Most Organizations Are Not Ready For New Generation Employees

Prof. Dr. Ajay K Jain from MDI Gurgaon spoke about the impacts and the cost of being silent in a workplace can be fatal for the business, the organisation and the individual. Citing Mahabharata and examples of corporate biggies like Enron, Lehmein Brothers, Prof. Jain explained how if people with insights instead of choosing to remain silent had spoken up, major disasters could have been avoided. Dr. Purnima Agarwal, Former Head of Department, Psychology, University of Lucknow, encouraged students on “Building Interpersonal Relations at Workplace” and presented an interactive case study with situational analysis.

Mr. Vijay Rai, M.D – Enterprise Business, Asia Pacific and EMEA Markets, Saviour US INC. and President NHRD, Delhi Chapter, in his valedictory speech spoke at length on the relevance of communication in developing healthy interpersonal relations and how ‘design thinking’ – an approach that can be used to think through relationship issues and applied in business to seek help in breaking the barriers of Interpersonal relationship in workplace. Mr. Rai also mentioned how this new generation with constant mobile connectivity and being used to with real-time interactions, can leverage on their superior adaptability to newer technologies for effective communication within the workplace, however, a positive intent is the most critical component in the entire relationship building process.

Among other eminent speakers present were Prof. Mirza Saiyadain, Professor, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow & Former Professor, IIM Ahmedabad;  Prof. M. M. Monippally, Former Professor, IIM Ahmedabad and Dr. Kavitha Pathak from Jaipuria Lucknow who has been a founding member of the institute.

Located in Gomtinagar in Lucknow, Jaipuria Institute of Management offers state of the art infrastructure and value for money to its 300 management students. The institute has constantly been ranked among best private B-schools of India in various surveys and ranked 49th in NIRF survey. The other campuses of Jaipuria Institute of Management, is located in Noida, Jaipur and Indore.