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P15Campus News

Public GovernanceEngaging Citizens - A Game Changer for Development

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In conversation with

Mr. Rob Meikle CIO, City of Toronto

Suggestions for Administrative Reforms

Dr.Y.S. Rajan

Governance Paradigm

Dr.S Baskar

Campus News

Editorial Team

Vijila Kennedy

Sabita Johnson

Mr.RobMeikle

Inconversationwith

CIO,CityofToronto

RobMeikleistheChiefInformationOf�icer(CIO)forthecityofTorontowhichisCanada'slargestcityandsixthlargestgovernmentandhometoadiversepopulationofabout2.7millionpeople.RobMeikleisastrategicbusinessleaderwhoisinnovativeandresultdrivenwithaproventrackrecordof20+yearsexperienceplanning,developingandimplementingawardwinningglobalbusinessandtechnologysolutionsintheprivate,publicandnotforpro�itsector.InhisroleasCIO,Robprovidesvisionaryleadershipforthedeliveryof�lexibleandintegratedinformationandcommunicationtechnologysolutionsthatenableanddriveserviceexcellence

Vijila: Thank you for delivering such a wonderful and thought

provoking lecture on City Governance to our students and also

accepting our invitation for this exclusive discussion with

some of our faculty members and senior MBA students present

here. Let me first begin by asking you Rob, as Chief

Information Officer of Brampton and currently heading

Toronto, can you share with us your role as CIO in city

governance?

Rob: CIO is a strategic business leader. The role of a CIO is to

understand critical governance principle, identify opportunities and

leverage on the technology to improve service and delivery. We can

improve the quality of life by providing basic business opportunities

and improved services. We had, in fact leveraged on Technology to

make a difference when we built the smart city- Toronto

As a CIO, I play a dual role- a strategic role and an operational role. As

a strategic business leader l need to look at what services we have

today and what we would like to offer tomorrow. How has the service

and delivery dynamics changed? How has technology changed? I was

able to work and play with Technology and also had the opportunities

to work across different cities. As a CIO, I need to focus on basic

service excellence.

With people becoming more and more dependent on technology and

applications, the operations role is becoming more and more complex.

Without technology, the operations will come to a complete halt. The

CIO's role is to also look around for opportunities and create innovative

services and also ensure the basic services are functioning.

Tharun: You have introduced many innovative service delivery

enhancements. How did you ideate and implement these

innovative services?

Rob: I listen! Whenever I meet any of the department chief's like the

Fire Chief, Transport Chief, I listen and be aware of how to deal with

different situations. Whenever there is someone struggling in an area

there is an opportunity to innovate and hence I find it easier when I

listen.2

Swaminathan: How do you implement and

execute these innovative ideas and vision?

Execution is crucial and many a time poses a

huge challenge. How do you transform these

ideas to execution?

Rob: A major part of execution is all about knowing

and understanding. Execution for me is I know my

strengths and also my people's strength. I engage

people in holistic and in realistic team. I do see a lot

of limitations too. My team is relentless at details.

They just love details and make sure everything

fits. When I have an idea I go to them and share it

with them.

According to me the execution plans have to be

created in manageable pieces or chunks .A large

vision might be broken down to manageable

chunks. If I'm able to get the people to understand

the first chunk in the context of vision then it allows

getting momentum on execution and if you

demonstrate or achieve result then it becomes

easier.

Second of all for any vision we need to understand

the governing composition. Government globally is

under financial pressure and it might not be

different in this country. I have so far not come

across any country with surplus funds and have

noticed that they struggle trying to do more with

less. What I teach my team is to always do less

with less, by focusing on three or four things and

do it well. It will yield results. Vision, execution and

result.

Vivek: Your own team and people play a crucial

role in service delivery. How did you build the

customer orientation and culture?

Rob: The keyword is culture. When I'm recruiting

staff, I look for two things one is

IQ – Intelligent quotient and secondly

EQ – Emotional Quotient.

IQ , to know how smart they are and how much

they can understand. Whereas EQ ,is to know how

much they understand the other persons'

emotions. If you are unable to understand the

other person's emotions it will become difficult to

offer good customer service. If they are not

customer oriented and team oriented then my

team is not good for serving the public.

When I took over the organization this is what I

told my people that, if they are not customer or

team oriented then one of us needs to go. My team

is less than a handful and for us, customer service

is culture. It comes through the 3 E's. Education,

Experience and Exposure. There needs to be a

balance based on the 3 E's on developing talent.

That's how we believe in creating customer

support culture.

I have a CIO score card. It covers the four areas,

where I lead the organization. When I took over as

a CIO I told that Projects Heads need to have a

project governance orientation. Four areas that I

always address in my agenda are -Talent

Management, Customer Service, Operation

Excellence and Physical Management. This allows

me to keep leading from the front and helps to

track cultural change too.

Success comes from prompt delivery of services

and utilities and as a CIO you may not be

responsible for utilities but remember you, you are

the front soldier. But the question is how do you

collaborate and ensure it is rightly distributed to

the best satisfaction?

Swaminathan: Yes. You are right. City

governance is an integration of various

services and utilities. How do you manage this

collaboration?

Rob: Collaboration is the keyword. There are

about 44 lines of businesses. Unlike the IT

department where in, they call themselves the

service provider and the others - clients. I always

look at it with the best of interest of all and call us

as partners. As a partner we deliver and work

towards the best of both our interest. So I prefer to

change the language. Partner has a different

mindset.

Changing the language changes the mindset and

culture, the perception also changes and people

work together.

Nivas Krishna: Participation of citizen in the

governance process has become an important

issue. How do you make this engagement and

participation possible?

Rob: We have a mandate for an open and

transparent government; this includes open data

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in a readable format. By open data we mean- data

which is openly available. We constantly look for

citizen engagement. Today with all the talk about

social media & networking we have become Digital

citizens. We have created opportunities and try to

engage and disseminate information to the citizen

in the digital format and for the people who follow

the traditional way we also have other traditional

medium where we publish and ensure there is

citizen participation. We have various channels

possible for engaging citizens.

We have fostered more ground for citizen

participation by engaging them in discussion

through young entrepreneur's round table,

technology round table and economic roundtable

and through other means too - like community

housing.

We are a democratic town and working towards

making an even more citizen friendly democratic

town.

Lakshmi Meera: You and your team have been

instrumental in creating Brampton and

Toronto. What are the major challenges you

faced while creating a smart city?

Rob: Major challenges arise while looking at it as

half empty, but I look at it as half full! The major

challenge is the mindset of the government. Not

everything is technology aided and smart. We need

to identify opportunities to leverage technology in

a smart city.

We have a water front and high speed broad band

internet and we look at identifying pockets and try

to get momentum in these and fill the gaps. In fact,

a lot of people were asking me as to where is the

blue print? But I work in a different way. I look at

opportunities and try to use technology to drive in

efficiency in operations excellence in the city.

In Toronto about seven years back, The Lawrence

Sea Bay was a typical shipping water front area in

an industrial suburb with warehouses used for

storing goods etc. We decided to modernize it and

are working on a water- front revitalization project.

It is not an easy work and we had to start all over. It

was about 800 hectares. The local government,

the provincial government and the Federal

government gave half a billion dollars each. We

began working with 1.5 billion dollars. We had to

revitalize it to the state of the art smart city. A

smart city needs to have high speed broadband

access to every home, every facility… We have a

high speed broad band access and that itself makes

it a smart community. This is the largest water-

front revitalization in the world. It is an overall

smart city.

Lakshmi Meera: How long does it take to make

this smart city?

Rob: It is a 25 years plan and we are already 10

years into the plan. When we speak about smart

cities it would take generations to have a water-

front, walking space, cycling space, parks,

recreational area etc. We look for organizations

contributing towards the development of the

community and to create sustainability. It has

taken some time, yet we made good progress,

social housing, small business, large business etc.

Tharun: Currently the Indian government is

focusing on developing “Smart cities”. In your

point of view what is a “smart city”?

Rob: Smart City is like a global office. But we need

to look at who is responsible for the smart city.

Firstly it is the high speed broadband access;

secondly it should be a city that strives to progress

towards increasing the quality of life of the citizens.

Thirdly, economic prosperity, social and

environment sustainability are equally to be looked

at.

Smart city for India has to be smart in ways of

leveraging technology. Improve the entire water

system and waste management system. For

instance, using technology you should be able to

get an alert saying the garbage bin is 80 percent

full and the vehicle needs to be sent to clear the

waste. The aim should be timely removal of waste

using technology.

We need to look at Water, Environment

sus ta inab i l i ty, Waste Management and

Infrastructure and Economic prosperity by creating

more opportunities.

Overall India should utilize the opportunities and

technology together to make a smart city.

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You have travelled in India and Swaminathan:

now you are in Coimbatore, which is a

developing city. If you were the CIO of this city

(hypothetically) what are the three to four

areas you would want to focus on?

Rob: Business Intelligence is a key area, followed

by analytics – The short and long term implications

of the issues I pointed to your earlier question

involve the greater risks faced by the city. The next

in line is Health, Disease and Environment – This

would be at the local, national and international

best interest. We need to look at ways to harness

the intelligence of the youth of the city and avoid

talent drain. The city needs to think differently and

utilize opportunities to foster it as a global

community.

Nivas Krishna: As a CIO what are the

technological advancements you see in city

governance?

