“You can manage things but how about knowing how to manage people?”

A session at VJIM Hyderabad with Ms. Vijay Lakshmi, Head, L & D, Nspira Management Services and Mr. Phani Kumar, Manager HR, Kogentix on the importance of HR in any organization

“Things can be managed but a true manager is someone who knows how to manage people,” said Ms. Vijay Lakshmi, Head L & D, Nspira Management Services at a latest seminar at Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad which was around the topic- "Role of HR in Organisational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).

Hosted for the PGDM students of the school by the HR Committee, this 20^th August seminar also had Mr. Phani Kumar, Manager, HR, Kogentix interacting with the students and taking their questions.

Ms. Lakshmi explained how the role of an HR has come a long way in India and how it is evolving every single day. “It isn’t easy to handle the Human Resource of a company because managing people is the toughest job ever in the field of management, and the expectation of the organization on HR is high because now a days people not only want smart TV and mobile but also smart employees,” exclaimed Ms. Lakshmi. 

The OCB interaction touched topics like-

a. Organizational Citizenship Behavior

b. Importance of HR in developing OCB

c. Understanding the impact of effectiveness of OCB in organizations

Organizational Citizenship Behavior is something an individual plays independently within an organization and unless you are trained in it or attentive towards it, you will not contribute to the overall growth of the organization. To define it in simpler ways, OCB is a person's voluntary commitment within an organization or company that is not part of his or her contractual tasks.

Mr. Kumar simplified it for the students further by explaining how one can achieve OCB by following the below listed factors:

·         Altruism – quality of unselfish concern of others

·         Courtesy – polite behavior

·         Sportsmanship – fairness in following rules

·         Conscientiousness – reasonable level of self-control

·         Civic sense how well a person represents an organization

“Anybody can perform well in work allotted to him/her, but a true employee is he who goes an extra mile to perform extraordinarily,” said Manager, HR, Kogentix in his speech. “He’s the successful employee and organization needs such people,” Mr Kumar added further.

VJIM, Hyderabad hosts a Book Fair to celebrate the National Library Day

A Book Fair was organized in the campus of VignanaJytohiInstitute of Managament on August 12, 2016 from 11 am to 5 pm. With an astounding collection of books on display, the fair was nothing short of a treat for the members of VJIM.

The Book Fair was inaugurated with the lighting of the lamp and Prof. Ramarao delivered the welcome speech.Hetalked about the benefits of Reading and how it is a very healthy habit.“Gyanorakshatirakshitaha  which means protect your knowledge is done only in the form of books,” mentioned Prof. Ramarao. He also put forward a fact from the recent research that people who read book for an average of three and a half hours have the chance of increasing their life spans by 20%. Prof. Ramarao suggested that it is important for an individual to choose his/ her books very wisely. He concluded by defining books as “bundle of knowledge and a librarian is collection as well as the collector of that knowledge.”

Another short talk was delivered by Assoc. Prof.Ramakrishna who highlighted the present scenario of readers, their modern habits of and how reading as a practice has reduced over the years due to human beings’ massive dependence on technology. He put forward his opinion saying that the books always have an upper hand and how proud a person feels when he has a collection of books with him. He concluded by saying that books are the greatest assets in one’s life.

The fair had a wide range of books, displaying all the subjects of management from authors all around the world. The fair garnered a lot of attention from students and faculty members. Overall it was a successful event organized by the Library staff of VJIM under the guidance of Mr. Raghu Mantha, Librarian.