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.

India had 840 Business Schools (B schools) from March 2002, which have 65,000 Masters in Business Administration (MBA). A survey by Cosmode and the World Series Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in the first top-10 B-schools in 2003.

– IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, IIM, IIM Lucknow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies, University of New Delhi, Delhi, J and Shailesh Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, follow Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. According to the survey, the main factor that separates a top school is the rest of the Faculty and teaching, the others are research, publication and consultancy. On an average edge of the addresses of schools B-50 full-time professors, 73 percent with a promotion. The second phase of the school has 24 full-time professors, 47 percent with a promotion, while the third stage, 17 full-time teachers, of whom 35% have a doctorate.

The number of books published by the school average of 11.53 with the top-15, against 3.28 for the second phase of 25 schools and 1.08 for the remaining 60

On average, Management Development Programme Guidance and revenue amounting to Rs312.84 lakh for the Top 15, Rs42.38 lakh for the next 25 and Rs6.49 lakh for 60

The International Institute for Management and Technology, Kolkata (IIMT Bengal) has selected 16 students for training a year in hotels in the UK and Malaysia. Employment placements in the second year is a course for its management of the hotel degrees. IIMT Bengal was adopted in 2002 by GGL Hotel and Resort Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd.

It has a technical cooperation with Carlson Hospitality World Wide of the USA, Edwardian Group of United Kingdom, India and Unitech AG of the International Institute for Management and Technology, Gurgaon (IIMT-Gurgaon). IIMT-Gurgaon IIMT is the first in India. IIMT Bengal has a scientific partnership with Oxford Brookes University of the UK. It is also applying for listing of the All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India.

After the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon Haryana, 123 students from all institutions have been during the year 2004. The highest salary was proposed Rs9 lakh per annum and the average wage was proposed Rs6.25 lakh per annum. Nearly 37 percent of students opted for information technology / information technology capable services industry. The financial sector accounted for 22 per cent, while 16 percent of students were received for the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and consumer durable goods sector. Recruiter contain Bharat Shell, Nestle, Maruti, Bharti Tele-ventures, Glaxo Smith Kline, the Times Group, Dabur, Reckitt Benckiser, Philips, IBM, Oracle, TCS, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) and Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, to offer training and research and national consultation on joining the IACC.

Mr. Vinod Chandiok, President, IACC, and Dr Devi Singh, Director of MDI have signed the declaration of intent, in the presence of Mr. Singh, VP, President, Industrial Finance Corporation of India.

New Delhi: A post-graduate of the London School of Economics dismissal of several young and more pay, as RS 2 lakh for the plum job of the United Kingdom - Computers for professionals British Railways.

The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police has arrested Maharukh Javat, LSE holds a diploma in computer science. A case of fraud, breach of criminal law and trust was a criminal conspiracy, a few days back on the complaint of several persons who claimed they were misled by a Mumbai company, Mazda Information & Systems Technologies, which also took place at a branch Civil Lines, New Delhi.

The complaint, the company had declared an advertisement in the newspaper in November 2003, which seeks professionals 40-45 British Railways. The company, by Javat with Rakesh Grover argued that it had signed a contract with the British Railways may computers professionals a monthly salary of £ 3,000 (about Rs 2.4 lakh) with accommodation and meals free of charge.

The selected candidates were then trained in computer operations for about four months in New Delhi. During training””, they were available in different forms. Each candidate was asked to pay RS 2 lakh for training, tickets for the United Kingdom, visa and job placement.

They were later told British Railway staff would be given specialized training. After training, it was said, they wait until their employment policy a letter that companies would mail home. Many candidates have also resigned jobs in call centers and sales organizations so that they can operate in the United Kingdom. Most of them came from New Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.

After a few months, when the letter was nowhere in sight, candidates began to put pressure on companies officials said their accession appointment had only been postponed. In April 2004, the company has stopped his Civil Lines. Surveys Brit Rail was a subsidiary of ACP Marketing Ltd, Canada based on a sale of railway, which had nothing to do, Javat. If candidates have made them, some have received cheques to be returned.

Javat, lives in Mumbai, has landed on the network of police, as they have come to New Delhi a business venture. A student of Sophia University, she also had a master’s degree in management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.

Two MBA students were sentenced to life in Pune on Thursday for murdering their classmate—a case of a love triangle gone wrong.