Rob: City governance needs a combination of

technology, mobility, data and government. More

utilization of GPS in location based services, to be

focused on. The information and services in

Canada are distributed or segregated as Local,

Municipal, Provincial and Federal, but with

technological advancement, like usage of GPS, it

should be available as location based information

than having it segregated as Local government

et.al. Technology should aggregate the services.

Vivek : What, where and how can the younger

generation contribute towards public

governance?

Rob: Knowledge is Power. The younger generation

must be engaged through using knowledge.

Information is available, utilize it understand your

passion and identify the opportunities and go for

your passion and creativity. Your engagement

must be by choice, based on passion.

Vijila: Thanks Rob for sharing your thoughts and

experience on various facets of City Governance

which I am sure will bring in new perspective to

the whole gamut of city service and delivery

management. Thank you once again for spending

time with all of us in spite of your busy schedule.

Best Wishes from all of us.

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Citizen Engagement Framework

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

Low level ofpublic involvement

and inuence

Inform or Educate Gather Information

Mid level ofpublic involvement

and inuence

Discuss Engage

High level ofpublic involvement

and inuence

Partner

Communications

Consulting

EngagingPartnering

Listening

SuggestionsforAdministrativeReforms

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Details for Reforms

m Details regarding changing the laws, procedures, office

orders etc. are very important. But this is one area in which

'reform' with its usual connotation of 'slow changes' would be

disastrous. There has to be a 'Total Change' ̶ immediately, all

within a span of one or two months to be effective.

m The laws identified to be obsolete and irrelevant by

Mr. HD. Shourie Committee to be 'nullified' by a single

ordinance or Bill. No point in trying to research on them or

deliberate on them. Even assuming that there are a few

mistakes, the gain is far more than procrastinating on useless

orders derived two and half centuries ago from a Colonial

Master.

m Another crucial issue is to nullify plethora of orders or

communications or O.M.'s or Dear Secretary letters sent by the

Cabinet Secretariat, the Finance Ministry etc. from 1960

onwards on various methods of functioning. Let new orders be

issued, be it on recruitment, or economy etc. with a clear

statement "In super cession of all earlier orders and

instructions in this regard". (This can be done within two

months) Nothing will be lost if a good order is nullified in this

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process. One can later insert it after deliberations.

Correspondingly instructions can also be issued

that ready reckoners like Swami's compilations

are all invalid with new orders. Let new Swami

versions come out. Today 'Yath Pinde tath

brahmande' is ruling the Government in its vulgar

form: it is a micro̶micro-rule that determines

how a ]oint Secretary, Secretary or Minister works.

Let the new rules remove the diarchy where the

Finance Ministry, Personnel are ever present, no-

responsibility-sharing Monarchies. Let the Finance

Ministry concentrate on macroeconomic and issues

fixing budgets firmly. Let Personnel concentrate on

reducing Government in a systemic form i.e. spin

off institutions to autonomy, private sector etc. or

close down with VRS.

m There are a number of items good in Fifth Pay

Commission Report. They should be accepted. Still

it has not questioned the very basis of the

organized services that have to be questioned and

changed. At least 50% of the top echelons of the

Government have to be changed with 'new

mutants', if the changes have to be effective.

Therefore running the Government with the top of

the existing structures only with IAS, lAAS, IFS etc.

have to be changed except for the Armed Services

and the Police. Also the unwritten rule that the

Cabinet Secretary should be only from the IAS

have to be changed; I am not suggesting that it is

free for all or have a raw Professor or an economist

or scientist there. There are several other options.

Today this "IAS fixation" has introduced systemic

problems. Lives, and even organizations in life, are

open-ended systems. If we close its'algorithms to a

few, it will collapse.

m Basic Principles

q System Time Constants

While the details are important it is not enough to

be after them. We will be lost, if we are after a few

small changes. That is where the earlier attempts

failed. It is not merely the case of "will". One should

understand the overall system context. First and

foremost in this case is the system time constant. I

have done several case studies which will clearly

illustrate that in the Indian-time̶rate-of

interaction the unit time is about one-year. It

takes about 7 to 10 years for any idea (on which

everybody agrees) to fructify into action. (This is

another Raj Krishna type number, we should be

worried about!).

Whether it is Cogenitrix or Tata SIA or take

anything else like our beginning to understand

WTO implications (First started around 1986 and it

came to force in 1995 and we debate not merely

Government but the elite, media etc. in 1999 when

bulk of its first phase "has come into effect" in

January 1, 2000 and most will be by January 1,

2005).

There is deliberate and urgent need to change

the time constant. What is a good number? Let us

see what Prof. Andrew Lippman of MIT has told in

an interview to the Times of India of January 3,

2000. "The rate of change of society is the function

of age at which you gain access to the dominant

technology of that time. The dominant technology

of today is computing. The rate of change of

computing is four years. A society driven by car

changes more slowly than one based on

computers".

We cannot say that we don't have so many

computers and be laid back. The external world has

it! The foreign company or government or even a

hijacker! So we cannot ignore the time constants

set by dominant technology. Let us also note that

our administrative system was designed at the

time when dominant technology was shipping and

later was adjusted to railways and telegraph. Did

we not ad jus t i t fo r a i rc ra f t , sa te l l i te

communication or fax!

The question now is: how to change the time

constant? It cannot be gradual. There has to be a

non-linear step change. The suggestion to have an

Apex Cabinet Level Committee on Administrative

Reforms is a good suggestion provided they decide

to work differently: not to look at individual rule.

Existing organization will try to make them do so,

as the Committee of Secretaries (COS) meetings

have tended to be. The GOAL of that Apex

Committee should be to reduce the time-constant

to, say a time-rate of interaction of about 2 to 3

months from one year and overall total project

completion time about 3 to 4 years from the

present 7 to 10 years.

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This means not merely clearance of files in a week

or less but decision making in 3 to 4 months

irrespective of the size of the project or issue.

For every unresolved issue (involving multi

departments) one Ministry needs to be decided as

NODAL by the APEX Committee. It should be their

responsibility to decide within 3 to 4 months (Note

the simplified new rules would exist and they need

not be engulfed in the self-made marsh of referrals

to thousands of O.M.'s etc.). If they have any

problem they can refer to the Apex Committee

which shall decide. [Note: There has to be an

understanding that those who refer too often to

the Apex Committee shall have negative marks, as

they will be empowered to decide; it is not the

diarchy of Ministry of Finance etc. sitting on

judgement on everybody!]. Decision does not

mean always accepting a proposal or saying

always yes.

If this method is followed, the productivity and

efficiency will become the inherent nature of the

system. Regarding the functioning of the Group C &

D staff they are creatures of the existing system.

They are not to blame for the inertia!

q Metasystem

The laws of nature cannot be violated, even if we

wish to. The life systems and social systems are

complex adaptive systems. We may, at a given

point of time, not know all the details of the rules or

even all the laws. The role of the sciences-natural

and social-is to discover these laws and apply

them. More complex a system is, the cause and

effect interact considerably. Notwithstanding these

complexities it is a well known cybernetic principle

that the problems or inadequacies of the

subsystem have to be solved in a system and it

cannot be solved at subsystem itself. So when the

whole system is dysfunctional; the solutions come

about by going for a meta system. The crucial point

is that the existing system has introduced crucial

institutional infirmities, which in turn have

induced individual infirmities in those who

populate those institutions; they in turn

stymie the institutions; the vicious circle has

continued for decades. The task is to cut the

vicious circle. One cannot expect those who are in

the system to do it because most of them are well

adjusted in it and are happy about it. This is not to

deny some mutants within the existing systems.

(That is the reason why some top Government

functionaries attended ICSSR meeting and spoke

freely and frankly and on specifics and there may

be dormant ones who may be activated when

opportunities arise!). In our administrative system

we have been tottering at the end of its evolution. A

few mutants inside have died or are lying low. But

no change is taking place. If we allow it as it is, it

will crash and be extinct as an evolutionary end,

result can be total anarchy or chaos, (already

appears in many parts of India!). The better

method is to help it redesign itself with new

mutants pushed into the systems in large

numbers. The change has to be total. When people

call for global tender for better governance it is

partly done jocularly or in anguish; but it also

contains a desire for external mutants. I would

suggest as suggested by Mr., KP.S. Gill that we

should empower about 1500-2000 people

(selected differently, not by the usual processes of

the existing system) with sufficient back up from

the Apex Committee and State Apexes. Also

introduce more changes in the economic sectors,

foreign affairs etc. (all aspects of governance).

Have a long tenure 6 to 7 years (long enough to

make change even with the existing time constants

but their goal should be to do changes in 4 years

and sustain it for sometime more so that things

stabilize).

But administrative change has to be Total (not

reform); all round; judiciary included; CAG etc

included. This addition of sizeable mutants from

outside coupled with mutants inside will make the

meta system, required for change. In addition,

expand their horizon of thinking so that their

exist ing system becomes small and get

interconnected with something else, thus creating

new spaces of meta systems. (Let them all be

innovative)

Administrative reforms are not merely to be

isolated to Government Ministries and their

agencies. Government had taken over in the past

the functions of education, running universities,

colleges, scientific laboratories, industries etc.

They need to be covered by administrative

reforms. If we just say they are left to themselves

and freed from Government, it is not enough. They

all have terrible "bureaucracies” of their own: for

example, academic bureaucracies are terrible'; the

hierarchies and bureaucracies in the institutions

run by scientists are also suffocating. These are

understandable as the 'system' is one and

subsystems develop their own toxic products

based on the overall algorithms of the system!

