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MATTERS Monthly News Bulletin January 2015

Monthly News Bulletin January 2015

2 | KCT Business School

Content

Outreach 03

Faculty Zone 05

Research & Publishing 07

Student World 08

Global Connect 09

Placement and Training 11

OUTREACH

Performance Metrics (Nos. ) –January 2015

Outreach 02 International Industrial Visit 01

FDP Attended 02 External Expertise 01

Student Achievement 03 Placement Training Program 03

Paper Presentation 03 Placement Offers 81



Workshop on ‘Use of Computers in School Education’ for School Teachers on January 29, 2015

As a part of the outreach strategic imperative of KCT Business School, a one-day workshop was

organized by the Centre for Operations on ‘Use of Computers in School Education’ on January 29,

2015 for Government School Teachers. The objective of the workshop was to impart computer skills

to middle-level and higher secondary school teachers and to enable them to use Internet tools in their

day-to-day teaching-learning process.

Dr.V.R.Nedunchezhian, Professor, KCTBS welcomed the participants and requested them to actively

participate and get the full benefit of the program. The program was structured with three skill

sessions that included topics on E-mail ID creation, Messaging, Social Media, YouTube & Google

search, Power-point presentation, MS Excel, Students data uploading, and documentation in TN Govt.

website. Hands-on training using computers were given to the participants in the MCA Computer

Laboratory, KCT

Sessions on Creation of E-mail ID, Face Book, and Messaging were shown on-line, these sessions were

facilitated by Ms. T. A. Sarasvathi and Ms. S. Lakshmi, Assistant Professors, KCTBS. A live demo was

made on Google Search, YouTube and Social Media Networking. The presentation on creation of

PowerPoint and use of Excel in school education was facilitated by Dr. S. Jaisankar, Associate

Professor. Computer based exercises were solved by the participants to get a hands-on experience.

The sessions were very interactive and feedback received from the participants was very good and

useful. 48 teachers from various schools in and around Coimbatore attended the program. Dr. S.

Jaisankar, Associate Professor, Centre of Operation, coordinated the program.



Marketing training for Frontline staffs of India Post on January 30,

2015

KCT Business School conducted training on marketing skills for 286 employees of Department of Post,

Government of India as a part of Project Arrow. The project aims at creating a conducive and friendly

work environment both for the staff and the customers visiting the Post Offices, providing all IT

enabled services through secure connectivity, improving the service quality levels in the core business

areas.

KCT Business School equips the employees of India Post through soft skill training for better customer

services. The training series is being conducted in six batches. The training for the first batch of postal

employees was conducted on January 30, 2015. The training was conducted with two different

themes: “Managing the services” and “Managing the customers”. A variety of interactive training

methods were used in all the sessions, to enhance the learning.

Dr. Mary Cherian Professor, Dr.B.Poongodi, Ms. Latha.A, Dr. P. Nalini, Ms. B.L. Lakshmi Meera Assistant

Professors’, Centre of Marketing , KCT Business School were the resource person for this training

program



FACULTY ZONE

Faculty Enhancement

MOOC

Dr. Vijila Kennedy has successfully completed a MOOC on “GSE1x: Unlocking the Immunity to

Change: A new approach to Personal Improvement” a course of study offered by HarvardX, an

online learning initiative of Harvard University through edX.

Deepa Manickam has successfully completed a MOOC on “Unethical decision making in

Organization” from The University of Lausanne

Workshop organized at KCT.BS

Student Perspective of MBA Program on January 6, 2015

A student perspective, interactive discussion on curriculum, pedagogy, assessments, projects, student

support services, student engagement, outreach, career guidance and IT in academics, other academic

processes was held on January 6, 2015 with faculty of KCT Business School with Ms. Huldah Sheena.

Ms. Huldah, a MBA graduate from the Bentley University, USA made a base presentation and followed

by an hour long discussion.



Semester Reboot Camp on January 13 – 14, 2015

A two day Semester Reboot Camp was organized for the faculty of KCT Business School on January 13

& 14, 2015. The objective of the camp was to reaffirm the core values KCT BS, individual goals and to

plan on academic PEO’s, with emphasis on using technology and differential pedagogy. The camp

provided an opportunity for brainstorming of thoughts & ideas, which will be adopted in the ensuing

semester

Knowledge Sharing with Outside world

Dr.Kirupa Priyadarsini.M Associate Professor, served as a resource person for a guest lecture on

Emotional Intelligence at Sri Amman Institute of Management and Research on the January 9, 2015.

The session focused on how MBA students can improve their employability skills by being emotionally

intelligent. The competencies of EI developed by Goleman were discussed. Activities and exercises

pertaining to the different skills, induced students to be more proactive. Questions relating to, how to

handle friendships and relationships, how to use EI for networking better were among the discussions

post session



FDPs Attended

Mr.A.Senthil Kumar, Assistant Professor(SRG) and Ms.P.Mohanamani, Assistant Professor

participated in a 3-day FDP on Panel Data and Time Series Econometrics from January 06-08,

2015 organized by Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.

Dr.Sangeetha.G, Amrita School of Business, Dr.Vijayamohan Pillai, Dr.Sunil Paul and Dr.Sartaj

Rasool from Madras School of Economics were the facilitators. The sessions provided hands-

on access to the Panel data analysis through Stata software and Time series models through E-

Views software

Dr. P. Nalini, Assistant Professor, participated in FDP on Data Analysis for Business Modeling"

at Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Erode on January 8, 2015.The program

covered various tools for research using SPSS like t-test,Z-test, regression ,correlation etc ,and

it has a wide coverage on using excel worksheet for various descriptive studies.

