge of her duties.
Deepak Kapur "
If you want to know more about it, you can read it at the Hindustan Times site.
Prof Kapur teaches Strategy Management at XL. You can check out his Profile
"Dear All,
You would be glad to know that my wife Ms Anu Chatrath has been elected as the 'Mayor of Chandigarh'. She contested the elections as a candidate of the Indian National Congress and has defeated the combined BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate by a record margin of votes.
She has been administered the oath of office as Mayor and has taken charge of her duties.
Deepak Kapur "
If you want to know more about it, you can read it at the Hindustan Times site.
Prof Kapur teaches Strategy Management at XL. You can check out his Profile
XL Centre For E-Business
Another door opens
A Special Story in Business Line, E-World Supplement, January 17, 2005
Let a student do his project on a topic that is of immediate use to industry. And what have you? A happy company, an elated student and a useful institute. Here's opening another door.
IT is yet another first-of-its-kind initiative taken by an institute of excellence that has set store by IT. XLRI Jamshedpur has set up a Centre for e-Business that aims to facilitate industry-academia interface. IT majors such as IBM, Navision and Polaris have agreed to partner in the project. Besides, the centre will help the Government of Jharkhand to implement e-Governance projects.
Says Prof Ashis K. Pani, Chairman of XLRI's Information Systems Area: "We are inviting industry to partner in this project and join the XLRI Centre for e-Business. And the response has been quite encouraging. However, actual participation from among industry will be clear in the next two years. Research will be focussed on the deployment of IT in areas such as marketing, finance and human resources development, the last area being the core strength of XLRI Jamshedpur."
To facilitate research in these areas, a seven-member core IT faculty has been put in place.
According to him, research students can now take up projects — such as one on human resources information systems — which could be of interest to industry. "At the end of the project, the student will get his Ph.D. while industry will benefit from the in-depth findings that would be borne out of the research work done by him."
Another area of collaborative work is where industry would provide the source code of their products that students and faculty at XLRI can access and work towards its improvisation. In such cases, the patent remains with XLRI but industry will be permitted to use the improvised codes.
One-Governance, the centre will identify successful models from among other States in the country and even abroad. "We will draw upon the best practices from the identified models and implement it in Jharkhand, after the necessary customisation", he says.
Prof Pani says the centre will also try to educate and assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jharkhand on how to deploy IT for competitive advantage. For instance, the centre will help SMEs to identify finance and HR products that best suit their requirements. The initial seed money required for setting up the XLRI Centre for e-Business has been provided by the institute, which is expected to be self-sustainable within the next three years. Talks are on with CII and Nasscom to mentor the centre and facilitate interaction with industry on a wider scale.
"Five years from now, we would expect companies like Wipro and Infosys to allocate 3-4 of their people to the XLRI Centre for e-Business to work on projects that would be of common interest and benefit all stakeholders", Prof Pani says hopefully.
Story
A Special Story in Business Line, E-World Supplement, January 17, 2005
Let a student do his project on a topic that is of immediate use to industry. And what have you? A happy company, an elated student and a useful institute. Here's opening another door.
IT is yet another first-of-its-kind initiative taken by an institute of excellence that has set store by IT. XLRI Jamshedpur has set up a Centre for e-Business that aims to facilitate industry-academia interface. IT majors such as IBM, Navision and Polaris have agreed to partner in the project. Besides, the centre will help the Government of Jharkhand to implement e-Governance projects.
Says Prof Ashis K. Pani, Chairman of XLRI's Information Systems Area: "We are inviting industry to partner in this project and join the XLRI Centre for e-Business. And the response has been quite encouraging. However, actual participation from among industry will be clear in the next two years. Research will be focussed on the deployment of IT in areas such as marketing, finance and human resources development, the last area being the core strength of XLRI Jamshedpur."
To facilitate research in these areas, a seven-member core IT faculty has been put in place.
According to him, research students can now take up projects — such as one on human resources information systems — which could be of interest to industry. "At the end of the project, the student will get his Ph.D. while industry will benefit from the in-depth findings that would be borne out of the research work done by him."
Another area of collaborative work is where industry would provide the source code of their products that students and faculty at XLRI can access and work towards its improvisation. In such cases, the patent remains with XLRI but industry will be permitted to use the improvised codes.
One-Governance, the centre will identify successful models from among other States in the country and even abroad. "We will draw upon the best practices from the identified models and implement it in Jharkhand, after the necessary customisation", he says.
Prof Pani says the centre will also try to educate and assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jharkhand on how to deploy IT for competitive advantage. For instance, the centre will help SMEs to identify finance and HR products that best suit their requirements. The initial seed money required for setting up the XLRI Centre for e-Business has been provided by the institute, which is expected to be self-sustainable within the next three years. Talks are on with CII and Nasscom to mentor the centre and facilitate interaction with industry on a wider scale.
"Five years from now, we would expect companies like Wipro and Infosys to allocate 3-4 of their people to the XLRI Centre for e-Business to work on projects that would be of common interest and benefit all stakeholders", Prof Pani says hopefully.
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