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q Resistance to Change-Provision for

protection of Change Agents

Till the change stabilizes say for a decade or so, the

change agents would require a fair degree of

p r o t e c t i o n f r o m m i s i n f o r m a t i o n a n d

disinformation. Public information and the media

are subject to various forms of manipulation. There

will be a demand for openness, which is good.

There has to be openness to avoid elitism or an

'emergency' like operation.

But we should bear in mind what the Nobel

laureate Prof. Murray Gell-Mann says in his seminal

work Quarks and the Jaguar, "Unfortunately, that

information explosion is in great part a

misinformation explosion. All of us are exposed to

huge amounts of material, consisting of data,

ideas, and conclusions-much of it wrong or

misunderstood or just plain confused. There is a

crying need for more intelligent commentary and

review".

It is easy to damn a good change agent by quoting

'convenient' portions of the advice. A super

specialist may think he or she has been slighted

and go on attack. Some may attach 'equal'

weightage to all the opinions (informed or

otherwise) and arrive at a different solution and

damn a person in the system who decided on the

earlier. Also there could be mischievous attempts

of formation and attributing malafide intentions.

The actual decision making process is more

complex. No 'objective' model exists for decision-

making given the multiple inputs. Also one should

not be trapped in paralysis by analysis syndrome.

Therefore in the final analysis, the decision making

has a certain crucial component of subjectivity. In

fact part of the reason why a bureaucrat shuttles

files is to insulate himself or herself from

accusations or audit remarks, etc. She or he

spreads the risks of decision making. Especially

when one is trying to do major change, the

'affected' parties or 'vested' interests are many and

they would like to strike.

Therefore, there has to be insulation or a saving

provision not to penalize a person for a decision

taken or advice given. There has to be no 'witch

hunt'. This is very important when the files are

opened to public. However, there has to be simple

checks for Integrity: i.e, no “pecuniary benefit" for

the person taking a decision or advising; and no

personal hatreds are involved, this mechanism for

such integrity checks has to be simple and

innovative. Not necessarily uniform all over, as the

new system evolves it will become self-correcting

over a period.

q Ability for Making Continuing Changes:

Providing for the future

So far all of us have been addressing the problems

of the past because we have a huge stock of

unsolved and ever growing problems. It is

important to address them and effect a Total

Change. Then the "hare" should not sleep.

Technologies, and businesses and therefore

societies and people would change fast during this

phase of human history. Therefore, there has to be

a constant look into the future and projection of

changes. People have to be kept informed of the

changes. Then their informed feedback will be

there to take into account the changes required to

be done. We need not cry again after 10 years or

later that our system is obsolete and is not meeting

the aspirations of people, society, business, etc,

and international needs. In such a future looking

studies and for interacting with people,

organizations like ICSSR have an important role to

play.

m On the whole, I hope an integrated set of

actions will be taken urgently taking into account

the above factors, noting that the reforms are too

serious a matter to be left to any one section alone.

Metaphorically speaking, gone are the days when

there was one major central computer processor

catering to several workstations attached to it

(subordinate to it). We are now in an era where

there are multiple parallel processing nodes (which

can process autonomous ly and a lso in

synchronism) tackling much bigger tasks than

were ever done before. Similarly there is no longer

a major database being accessed by everybody;

millions of small data bases or an information base

accessible through Intranet/Internet etc. is the

power too l ava i l ab le fo r mi l l i ons . The

administrative systems we need should be in a

manner to respect, to utilize the talents of, and to

meet the aspirations and needs of- individuals,

local groups, larger groupings and the nation while

also keeping a world view.

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GovernanceParadigm-empoweringpeople,collaborativeapproach&enhancingqualityoflife

The greatest type of ruler is one of whose existence the people

are hardly aware.

Next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the

one who is feared.

The worst is the one who is despised.

When a leader doesn't trust the people, they will become

untrustworthy.

The best leader speaks little. He never speaks carelessly.

He works without self interest and leaves no trace.

When the work is accomplished, the people say: “Amazing: we

did it all by ourselves.”

“Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu

What was articulated by Lao Tzu in 500 B.C (approx) is relevant

today more than ever and successful Governments across the

globe seem to recognize the need to change their practices to

meet complex challenges and stay ahead in an increasingly

competitive world.

What makes government effective?

This is among the most important questions facing any society,

because the failure of government is all too common and often

catastrophic. There are numerous examples of countries that

have been saddled by bad government policies, poor

implementation, ethical failures, and the inability of

government to change when necessary. The victims are

citizens, whose lives and livelihoods suffer.

The many failed development interventions in the 50s into the

90s spurred the introduction of other development reforms.

The “governance” paradigm was introduced and advocated by

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Dr.SBaskarholdsaMasterofTechnologydegreefromIndianInstituteofTechnology,Bombay.Anentrepreneurwithover25yearsexperienceinindustry,turnedsocialactivist.Hiscurrentinterestincludesdevelopingmodelsofalternativeapproachestogovernance.HeheadstheCoimbatorechapterofICCentreforGovernance(ICCFG)NewDelhi.Theorganizationworkstostrengthengovernancecapacityinthegovernmentandnongovernmentorganizations.ThetirelesseffortsofS.Baskar,oftheICCentreforGovernance,aimstoinvolvemarginalizedsectionsindecision-makingprocessforpromotinggoodgovernance.Havingcompletedtheindividualdatacollectionof2000streetvendorsinthecityhecreatedhistorybybringingallstakeholdersononeplatformandgavethese'voice-less'peoplethedignityofbeingheardbythetopbrassofthedistrictadministrationandpoliceforce

the United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), Asian

Development Bank (ADB) and other international

institutions.

Governance entails a larger scope and has a wider

meaning. Though the term “governance” has been

used to refer mostly to “government,” when

correctly used, “governance” really goes beyond

government. It involves the institutionalization of a

system through which citizens, institutions,

organizations, and groups in a society articulate

their interests, exercise their rights, and mediate

their differences in pursuit of the collective good.

(ADB 1995)

UNDP describes it as “the exercise of political,

economic and administrative authority to manage

a nation's affairs. It embraces all of the methods-

good and bad that societies use to distribute power

and manage public resources and problems.”

(UNDP 1997)

Cariño (2000), in her reflections on the term

“governance,” identified actors and factors that

pushed for governance. She acknowledges that

governance is not the sole responsibility of the

government per se but the role of the market and

civil society are of equal importance too and should

also be recognized. She then identified the factors

or processes that pushed for governance and some

of these are: the quest for growth and

development, the environmental movement,

globalization and consolidating peace. These are

practically the same values or virtues found in the

UN Charter. Likewise, governance promotes the

virtues of decentralization, participation,

responsiveness and accountability among others.

From “governance”, the concept of “good

governance” has emerged and became prominent

in international aid circles around 1989 or 1990. It

served as a general guiding principle for donor

agencies to demand that recipient governments

adhere to proper administrative processes in the

handling of development assistance and put in

place effective policy instruments towards that

end. When there is good governance, there is

sustainable development. Kofi Annan, in his

inaugural speech in the 1st International

Conference on Governance for Sustainable Growth

and Equity in United Nations, New York, in July 28-

30, 1997 affirms this when he said that:

“Good governance and sustainable development

are indivisible. That is the lesson of all our efforts

and experiences, from Africa to Asia to Latin

America. Without good governance – without the

rule of law, predictable administration, legitimate

power, and responsive regulation - no amount of

funding, no amount of charity will set us on the

path to prosperity. We are fully engaged in efforts

to improve governance around the world. Good

governance is indispensable for building peaceful,

prosperous and democratic societies.” Annan

concluded that “good governance is perhaps the

single most important factor in eradicating poverty

and promoting development.”

Principles of good Governance

An ADB document (2005) affirmed that good

governance is synonymous wi th sound

Development Management. They then identified

some key principles of development which may be

considered as elements of good governance.

These are:

Sustainability in all dimensions of development

of authority and resources at the Subsidiarity

closest appropriate level

Equity of access to decision-making processes and

the basic necessities of urban life

Sustainability

Subsidiarity

Efficiency

Transparency

and

Accountability

Civic

Engagement

and

Citizenship

Security

Principles

of

good

Governance

Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar

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Efficiency in the delivery of public services and in

promoting local economic development

Transparency and Accountability of decision-

makers and all stakeholders.

Civic Engagement and Citizenship

Security of individuals and their l iving

environment

Reinventing Government

Recognizing the need for devolution of power to

the closest appropriate level (principle of

subsidiarity) the 74th Amendment of the

constitution was brought forth by the Government

of India and the City Administration was

recognized as a third tier of Government. With

greater devolution of power, a mission mode,

policy driven and outcome focused planned

development program with reforms in Governance

as an over reaching objective, Jawaharlal Nehru

Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) was launched

by the Union Government in the year 2004.

Building 100 smart Cities is yet another initiative

by the present Government in urban development

with performance based funding as incentive to

drive growth.

Reinventing Government provided ten concepts

through which public entrepreneurs might bring

about massive governmental reform principles

that has remained at the core of the new public

management. These are the following:

1. Catalytic government: steering rather than

rowing

2. Community-owned government: empowering

rather than serving

3. Compet i t i ve gove rnment : i n j e c t i ng

competition into service delivery

4. Mission-driven government: transforming

rule-driven organizations

5. Results-oriented government: funding

outcomes, not inputs

6. Customer-driven government: meeting the

needs of the customer not their bureaucracy

7. Enterprising government: creating rather than

spending

8. Anticipatory government: prevention rather

than cure

9. Decentralized government: from hierarchy to

participation and teamwork

10. Market-oriented government: leveraging

change through the market

The present Government while replacing Planning

Commission with a new body NITI Ayog devolves

more power to the States in planning and greater

allocation of financial resources. More progressive

States in turn are expected to give greater role for

cities in planning its infrastructure and economic

development needs.

