The Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR), Xavier University, Bhubaneswar (XUB) conducted its annual HR symposium on “Valuing People” here on Friday.
XARH dean Dr Snigdha Pattnaik, XUB Registrar Fr EA Augustine, SJ, Oil India limited Manager Administration Dr Mukesh Biswas, ABP News Chief People Officer Satyakki Bhattacharjee, Asia Pacific, Metso Regional HR Director Poonam Gupta, HAl HR and Skill Development GM Sandeep Patnaik, Rashima Mishra of Milk Mantra Dairy and JSPl HR AGM Banabas Acharya attended as guests.
Taking on the theme “Valuing People”, Fr Augustine, SJ stressed on how the theme is pertinent not only to human resources, but to every function in an organisation and stressed on how it’s important to value people beyond organisations.
In the first panel discussions, the guests threw a spotlight on “Employee Happiness in Organisations”. Rashima Mishra, whose company featured recently in Forbes and Wall Street Journal, stressed on the importance of recruiting right, and how HR needs to be in a parallel loop with the business, and not in a separate orbit.
While in second phase, discussions were held on “Valuing Solid Citizens in Organisations”. Poonam Gupta defined ‘solid citizens’ as someone who have been in the company and stressed on how organisations need to retain their solid citizens by peer-to-peer recognition, and other engaging activities.
Students of XAHR actively participated in seminar by asking question and bringing in their mix of conceptual theories and summer internship experiences.