Mumbai’s visual environment is saturated with signs of a traditional spirituality

If you’re feeling depressed? Is your hypertension, asthma or acidity, your quality of life? Stuck in a job you hate, wonder why you drag five days a week?

The simple solution would be to consult a doctor or a psychiatrist. Recent studies have shown a trend where more and more people to visit holy places and seeks the help of spirituality in healing in a series of complaints.

Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, is rapidly becoming a booming market for the saviour of souls in distress, and a growing number of young New-Ager are engaged in a wide range of treatment itself spiritual healing.

Mumbai’s visual environment is saturated as a sign of spirituality traditional repackaged for this growing public by a new class of Pop-gurus. Satsang or religious discourse, have a regular nature of Mumbai’s socio-cultural circuit. Community halls, parks and auditoriums are packed on weekends and holidays researcher spiritual.

With an enormous, young workforce (the median age is 25) living in the largest democracy in the world, India is poised to become one of the global economy’s newest powerhouses. Since India opened its markets to foreign investment in the early 1990s, its economy has grown at an impressive average 8 percent annual rate, and the nation is now projected to become the world’s third-largest economy (behind China and the United States) within two or three decades, according to global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs and other economists.

Most of the nation’s job and economic growth has been generated by family-owned Indian enterprises and multinationals in industries such as information technology (IT), telecommunications, business process outsourcing (BPO) and pharmaceuticals.

Maintaining high growth rates is a high priority for these industries because they face increasingly stiff international competition, most notably from China. But sustaining growth may be difficult, due–ironically–to a lack of qualified people.

Despite the fact that India has a population of more than 1.5 billion people, and a workforce of 422 million, its literacy rate is a low 59.5 percent (compared with 99 percent in the United States). Further, only about 48 million people–less than 12 percent of the entire workforce–are college graduates. And those who do hold college degrees often don’t possess the skills needed by the nation’s surging industries.

The human capital challenges facing some of India’s hottest sectors are similar to the skills shortages that some employers in the United States face today–and that more may encounter in the future as vast numbers of baby boomers retire, legal immigrant labor grows scarcer and America’s educational system continues to struggle to produce qualified new workers. (For more on these factors, see the cover story in the March 2005 issue of HR Magazine.)

But while similar challenges face both nations, the stakes are higher in India. For many companies in highly competitive sectors, a lack of talented workers constitutes a “make-or-break” HR issue, which makes the value of good HR management readily apparent to top executives. The profession, as a result, is gaining both respect and attention–the kind that comes from being on the hot seat.

The results from HR are mixed, however, with some observers complaining of large-scale failures and others pointing out high-profile successes.

The HR Agenda

With the national economy growing rapidly and with growth in such industries as IT and business process outsourcing more than doubling, HR challenges are coming fast and furious.

“It’s like building an aircraft while you’re in the air,” says Marcel R. Parker, president of human resources at the Raymond Group of Companies in Mumbai, a leading Indian organization in textiles and retailing with 18,000 employees.

Faced with growth at record levels in some industries and skyrocketing attrition, HR professionals say they’re spending upward of 80 percent of their time on recruitment.

Compounding the problem is the fact that, for personal or family-related reasons, half of all the women they hire will opt out of the workforce by age 30, according to Anita Belani, Country Head for Watson Wyatt India in Mumbai. That’s a potentially significant problem since women make up about 20 percent of the workforce in urban areas, and far more in certain fields.

Most important, finding workers with the right skills is a problem. Even hot industries that can attract college graduates from the top-tier business schools are being forced by market conditions to inflate salaries and lower job expectations.

“People who normally would be viewed as entry-level workers and paid accordingly are commanding much higher salaries and responsibilities,” says Philip Felando, senior director of human resources at Skyworks Solutions Inc. in Irvine, Calif. Felando, who is responsible for 4,000 employees worldwide, including 300 engineers at a design center in Hyderabad, India, says: “You’re a hot commodity regardless of your ability to perform.”

XLRI (Xavier Labour Relations Institute), Jamshedpur, one of the leaders of Asia educational institutions, Reliance WebWorld to start their mail Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management (PGCHRM).

The PGCHRM is a program of 14 months for mid-career as manager of human resources and, in view of their career. The programme will be made available to Reliance WebWorld outlets in Chennai, Cochin, Jamshedpur, Bangalore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Calcutta, Mumbai and Pune.

