5th National HR Conference
@ XLRI Jamshedpur

A Conference with a Difference

Most conferences are organized with outlined agenda, specified topics, and fixed speakers...
...and, therefore, promote participants’ learning through listening and absorbing.

In contrast, The 5th National HR Conference is designed as a working conference,
...and aims to shift from a speaker-centred to a participant-centred learning environment.

Why a Working Conference?

In the last, The 4th National HR Conference: HR Confluence (Dec 2003) , we had experimented with an interactive "working conference" design, and had discovered that such a conference format:

facilitates learning by actively involving the participants in collectively solving real, live problems, which are of their interest and concern,

leverages the rich experience and competence available in the participants’ community to address real challenges, issues and opportunities facing the HR profession, and help learning from each other, and

results in relevant and concrete “take-home” learning (solutions and options) for the participants, which can be implemented.

The Theme: Crafting the Future of HR

As the groundwork for designing this event, we wrote/talked to more than 100 HR professionals from across different industries, and from academia. We shared the tentative design with them and asked them about the key HR challenges, issues and opportunities facing them as professionals.


Their feedback vindicated our sensing: that the HR field is changing and transforming very fast in India. The demands of HR - and the competencies to meet them - have radically changed during last few years, both in content and context. They also vary widely across the industries.

These changes have also created a dysfuntional disconnect among

the skills and competencies that industry expects HR professionals to have,

the expectations that the young HR professionals have about their role, and

the focus of the academia to HR profession and professionals to meet the imperatives of the new reality.

This conference is an interactive platform for the industry, HR professionals and academics to collectively identify, address and bridge these disconnects... and help...

...Crafting the Future of HR


The Design: How Will it Unfold

The design of the HR Conference is based on Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology, which allows each participant to choose and identify a theme/topic, and work with others who have similar concerns.


The Circle

The community starts the Open Space with a moderately facilitated meeting in a large conference room.

Participants propose and take up leadership/sponsorship to work on issues and live problems, about which they are passionate, and for which they would take up the responsibility.

No one (not no one) is in-charge


The Marketplace

Themes for which there are “sponsors” in the community, are identified and displayed.

Participants sign up for the themes and issues, which interest them most.

Discussions and negotiations take place to decide the scope and focus of work and outcomes.

People with common interests form the groups.




The Breakout Groups

Groups – formed around common concerns - breakout into syndicate forums.

“Sponsors” lead/facilitate the discussions on the issue selected by the group.

The groups generate solutions, alternatives and approaches to tackle the issues.




Consolidation & Presentation

The proceedings of each group are documented, so that they can be made available to all members of the community.

Groups make presentations to the community – and inputs from other members and the panel are added to their report.

Documentations from all groups – as well as the inputs - are compiled as “proceedings”, and shared with the community.


The Take-Home Outcome

A set of solutions and alternatives to apply on live HR issues, which you are facing in your professional life.

Learning about the issues, which concern the HR professionals across industry and academia.

A network of HR professionals who have similar concerns and problems as you have – and who are willing to share their ideas and experiences with you… even after the HR Conference is over

Registration Details

Download Nomination Form

Registration
The Conference will start at 9:30am on January 28th, and will conclude at 4:00pm on January 29th, 2006. The registration of participants will start from 8:45am onwards).

Nomination Fee
Corporate Participants:
Residential: Rs. 7,500/- (twin-sharing basis)
Non-Residential: Rs. 6,000/-

Academic Participants:
Residential: Rs. 5,000/- (twin-sharing basis)
Non-Residential: Rs. 3,500/-

The institute provides comfortable air-conditioned rooms. However, since there are limited number of rooms, the residential facilities will be made available only on first-come first-serve basis.

The Residential Participants can check in at the MDP Residence on January 27th (Evening). Please plan your return latest by January 30th (morning).



Your nomination should reach us by January 14th, 2006. Please send your nominations on the Registration Form (click to download) along with Nomination Fee to the following:
(NOTE: Bank Draft/ Cheques should be drawn in favour of XLRI Jamshedpur)

Prof Madhukar Shukla
Conference Coordinator
The 5th National HR Conference: Crafting the Future of HR
XLRI
CH Area (East)
Jamshedpur 831 001
Ph: 0657 – 2225506 (extn. 300)
Fax: 0657 – 2227814
Email: hrconference [at] xlri.ac.in


About Us


the Students Association for the Promotion of Personnel Management, Human Resources and Industrial Relations at XLRI Jamshedpur, is a student's body aiming to integrate the experiences of practitioners with the theoretical knowledge of academicians in the area of human resource development.

Our Mission: To enable development of world-class, well-rounded HR professionals who are capable of delivering and creating value in the emerging business environment.

Central to this mission is the unshaken belief that continuous interaction with industry is needed to give a well-rounded, practical business perspective that adds to the quality of management education by providing students at XLRI with a deeper understanding on real issues and the actuality of corporate existence.


Organizing Team

Dhananjay Misra
Secretary, SAPPHIRE

Members:
Alvin Raskina
Antra Tyagi
Geetika Mehta
Jasp
reet Singh
Piyush Sarode
Poornima Dore
Priyavadana R
Saurabh Mittal
Shavir Banaji
Shipra Bajaj

Conference Coordinator
Dr Madhukar Shukla
Prof (OB & Strategic Mgt)
XLRI Jamshedpur