Additional Sessions Judge S S Phansalkar Joshi sentenced Aditi Sharma and her boyfriend Praveen Khandelwal for murdering Udit Bharati on April 22 last year by giving him prasad laced with poison.

All three were 25 and students of the IIHM MBA institute in Wakad, Pune.

Udit and Aditi came to Pune from Jammu where they had studied together in an engineering college. They planned to get married after finishing their MBA degree but their relationship changed.

Aditi met Praveen at the MBA institute and fell in love with him. She wanted to end her relationship with Udit, but he would have nothing of it.

“Aditi and Praveen found a job in Gurgaon but Udit continued to pester Aditi. So both Aditi and Praveen connived to eliminate Udit. On April 22 last year, Aditi came to a Pune lodge and called Udit. When Udit arrived, she offered him prasad mixed with arsenic,” said additional public prosecutor Neelima Vartak

Udit went back to his apartment after eating the prasad and was later taken to hospital where he died.

The prosecution alleged the two had pleaded guilty of murdering Udit at the MacDonald Hotel near the Chinchwad station.

The police had initially registered a case of accidental death only to discover later the presence of arsenic in his body. Remains of the poison were also found in Aditi’s bag.

When the judge pronounced the life sentence and asked Aditi and Praveen if they wanted to say anything, they said they were “innocent”.

A highlight of the case was examination of 33 prosecution witnesses, who mainly comprised forensic experts testifying on administration and traces of arsenic found in the viscera of the deceased.

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At the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-type institute would be soon in Bihar.

If notification of the decision by the State Government for the opening of the Institute chief executive Kah Subramanian said Tuesday the main campus of the Institute would be on 35 hectares of abandoned factory Fatuha scooters, near Patna.

A team of experts Rajan Saxena, ex-IIM (Indore) Director, is currently ICFAI B-school, Gurgaon, and Kamlesh Mishra, Director of the Institute of International Management and Technology, Gurgaon, visited three possible sites — the industrial zone in Patna, Giddha in the industrial zone near Koelwar and housing in Digha board. All these sites were rejected for various reasons.

The team eventually chose the Fatuha site for the institute. It was requested, a detailed project report on May 15. “This institute is at par with one of IIMS with regard to university courses, the quality of teaching and accommodation possibilities. We in India, all competitions for admission to the institute” , Said Subramanian, adding the institute would be functional within one year.

The team also evaluated the infrastructure and upgradation LN Mishra of the Institute of economic development and social change. Some management capabilities would be open to the institute are at the Institute starts working properly Fatuha

Aviva Life Insurance (AVL), with its headquarters in India at Gurgaon, 14 in the Grand Place Places to Work Survey 2004. The survey, conducted by Grow Talent Company, in conjunction with the Great Place to Work Institute Inc. in the USA, working space on a scale of points based on the combination of quantitative and qualitative data. Two thirds of visitors came from consulting the staff and one third of additional materials by the organizations. AVL, employs more than 673 AVL focuses on the use of interpreters high because of lack of expertise in the field of business insurance.

The company is 40-performing mid-Level Manager embarked on a programme acceleration Leadership in Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Forty junior and midlevel was director of the rotation programme development. AVL, the failure rate of less than 10 percent against 15 percent of industry

New Delhi, Oct 10 (PTI) IndianOil Institute of Petroleum Management (IIPM), IOC’s apex learning centre at Gurgaon, and IFP Training, a training arm of IFP, France, have entered into an agreement to organize and host public courses on Petroleum Management for executives of the oil and gas firms in India.

The collaboration agreement was signed by Anand Kumar, executive director, IIPM, and by Bernard Lery, deputy chief executive officer and director (international affairs), IFP Training, at Paris recently, an IOC press release said here.

IOC operates 10 of India’s 18 refineries and a 9,000-km network of cross-country pipelines to feed its countrywide marketing network. IFP, France, is a company specialising in research and development, training and information for sustainable development in the fields of energy, transport and environment.

Petroleum refining offers vast opportunities for growth on account of narrowing of the gap between global demand for petroleum products and existing refining capacities.

Setting up of new greenfield refineries is highly capital-intensive and involves a minimum of three to four years’ time. On the other hand, improving efficiencies and augmenting capacities at existing refineries through revamp and de-bottlenecking is a cost-effective proposition in the short-term.

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