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“HUMAN RESOURCE A-PRAYAAS TOWARDS EXCELLENCE”
HR-Cell of GBS organized HR event called “HR A-PRAYAAS towards excellence” on 12-11-2011. As
Human Resource is a very important and basic resource to every organization, most of the booming topics
of HR were enlightened by Corporates and Academicians to enhance the knowledge of the students of GBS.
The event started with the formal MOC by Suman and Chaitra, followed by Pratiksha with her melodious
Inaugural song. Director Dr Prashant Yatgiri, Dr Ramakanth Kulkarni , Dr Vijay Thite and Prof Tejaswini
were presiding over the function. Deepti took up the job of introducing the chief guest for the entire
gathering.
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Dr. Vijay Thite was a chief guest for
the inaugural of Prayaas who spoke on
various HR related areas. Beginning his
address tracing the history of HR as
blue collar workers to knowledge
workers he raised the point that on
balance sheet we see the performance
of the organization but the Hr is not
seen thus although HR is instrumental
for the performance.
Being unpredictable HR is a dynamic
resource and hence Hr is a dynamic
subject. Touching upon HR score card as a concept practiced, he brought out the key areas of HR score
card namely people, strategy and performance.
All other resources are stable whereas the HR being dynamic makes the difference. How today knowledge
worker has taken a company he cited Apple to emerge as a cash rich company exceeding in cash reserve
more than the cash reserve of Federal Reserve of USA.
He concluded with the importance of intangibles like Brand. Knowledge, innovation and creativity how
they are making the difference. The day company like Google stops on ideas, he stressed, it will vertically
collapse, and Hence HR is very crucial and critical in today’s setting. The sessions continued with the
formal address by Mr Hemal Desai,MD Mayur Resort who enlightened students on how vibrant HR
manager should be when it comes to service sector. He even spoke on the importance of Time
Management and Training of his employees. He ended his talk by saying it’s a great challenge for HR
managers to keep their employees highly motivated all time all day.
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