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In this Issue
1. Meet your Office Bearers 2014
2. Summit on Building HR Capabilities
2. Workshop on Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace
3. DMA-NTPC Book Award
4. Upcoming Events
5. Management Quote & Cartoon
6. Welcome Aboard New Members !!
March 2014
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Meet your Office Bearers (2014)
PRESIDENT— Dr. A K Balyan
Dr. A.K. Balyan is the MD & CEO of Petronet –LNG Limited, a fast growing company in the Indian energy sector. M.Tech from IIT, Delhi and Ph.D from Germany, Dr. Balyan served India’s number one E&P Company - ONGC for over 3 decades. He established CBM production in the country for the first time. Dr. Balyan was elevated to the Board of ONGC in 2003 as the Director (HR) & Business Development, besides being on the Board of several subsidiary namely ONGC Videsh Limited, MRPL, Dahej SEZ Ltd.,
Mangalore SEZ Ltd., ONGC Tripura Power Company, Petronet LNG Limited, ONGC Petro additions
Limited and as Chairman of Petronet MHB Limited.
He steered ONGC’s diversification into sectors such as Wind Energy, LNG, Petrochemicals and
Power. He has received several awards and recognitions and has led many professional associations.
SR. VICE PRESIDENT— Ms. Neeru Abrol
Ms Neeru Abrol is C&MD of National Fertilizers Limited. She is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has about 33 years of rich experience in Manufacturing Industry. She joined NFL as Director (Finance) in 2007. Prior to which she worked with M/s Steel Authority of India (SAIL) for twenty six years at various positions. She embodies an extensive experience in the field of Financial Management. During her tenure as Finance Director in NFL, various flagship projects of the Company including conversion
of 3 fuel oil based units to Gas were initiated and completed successfully. She was responsible for
formulating financial strategies and plans of the Company.
During her tenure as Director (Finance), NFL has consistently won awards for excellence in Cost Management by Institute of Cost of Works Accountants of India for Vijaipur Unit in 2007, Nangal Unit in 2008 and Bathinda Unit in 2009 and for the Company as a whole in 2010. She is a Director on the Board of Fertilizer Association of India; was a member of Executive Board of Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) during 2010-2013; on Board of M/s Sail Bansal and a non-executive Director and Chairperson of Urvarak Videsh Limited, a joint venture company of NFL, Rashtriya
Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited & Krishak Bharti Cooperative Limited.
She has been awarded various accolades. The ICAI in December 2011 awarded her the "Business Achiever" in Women category. Hon’ble Prime Minister in January 2012 conferred upon her the maiden SCOPE award as “Outstanding Woman Manager” in PSEs for 2009-10. Bureaucracy Today - Star PSU Excellence Awards gave her “Best PSU Person of the year 2012”. Top Rankers Excellence Financial Leadership Award by Jindal Global Business School was conferred on her in January 2013. She has been recently awarded The Greatest Corporate Leaders of India Award on 15th February by
World HRD Congress.
VICE PRESIDENT— Dr. Ekta Saxena
Dr. Ekta Saxena, Ph.D. (Sociology) is currently working with Indus Business Academy, Greater Noida as a Faculty – HR and Faculty In-charge-Placements. She has excelled in both academic and extracurricular activities and received Scholarship awarded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi for Doctorate work. She has more than a decade of rich experience in the area of Education. Her research
papers have been published in international/ national level journals. She is associated with various
professional bodies in various capacities.
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LIFE PATRON— Mr. C S Puri
Mr. C S Puri started his career with Dunlop Rubber in Birmingham (UK) before joining
RUHR Stickstoff AG, Germany and later Chief of Human Resources with Goodyear for 25
years.
He is currently the President of his Consultancy Organization in HR and General Management. Mr.
Puri has been actively associated with DMA for over 3 decades as chairman of Human Capital
Committee for several years. Mr. Puri initiated a variety of high profile and innovative programmes
and the HR Committee was declared the best functional committee in recognition of his remarkable
contribution.
He was conferred Life Time Achievement Award at the Golden Jubilee Convention of DMA in 2006
and as Life Patron of DMA in 2007. His continued association with DMA is indeed praiseworthy and
would highly enrich DMA initiatives. Mr. Puri studied at Delhi University, Manchester University and
London School of Economics and Political Science in UK.
