Dr. Soumendra Bagchi is XLRI Jamshedpur’s Professor Of The Year 2020! He emerges an overwhelmingly loved and admired professor as per this year’s survey. An IIM Ahmedabad Fellow, Prof. Bagchi has robust industry experience in various domains. Let’s find out why students believe that Prof. Bagchi is “the best of the best as well as knowledgeable, kind and cooperative.”Note - The winner(s) of the InsideIIM Professor of The Year at any given campus has/have been chosen by current MBA students of that campus. The voting process began in the month of February 2020, and MBA students could nominate their favourite professors here. The professor(s) with the maximum number of votes has/have been declared the winner(s) in 2020!Also read - Here's Who MDI Gurgaon Students Selected As Their Professor of The Year In 2020!Prof. Soumendra Bagchi is an Associate Professor in the area of Human Resource Management at XLRI Jamshedpur. A Civil Engineer and an IIM A Fellow, some of the areas he focuses on teaching include - Human Resource Management in the Service Sector, Measuring HR, Performance Management, Performance Management and Appraisal, Strategic HRM, etc.
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Having worked on various industrial projects, Prof. Bagchi brings unique insight and knowledge to the classroom. Prof. Bagchi draws from a rich experience across working on the evaluation of polytechnics for the State Govt. of Jharkhand, manpower planning study the State Govt. Of Jharkhand, designing performance management systems for Goa Shipyard Limited, Mazagon Docks Limited, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation Limited and Flipkart. Further, having published various scholarly books like The Baranagar Jute Mill Killings: An Exploratory Formulative Case Study of Employee Retaliation in Industrial Relations, Performance Management: Theory and Cases. Cengage Learning. (2nd edition) 2013, Election Campaign: A Strategic Theory and Bihar 2015: Analysing the Portend as well as papers, case studied and journal articles, Prof. Bagchi brings a wide variety of interests and experiences to the XLRI classroom.Read more about Prof. Bagchi here.InsideIIM Professor of The Year 2020 - What XLRI Students Have To Say About Prof. Bagchi:"The professor has vast expertise on the subject and the pedagogy of Case presentation followed by analysis is the most effective way of delivering the content. Moreover the command in the field based on real life experiences makes the course more intriguing and is not just limited to theoretical aspects. The secondary benefits apart from the core content is the presentation skills that one develops while preparing PPTs which are expected to be extremely professional structurally adds a lot of value to the students ' learning.""He gives us a holistic and realistic view of business management. His course includes all aspects of management including finance, marketing, HR, industrial relations and supply chain. He teaches us all these concepts in a very easy to understand yet effective manner.""Amazing teaching skills, covered most of the subjects of MBA through case discussions. People rarely missed his classes. Even a few students from other courses came to attend his extra class.""The nominated professor went much beyond the course content inculcated a logical, strategic and structured thought process in us.""Has an unparalleled way of approaching cases that can amaze the smartest of the batch. Changes the very foundation of our belief systems and dogmas with every sentence he utters. Has a spectrum of knowledge across industries that few human beings can rival. And above all one of the kindest and most caring professors I've met, always willing to help."Here's what the Professor of The Year series is all about, and why it matters.The following are professors at XLRI who missed out on winning the title of InsideIIM's Professor of The Year in 2020, but are loved by XLRI Students:L Gurunathan: "Probably one of the best professors in the B-School circuit, Professor Guru has served on the Sixth Pay Commission of GOI and is a Subject Matter Expert when it comes to Compensation and Benefits. The best thing about his pedagogy is the way he conducts his lecture based on classroom discussions and brings in perspective that we could have never imagined. The course was never limited to a specific function but was linked to various aspects of the business and it signified how a specific function in the HR domain can have far reaching business implications. Beyond this, his witty remarks makes the classroom atmosphere very lively and engaging."Sabyasachi Sengupta: "The most calm, composed and competent finance faculty that you can find in any of the B schools across the country. He will very calmly explain every concept in case you fail to understand it and will be very calm. A person who has achieved inner peace. A sense of humour unmatched by any other faculty (you know it when the questions in the exam usually have the names like "Pain unlimited, Pain maximised, Pain continues") and yeah, the exam is crazy tough."Liked This? Here's What We Recommend What You Look At Next: