Webinar Details

Current Situation and Future Trends in IR 13th September 2021, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Industrial Relations have developed into one of the modern industrial society's most delicate and difficult problems. It is a challenging task to achieve industrial growth without healthy relationships and worker collaboration. Therefore, it is always good to build and maintain cordial and harmonious relationships between management and union for smooth functioning of the organization. To showcase what should be done with respect to creating smooth and cordial Industrial Relations, the HR Department organized a guest lecture on "Current Situation and Future Trends of IR" and brought an industrial professional, Mr. Kallol Dutt, Joint Labour Commissioner, Haldia to exchange his valuable insights about the future course of HR industry.

The speaker emphasized on the importance of cordial relations between the workers and management and how it helps the organization in varied ways. It helps in uninterrupted production, it reduces industrial disputes and wastage, and increase morale of the employees. The speaker bestowed students with his valuable insights on IR law codes and how these relations have changed considerably over a period of time. Human Resources are one of the most important aspects of any company's long-term performance, and only proper investment in this area can assure a company's long-term viability. Human resource management is unavoidable in today's fast-paced corporate world.

It was indeed a participative session, students interacted with the speaker which helped them understand the concepts of Industrial Relations and HR in a much better way. Gaining industrial insights and professional knowledge helped students imbibe certain values that will help them stay ahead in their professional career. By way of these lectures, SCMS NOIDA aims to prepare remarkably proficient and competent Human Resource managers of the future by providing them with all the indispensable skills and knowledge so that they can drive ahead tomorrow’s professional world.

Soft Skills for Business and Interviews, 26th April 2021, 10:40 am onwards. 

Managers believe that soft skills are as important as hard skills. These skills help in forming better relationships with people and develop trust. When it comes to management, soft skills play a very important role both from an individual and business perspective. Soft skills deeply enhance one’s confidence, personality, and put them on the right path of progressing in their career to fulfill goals. Employees with great soft skills are chosen for leadership positions over employees with average soft skills. It is crucial to develop these skills and enhance them if a candidate wants to be an ideal employee. To help the students with this, the HR Area of SCMS NOIDA organized a guest lecture on ‘Soft Skills for Business and Interviews’ led byMr. Arun Rawal, Soft skills Trainer & Coach, who shared a lot of insightful methods that can help develop and acquire desired ‘Soft Skills’ that can help boost the career of students. 

He pointed out that there is some potential in an employee that is known to the organization whereas there are some hidden skills as well. With the right amount of organizational coaching and mentoring, we can convert those skills into an asset. The speaker mentioned that ‘Leadership is a journey’. A true leader can transform the lives of people. One should never copy others instead he/she should be introspective and should learn about one’s strengths and weaknesses and work on them religiously. He revealed that our seniors are always a guide to us. We should always learn from their blind spots. An introspective person will always work on himself.

He also talked about the importance of ‘Humility’ in life and one should always learn from the experiences of great personalities. Their life has lessons to serve and learn from. Further, he highlighted the most important quality after joining an organization is to be ‘Courageous’. Work for what is morally correct and genuinely good for the organization, customers, and services. Having the courage to speak up the truth is always a perk for the employee. Communication is always essentiality in the organization. To succeed in that one also needs to be a ‘Good listener’. A good listener is always a good communicator who never judges the speaker because not being judgmental gives chance to innovation and opportunities. He stated that ‘Knowledge is power’. One should always prefer to be accompanied by people who are smarter than you. It gives an opportunity to learn. Reading books, updating general and business knowledge helps in overall development. The session ended with the discussion on the ‘STAR Technique’ which stands for situation, task that you performed as a team, action you and your teammates took, and results.

The HR Club of Symbiosis Centre of Management Studies, NOIDA hosted a guest lecture virtually for the students on the topic Organizational Leadership effectiveness on 29th August 2020.  In the existing pandemic and the strained working conditions, it has become imperative that we go through the vital organizational leadership practices & patterns that cinch workplace efficacy and development in the dynamic business environment. Following this trail of thought, SCMS NOIDA gave its students an opportunity to educate them on the insights to Organizational Leadership Efficiency in order to bring about effectiveness in the performance of an organization as a whole. 

Dr. Damini Saini, IIM Raipur delivered the lecture on ‘Organizational Leadership Effectiveness’ who has proved her mettle in the area of human resources with numerous research publications in the journals of repute.

She successfully referenced the sharp business minds and legends from the past and present business world. She began her discussion with various theories of leadership such as contemporary and contingency theories. In fact, different styles of leadership were also highlighted namely transactional, transformational, servant, etc. Initially, she emphasized transformational leadership since in India this kind of leadership was largely followed but with times the leadership style of the leaders kept on changing. It moved on to spiritual leadership in 2003 to ethical leadership in 2005 to authentic leadership and so on. 

She took the example of Thomas. J Watson who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. She threw light on the various techniques Watson adopted to bring IBM to its known stature by developing and framing its management style and corporate culture. She further talked about the conceptual importance of organizational leadership in current times and how it is very much present in all the businesses. She also brought to light how Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, incorporated numerous leadership strategies in the company that helped in bringing out results at the workplace. He was identified as a visionary who is relentless, ruthless, creative, strategist, and so on. He had been looking forward to excellence in whatever the company does. 

She put stress on the need for efficient organizational leadership for better employee management, workplace performance, and efficiency. With this note, the virtual session came to an end and provided students with great insights.