Post
Graduate Programme - Human Resource Management
Fierce competition and the need for continuous change has created a critical role for HR professionals in business organizations. MDI in collaboration with National HRD Network offers PGP-HR, a unique programme to develop HR professionals with well-rounded business perspective.
Objectives
Global sensitivity and mindset.
Holistic business perspective
Capability to manage uncertainty and complexity
Capability to lead change
Capability to create wealth, and
Capability to manage diversity.
The PGP-HR prepares candidates for HR careers in industry and services. It develops capabilities in all the three domains - knowledge, attitude and competencies. The programme is designed to:
Prepare well-rounded business managers rather than HR managers alone.Students are given a holistic grounding in management with heavy accent on HR.
Emphasis on action and performance, rather than concept and input focus alone..
Give appreciation of business realities, demands and challenges and their role in this scheme, through in-company internships.
Provide appreciation of cross-cultural issues through exposure to international students as well as interaction with corporate executives with trans-continental experience.
To develop change management competencies.
Through a mentoring process (attachment with corporate role models/the Industry Acharya's/Gurus), the students are shaped to 'hit the ground running' when they take on their first job.
Programme Structure
The programme will be spread over six terms, each of three months. Thirty nine credit courses will be offered during this period. The first four terms will be devoted to core courses encompassing various managerial functions, essential for HR managers to develop into future business partners. The balance terms will focus on inputs in HR and OB with a mix of core courses and electives. Students have the advantage of interacting with distinguished industry mentors, their Industry Acharya s/Gurus who along with internal faculty mentors will sculpt their leadership competencies, groom and guide them.
Teaching Methodology
Teaching methodology would be 'learning centric' and not teaching centric' . It would be interactive and participative involving role modeling and fieldwork, case studies, business games, role-plays, simulation exercises, group discussions and structured and unstructured group work. Eminent professionals from HRD Network will interact with the students besides the faculty from MDI.
Evaluation
The evaluation system in the PGP-HR has been designed to foster healthy competition among the students. Throughout the term, students will be tested on their ability to understand concepts, acquire techniques and apply them to real problems in an organization. The evaluation will be done by the faculty on an on-going basis involving a minimum of four components. There will be provision for midterm and end-term examination in each course. In each course students will be awarded a letter grade. The weighted average for all the courses taken by a student in the entire programme would constitute his/her Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
About National HRD Network
National HRD Network is an association of professionals committed to promoting the HRD movement in the country. It is a non profit-making organization, registered under Registration of Society Act 1860 and Bombay Public Trust Act 1 950, which is dedicated to develop human resources through education, training, research, and experience sharing. The underlying philosophy of the Network is that every human being has the potential to do remarkable things.
The major objectives of HRD Network are:-
Help to stimulate positive forces for humanizing systems and organization and enable people contribute their best
Disseminate HRD knowledge and skills among HRD practitioners.
Build a rigorous scientific store-house of knowledge and skills for HRD.
Break new ground for the HRD movement.
Develop and maintain standards of professional excellence in HRD and
Act as a clearing house for all referral related to HRD activities in the country.
Activities
The HRD Network publishes a monthly HRD Newsletter and reports of research on HRD; conducts Annual Conference to share experience and present new concepts on HRD; holds seminars and workshops on various aspects of HRD for CEOs, line Managers, office bearers of the union etc. The Network Chapters conduct meetings and workshops on a regular basis on issues of contemporary importance.