Excerpts from the Cabinet resolution on NITI Ayog

read:

” The people of India have great expectations for

progress and improvement in governance,

through their participation. They require

institutional reforms in governance and dynamic

policy shifts that can seed and nurture large-scale

change.”

“Governance, across the public and private

domains, is the concern of society as a whole.

Everyone has a stake in ensuring good governance

and effective delivery of services. Creating Jan

Chetna, therefore, becomes crucial for people's

initiative. In the past, governance may have been

rather narrowly construed as public governance.

In today's changed dynamics – with 'public'

services often being delivered by 'private' entities,

and the greater scope for 'participative citizenry',

governance encompasses and involves everyone.”

The Urban Challenge

Our cities are rapidly urbanizing. Cities have

become engines of growth. The share of cities

contribution is set to rise from 58% presently to

75% of GDP in 2030. People migrate to cities

primarily in search of employment and economic

activities besides better quality of life. Therefore, a

city for its sustainability needs to offer economic

activities and employment opportunities to a wide

section of its

residents, regardless of

their level of education,

skills or income levels.

In doing so, a city needs

t o i d e n t i f y i t s

comparative or unique

Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar

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advantage and core competence in specific areas

of economic activities and promote such activities

aggressively, by developing the required

institutional, physical, social and economic

infrastructures for it and attracting investors and

professionals to take up such activities.

Building a sustainable built environment

represents a significant responsibility for all of us.

Our decisions today will define the heritage of the

future. How do we ensure that they will reflect the

values and beliefs of the people who live here, work

here, and play here?

Cities are huge opportunities

“Cities are sources of innovation, of creativity. They

can be the drivers of prosperity and better living

standards for the whole country”

Helen ClarkAdministrator, UNDP & former P.M New Zealand

These complex challenges of today must be met

with a 'new' way of working, where we can draw on

ideas from across disciplines and fields of inquiry to

reach a deeper understanding and unlock

opportunity. An integrated approach to shaping

the future of our city will drive enduring change

and create a profound legacy for future

generations.

Addressing the complexity of contemporary urban

challenges requires an elevated level of informed

engagement, which is carefully curated and

established, yet also open and truly participatory.

People want to participate in decisions, which

affect their city.

Rapid and vital transformation is underway in the

public conversation about urban policy reform,

acknowledging that the evolution of a city is the

result of countless decisions by its many residents.

Evolving Roles and Innovative Leadership

An extraordinary city doesn't happen by chance.

Creating a city that is valued and significant to

those who use it requires shared aspiration, robust

discourse, bold vision and leadership and a guide

for achieving the outcomes we desire.

Our goals and values can't be determined

unilaterally, but are the result of many voices,

reflecting multiple experiences, emerging

conversations about our aspirations as a

community. Engaging the public indecision making

and planning has become a greater priority in

transformative contemporary governance. For

these reasons an effective

integrated design strategy for city renewal is

founded on broad and catalytic engagement.

A city that is authentic, inclusive and innovative is

an inspiring place to be. But how do we know that

our decision makers and professionals, whose

work and actions affect the urban environment,

will make the right decisions?

We need to recognize that these decisions are at

their best when Governments are engaged in

mature dialogue with their citizens. The role of

experts and professionals is crucial to translate a

vision. Such consultation provides the opportunity

for all stake holders to comment, state their goals

and contribute to the initial vision on the basis of

evidence and expert knowledge.

Managing Change

“Change is inspired, not imposed, by building upon

good practices from within government and in the

private sector - and identifying agents of change

and champions in the process of reform.”

Professor Laura LeeFormer, Adelaide Thinker in Residence

T r u s t b e t w e e n

governments and citizens

are essential for good

g o v e r n a n c e a n d

participation. In order to

build trust, governments'

need to communicate in a

transparent way about

Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar

past and future dec is ions and act ions.

Governments however, should not only inform but

also involve citizens. The ideas and opinions that

they put forward in pol icy-making and

implementation processes, provide valuable input

for improving the quality of local policies and

services.

Therefore the questions to be answered are:

How can we create a Vision that seeks highest

quality outcome and builds confidence through

shared aspirations?

How can we develop integrated Urban Strategies

to translate the Vision into broader outcomes?

What are the different steps for communication

and participation in the policy process?

How do we build technical, financial, managerial

and collaborative capacities to ensure the required

level of performance to achieve desired outcomes?

How can local Governments increase social and

financial accountability towards their citizens?

And how to promote integrity and transparency?

Generative Cities – the future

The future belongs to what are known as

“Generative Cities”. Generativity is a broader

property of systems that denotes the capacity of

agents within them to connect to others and

produce unanticipated, innovative outcomes and

change.

These cities will be driven by empowered citizens,

ubiquitous technologies and policies that enable

the actors of the generative city to collaborate on

boundary – breaking projects that redefine the

way we live, work and play.

Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar

“Success of democracy is impossible without

participation of the people”

-Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi

In a democratic system, citizen participation is one

of the key components of decision making process.

MyGov- External website that opens in a new

window is an innovative platform launched to

ensure citizens' engagement in decision making by

the Government so that the ultimate goal of "Good

Governance" for building India is achieved. This

initiative is an opportunity for citizens and well-

wishers from across the world to share their views

on key issues directly with the .

Hon'ble Prime Minister to empower the citizens of

India to contribute towards Surajya.

The platform encourages citizens as well as people

abroad to 'Discuss' and 'Do'. There are multiple

theme-based discussions on where a wide range of

people can share their thoughts and ideas. Further,

any idea shared by a contributor will also be

discussed on these discussion forums, allowing

constructive feedback and interaction among

participants.

The platform has been divided into various groups

namely Clean Ganga ; Green India ; Job Creation;

Girl Child education; Skill Development ; Digital

India; Swachh Bharat. Each group consists of

online and on ground tasks that can be taken up by

the contributors. The objective of each group is to

bring about a qualitative change in that sphere

through people's participation.

Source : http://india.gov.in/spotlight/mygov-

citizen-participation-towards-good-governance

MyGov -Citizen Participation towardsGood Governance

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CampusNews

LeadershipTraining & Alignment

StudentsusingtheLowRopesatBreakthrough StudentsontheHighRopeatBreakthrough

Learning Management System - MOODLEThe Learning Management System MOODLE was

launched at KCT Business School on August 19,

2014. Moodle a learning platform that enables to

create courses, activities and communities online

was launched. Moodle supports synchronous and

asynchronous communication for groups, one-to-

one messaging and opportunities to share

reflections and comments.

Moving beyond static, organization-led e-learning

using Moodle modules enables to create engaging,

social, collaborative activities. Moodle is installed

on a server and is accessed by student users round

the clock using their web browser – Google

Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox.

ACADEMICS

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169 Students of I MBA Batch 2014-16 had the

regular Outbound Training at Breakthrough,

Anaikatti in three batches in the month of

September 2014.The objective of this Leadership

Training & Alignment program is to expose the

students to experiential learning in areas of

leadership, team work, situation handling,

confidence building. Students are put through

rigorous training on low ropes & high ropes, which

helps them to set goals, make decisions & take

responsibility for their decisions. The learning

outcome of this program is

m Personal Development

m Working effectively in a team

m Synergizing to improve performance

m Change Management

m Self- Realization

Local Market Visit

Batch 2014-16 visited various Coimbatore based markets in order to learn about the local markets. It helped

them to gain market knowledge on market structure, pricing strategies, competitive strategies, product

varieties, logistics, inventory management, wastage disposal. They explored the challenges and problems

faced by the vendors. Fish market, Flower market, Fruit market, Scrap market, Vegetable market, Wholesale

Cloth market, Uzhavar sandhai, Grocery market, Sunday Cloth market were few markets visited by the

students.

Studentsofbatch2014-16atawholesale�ishmarket StudentsexploringthelocalmarketsinCoimbatore

Uses of Qualitative Techniques

The students of II MBA specializing in

Marketing were introduced to the various

qualitative techniques used in Consumer

Research studies.

The students were asked to visit Himalaya

Face Wash Blogging site at

http://shoppingescapades.com. Then the

students were asked to form a tag line for the

face wash based on the comments in the blog

spot. Later student teams checked for the

comments given by people for their own

chosen brands and worked out new tag lines

after analyzing the comments from the blog

spot. The teams came out with new taglines.

The tag lines were presented and peer

evaluation was done based on the clarity,

relevance and innovation.

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Real TimeOnline Share Trading

The Centre for Finance launched the Real Time Online

Share Trading Workshop (ROSTP) 2014 for batch 2013-15

on October 8, 2014. Thirty three students enrolled for the

ROSTP and participated in the program. ROSTP is a year-

long application-oriented learning initiative whereby the

studentsʼ invest Rs.5, 000 of their personal money in the

stock market. ICICI Direct Limited is the trading and

banking solutions provider for the ROSTP 2014. The

learning from the finance elective courses are expected to

come handy for the ROSTP participants in investment

decisions.