TREASURER— CA Raj Chawla
Partner, Raj Chawla & Associates. B. Com (Hons), FCA, ACS, FCWA, LLB and DISA. A
practicing Chartered Accountant, he specializes in Accounts, Audit and Income Tax
with over 20 years of rich experience.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT— Dr. Nalin Shinghal
Dr. Nalin Shinghal is the Chairman & Managing Director of Central Electronics Ltd. He
has done his B.Tech (Electrical Engg) from IIT-Delhi and PGDM from IIM (Calcutta).
He has been a Commonwealth Scholar and has a PhD in Transport Economics from
the University of Leeds, UK.
His 27 year career spans a range of assignments in Private Sector, Public Sector and Government.
He has worked with the Indian Railways in various capacities in Operations, Commercial & Marketing
functions as well as with Concor where he has handled Marketing, Operations & IT. He has also
worked with the Long Range Decision Support group of the Ministry of Railways. Prior to his current
position, he was Director Tourism & Marketing heading the Travel & Tourism business of Indian
Railways Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC) which is today providing a range of tourism
products & services and is best known for its E-Ticketing services.
Dr. Nalin Shinghal has published a number of articles in leading national & international journals in
the areas of Transport Economics & Logistics. He is also associated with various professional bodies
in eminent positions.
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Managing Committee Members (2014)
• PRESIDENT
Dr. A K Balyan, MD & CEO, Petronet LNG Limited
• SR. VICE PRESIDENT
Ms. Neeru Abrol, C&MD, National Fertilizers Limited
• VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Ekta Saxena, Faculty – HR and Faculty In-charge-Placements
• TREASURER
CA Raj Chawla, Partner, Rag & Associates
• IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Dr. Nalin Shinghal, Chairman & Managing Director, Central Electronics Ltd.
• LIFE PATRON
Mr. C. S Puri , Management Consultant
ELECTED MEMBERS
• Mr. Alok Agrawal, Advisor, Institute of Management Studies
• Mr. Bharat Singh Mehta, Former VP & CHRO, Triveni Engineering & Industries
• Mr Dinesh K Srivastava, CEO, Dell India Mass Communication
• Dr. J K Goyal, Director, Jagan Institute of Management Studies
• Dr. Rajiv Kumar Jain, Addl. Chief Health Director (Admn.), Northern Railway
• Mr. Manish Choudhary, Managing Director, Pitney Bowes Software, India
• Ms. Moutushi Sengupta, Country Director, McArthur Foundation
• Mr. Rahul Mittal, Head , Retail Supply Chain (Delhi Region), Tata Consultancy Services
• Mr. Ravi Ramakrishnan, Founder & CEO, RvaluE Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Rohan Ubriani, Managing Director, Flame Communications Pvt. Ltd.
• Mr. Sunil Omanwar, Head -Talent Management ,Tata Teleservices Ltd
• Mr. Sunil Sayal, CFO-India Region, Nokia Siemens Network
• Mr. Yogesh Misra, Head- Consulting, Thomas Assessments
CO-OPTED MEMBERS
♦ Mr. V R Gupta, Director (Finance), Central Warehousing Corporation
♦ Ms. Alka Sharma, Registrar, University of Delhi
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SPECIAL INVITEES
♦ Mr. Arun Sehgal, Executive Vice President-HR, Glaxo Smithkline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.
♦ Dr. Sunil Abrol, Former Director General, Consultancy Development Centre
♦ Ms. Neena Malhotra, Managing Director, Alert Card Company
♦ Dr. Aquil Busrai, Chief Executive Officer, Aquil Busrai Consulting
♦ Mr. Deepak Bagla, Director, 3 i India Pvt Ltd
♦ Mr. Sukanta Dey, Former Emerging Business President, Tata Teleservices/ Tata DoComo Ltd.
FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES
Committee Chairperson
♦ Human Capital Shri R P Singh
♦ PR & Advertising Shri S K Jha
Building Capabilities in HR Function is no longer just an HR Challenge (what good HR professional looks like), but is a organization Challenge. The businesses today are looking towards HR to lead the way and help to make the organization more agile, flexible, and stay ahead of the competitive (Learning) curve. Various studies and surveys apart from the feedback from the Business Leaders have also indicated that there is high need to develop capabilities for HR professionals. Based on the changing demands & expectations, HR professionals are continuously required to develop new skills to add value to the organization. Keeping this in view, DMA organized a Summit on “Building HR Capability” on 7th March 2014 in Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi. This Summit focused on the Knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies HR Professionals need to equip themselves with, to be not only successful but effective in these changing and dynamic times.
