IIM KOZHIKODE HR SUMMIT 2012 3 – 4 February 2012

PRE-EVENT PRESS RELEASE

IIM KOZHIKODE HR SUMMIT 2012
3 – 4 February 2012

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) proudly announces the commencement of ‘IIMK HR Summit 2012’.
The main theme of the HR Summit 3-4 February 2012 is ‘Do Women Make Better HR Managers?’ This summit will provide a platform where a unique blend of HR thought leaders from industry would participate and discuss on the following sub themes:
1. Global trends in growth and challenges of Women HR leaders
2. Gender Stereotyping in HR
3. The Road Map to Success in HR: Does Gender Matter?

Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder and Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys, is the Chief Guest for the summit.

Spanned across two days, the summit will give industry participants, academicians and students, the opportunity to listen to eminent speakers heading HR domain of the corporate India, sharing their perspectives on the theme and sub-themes.

Some of the key speakers of the summit are:
• Dr. Pallab Bandyopadhyay, Director HR, Citrix R & D India Pvt. Ltd. (Key Note Speaker)
• Mr. Abhay Kapoor, Vice President – HR, Neuland Laboratories Ltd.
• Ms. Gitika Shiv, General Manager – HR, NTPC
• Mr. Rajesh Nair, Vice President – Head, Markets and Pursuits at Ernst & Young
• Ms. Simin Askari, Sr. Vice President – HR, Apollo International Ltd.
• Mr. M S Sreekumar, Associate Vice President – HR at Muthoot Capital Services Ltd. and President National HRD Network Cochin Chapter
• Mr. Anurag Srivastava, CEO, HR Next
• Ms. Garvita Chaturvedi, Chief Manager- Compensation and Benefits, Met-Life
• Mr. Nilanka Chatterjee, General Manager and Vertical Head for Learning and Development, United Spirits Ltd.

According to Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director IIM Kozhikode, “Women make the best managers. In India, especially, there is a dilemma that the woman professional faces - of work-life balance, in a life that gets more demanding during certain years. Productivity is not just a function of a few years of less work. This is a marathon. The huge
W2W life experiences of women can be converted into value in the top management.” He says “The age of the whole brain will set right some of the asymmetries in our cortical hemispheres. In this, women who bring those soft cortical skills and big-picture perception of life to the job will triumph over lopsidedly analytical and data distracted left-brainers.” IIMK can boast of 35% women admission to its flagship Post Graduate Programme, which is a record by any Business School in the country.

Prof. Manoranjan Dhal (OB&HR Area, IIMK) says “While the industry keeps debating about the competency, emotional quotient, gender diversity, and stereotyping, the number of HR professionals is varying in terms of roles, hierarchy and sectors. This HR summit will provide a platform to brainstorm the current challenges and road map to success of women HR professionals.”

More information regarding the summit can be sought from http://www.iimk.ac.in/hrsummit/ or contact Mr. Mani Kansal (+91-9048174669) or email hrsummit2012@iimk.ac.in.

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is on a high growth trajectory today, offering widest range of academic programmes in the field of management education.

Starting in 1997 with a batch of 42 students in its Postgraduate Programme (PGP) , it increased PGP intake to 120 in 2003, to 180 in 2005, to 261 in 2008 and to 319 in 2010, thus making it the fastest growing management school in the country to reach that landmark. This was done keeping the quality of the programme high, as the Institute continued to maintain its sound placement record, ranking among the top few institutes in the country.

IIMK pioneered Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) for working executives in India . Starting with 300 class contact hrs. in 2001-02, the year-long Executive Management Education Programme is today the richest one available in the country having 450 class contact hours. With the launch of 4 new 6-month long modular educational programmes in Strategic Management, Finance, Marketing and Operations Management areas, the IDL platform offers 1350 contact hours of long duration programmes today.

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