What do a 118-year-old political party, a Bollywood production house, an upstart (and start-up) low-cost airline, the initial public offering of a biotech company and the entire offshoring-to-India trend have in common? Well, according to a panel of judges BT put together, they marketed themselves or their offerings best in 2004. The result, detailed in the pages that follow, is the second edition of Business Today’s Best Marketers. Like the first edition, this was based on an expert interview with specialists (think consultants, academics, researchers) across six centres: Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata. As they met these specialists (around three in each centre), our reporters discovered something strange: unlike last year, when the judges came up with a total of 13 names, this time, the number of entries common across them was a mere five. One way of looking at that is to surmise that the quality of marketing has dipped. Another (the one we prefer) is that these five marketers have done enough to be obvious choices.

Bangalore, March 20. STARTING Thursday, 20 employees of TNT in Mumbai participating in a unique program of continuing education. TNT India Pvt Ltd is closely linked symbiosis with the Institute of BWL, Pune, opening an exclusive 18-month MBA program at the house of his staff.

According to Mr. Jinendra Sancheti, Managing Director of TNT India, “Given that 80 percent of our senior positions are occupied by internal actions, we wanted to create an atmosphere of learning and development within the company. We met this idea to speak for more than a recovery SIBM Collaborator skills. ”

According to Ms. Sheel Shenoy, President, Management Development Programme, SIBM “Even if we did, a mini-MBA programs for other companies, is this the first time that each company, for over 18 months .

The licensing process for the course works exactly the same manner as all MBA programs: each graduate within the company to submit an application. After a rigorous written examination and interview, very few are selected for the course.

Currently, the program is only the western region TNT employees, which means that all gather in Mumbai for a period of three days per month for classes. Given that the course is exclusively for leaders to express, there is a degree of adaptation, as the Institute for Business: Extra emphasis on issues such as logistics, distribution and Supply Chain Management.

Some of the best managers within the company are scheduled for classes in relevant fields. Needless to say that projects students would also be on the problems of industry and society. Some case studies would have pages of the history of the company, said its director general.

Regarding the fees, Mr. Sancheti said that if the company would bear a substantial part of costs, staff students is also provided a contribution of a small sum. “This is for the Commission staff. When the price is free, chances are, which are as easy to take, “said he was touched.

TNT, this program for employees who are interested in higher education, but was unable to take either for economic reasons or because of lack of time. For two Hosentopper each course, the company has an obligation to repay all the fees.

And what the company has the demand from workers after the matche MBA badge to him?

Nothing, except a year’s commitment not to leave the company, “says Sancheti.

If this possibility of extension staff from other regions? Mr. Sancheti perspective, which would be decided by the first programme on the legs, because “we just want the practical difficulties of the programme and see how to handle students, then they decide to broadcast.”

Mumbai, March 5 (PTI), the economic relationship is the key to the Indo-American partnership, which has improved over the past few years, U.S. Secretary of State for Management Henrietta Fore H said here today .

“The USA and India have a strong strategic partnership based on common values and cooperation on a wide range of topics. Our economic relations is the key which has considerably in recent years,” said in a function Fore organized by Narsee Monjee Institute for Management Studies University.

The observation that the value of U.S. direct investment in India has more than tripled since 2000, it said annual exports to the USA to India have more than doubled during the period, while imports from ‘India increased by 75 percent.

“The increase of bilateral trade and investment has greatly benefited both our countries,” said Fore.

Lauding the role of business for the institutions of the two countries closer, she said business-to-business contacts have been crucial to strengthening the economic growth of the partnership.

There are inns and hostels, but nothing can beat this one. With the best of seven stars, comfort and convenience, Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVPKM) Ladies hostel is something to expect. The hotel is located opposite Amitabh Bachchan’s former residence, Off Road 10 in the Juhu Scheme, the hostel is a look Fang building. Painted in light gray with blocks of red, blue and yellow, this imposing building is difficult to miss, even if you do the journey. Almost all work on the building is finished, with the exception of a few small jobs, the need to do so. The six housing situation is exclusively for women, actually, they even have women guards to man. There may be 170 students, but if the need arises, a place for 170 students, another can be built. Most rooms have already accepted, only 34 remain, but soon itself in the ones reserved.