Mr. Sunil Omanwar, Head Talent Management,Tata Teleservices Limited and Programme
Director welcomed the distinguished speakers, delegates and set expectations for the day
with focus on the theme “Building HR Capability” and the objectives therein i.e. to
provide insights and perspectives into the expectations from Human Resource function, the
role of HR professional in today’s changing times, readiness for future: evolution of new
age competencies for HR and the capability agenda that each individual needs to
undertake to meet the growing challenges.
Managing Committee Members (2014)
Summit on Building HR Capability
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The inaugural address by Dr. A K Balyan, MD & CEO, Petronet LNG Ltd and President, DMA
set the stage, as it clearly defined CEO’s expectations from HR on Talent Management
acquiring the right talent, building capability, retention strategies for key talents as an
essential step towards managing productivity. Leadership development and managing
change were some key expectations. He stressed that HR should become more adaptable
and take steps to discard practices which no longer work & introducing new people
practices which would be need of the hour.
Key note address by Ms. Joji Sekhon Gill, Regional HR Director Asia Pacific (APAC), DuPont
was very thought provoking. Emphasis was on change highlighting Charles Darwin’s quote
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”. She urged HR professionals to question
and challenge status quo, if not convinced & believe in mindful execution, the message
being to act as a Leader. Role of Values & Ethics was & building skills to adapt & embrace
change was emphasized upon. She concluded the session by giving HR message to
communicate effectively & Be Fearless.
Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Chief People Officer, Fortis Health care Ltd gave an HR Leaders
perspective to the group by sharing the business & talking about HR alignments. He Shared
the role of HR as employee’s voice,: to touch heart & minds and at the same time to be
conscience keeper fully aware of the pulse of the organization. He shared about the
changing external landscape and emphasized on SPEED to deliver as an HR effectiveness
parameter. The common theme emerging in was that HR embraces change, speed to deliver
& display leadership qualities.
Mr. Sunil Omanwar welcoming the speakers and the participants
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Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Chief People Officer, Fortis Health care Ltd gave an HR Leaders
perspective to the group by sharing the business & talking about HR alignments. He Shared
the role of HR as employee’s voice,: to touch heart & minds and at the same time to be
conscience keeper fully aware of the pulse of the organization. He shared about the
changing external landscape and emphasized on SPEED to deliver as an HR effectiveness
parameter. The common theme emerging in was that HR embraces change, speed to deliver
& display leadership qualities.
The next session was to enable delegates to build skills and perspective for the New Age
HR, this session was moderated by Mr. Rajiv Talwar, Former Head-TM & OD, Uninor
wherein the participants earlier had made a choice among the two tracks HR Analytics &
HR Consulting with business as trusted advisor.
HR Analytics was run under the expert guidance of Shaswat Kumar, Partner, Aon Hewitt,
the focus was how analytics is being/can be extensively used across Organizations focusing
on basic reporting metrics, point of departure analysis, measurement of programs
effectiveness and predictive modeling techniques to look at Return on Investment (ROI) of
initiatives and employee productivity. The ultimate reason to measure talent is to assist
leaders so they can make informed decisions about talent that will improve business
outcomes such as employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, increased sales, decreased
risk, or increased revenue.
HR Consulting with business as trusted advisor was led by Mr. Anurag Aman, Principal,
Mercer Consulting (India) Ltd. As consultants, HR professionals act as Advisors (trusted)
providing inputs into the critical initiatives of the organization & are involved in the
implementation of strategies. This track provided insights/ skills on consulting focused on
Collaborating with leaders & employees provide HR perspective on business management,
provide innovative HR solutions to address business challenges. Anurag shared behaviors
which can complement brand of HR professionals and also discussed the don’ts.
Both the industry experts evoked high participation and takeaways to implement at the
workplace.