RealTimeOnlineTradinginprogressforstudentsofBatch2013

JSW ANGADI2014 - Trade Fair

KCT Business School, organized JSW ANGADI 2014- a trade fair by the students of Center of Marketing on

October 17& 18 , 2014.

JSW ANGADI 2014 is the third edition of the trade fair and this year's theme was ECO_CHIC - Environment

Friendly and Trendy. This is an event which is ideated, planned and organized by the MBA students of KCT

Business School. Each year Angadi hones the knowledge and skill of the students in three ways – One, it

nurtures the entrepreneurial spirit of the students through investments and running a small business.

Second, it develops the marketing skills of the students through positioning their products, understanding the

competition, promotion schemes and pricing. Thirdly, it advances the event management skills of the

students.

The title sponsor for Angadi 2014 was Jindal Steel Works (JSW), Co-sponsor was Balamurugan Bronze Arts

Works, Salem, Voucher sponsor was Mukil's Donut World and Radio sponsor was Radio City. There were 31

stalls and 100 plus products of leather, apparels, handicrafts, accessories, games and food.

Shri.ShankarVanavarayar, Joint Correspondent of KCT visited the stalls and appreciated the students of KCT

Business School for this exuberant venture .The event turned out to be a great success with more than 6000

footfalls at the exhibition ground.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES

Focus Group Discussion

Focus Group Discussion was conducted for the II MBA

Marketing students of Batch 2013-15 for the

Consumer Behavior course, to understand the buying

motives, perception & personality that influence the

purchase of Mobile phones & Watches. Fourteen

students using Apple Iphone & Fast Track watches

from first years were shortlisted as customers, for the

conduct of Focus Group Interview.

The Organizers discussed various aspects of buying

behavior of the customers of Apple Iphone & Fast

Track Watches to assess the buying motives. The

session provided a practical exposure to the

participants to associate various theoretical concepts

of Motivation, Perception & Personality to describe the

individuals.

CFO Interview Presentation The finance students of Batch 2013-15, visited

different Corporate houses like Roots, Uthaman & Co,

Shakti Finance, SETC and few more and had an

interview with the Chief Finance Officer. A

questionnaire was prepared for the interview. On

November 10, 2014 the teams made their

presentation, about the profile of the company, the

profile of the CFO and strategies adopted by the

company with finance perspective. This also helped

them to know about roles and responsibilities

performed by the finance officer.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES

UnderstandingPerceptions

Understanding Perceptions and how they are formed

is an important part of knowing human behaviour at

work. In this regard, a video documentary of the book

"The Secret" by Rhonda Bryne was telecast to the

students as a part of the Managing Organizations

course on November 10, 2014. This enabled the

students to understand the law of attraction and how

perceptions can impact and influence one's lives.

Pricing Strategy is an important concept which

plays a crucial role in efficient distribution of

resources in a market system. The concept

was explained to the students of Batch 2014-

16, with the help of a classroom activity. A sale

of stationery and a few household items of

various brands procured and sold through a

small retail set up by a few students. The rest

of the students were given specific directions

by the course instructor to buy as instructed. A

few were asked to be brand specific, a few

were asked to be price conscious and a few

were asked to book train and flight tickets.

After the purchase, the students were asked to

discuss on the various elements of a market,

number of players (sellers and buyers) in the

market and the pricing strategy adopted by the

flight operators, Indian Railways and FMCG

companies. Subsequently, the students were

briefed on the various pricing strategies used

by companies quoting experiences from the

activity. Various strategies right from cost

based pricing to skimming price to bundle

pricing and penetration pricing were explained

to them.

Pricing Strategy

ExperientialLearninginPricingStrategywithstudentsofBatch2014

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Debate sessionA debate session on “Is Money a motivator” was

held on November 6, 2014 for students of

Batch 2014-16. The class was split into two

groups. One team discussed how money is a

motivator for most of the workforce and how

employees shift for a marginal increase in

salaries. Students brought real life examples of

how money is not a motivator for different

employee groups who focus on learning,

achievement, and challenges in the workplace.

Job satisfaction, they said is the primary factor

that enables an employee to perform.

Market Visit Presentation

On November 15, 2014, Batch 2014-16 made

their presentation on the markets they visited.

The teams gave presentations on the markets, its

structures, pricing, logistics, storage, demand

and supply conditions etc. Part of the session

focused on rural visit presentations. The teams

made presentations on the impact of Mahatma

Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee

Act (MGNREGA) on the livelihood of village people

and its adverse effects over agriculture.

StudentsofBatch2014doingtheirpresentationonRural&LocalMarketvisits

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES

Tree Planting 100 Saplings of different varieties were planted

in Chinnavedampatti village as part of the CESR

activity of Centre of HR. 39 students actively

participated and felt happy by their small

contribution to the environment.

TreeplantinginprogressatChinnavedampattivillage

Service Marketing

Two innovative pedagogies were used in service

marketing course. CCAE (Comprehensive

Concept Assessment Exercise) which looked into

concepts of services marketing and its application

in real-time; Facebook Marketing - here students

took a real service organization product and

marketed the services using Facebook by

creating and promoting a Facebook page, the

organizations included SMS hotels, Hotel

Haribhavan, Pizza Republic, Breakthrough,

Connect My Trip, Yolo Restaurant, The Bright

Dawn Bakery, Grasp Clothing etc.

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Power of Working in TeamsAs MBA students it is important for students to

understand the power of working in teams. Most

organizations today give importance to Self

Managed teams at work. In order to get the

students to understand group dynamics an activity

was conducted in the class. The activity created a

sales scenario, and every team was in charge of

sales. Opening a sales deal, making a sale and

closing the sale was incorporated with various

rules and constraints in the market environment.

The activity clearly identified the different group

formation strategies of forming, storming,

norming, performing and adjourning.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES

CEP - Community Engagement Project

As a part of I year program of MBA, the students

were involved in a Community Engagement

Project. The objective of the project was to provide

opportunities for the students to develop their

capaci t ies to become par t ic ipat ing and

contributing citizens and to prepare them for

effective participation in community affairs in a

diverse society through promotion of social and

economic justice. The project was carried out

between I& II semester

The project themed "You can Make a Difference

was carried out in groups in association with a NGO

for a period of 1 week (The teams will be in the field

from February 22-27,2015 - 40 hours) in various

areas like Village Development Program, Village

Cleanliness, Skill Training Program for youth, Basic

Communication development program for school

children, self-awareness and self-assessment skills

training program ,HIV Awareness Program, AIDS

fundraising event, Crèche Visit by students and

helping the children in crèche, Organizing Camp

like eye camp, diabetic camp, Drug and Alcohol

awareness camp etc.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES

Certication Programs Conducted

September

26-29, 2014Business Analysis ValueBASE

November 1 -

December 07, 2014Tally ERP 9.0 Certification

M/s. Indra Institute of Education,

Coimbatore

2013-15

2014-16

September -

December 24, 2014

Performance Management

System and Certificate on

Psychometric testing

Human Resource Development

Centre, New Delhi 2013-15

April 10- 11, 2015 Lean Six Sigma Yellow BeltJuran Academy (P) Limited,

Chennai - Juran, Connecticut; USA2014-16

Date Theme of Workshop Certifying Body

August 22-23, 2014 Certified Recruitment Analyst Consultant, Chennai

August 18-21, 2014 Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Certification ProgramASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

August 18 -20, 2014 International Logistics Confederation of Indian

Industry- Institute of Logistics

Batch

2013-15

2013-15

August 18 - 23, 2014 Corporate Taxation Institute of Computer Accountants2013-15

2013-15

August 22, 2014 Info session on SAP eDrishyaa IT India Pvt. Ltd., Cbe2013-15

September 6, &

November 1, 2014Laws Relating to

Industrial Relations Consultant, Coimbatore2013-15

Massive Open Online CourseThe II MBA HR students have undergone courses

on Massive open online course platforms like

Ed X and Coursera between August and

November 2014. The courses enrolled were

related to Leadership, Innovation, Learning,

Writing Skills, and Global Business Environment.

The courses were offered by Case Western

Reserve University, University of Maryland,

University of Minnesota and University of

Lausanne. 31 students completed the MOOC

courses successfully. This initiative was as a part of

the Course on Training and Development, which

comprised of a component on E learning. Hence

students were encouraged to experience and

benefit from the online learning, enabling them to

understand the e-learning environment, the

effectiveness of the Instruction modules,

comprehend the learnability of a global audience.

This served as a real time experience for students

that will help them in undertaking e-learning

capsules offered in corporate and will also improve

their self regulated learning skills.

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Workshops Conducted

Date Facilitator Topic

August 16-17, 2014Relations Institute of

Development, Coimbatore Transaction Analysis 101

August 22, 2014Suresh ShanmugamBusiness Solution Manager

Payoda Technologies

Agile Practices in Software

Projects

September 1, 2014Praveen Udupa Business Analysis Practitioner

ValueBASE

Introduction to Business Analysis

Batch

2013-15

2013-15

August 27, 2014Jeganathan PCEO,

Energetic Byz Plus

Event Management 2013-15

2013-15 &

2014-16

October 8, 2014N.TirunavukarasuBusiness Partner & Proprietor

ICICI Direct Limited & M3moneymanager

Online Trading through ICICI

Direct Online Trading Software 2013-15

October 15, 2014P.Suresh KumarMentor & Director (Research)

Knowledge Business School.

