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Manthan 2005 Concludes at TISS, Mumbai
Post-event Press-release

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With the growing mismatch between employers and employees, several stages in the HR journey have come into being. That is, HR in a company may be at the level of administration and compliance or at a higher level of HR Leadership. Thus, for the various roles HR has to play, one may envisage different functions and corresponding technologies.
They illustrated this significance of technology usage through examples of organisations including IBM wherein different IT solutions including employee portals offer different value propositions. Thus, any organisation must consider two parameters before selecting the type and extent of technology they intend to use, which are, the ease of implementation of that technology and its value which in turn to lead to the birth of what could be called e-HR.

Khoj

This was the corporate paper presentation, for which Manthan 2005 received a most enthusiastic response from those in the corporate world. The evaluation of the papers had been carried out by a panel of well-qualified judges prior to the actual event of Manthan. The winner of Khoj, Mr. Harsh Biyani, of Edelweiss Capital presented his prize-winning paper to the delegates present at Manthan. The theme was 'Success across Time Frames - Moving towards a healthy organization' and using experience from various organisations, Mr. Biyani proceeded to identifying the important factors for a healthy organisation as recruitment and retention, brand image programs and feedback systems.

Kaustubham

This was the student paper presentation that received an overwhelming response of 90 entries from student teams across the country. The final four short-listed teams from TISS, SCMHRD, IIT-Mumbai, and NMIMS presented their papers at the Manthan forum of delegates and were judged by a panel of four judges. After the presentations on the topic "What is the Business of Business? Is it Business or is it not just Business?" and answering the questions of the judges and the delegates, the prizes for the papers were declared, the first of which went to the team from NMIMS.

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Contributed by -
Ramanathan V.,
Batch of 2005-2007,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.