The only sad part about the youth hostel is that it is only for students in one of
SVPKM institutions such as Mithibai College, College NM, NM Institute of Management Studies and Goklibai School. Totally Mandal which operates about 20 institutions in the city. It is fortunate that could headquartered in the city, but if you travel too boring, just the hostel. “Even students who live in the city are free to come and live here. It is not just for students, who come from other cities of Mumbai to explore, “said an official of the hostel. An interesting feature of this place is the biometric system for entry personalized with surveillance electronics. This is your fingerprint, which gives you access to the youth hostel, and this possibility is open only to students. Visitors, including members of their families, have no access to a floors, where the students. The rooms are fabulous, far canoeing, cockroach infected Hostel Rooms will you say. Clean, airy, spacious, well designed with beautiful curtains for the feast, it is so well as in a hotel. You can choose from a double or a three-bedroom bed and walk, you get all the equipment. Your personal study, your laundry and bathing, enough space for drying clothes, built in storage , Stockpiling excessive luggage, a recreation program for adults, microwaves and washing machines for students on each floor. Each floor also has a lounge (good model!) For students spend time together.

Meals are served in dining room on the ground floor of the hostel, next to the kitchen well-designed and staff prepared to hand to take care of foodstuffs. The price of this convenience - gr. 60,000 per annum, whose line. 10,000, a refundable deposit. It would be unfair not to mention that the hostel was named after its benefactor Mr. Kundangauri Sandhvi, who with her husband Manubhai form a charitable trust in memory of his son Mahendra, died at the age of four in 1944. Since the establishment of the Trust, was taking charge of the case of education, health care for the poor and the release by natural disasters, where the unfortunate. Although Kundangauri who died in April 1998, it is clear from this project, that his charitable work.

A wise parent of this observation about their teenage daughter. “You know the price of everything but the value of nothing.” We call this a wise parent, because now she recognized that, somewhere along the way, his parents were in need of an update of qualifications, but she was too busy to take note. Thereafter, that his daughter had to quantify, all in the form of money. It was only when she began to apply equal love of his mother with the amount of pocket money, however, that the parent company was aware that something was wrong in the way that his daughter had been made.

How consumer protection in India to reach new heights, it is perhaps time to pause and think: Are we teaching our children values? Children in India today almost as many entertainment opportunities than their counterparts in developed countries. As qu’enfant you perhaps, is the fabulous for the number of spindles your best friend, the father has made Hong Kong, but your child does not feel he steals. You can not eyes were settled in a foreign country, but with your nearest dealer to sell products writing andchances you get what you.your child. looking right, probably at a reasonable price.

It would be naive to believe that good values, it is only question of monetary values. The correct values would also imply that child care, moral education. If the two work well together, we can never exceed the other side. Madhukar Jain is a wealthy businessman in New Delhi. He was based in Mumbai and his family in Mumbai, for the first time in the last year. He was quite surprised to discover how the money from his children was deliberate. After the tour by the high points of the city, his son 10 years, commented, “It is ordered Papa, but where are the rich live, you know, as in Delhi, in rich countries or friends living in a colony defence As we colony. Mumbai, they all live in Juhu If they do, we must stay in Juhu, then all my friends are rich. Otherwise, I’ll ill friends in my class. ”

Although surprised, Jain was totally happy that his son had already learned that one between the haves of the poor, a characteristic, it would be him prominently in the economy later in life. Unfortunately, Jain, it takes some time to recognize that his son May grow at a good businessman, but would be difficult to fail as a human being.

The right or the value of “good values” do not begin with an estimate of money. It starts with many small issues.Like learning of the child with others, so that it does not develop a self-centered prig, or to teach the child is it important to be honest. On education or child to cope with the responsibility when he is wrong. On education or child and on her face, what life offers, “Running Away never resolved any problem. Small things, perhaps not learned, but with conferences with examples of his own behavior.

The SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) from Mumbai, in alliance with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (CPI) of the U.S.-18 offers a month of contact offline program SPJIMR VT-MIT regarding the implementation and The management of information technology (IT) solutions projects.

The course offers a Master’s Degree in Information Technology at the CPI and SPJIMR. The course is a 2-track for working professionals and others for graduates of information technology (IT) background.

KOCHI: The Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation (IIAM) Kochi graduated from the U.S. program specializes in conciliation, mediation and intellectual property in Mumbai from 7 until May 19

The programme is being conducted in conjunction with Hamline University School of Law. A press release issued by the Institute said that the program consists of interactive skills in negotiation and mediation. This program offers Diploma lawyers, law students, MBA students and other professionals the chance to explore other dispute settlement procedures and the theory that theory into practice directly in boardrooms class. This represents a sxi-credit.

In addition to the diploma, the Institute also offers a certificate American consensus in resolving disputes. K.V. Balakrishnan, director of the Institute, said the programme would be taught in the classroom teachers highly evaluated from DRI Hamline University School of Law. It is 50 hours, a two-week course will be held in Mumbai.

The certificate management disputes DistancE course is a course learning valid for a period of six months from the date of registration. Students may enter at any time during the year. For more details, call 0484-6570101.