Research Paper Writing 2014-16

October 25, 2014

Kirupa Priyadarshini MAssociate Professor,

KCT Business School R.Sridhar BabuLead- Corporate Relations,

KCT Business School

Enhancing Interview Skills

IV year

BE -ECE

Dept.KCT

November 11, 2014K.AnnamalaiDirector,

Annamalai Capital Services (P) Limited,

Technical Analysis for Equity

Market Investments 2013-15

November 12, 2014Ram Kumar Equity Analyst,

Akshaya Investment

FOREX Trading 2013-15

November 13, 2014. Dixon A.KProfessional Trainer,

I Sharp Academy

How to Crack Banking Exam 2013-15

November 15, 2014

Maria Jude AntonyDeputy Manager Learning and

Development,

Elgi Equipments

FOREX Trading 2013-15

November 24, 2014Jayakumar BharadvajCoordinator of Fine Arts Centre,

Kumaraguru College of Technology

Indian Ethos in Management

November

25 & 26, 2014

Rashaad Hussain/S ShivaCenter Manager /

Academic Coordinator,

ICA Infotech Pvt Ltd

Reading and Analyzing

Annual Reports

2014-16

2014-16

Cyber Law and Intellectual

Property rights 2014-16 November20, 2014

S.N. RavichandranActivist of Coimbatore Cyber Crime cell

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Date Facilitator Topic Batch

February 5 & 6, 2015Vinodh KumarSenior Trainer, EBSCO Services,

Chennai

Review of Literature using

EBSCO

February 17-20, 2015

Gupta D KProfessional Trainer

Mr. Vijay SinghProfessional Trainer

All India Management Association

(AIMA) New Delhi

AIMA 'CHANAKYA'

Business Simulation Game

2014-16

2014-16

February 23, 2015Kirupa Priyadarsini MAssociate Professor & Centre Head -HR,

KCT Business School

Designing Survey InstrumentDept of FT,

KCT

Selling Skills 2014-16 March 3, 2015Sumant BakshiAdviser,

MYRA School of Business

March 07, 2015

Ravi KCFO,

Roots Group of Companies, Coimbatore

Narendran TVice President (Finance and Administration),

Aqua Group

Vijayaraghavan RHead - Finance

Sakthi Excellence Academy,, Coimbatore

Anantharamakrishnan KPartner

Annamalai Associates, Chennai

Union Budget 2015 2014-16

Jugaad Innovation and

Frugal Innovation 2014-16 April 9, 2015

Navi Radjou / Jaideep PrabhuAuthors

April 22, 2015

Anitha JAssociate Professor,

GRG School of Management

Kirupa Priyadarsini MAssociate Professor & Centre Head -HR

KCT Business School

Multivariate Analysis for

Business Research 2014-16

Compensation and Benefits 2014-16 April 24, 2015Kalpana SaiConsultant

Cognizant Technologies

April 25-26, 2015

Soudhadakar ElumalaiSenior Business Analyst

Flipkart.com

Asan Kumar SankaralingamBusiness Analysis Advisor,

Dell Global Analytics, Bangalore

Business Analytics 2014-16

April 27, 2015Lakshmi Meera BLAssistant Professor, Centre of Marketing

KCT Business School

Negotiation Skills2014-16

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Dening the DestinationThe yearly, Annual Planning meet of KCT business School was held from June 22-24, 2014 at Nature Vision

Resort, Anaikatti. A group of 16 faculty along with 6 newly recruited faculty were part of the planning meet.

Each centre presented their targets achieved vis- a –vis goals set in 2013-14 and also presented their goals for

the ensuing academic year. Centres also envisioned their plan for 2020. Keeping in mind the adage, “All work

and no play makes Jack a dull boy” there were activities involving games & trekking too.

Laurels & Accolades

M a r y C h e r i a n , w a s

awarded the "Sen ior

Educator & Scholar" Award

f r o m t h e N a t i o n a l

F o u n d a t i o n f o r

Entrepreneurship

Development (NFED), for

her significant contribution

to teaching & research on

the occasion of Teachers

Day September 5, 2014.

Lakshmi Meera B L has been

elected Charter President for the

Coimbatore chapter of Women

Entrepreneurs Forum. The

women entrepreneurs' forum

chapter was inaugurated on

August 9, 2014.

Our hearty congratulations to Nalini P on receiving PhD

for her thesis on the title “ Consumer Awareness on

Environmental Issues and its Impact on Purchase

Behaviour of Green Products”

FACULTY

Our hearty congratulat ions to

Gokilavani R , on receiving PhD for her

thesis on the title “Impact of Service

Quality on Customer Satisfaction in

State Bank of India in Coimbatore

District “

Teacher's Day Awards Galorem On the occasion of Teacher's Day- September 5, 2014-the faculty & Staff of KCT Business School were duly

recognized under different categories. Vijila Kennedy, Nedunchezhian VR , Mary Cherian, Sangeetha S,

Poongodi B, Mohanamani P, Latha A for Publication in International Journals during 2013-14

m Kannan V was recognized for "Working Maximum number of hours in the campus during 2013-2014” on

September 5, 2014 during the Teacher's Day celebrations.

m Sarasvathi TA & Senthil Prakash P along with Boobal Achuthan, bagged the II prize in Connexions, on

September 5, 2014 during the Teacher's Day celebrations.

m Sabita Johnson won the I Prize in Article Writing.

Faculty enhance their knowledge & skills

Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Kannan V were a part of the faculty mission on “Learning Best Practices” at

LMW – Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), Ganapathy, Coimbatore (for Manufacturing Excellence) and Roots

Industries Limited, Thoppampatti, Coimbatore (for HR Best Practices)' organised by CII on July 04, 2014.

Poongodi B attended a one day Faculty Development Program on “Techniques and Advances of Effective

Teaching" at Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Erode on July 18, 2014.

Poongodi B attended a one day conference on "Next Generation Indian Agriculture" organized by CODISSIA

during the 14th Edition of AGRI INTEX 2014 in Coimbatore on July 19, 2014.

Deepa M attended a Faculty Development Program on “Emotional Literacy for Personal & Professional

Success” at PSG –IM on July 26, 2014.

Mary Cherian, Sangeetha S , Nalini P, Priya Dharshini A, Lakshmi Meera B L , Kaarthiekheyan V , Senthil Kumar

A attended a talk show with Role model Entrepreneur Mr. Kumaravel, Cofounder & CEO, Naturals Unisex

Salon & Spa, on “Learning Best practices in Managing Franchises Businesses” on August 13, 2014 .

Lakshmi Subramani attended a five day Faculty Development Program at IIM- K on “Technology Enabled

Teaching Methods” from August 19-23, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Senthil Kumar A attended a program on “SPSS Online Training Portal” conducted by

SPSS Inc & VIT Business School on September 02, 2014.

Gokilavani R and Senthil Prakash P attended a two day outbound training on “Building High Performance

Teams for Senior Faculty of Higher Education Institutions” conducted by CII Coimbatore on September 9 &

10, 2014.

Kaarthiekheyan V attended a one day workshop on “Writing Effective Research Papers & Drafting Winning

Research Grant Proposals for Funding” sponsored by Computer Society of India on September 20, 2014

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Kaarthiekheyan V and Hemanalilni R attended a talk on "Legal Literacy Program in relation to Cyber Law" on

September 26, 2014.

Mary Cherian, Poongodi B and Latha A attended a workshop on “Art of Getting Research Funding and

Publishing Research Papers in Social Sciences” at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai on

September 26, 2014.

Nedunchezhian V R, Kaarthiekheyan V, Hemanalini R, Deepa Manickam and Sarasvathi T A attended a two

day Faculty Development Program on "Case Method Teaching" organized by Case Research Society of India

and Madras Management Association at Chennai on October 10 & 11, 2014

Sarasvathi T A attended a Faculty Development Program on “Redefine Data Analytics with Big Data” at PSG

College of Technology, Coimbatore from October 29-30, 2014

Lakshmi Meera B L attended a refresher course in “Advance Negotiation Skills “by ISB, Hyderabad at

Bangalore on November 5, 2014.

Gokilavani R attended a five day Faculty Development Program on “Imparting Soft skills for Success and Life

skills for Survival”, conducted by NIT, Trichy from November 24-28, 2014.

Nalini P participated in a Faculty Development Program on "Econometrics for Management Research" in IIM-K

campus from December 01-05, 2014.

Poongodi B participated in a two day international conference on "Innovations in Agriculture: Ways Forward"

organized by Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi in collaboration with International Food Policy

Research Institute, Washington DC in New Delhi on December 4 & 5, 2014.

Priya Dharshini A attended CII's Young Indians – Coimbatore Chapter's 'Innovate 2014' held at Coimbatore.

The theme of the conclave was “Build Innovation and Creativity “, on December 11, 2014

Lakshmi Meera B L participated in the two day finishing school on “Mentoring Skills for faculties” at IEDC,

Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bangalore organized by NEN, Bangalore on December 19 & 20, 2014.

Senthil Kumar A and Mohanamani P, participated in a three day Faculty Development Program on “Panel Data

and Time Series Econometrics” organized by Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,

Coimbatore from January 06-08, 2015

Nalini P participated in Faculty Development Program on “Data Analysis for Business Modeling" at Velalar

College of Engineering and Technology, Erode on January 8, 2015.

Hemanalini R, Sangeetha S, Mary Cherian, Sarasvathi T A and Nalini P, attended a one day National Seminar

on “Business Analytics for Decision Making”, organized by Department of Management Studies, Sri

Ramakrishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore on March 13, 2015.