In the Best Practices session sharing Mr. Rajiv Arora, HR leader, Global Operations Shared
Services, Mercer shared Hiring practices model which had focus on people, processes,
partnership & excellence and open to scalability. Talent acquisition process, role of social
media in hiring as key differentiators. Rajiv emphasized conversion mix in hiring & shared
practices for giving a prospective candidate a great experience and as a key to build an
employer brand.
Mr. Faisal Nadeem Saiyed, Director-HR, Expedia in a highly interactive session shared his
perspective on building a strong Organization culture and emphasized the role of leaders as
key for success. Faisal admitted culture building is not easy; it’s not easily measured but
easily felt/experienced by all employees & customer transactions.
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Mr. Pawas Anand, Director- HR, American Express shared practices on Performance
Management and emphasized on the new world of work ever-changing employee
expectations. Performance outcomes linked to intrinsic awards in addition to bonus &
increment. Leaders play an instrumental role in coaching to succeed not only on the
current role but prepare you for the next. Pawas also shared a research about organizations
dump Stack Ranking in favor of more frequent and qualitative employee evaluations as a
new age HR practice.
The Challenges & future direction for HR session helped the delegates to reflect on road
ahead Mr. Shaswat Kumar, Partner, Aon Hewitt shared practices on Leveraging Technology
for HR - With the challenges of Scale-ability , speed, value of fairness (uniform experience)
that employee demands and the leader expectations of ensuring that the richness of
content is not lost to the last mile.
Mr. Amit Malik, Director, Aviva Life Insurance discussed latest trends on Social Media and
HR - Social Media has emerged as a powerful business and HR tool. This requires an
in-depth understanding of the key benefits and pitfalls of Social Media and managing these
effectively in the organization’s context. The emphasis was harnessing social media for
effective Human Resource Management and explore selecting appropriate Social Media sites
and formats from the myriad options available and leveraging the same to create value for
the organization and the approaches for measuring the return on investment in Social
Media. The latest trends created a lot of interest in the delegates.
The summit was highly thought provoking and was attended by senior delegates from HR &
Business Heads. The Summit was concluded by Mr. Sunil Omanwar who thanked the gamut
of distinguished speakers from the corporate world for sharing their experience and insights
with the evolving professional fraternity along with the HR Committee duly backed by the
DMA secretariat.
The delegates left with fresh ideas & perspective- a great step towards building HR
capability the efforts will continue in the corporate world. Mr. Rajan Pandhi, Director,
DMA thanked Mr. Sunil Omanwar, Programme Director for all the guidance provided in
making the summit a success and Tata Teleservices, Timesjobs.com and People Matters for
their support.
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Based on the relevence of the topic in the current scenario, DMA has once again organized
a specially designed highly effective and comprehensive Workshop on Sexual Harassment
of Women at Workplace on 21st March 2014 in India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New
Delhi for the benefit of corporate professionals.
Mr. Rajan Pandhi, Director, DMA welcomed the Programme Director Mr G M Saini and the
fellow participants to the workshop. Mr. Pandhi shared that women constitutes about one
half of the global population and though the number of women in workforce has been
rising, there is little or no change in attitudes towards women in the mind-set of the
community. Sexual harassment creates an insecure and hostile work environment, which
discourages women’s participation in the work, thereby adversely affecting their social and
economic empowerment and the goal of inclusive growth. keeping this in view tradition-
bound society, our constitution has made number of safeguards for protecting the right and
status of women and one of such provisions in this direction is bringing the Sexual
Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition And Redressal) Act, 2013
effective from 9th December 2013. The workshop is especially deigned with a view to
apprise the participants of the new law, its features, compliances, penalties for non-
compliance and other fine print of the act.
Mr. G M Saini, having four decades of rich experience of working in government, public and
private sectors at senior levels lead the workshop as programme director. He briefly shared
the holistic presentation on the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention,
Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013. He briefly shared the constitution of Complaints
Committees (both internal and local), members of the committees and other legal aspects
of the law which was appreciated by all the participants.
Workshop on Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place
Shri V.S. Shukla discussing legal aspects with the participants.
