Conference



5th National HR Conference @ XLRI Jamshedpur
"Crafting the Future of HR"
January 28-29, 2006
at XLRI Jamshedpur

A Conference with a Difference

Most conferences are organized with outlined agenda, specified topics, and fixed speakers...
... and therefore, promote participants’ learning through listening and absorbing.

In contrast, the 5th National HR Conference is designed as a 'working conference'...
... and aims to shift from a speaker-centred to a participant-centred learning environment.

The Theme: "Crafting the Future of HR"

As the groundwork for designing this event, we wrote/talked to more than 100 HR professionals from across different industries, and from academia. We shared the tentative design with them and asked them about the key HR challenges, issues and opportunities facing them as professionals.

Their feedback vindicated our sensing, that the HR field is changing and transforming very fast in India. The demands of HR - and the competencies to meet them - have radically changed during last few years, both in content and context. They also vary widely across the industries.

These changes have also created a dysfuntional disconnect among: -

  • the skills and competencies that industry expects HR professionals to have,

  • the expectations that the young HR professionals have about their role, and

  • the focus of the academia to HR profession and professionals to meet the imperatives of the new reality.

    This conference is an interactive platform for the industry, HR professionals and academics to collectively identify, address and bridge these disconnects... and help... Crafting the Future of HR.

    The Design: How Will it Unfold

    The design of the HR Conference is based on Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology, which allows each participant to choose and identify a theme/topic, and work with others who have similar concerns.

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