Lakshmi Meera BL attended a four day Lean Six Sigma Certification Program organized by Infocareer, Chennai

from April 3-6, 2015.

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Kirupa Priyadarsini M,

Latha A & Mohanamani P

Understanding Research Methods

University of London

Kirupa Priyadarsini M & Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

Kirupa Priyadarsini M, Latha A, Mohanamani P

& Jaisankar S

Sangeetha S

Mohanamani.P

Hemanalini R, Jaisankar S & Deepa Manickam

Better Leader. Richer Life

Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

Enhance your Employability Skills

Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills

Questionnaire Design for Social Survey

GSE2X: Leaders of Learning

Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations

Advanced Competitive Strategy

Creativity, Innovation & Change

Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction

Unethical Decision Making in Organizations

On Strategy: What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy – Part 1

University of Pennsylvania

Western Reserve University

University of London

University of Melbourne

University of Michigan

HarvardX -Harvard University

Institute For Strategy, Technology And Organization,

Munich School Of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen

Pennsylvania State University

The Common Wealth Education Trust's

University of Lausanne

Ecole Centrale Paris

Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

Vijila Kennedy

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Vijila Kennedy

GSE1x: Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A new approach to

Personal Improvement

Harvard University

Vinayagasundaram R

Sangeetha S & Latha A

Sangeetha S

Mary Cherian

Gamification

Advertising and Society

Introduction to sustainable Development

New models of Business Society

Project Management : The Basics for Success

The Data Scientist's Tool Box

Applied Regression Analysis

Wharton – University of Pennsylvania

Duke University

Columbia University

University of Virginia

The Ohio State University

Sangeetha S

Hemanalini R

Mohanamani P

University of California, Irvine

John Hopkins University

Mary Cherian organized a demo on Pearson's Learning Management System(LMS) on August 12, 2014. The

session was conducted by Mr. Ramesh Shankaran, Sr. Business Development Manager, Pearson Education.

Efficiently Using and leveraging IT is one of the

strategic imperatives of KCT.BS's vision 2020.

A team from TCSiON was at KCT Business School

on November 18 and 20, 2014 for a demo.

Faculty members were introduced in detail to the

Learning Management Solution and CMS which

had HR solution & Academic back end support

solutions organized by Centre of Systems.

Workshops organized

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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.

Semester Reboot Camp

Faculty lend their expertiseto the outside worldHemanalini.R was an adjunct faculty at Texila

American University for the academic year

2014-15 from June 19, 2014.

Mary Cherian was invited as an academic expert

for an academic workshop conducted for the

faculty of the Nehru School of Management,

Palakkad, Kerala State on July 9, 2014.

Mary Cherian is the marketing advisor for a group

of KCT students working on a Marketing Plan for

the new TATA ZEST car for Sakthi Motors, Madurai

from August 2014.

Poongodi B delivered a guest lecture on Indian

Rural Economy at TIPS Global Institute,

Coimbatore on August 4, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a resource person

for a one day Faculty Development Program on

"Research Analys is us ing SPSS" at the

Management Department of G R Damodaran

College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore on

August 11, 2014.

The Centre for Operations organized a Workshop

on Supply Chain Management for working

executives in manufacturing organizations and

faculty members on March 25, 2015. The main

objectives of the program were to provide the

participants with an understanding of the basic

concepts and tools and approaches for managing

supply chains and to enable them to develop an

awareness of the advancements in the

management of supply chains and its implications

on profitability of an organization.

The facilitators of the workshop included

M.Gurunathan, Senior Counsellor, CII – Chennai

and R.V.Mohan, General Manager, Supply Chain,

PRICOL, Coimbatore. The program included case

studies and examples from service, manufacturing

and other industries and were discussed through

live examples and videos. The sessions were

interactive and application oriented. About eleven

from in and around Coimbatore participated in the

program.

Workshop on Advancements inSupply Chain Management

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Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a facilitator for a

session on Dream Team which was organized as

part of the Orientation Program 'Swagatham' 2014

by the Department of MCA, KCT.

Vijila Kennedy was a resource person for the

Student Association inaugural in Nehru College of

Management.

Lakshmi Meera B L was the guest speaker at

PSGR Krishnammal college, where 120 students

from the entrepreneurship cell participated in a

s e s s i on on C r ea t i v i t y i n Bu s i n e s s on

September 9, 2014.

Poongodi B delivered a guest lecture on Agriculture

and Farm Mechanization at TIPS Global Institute,

Coimbatore on September 12, 2014

Nedunchezhian V R was the external expert for a

Ph.D Doctoral Committee meeting held at

Dr. SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts & Science on

September 25, 2014.

Nedunchezhian V R was the guest speaker in Sasi

Creative School of Business addressing a session

on Accounting on September 27, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a resource person

for a guest lecture on "Instrument Design for

Surveys" for III year B.Tech students of Fashion

Technology, KCT on October 16, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarsini. M helped students from the

Fashion Technology Department, KCT on project

development of designer wear with an inspiration

from fishing line.

Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Sridhar Babu R ,

facilitated a workshop on Enhancing Interview

Skills for the final year students of KCT-ECE

Department on October 25, 2014.

Senthil Kumar A facilitated a workshop on

Fundamentals of Financial Accounting for students

of M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur on

October 27, 2014.

Mary Cherian was the resource person for a guest

l e c t u r e on “Ca se S t udy Ana l y s i s and

Interpretation-Valdac, Brazil” for I &II M.Tech

Apparel Technology students of KCT on

October 31, 2014.

Lakshmi Meera BL was a resource person for a

F a c u l t y D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m o n

En t r e p r eneu r s h i p o r g an i z ed b y PSGR

Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore on

November 11, 2014.

Hemanalini R, participated as a panel member in

the Alumni Talk at GRGSMS on the topic

"Challenges for Higher Education in India" to

commemorate the National Education Day on

November 11, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarshini M conducted a half a day

workshop on Data Analysis using SPSS Refresher

Program at Bharathiar School of Management and

Entrepreneur Development, Bharathiar University

on the November 25, 2014.

Mary Cherian has been selected as a Board

Member of the Workforce Magazine- Business

Intelligence Board - for the year 2015. Workforce

Magazine is a US magazine and is published by

MediaTec Publishing Inc

Jaisankar S delivered a lecture on the topic “Over

View for Stat ist ics for Management” at

Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore on

December 13, 2014.

Nal in i P del ivered a specia l lecture on

“Entrepreneurial success stories and qualities” for

Bio-chemistry and Micro-biology students at Sri

Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science College

for Women, Coimbatore on December 19, 2014.

Swaminathan S delivered a lecture on “How to

Manage a Large Project” for the students of Post

Graduate Diploma in Design Engineering for Oil &

Gas Industry on December 24, 2014.

Kirupa Priyadarsini.M was the resource person for

a guest lecture on “Emotional Intelligence” at Sri

Amman Institute of Management and Research on

January 9, 2015.

Hemanalini R was the keynote speaker, in an

International Conference on Applied Research in

Engineering and Management, conducted and

organized by Professional Group of Institutions,

Sulur on February 28, 2015.

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Lakshmi Meera B L facilitated an Entrepreneurship

Awareness program at CSI Bishop Appasamy

College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore for under

graduate students from BBM department on

March 3, 2015.

Lakshmi Subbramani, facilitated a session on

"Research Design and it's process" organized by

the Department of Research and Development of

Park College on March 7, 2015.

Mohanamani P was the resource person for a guest

lecture on ”Changing Paradigm in International

Financial Management with special focus on

Capital Budgeting" at Department of Management

Science, SNR Sons College, Coimbatore on

March 9, 2015.

Dr. Vijila Kennedy, was the Chief Guest for the

inaugural of the Intercollegiate meet- Bizmines'15

at Bishop Appasamy College of Arts & Science,

Coimbatore on March 10, 2015.

Lakshmi Meera B L facilitated an Entrepreneurship

Development program at Department of Textiles

and Apparel Design, Bharathiar University,

Coimbatore on March 17, 2015.

Poongodi B was the resource person for a guest

lecture on “Forecasting Demand for Effective

Managerial Decisions” organized for the BBA

students of Rathinam College, Eachanari on

March 19, 2015.

Nalini P was the resource person for a guest lecture

on “Digital Marketing -A tool for Business Success"

for students of BBA in KS Rangaswamy College of

Arts And Science (Autonomous), K.S.R Kalvi Nagar

Tiruchengode on April 1, 2015.

Sridhar Babu R and Gokilavani R, were facilitators

in Train the Trainer – to train Faculty Members on

Placement training activities at Sakthi Institute of

Information & Management Studies, (SIIMS),

Pollachi on April 9, 2015 .

Poongodi B was the resource person at

M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur for a

one day workshop on Statistical Analysis using

SPSS on April 11, 2015.

Nalini P, chaired a session at the 3rd National

Conference on Business Paradigms for Emerging

Indian Economy organized by Department of

Management Studies at Erode Sengunthar

Engineering College, Erode on April 17, 2015

Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a Member of the

Board of Studies for the Business Management

Department at PSGR Krishnammal College for

Women, Coimbatore on April 27, 2015.

“Appreciation can make a day -even change a life.

