Mangalore: National Conference on Talent Management Begins at AIMIT
News: Fr Denzil Lobo
Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RX)
Mangalore, Mar 11: The inauguration of two- day national conference on ‘Talent Management: Challenges to HRM’ organized by AIMIT Business School of St Aloysius College was inaugurated by Mali Mahalingam, vice-president and Global People officer of Symphony Services Corp, at AIMIT auditorium here on Friday March 11.
The programme began with the invocation of God through a prayer song. The director of AIMIT, Fr Denzil Lobo welcomed the gathering.
Speaking on the occasion, he focused on the need for change, the need for visionary leaders in today’s competitive world and leaders with a vision for the future. He also focused on the role of HRM and the need for effective talent recruitment, selection, training and retention. Talent management leads to human resource development, he added.
Mail, the keynote speaker, briefed the audience on ‘irrelevance’ and ‘comfort zone’ which everyone is specialized at. He emphasized the importance of people in an organization especially in this borderless world. He sensed that the Confucian Wisdom applies to talent wars. He also spoke about the three big gurus, Ed Michales, Peter Cappelli and Marcus Buckingham. He questioned and posed some of the aspects of talent management in this era and the ‘Experienced Economy’.
He stated that human resource, though part of the strategic resource in an organization, is the first to be mortgaged in case of crisis and recession. He also held that strategy-structure-staffing is the paradigms of talent management.
Fr Swebert D’Silva, principal of St Aloysius College delivered the presidential address and extended a formal welcome to the chief guest and briefed on the importance of the national conference.
The chairman of the MBA department, Dr Oswald Mascarenhas conferred the prelude of the talent management conference and focused on the global perspective of talent management and the adverse influence of corporate fraud on talent management. The future of talent management is threatened by corporate fraud and the all pervasive greed indebting young talent from making a difference in society. Developing a talent of detecting, preventing corporate fraud is a must.
Renjith Krishnan K, the faculty co-ordinator for the HR conference proposed the vote of thanks.