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

Publications by faculty

Lakshmi Meera B L (2015) published an article titled “ Lean Communication” in SIEMA monthly

magazine, January 2015



Presentations by faculty

Mohanamani.P presented a paper on "Corporate Social responsibility in Indian organizations" in

the National Conference on "New Age Solutions for Managing New Challenges" on January 15 & 16,

2015 at Berchmans Institute of Management Studies, St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry, Kerala.

STUDENT WORLD

Semester reopens

The even semester for the academic year 2014-15 reopened for II MBA students of Batch 2013-15, IV

semester on January 19, 2015. Students will begin their semester long Corporate Project under the

tutelage of their respective guides.

Semester Recharge on January 21-22, 2015

Students of Batch 2014-16 began their II Semester on January 21, 2015 with a 2 day Recharge Camp.

The camp was hoisted to recap on the concepts learnt in the previous semester and strengthen the

KCT BS values amongst the students, to encourage them to set goals & targets for personal

development. The Recharge camp gave the students an opportunity to interact with two eminent

speakers; Mr.Krishna Entrepreneur, family business consultant and leadership coach and Mr. Rob

Meikle, Chief Information Officer, City of Toronto, Canada



Student Achievements

Baranidharan.B and Sivapragash.V.K (Batch 2014-2016) won the II Prize in:

Pitstop Delta(Operations forum) Cash Prize Rs.10,000

Conqiestare (Operations forum) Cash Prize Rs.10,000

At Pragati (A national level management symposium) at Amrita School of Business on January 23 &

24, 2015

Abi Adhithiyan batch 2013 won the runner-up in volleyball tournament at Sri Krishna college of

Engineering and Technology on January 21-23, January 2015

Paper Presentation Jithu.K (Batch 2014) presented a paper on "Corporate Social responsibility in Indian

organizations" in the National Conference on "New Age Solutions for Managing New Challenges" on

January 15 & 16, 2015 at Berchmans Institute of Management Studies, St. Berchmans College,

Changanacherry, Kerala

Vidyesh S (Batch 2014) and Lakshmi Subbramani presented a paper titled “Role of Emotional

Intelligence and Creativity in Academic Achievements in B-Schools” at Berchmans Institute of

Management Studies, St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry, Kerala on January 15 & 16, 2015

GLOBAL CONNECT

Ms. Huldah Sheena, a MBA graduate from the

Bentley University, USA and a leader of various

student bodies shared with the faculty of KCT

Business School the Students’s Perspective of

doing a MBA Program on January 6, 2015. She

made a base presentation and shared her

experiences as a management student in the US.

She gave a detailed perspective about student’s

expectations from a MBA Program.



Mr. Rob Meikle, Chief Information Officer

(CIO) for the City of Toronto, Cananda

addressed the II MBA students of Batch

2014-16 on January 22, 2015. He spoke

on the effective use of Information

Technology in Public Governance

adopted by the city of Toronto. He

emphasized that students should be the

change and take charge and lead the way,

by using their innate talents

Dr. Gary Sussman, representative

of Tel Avivi University was in the

campus on January 25, 2015. Dr.

Gary had talks to discuss

collaboration with KCT Business

School like Student Exchange,

Executive MBA Programs etc

35 students of II MBA Batch 2013-15 are on an

international field trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

from January 29- February 3, 2015. As part of the

Cross Cultural Management course, students will be

studying the cultural differences within Asian

countries. There will visit TAMCO Switchgear (M)

SDH BHD and to HELP University



TRAINING & PLACEMENT

Placement

The Center of Corporate Relations has conducted 31 placement drives as on January 28, 2015 and placed 81 students out of 120 eligible for placements, average salary is 3.10 lacs. We had 22 on-campus drives and 9 off-campus drives coordinated by Mr. Mr. Sridhar Babu R, Lead- Placements

S.No Company Name Date of Interview

1 HDFC Bank January 07, 2015

2 ICICI Securities January 09, 2015

3 Wildcraft January 09, 2015

4 99acres.com* January 19, 2015

5 Rober Bosch* January 19, 2015

6 Vodafone* January 20, 2015

7 KPMG January 22, 2015

8 CareerNet January 22, 2015

9 GREedge* January 24, 2015

10 CUB* January 29, 2015

*Interview under process

Below chart gives you the details on sector specific placements completed as on date



Internship Internships/projects offers with stipend for the 2013-15 batch students.

S.No Company Name Internship Offers Stipend

1 Redington 4 Rs.5000

2 MMM.COM 5 Rs.5000

3 TTK Services Pvt. Ltd 8 Rs.7500

4 GREedge 2 Rs.10000

5 CareerNet 3 Rs.7500

6 Cameron 1 Rs.10000

7 Maxvalue 2 Rs.5000

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Training

Company Specific Training

On January 21, 2015, a company specific training was conducted for 28 students attending KPMG

interview.GD was conducted to improve their communication and confidence level and the centre of

Finance conducted conceptual training on the same day to assess their conceptual knowledge.

On January 21, 2015, company specific training on Group discussion followed by mock interview was

conducted for 20 students attending Career Net interview.

Training on Aptitude followed by essay writing and Interview Preparation Session was conducted on

January 27, 2015for about 30 students attending CUB campus hiring. All the training was coordinated

and conducted by Dr. Gokilavani R, Lead Trainer

Regular training is conducted for I MBA students on various aspects, to enable placement readiness.

62 hours Placement training - 42 hours on Aptitude training and the rest 20 hours on Group

discussion, Extempore and Interview handling.

Aptitude Sessions are conducted by the external agency Launchpad



Editorial Team

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Mr. Boobal Achuthan Office Manager, KCT. BS

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