INSTITUTION BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Human Related Areas of Management
When I joined in 1994 the department was deficient in HRM/OB/OT areas. I have developed courses on HRM, organisation design, services and entrepreneurship & small industry.
Case Based Teaching and Case Development
There was little case writing before I joined the department. Since, I have been regularly developing cases based on my consulting and teaching work and using them in the classes. I have also taken seminars on case method of pedagogy and research in the dept.; presently I am coordinating the case cell in the Institute.
Interaction with Small – Local Industry
There was little interaction of the department with the local-small industry before I joined. I along with Prof. Arun Sinha co-ordinated the 20-week Small Industry Management Programme from 1995-2001. Specially, I was in charge of the placement activities and closely interacted with the industry. This was further supplemented with my research and case writing work. Department has developed linkages with the local industry, close relations with SIDBI and the course had established a name for itself both amongst the employers and potential participants.
Incubation Centre
SIDBI funded the first incubation centre of its kind in the country at IITK and I co-ordinated the Centre’s activity in its beginning phase for two years. The Rs. 4.35 crore project was an outcome of our ongoing interaction with SIDBI through earlier courses. The task demanded complex co-ordination amongst SIDBI-IITK-students/alumni-industry-VCs, etc. and given its techno-developmental-business nature it is a massive institution development exercise for the Institute.
Improving Institute’s Industrial Relations
Given my background of industrial relations, I have been involved in raising issues with regard to workers’ rights, especially minimum wage rights of the contract workers, and the Institute’s role as a principal employer. Institute has formed a specific committee for the purpose which is supposed to monitor and oversee the wage payments to all contract employees.
MBA Admissions
I have been the paper setter from the Institute for the entrance exam as well as the co-ordinator of the personality test and group discussion exercise in the first year of the MBA programme and our learning helped in institutionalising certain systems for the following years of admissions.
Faculty Forum
I am serving third term on the FF Executive Committee at present. I see this within my broader concern with regard to democratic functioning of organisations. I have been associated with raising debate on some of the issues that concern the faculty and Institute community at large.