Leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpact has roped in professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow to give its employees lessons in management skills and improving productivity.

Through electronically enabled interactive sessions, workers at Genpact’s operation hubs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Jaipur will learn the finer nuances of management, soft skills and strategic planning from senior professors of the business school.

This is an e-certificate programme in general management (e-CPGM) and there are 119 participants, most of whom have worked for one to three years.

“The objective of this programme is to develop managerial capabilities among people who are at the early stages of their career to enable them to effectively undertake managerial responsibilities,” said Ajay Singh, course director of IIM Lucknow.

The programme is divided into 12 modules. Keeping in mind the requirements of the industry, the modules are designed to create managerial and leadership competence among the professionals. There are 120 hours of e-enabled interactive sessions.

Singh said the programme was being run from IIM Lucknow’s Noida campus, which was being developed as a centre of excellence in the area of executive education.

The India headquartered Genpact operates service delivery centres in India, China, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the US.

Bhubaneswar: Posco, Genpact, Visa Steel, Vedanta Alumina - indicators, all of a light tomorrow. Once operational, the company would not only houses around 2 lakh jobs, but also the possibility of throwing local entrepreneurs, more employment opportunities.

Seems like the ideal basis for solving the unemployment problem in this country. However, a recent study, presented to the CEO series of talk-Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), provides a paradox scenario.

According to the study, “India currently has 48 percent unemployment of 70 per cent of vacancies, especially in the business world with a maximum of inadequate resources management level.” D ‘ other words, it is a huge shortage of qualified personnel Assistant Manager, managers and Assistant Vice-Presidents, that industry needs to find and it is difficult to recruit. Given the scenario of education booming, especially in the field of management, this is not the case.

The problem, as Vishal Mehra, vice-president of the Asia-Pacific Microsoft Office Tiger Insights, Chennai-based solution provider seems to be, with employability.

One aspect, he said that men throughout the country lacks a lot, because most of them are ready, investors in the fields of education, but do no efforts to develop their own personality. It is often even with a degree of good institutions, companies find candidates unemployable, the restriction of choice.

An area that no amount of reading the “Financial Express” at the end of the end of each day, or glue on CNBC 24 / 7 help.

De basis for businesses of employability today, it is not the theory, but the personal skills and communication skills have, “he said. An organization is today the perspective of the larger image. How this is a person are plans for the future, the strategy for achieving equality and, of course, knowing a person weaknesses and strengths.

Bhubaneswar: Position Vibes, the City-Xavier Institute of Management seems increasingly clear over time that the average salaries offered this year have increased by 40 percent compared to last year. Some companies have even returned empty-handed.

On the programme management rural front, the picture was brighter because the average wage pulled upwards by 30 percent compared to 2005.

According to the Director, XIMB E. Abraham, Atos, which offered the highest bid of Rs 9 lakh per annum for MBA students and was followed by JP Morgan to display Rs 8.6 lakh per annum.

A total of 52 companies visited the campus and offers 206 jobs to a batch of 121 students of management. The private placement was Needless to say that over one hundred percent because some students had received several offers.

Above all, Singapore-Olam International, visited XIMB for the first time, has made two graduates - Varun Trivedi and Arpan Singhal - giving them a staggering $ 1 lakh per annum.

As always, IT staff has the largest part of the cake curves 34 percent of the lot, followed by consultancy firms appropriate 22 per cent, “said Abraham mediapersons here on Wednesday.

Manufacturing in the next from 16 per cent and was followed closely by Banking & Finance and the FMCG sector with 10 per cent of the game.

While Infosys Technologies, TCS, Hewlett Packard, Wipro Technologies, GenPact, JP Morgan, Godrej, HSBC, faces some of the town, the B-school was also pleased with the Atos Origin, Accenture, Mind Tree Consulting, Olam International Ernst & Young, IBM and India, Cargill visited for the first time.

The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has pipped all other IIMs this year by bagging the highest domestic offer across all IIMs during lateral placements.

The institute beat its more illustrious counterpart, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to grab the top spot in the highest domestic salary offered during laterals.

The highest offer at Rs 16.2 lakh, made by a software major to an IIM-C grad, betters the offer made by Genpact to an IIM-A student at Rs 15.5 lakh. It is also the best-ever domestic offer in laterals.

In addition, international firms such as Johnson Electric, Microsoft, Mittal Steel and SAP International Consulting Group made 21 overseas offers this year, compared with just 14 last year.

The highest overseas offer this year is $85,000. The total offers made to IIM-C grads this year stand at 65 so far, compared with 90 last year. The institute hopes to bag more offers during the next few days. IIM-A and IIM-C have clubbed the Day zero of laterals with the Day zero of finals for the first time.

“Most of the Day zero recruiters for laterals and finals are the same, and to reduce their travel time, it was decided to club the two days into one,” a source told ET. With lateral placements drawing to a close, all eyes are fixed on the final placements which begin at IIM-A, B, C from the second week of March.