This Summit on “Positioning HR to create value & catalyze growth” organized by All India Management Association (AIMA) brought together CEOs, HR Heads, HR Team Leaders and members of Large & Medium Sized Companies along with HR Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Academicians and Business School Students.

Mr. Harshu Ghate, Co-founder and MD of ESOP Direct along with Dr A K Balyan, MD & CEO of Petronet LNG Ltd, Mr Bhaskar Bhat, Managing Director of Titan Industries Ltd and Mr Rohtash Mal, ED & CEO of Escorts Ltd, Agri Machinery Group were in the C.E.O panel who delegated the summit.

The summit discussed the roles and responsibilities of HRs to demystify the drivers of engagement, coach and do reverse monitoring and to create a robust culture for leadership development.

The key takeaways from the summit included the in-depth analysis of positioning HR in one’s organization to create true value and to come up with new initiatives which are beyond the normal routine.

This summit enabled interaction with the industry’s leading practitioners which contributed to enhancing the leadership skills in HR. The summit also contained the key to succeed in Mergers and Acquisitions and how to effectively manage a multicultural workforce. Issues were discussed regarding the talent supply-chain for the next level of growth including India’s under leveraged demographic dividend, the diminishing supply at middle management level, how to bridge the skill-gap to make the talents hirable and how to control the churn through engagement.

The summit also laid stress on how to manage and retain the young attrition prone workforce and ‘how to reward strategy’ for the workforce of tomorrow. The other important aspect which was covered in the summit revolved around the leadership development and how it should be inculcated in the organizational culture, the succession planning of tomorrow and how to develop a career architecture for promoting future potential leaders.

The summit ended with a long discussion on how to transform the HR function to the next level of growth and how to track the right HR metrics. Being conducted in an experience-sharing interactive mode, this summit encouraged high level of active participation by the delegates. The summit format included Presentations, Panel Discussions and Case Studies.