The inaugural ceremony of the certificate programme in management for the executives of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation limited (HPCl) was held here on Wednesday at IIM Indore.
The programme is a customised programme for the executives of HPCl, which will formally start on December 5, 2015 and will be conducted on alternate weekends over a span of 18 months.
In the inaugural ceremony, Professor Jayasimha KR, Associate Professor, IIM Indore and the coordinator for the programme delivered the welcome address and introduced the guests for the ceremony namely, Ashish Sen, DGM, Capacity Building, HPCl and Pushp Kumar Joshi, Director, HR, HPCl.
Professor Jayasimha mentioned that the programme has five modules namely, Managerial Economics, Organisational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Basic Accounting and Finance, Operations Management and Supply Chain Management and Marketing, which includes modules on retailing, Marketing of services etc.
While interacting with the participants, Sen mentioned that every company has its own life, like living beings. Congratulating the participants for being selected for the course, he noted that the learning ambience and the organizational skills of IIM Indore would help them to develop their skills not only from the career point of view but as a person too.
Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore welcomed all the participants and thanked HPCl for the efforts in making the programme happen.
He mentioned that the programme would be a great experience for the executives as this is the right time in their career to learn something more, something new and explore the course.
Manas Parihar, Officer, MDP proposed the Vote of Thanks.