Goa Institute of Management Organizes HR Conference

Goa Institute of Management Organizes HR Conference - "Castalia 2007"

"How can bosses be made better bosses? A manager is not a blue-eyed, square-jawed Frankenstein monster who works all the time. Better results can be achieved by managing the managers themselves."

With these strong words of Mr. Gopalkrishnan, Executive Director of Tata Sons, Castalia `07, a Goa Institute of Management`s student-driven initiative, commenced in the presence of top business speakers and delegates from IT, consultancy & manufacturing sectors across India. The event took place in Club Mahindra Resort, Varca beach on the 11th and 12th of August.

Castalia '07 invited the top business personalities from the leading companies to examine the implications of the most relevant HR issue affecting industries, that is, "Attrition". It acted as the platform for people from all industry sectors to discuss the causes and possible solutions on "How to Retain and Engage Talent" in their companies.

Participants were enlightened in the presence of eminent personalities like Derrick Barton, CEO, Centre for Talent Retention, US; Mrs. Jo Verde, Senior Director, JeMM Consultants, Canada; Mr. E. Balaji, COO, Ma Foi Management Consultants; Mr. Anil Sachdev, CMD, Grow Talent Co. Ltd.; Mr. S. V. Nathan, VP Region 10 HR, Deloitte India; Mr. K. Sreenath, Head HR, South Asia, Computer Associates; Mr. Vaishakh Kelkar, President, Sales & Marketing, Myadrenalin; Mr. Rajeev Kumar, HR Business Partner Manager, SAP; and Ms. Lekha Sista, VP-HR Sumtotal Systems.

Mr. Derrick Barton began his speech by subscribing to Dr. Gopalkrishnan's views that employees leave their bosses and not their companies. He urged the managers to make a difference to their organization. He alluded to the fact that Jeff Immet ceased the practice of removing the bottom 10% of the employees, as that was not worth their time and resources. He deduced from this that even a great organization like GE is forced to change their practices of dealing with their employees for better management.

He involved the audience in different games and participatory sessions, the objective of which was to find out what made people stay at their jobs. The results once again proved that it was largely the work variables and some managerial activities that were critical.

Next

Contributed by -
Student Public Relations Cell,
Batch of 2006-08,
Goa Institute of Management, Goa.

MBA Alumni \| MBA Students \| MBA Aspirants \| MBA Forums