Seated L to R: Mr. G M Saini
and Mr. Rajan Pandhi
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Shri V.S. Shukla, Dy. Legal Advisor (SDoP), CBI shared the Consequences of Sexual
Harassment at Workplace. He stressed that Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination
against women and violates the constitutional right to equality. Equality in employment can
be seriously impaired when women are subjected to gender specific violence, such as
sexual harassment at workplace. With more and more women joining workforce, ensuring
an enabling working environment for women through legislation has been held imperative
by the Government. “THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE (PREVENTION,
PROHIBITION AND REDRESSAL) ACT, 2013” contains provisions to protect every woman from
any act of sexual harassment at workplace. Mr. Shukla also touched upon the obligation of
employer, internal committees and made the session more interactive through illustrious
legal cases.
Ms. Indu Wadhwa, Founder and Principal Consultant, Aspiring People shared her views on
Socio-Psycho-Corporate aspects of Sexual Harassment. She shared that today woman
employees are working in big numbers in most of the organizations. It is employer’s
responsibility to provide safe, clean and healthy working environment to its all employees
and particularly to its women employees. She shared that sexual harassment of women at
workplace is a part of larger issue of abuse of women and violence against women in
society. She shared the historical reasons and causes of harassment, effect of harassment
on women and society, state interventions so far, women’ movements in India, challenges
of the situation and path forward to change the material situation on ground. She summed
up her session with some useful tips to the participants.
Participants with the faculty members at the workshop
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In the last session, eminent professionals Mr. Alok Bhasin, Advocate and Mr. H.L. Kumar,
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Chief Editor, Labour Law Reporter shared the
interpretations, implications and applications of legal provision in the matters of Sexual
Harassment of Women at workplace with regard to the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India’s
guidelines in Vishakha case, the new law of 2013. The queries raised by the participants
were answered by the esteemed faculty members.
The workshop was concluded by Mr. Rajan Pandhi’s vote of thanks to Mr. G M Saini for
second successful programme under his leadership and galaxy of speakers for sharing their
rich knowledge on this subject with the participants. Participants also appreciated DMA for
taking the initiative to create awareness in the corporate sector by organizing such
programmes and on the delivery part by the esteemed speakers. At the end of the
programme, certificates were awarded to the participants.
Ms. Neeru Abrol, C&MD, National Fertilizers Limited has been honoured as
one of ‘The Greatest Corporate Leaders of India Award’ by the World HRD
Congress.
Member Achievements
Ms. Neeru Abrol being felicitated by World HRD Congress
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With a view to encourage original writing on management themes by Indian writers DMA-
NTPC Book Awards were instituted and the book should make an outstanding contribution
to the understanding of Management principles and practices. Panel of Judges comprised of
Dr. Sunil Abrol, Chairman-Publication Committee & Past President, DMA; Dr. Nalin
Shinghal, CMD, Central Electronics Limited & Past President, DMA; Dr. Aquil Busrai, CEO,
Aquil Busrai Consulting & Past President, DMA; Mr. K M Prashanth, AGM (CC), NTPC ltd. and
Ms. Alka Sharma, Registrar, University of Delhi. 34 entries were received for the Award. A
meeting of the Panel of Judges for the DMA-NTPC Book Award 2013 was held on March 19,
2014 and has unanimously decided to award the following books:
First Prize of Rs. 20,000/- Mr. Devdutt Pattanaik for his book BUSINESSSUTRA
Published by Aleph Book Company
Second Prize of Rs. 15,000/- Mr. Daniel Albuquerque for his book BUSINESS ETHICS
published by Oxford University Press
Third Prize of Rs. 10,000/- Ms. Kshama V. Kaushik & Mr. Kaushik Dutta for their
Book INDIA MEANS BUSINESS published by Oxford Univer-
sity Press
The awards will be presented to the winners in conjunction with one of the high profile
event of DMA. DMA is thankful to the “Maharatna– NTPC” for sponsoring the DMA-NTPC
Book Award.
DMA-NTPC Book Award
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Management Quote & Cartoon
“The true measure of the value of any
business leader and manager is
performance.”
~ Brian Tracy
Welcome Aboard New Members !!
Life Members
♦ Ms. Neeru Abrol, C&MD, National Fertilisers Ltd.
♦ Ms. Atri Abhiruchi, Officer (HR), Petronet LNG Ltd.
♦ Mr. Munish Bhargava, Director (Govt. Affairs), Airbus Group
Professional Member
♦ Mr. Ripun Jai Mehta
