Madras HRD Network Meeting - December, 20014: When I attended the LAST month meeting, it almost appeared to me that that the current Human Resources professionals’ role is ONLY to communicate the bad message, particularly to tell their staff: “From tomorrow onwards, you need not attend office”. The participants of November month meeting were expecting “Story Telling” would help them to facilitate the process of communicating: “You are FIRED”. I was not happy about the mind-set of the HR professional from the IT companies. The Tata and Harvey nurtured the Labor Welfare Measures in India with their Labor Settlements in Jamshedpur and Harveypatti (near Ambasamudram). In those days it was not M A (Social Work) / M S W , it was called D S S A (Postgraduate Diploma in Social Service Administration; which means those who specialize in Personnel Management are custodian of nurturing the Labor Capital. Now there is trend to identify this M A (Social Work) / M S W specialized in Personnel Management as post graduate degree in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations or Human Resources Management. This month (December) topic was: “Recent Trends in HR”. I was particularly interested for two reasons: 1. The title of the topic 2. The presenter is from the company, which admire the most for their professional management and I must have used the name of the companies in several presentations that I have done in whole of South Asia. (The famous study at Royal Dutch/Shell, where Arie de Geus was the coordinator of planning worldwide, which found that the average life expectancy of Fortune 500 firms, from birth to death was only 40 to 50 years. Royal Dutch/Shell has helped me to speak about “Living Organizations in many conferences, particularly the one I spoke at the Management Association of Pakistan (MAP), Karachi. Mr Ragland Thomas was the speaker. He is a product of Madras School of Social Work of 1994 and has professional working experience in Manufacturing, Information Technology, BPO & KPO Industry verticals. He has worked for organizations like Visteon, Rane, GE Capital, iGate, HSBC, Zenta & Amazon. He is currently working as Head – Human Resources with Shell Business Operations, Chennai. His spoke for one hour and a half; hence, I could not register everything to give you a briefing about the talk. I was happy from his talk that the Human Resources Development function still focused on various aspects of Human Capital, like Training and Development. Succession Planning & Talent Management, in addition to nurturing diversity. I was particularly expecting you to speak about the ‘Unified Planning Machinery’ (UPM) called: “Scenario Planning”, Year 2000 Study of Royal Dutch/Shell. I am sure he would speak about it on some other occasion. The number of participants was phenomenal and I didn’t feel like a stranger in the forum, which was nurtured under my leadership for four years. Most of them must be from the manufacture background (my assessment based on their outfit). I met several of my old friends. I could not recognize them; where as they told me that I have not changed. I consider it a big compliment. I have met them after a gap of thirteen years. Most of them ripened with age and appeared weakened either due to stress or a possible health issue. I thanked God for guarding me from aging for the past 12 years. Based on their compliments, there are chances that I might look younger in the next month meeting!!! Whomever I had seen last month were missing, mostly from IT companies. The professionals from the manufacturing sectors didn’t attend the last month meting – may because of the maverickness of the topic: “Story Telling” by a film director. This time, conspicuous absence of the HR professionals from the IT companies, as the speaker is not from an IT company; which means there is dichotomy exist between the HR professionals from Manufacture and IT industries. I look forward to the day, both are inclined to learn from each other, though the problems of the industry is different, while the human aspirations are the same, in whatever verticals they are into. Karuppasamy Pandiarajan / Anto Vincent / Deenadayalan Singaram / Thomas A A Jayaseelan / Ajay Sargunar / Francis Jeyaraj / Irudhaya Prasanna / Reeves Wesley / Kishore Stephen / Shankar Ganesan / Vidhya Srinivasan
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