Minutes of the meeting of NHRDN on 10th October, 2009

Please find the minutes of the monthly meeting of NHRDN held on 10th October,2009 in the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan premises. Also find pictures capturing the event. You would find the snaps in the following order:

 

NHRDN members listening to our Guest speaker Mr. Ranjit Mohanty.

Our Guest Speaker,Mr. Ranjit Mohanty addressing the group.

HR networking dinner, hosted by Dr. Saroj, President, NHRDN , BBSR chapter.

Prof. Asit Mohapatra handing over a memento to Mr. Ranjit Mohanty, guest speaker for the evening.

 

The monthly meeting of NHRDN, Bhubaneswar Chapter started with a talk by guest speaker, Mr. Ranjit Mohanty, who is presently the AVP – HR, Grasim Industries Limited, Aditya Birla Group. He is responsible for setting up a large scale Greenfield Cement Project of Grasim Industries in Sundargarh District. A graduate from GM College, Sambalpur in 1977; Mr. Mohanty also completed Post Graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XISS, Ranchi in 1979. He carries with him a rich and varied experience of 29 years in areas like Performance Management, Change Management, Rationalization of Manpower, HR initiatives, Industrial Relations and Contract Labour Management in reputed Private Sectors, PSUs and MNCs; with recognized industry leaders in varied sectors like Cement (Aditya Birla Group), Power (Govt. of Orissa & AES Corp., USA), Steel (Tata Steel), Ferro Alloys (FACOR), and Refractories (Tata Refractories Ltd.).

 

Mr. Mohanty spoke on a very interesting topic – "Competency Assessment and Development Discussion at Aditya Birla Group", which is a relatively new HR topic and is also a new practice initiated by the Aditya Birla Group. He stressed on how CADD provides a platform for engagement between manager and employee pertaining to competencies (functional & behavioral) required for a job and that the outcome of a CADD discussion helps an individual gain insights on his/her strengths and gap areas with respect to competencies which facilitates in making a development plan. The manager also has the opportunity to estimate his /her team on their potential based on the competencies displayed to help in the process of talent segmentation. Mr. Mohanty mentioned that ABG envisages a leadership development framework based on CADD involving the processes of talent segmentation, potential validation, consensus discussion, individual development plan and its implementation, talent review discussion.

 

The talk was followed by meeting of NHRDN members which started with status of all matters discussed in the previous meeting dated 12^th September, 2009. The President welcomed all members at the outset. The meeting had a very good attendance which did not go unnoticed.