Dr Parul Saxena is the Vice-Chairperson and Assistant Professor, Human Resources and Organisational Behavior at School of Business Studies, Sharda University. She has a total experience of more than 18 years spanned over academia and industry. She has expertise in HR specialization subjects. She has also been responsible for designing and conducting Personality Development and Orientation Programs for Postgraduate and graduate students. She also has guided numerous research students at the Postgraduate level.

School of Business Studies, Sharda University

What is the latest program that you are offering in the School of Business Studies?

“Mainstream and non-conventional subjects of specializations in Business administration”

Apart from offering MBA specialization in the functional areas such as Finance, HR and OB, Marketing, recently we have introduced some of the non-conventional specializations. The latest additions in the program at SBS are:

  • MBA- Entrepreneurship and Family Business
  • MBA- Logistics and Supply Chain Management , till recently offered in collaboration with safeducate
  • MBA - Health Care and Hospital Administration
  • MBA - Public Policy and Administration
  • MBA - Business Analytics
  • MBA - Pharma Marketing and Management

What are the factors that make the Human Resources and Organisational Behavior subject the best for the students to opt for?

“It gives you the insights into the most significant of the resources i.e the Human Resources”

HRM course helps a professional to develop an understanding of how to deal with Human resources, which provides a competitive advantage to any organization. The course has been designed in consultation with the industry experts keeping in mind the skills, knowledge and attitude required to manage HR. We teach subjects such as Employee engagement, HRIS, HR analytics and Organizational change and development to keep them updated with the latest trends in the market.

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What will you say are the “best practices” in the course you’re offering to the students?

“We ensure to inculcate Student-centric and experiential learning in the syllabus”

At SBS, some of the best practices that we follow in our pedagogy are mentioned below:

  • Choice Based credit system: Offering interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exposure
  • Live projects: To conduct perception-based surveys related to job satisfaction, Motivation, training and development methods
  • Case Study learning: Enables prospective professionals to hone their problem- solving, decision making and analytical skills
  • Simulation technique: Role plays, management games 
  • Hands-on workshops- inviting the SMEs from different industries to give hands-on exposure to our students
  • Courses on industry readiness and personality development enable holistic development

How does the program ensure that students are being prepared for the future?

“Revision and modifications in the program curriculum and the course content at regular intervals”

At SBS, we have a very strong feedback mechanism in place. We seek genuine feedback from all the stakeholders such as Industry experts, Students, Parents and the Alumni. We also have a provision of the Departmental Academic Committee (DAC) where one of the members of this committee consists of an Industry expert. Their role is to provide consultation as per the industry expectations.

How do you train faculties to deliver this program to the students?

“Encourage our Faculty to keep on updating the knowledge base by enrolling in MOOCs and refresher courses”

  • Faculty development is a constant effort at the School of Business Studies. We encourage our faculty to participate in national and international conferences, seminars, for which they are provided sponsorship and proper leave.
  • Seek membership of the various professional bodies, again, for which faculty is liable to opt for sponsorship.
  • Faculty are encouraged to participate in and develop in-house FDPs, Conferences, seminars, and webinars. 

How do you tend to build an industry connected with this program? 

“We organise Industrial visits and educational excursions for our prospective professionals and students”

Academia-Industry integration is a critical aspect of any of the professional programs which are given due consideration at our business school. Hence, we call industry experts from time to time to interact with our budding managers. We also organise events like conferences, seminars, webinars in collaboration with professional bodies such as NHRD, HRFI, AIMA, ASSOCHAM and PHD. We also have a dedicated Training and placement cell which offers internship and placement to our students at various reputed organisations. These include Citibank, Paytm, ICICI, UBS, etc.

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What were the challenges of management studies?

“Lack of experiential Learning and less focus on Industry expectations”

  • Teacher centric approach to learning
  • Lack of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to curriculum
  • Less focus on enhancing the employability skills of the Management graduates 
  • Lack of student participation - less of student-driven activities

What are the types of projects that the students are working on through this program?

“A special launchpad provides an opportunity to the students to network with more than 150 corporates”

Sharda University established Sharda Launchpad Federation, as a centre for entrepreneurship development. The aim is the commitment to contribute to the enhancement of entrepreneurial skills among our students and alumni. This is done through innovation and entrepreneurship LaunchPad and Incubation Cell. It also provides a platform where the aspirants can be Guided by 1200+ Global Mentors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from leading corporations.

What are the benefits and career options after pursuing this course?

“Gives a better insight into the ‘human’ aspect of an organisation”

Benefits

  • Develops skills such as teamwork, resilience, communication
  • Develop skills and attitude to provide strategic HR interventions and carry out harmonization of working conditions, policies, and structures.
  • Provide HR Integration to promote people productivity, organizational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Career avenues:

Here, I would also like to highlight that the level field of HR as transitioned drastically so gone are the days where being an HR professional you are just confined to being an HR Manager – there are various super specializations which have emerged in the HR field itself so we have HR professionals working as an HR Analyst, Diversity Manager or even Happiness Officer with growing organizations.

This particular program provides the opportunity for a professional to delve into any of the HR verticals such as Talent Acquisition, Compensation and benefits design, Learning and development, or even SHRM. The career options are listed as follows but not limited to :

  • Working as an HR generalist or Specialist with any organization then moving on attaining C- suite positions in an organization high as VP (HR) or CHRO 
  • Delving into Talent Acquisition and Retention with an organization.
  • In the education sector also, there is a steep rise in demand for HR professionals as Counsellors.
  • In Hospitals also you will find professionals with HR specialization working as People Connect or People officers, 
  • To be absorbed as an Industrial relation or a liaison officer with any of the manufacturing organization such as textile, paint or even in Banks