Your willingness to put it into words is all that is

necessary" - Margret Cousins

The faculty and administrative team at KCT BS,

had the openness, the time and the words as well,

for experiencing the joy of appreciation, which was

a weeklong celebration from November 24- 28,

2014 The event, styled "Colleague Appreciation

Program" brought out the goodness and helped in

demonstrating, trust, recognition, achievement

and belongingness, the core values of KCT

Business School. The five days were celebrated

with members appreciating their colleagues for

their qualities, their contributions, for the support,

and encouragement. The appreciations were sent

through mails, messages, watsapp texts, and also

as post its, by sharing a meal , a cup of coffee,

treasure hunts trips, and gifts bringing a smile on

every ones' face. The event was an initiative from

the Centre of HR.

Faculty Club Initiatives

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Knowledge & Information Sharing Session (KISS)In these sessions faculty share capsules of knowledge from various domain

Sarasvathi TA

Personal Branding using LinkedIn

August 13,2014

Hemanalini R

Life Coaching and Parenting

October 14, 2014

Sarasvathi TA

How to write a blog

October 16, 2014

Priya Dharshini. A

Work Life Balance

November 7, 2014

Swaminathan S

Internet Revolution … What Next

November 15, 2014

Latha A

Plagiarism Checker

November 29, 2014

Kaarthiekheyan V

Legal Literacy program on Cyber Law

and Security

October 28, 2014

Kirupa Priyadarsini M

Succeeding in MOOC courses

November 15, 2014

Sangeetha S

Newspaper - Best Friend for

Management Teachers

November 29, 2014

Mohanamani.P

Bit Coins

March 12, 2015

Nalini .P

Writing Proposals for UGC Funding

March 12, 2015

Vinayagasundaram.R

Green Technology Ideas for Home

April 16, 2015

Jaisankar.S

Quiz in MOODLE

April 16, 2015

Poongodi B

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)

April 17, 2015

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Shadow Program - knowledge dissemination with peers

Deepa Manickam

Emotional Literacy for Personal and

Professional Success

October 8, 2014

Kirupa Priyadarsini M & Senthil Prakash P

Understanding Business processes

through typical Case Studies

October 10, 2014

Senthil Kumar A & Kirupa Priyadarsini M

SPSS Online Training Programme (SOTP)

October 14, 2014

Mary Cherian , Poongodi B & Latha A

Art of getting Research Funding

October 29, 2014

Kannan V & Kirupa Priyadarsini M

Best Practices for

Manufacturing Excellence

October 14, 2014

Neduchezhian V R, Hemanalini R,

Kaarthiekheyan V, Deepa M, Sarasvathi T.A

Teaching through Case Methodology

October 28, 2014

Nalini P

Econometrics for Management Research

February 27, 2015

Senthil Kumar A & Mohanamani.P

Panel Data and Time Series Econometrics

February 27, 2015

Lakshmi Meera BL

Advance Negotiation Skills

March 11, 2015.

Nalini P

Case Writing

March 5, 2015

Vinayagasundaram .R and Jaisankar.S

Make in India

April 16, 2015

Kannan V and Vinayagasundaram.R

Supply Chain Management

April 16, 2015

Research Scholars Meet

S.No Resource Person Subject

1Dr.Kirupa Priyadarshini M.Associate Professor

Address on the sample size required,

data types and dimensions required,

and the depth of the literature survey

required for SEM

2Dr.Subha MV.Associate Professor, Anna University

Review of Literature: Styles of Writing

3Dr.Anitha J.Associate Professor

GRG school of Management Studies

Art of writing and publishing

scholarly articles

The research forum of KCT Business School meets regularly every month on the third Saturday. The

objective of the research scholars meeting aims at sharing of information and ideologies. This year the forum

has launched b:ok (bytes of knowledge) where knowledge relating to research areas is disseminated for half

an hour on varied topics relating to research.

Date of Forum

September 20, 2014

October 18, 2014

November 15, 2014

4Dr.Jaisankar S.Associate Professor,

Centre of Operations Problem Identification

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Dr.Chitra K.Director,

Department of Management,

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

Designing Survey Instruments

6Dr.Kirupa Priyadarsini M.Associate Professor,

KCT Business School

Adapting and Using Validated

Instruments in Social Science

Research

February 21, 2015

March 20, 2015

April 18, 2015

RESEARCH

Publications by Faculty1. Hemanalini R & Madhumathi S (2014)

published a paper titled “Skill Gap Analysis

and Training Effectiveness of Employees"

in Indian Journal of Applied Research, August

2014 Issue. Impact Factor : IJAR 2.1652

2. Senthil Kumar A & Sowmiya A (2014)

published a paper titled "Comovements

between the Indian and Chinese stock

markets – an analytical study”, in Golden

Jubilee International Conferences at PSG

Institute of Management, Coimbatore during

August 07-08, 2014, p52. PSG Institute of

Management, PSG Centre for Advertising &

Communications, Vol.1/Issue 1, August 2014

3. Poongodi B (2014) published a research

paper titled “A perceptual study on the

constraints in adoption of e- commerce

practices” in International Journal of

Advanced Information Science and Technology

(IJAIST) with the ISSN 2319:2682, Vol.28,

No.28, P.No.70-77, August 2014 .

Impact Factor : 3.564.

4. Nedunchezhian V R and Selvaraju K

(2014)published a paper titled “Work

Deviance of IT Sector and Non IT Sector –

A Comparative Analysis” in Indian Journal of

Applied Research(IJAR)with ISSN-2449-

555X,Vol.4,Issue-9,September 2014.Impact

factor :2.165235

5. Poongodi B (2014) published an article on

"Price Dynamics and the Fortune of Indian

Tomato Farmers" in Kisan World - A Journal

of Agriculture and Rural Development Vol.41

No. 9, ISSN 0971-9229, September 2014

6. Nedunchezhian V R and Hemalatha K ( 2014)

published a paper titled “Testing on Weak

Form Efficiency & Volatility of FMCG sector:

The evidence from National Stock

Exchange” in International Journal of recent

and Innovation Trends in Computing and

Communication (IJRITCC) with ISSN-2321-

8169, Vol.2, Issue-9, September 2014

7. Vijila Kennedy and Shamina H (2014)

published a paper titled “Examining the

P r o f e s s i o n a l C o m m i t m e n t o f

Academicians across Meyer and Allen's 3D

Model” in Trans Asian Journal of Marketing &

Management Research (TAJMMR)with ISSN-

2279-0667,Vol.3,Issue-9, September 2014.

Impact factor :SJIF=4.289

8. Jaisankar S (2014) published a book titled

“Quantitative Techniques and Operations

Research” published by Excel Books Private

Limited as study material for Indian Institute of

Materials Management. September 2014

9. Sangeetha S and Chitra K (2014) published a

paper titled "Assessment of Credit Risk and

Financial Sustainability of Select Indian

Microfinance Institutions– An Empirical

Study" in European Journal of Economics

Finance and Administrative Sciences, Issue

67, Page numbers: 106-124, August 2014.

EBSCO, Scopus Impact Factor: 0.213

Annexure NO: II (September 2013 Version)

10. Poongodi B (2014) published an article on "A

Perceptual Study on the Constraints in

Adoption of e-Commerce Practices among

the Farmers of Composite Coimbatore” in

the book titled "New Perspectives in Indian

Management" published by Himalaya

Publishing House Pvt. Ltd ,ISBN: 978-93-

5142-664-6 in 2014

11. Vijila Kennedy & Juliet Gladies (2014),

published a paper titled “ Performance

M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m & F a c u l t y

Engagement :An Empirical Study in Higher t hEducation Institutions” in the 15

International Conference on Advances &

Challenges in Global Business, Management,

Economics, Tourism & Information Technology

organized by Research Development

Association & Research Foundation at

Pondicherry, November 21&22,2014

12. Nedunchezhian V R and Premalatha K (2014)

published a paper titled “Analysis of

Performance Efficiency of Selected Public

S e c t o r B a n k s i n I n d i a t h r o u g h

Intermediation Approach” in International

Journal of Current Research, Vol-6, Issue-11,

pp.10363-10367, ISSN: 0975-833X,

November 2014

13. Senthil Kumar A and Kulothungan.M (2014)

published a paper titled “Profitable

Investment Opportunities Using Technical

T r a d i n g R u l e s i n t h e I n d i a n

Pharmaceutical and Realty Sectors”, in

International Journal of Emerging Technology

& Research, Volume 1, Issue 7, pp.145-154.

ISSN (P): 2347-6079, ISSN (E): 2347-5900,

Nov-Dec, 2014. (Impact Factor: 0.997)

14. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G (2014)

publ ished a paper t i t led “Exploring

Re l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n Pe r c e i ve d

Investment in Employee Development,

Satisfaction, Commitment and Stay

Intent” in the conference proceedings of the

3rd International Conference on Managing

Human Resources at the Workplace on

December 5& 6, 2014 at SDMIMD, Mysore

India. ISBN: 978-93-83302-01-7

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15. Senthil Kumar A and Srividya V (2014),

published a paper titled "Stock Markets

Inter-linkages among the Two Largest

Emerging Economies of Asia – the Case of

India and China", in International Journal of

Economic Perspectives (ISSN: 1307-1637)

Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 2014), SCOPUS

Impact Factor: 0.282 (2012). Anna

University Chennai Annexure - II journal

16. Senthil KumarA and Srividya V (2014),

published a paper titled "Co-integration

among the Stock Markets of India, USA

and Japan", in International Journal of

Economic Research (ISSN : 0972-9380)

Vol.11, No.1-2 Part-III, 2014. Anna University

Chennai Annexure - II journal

17. Lakshmi Meera B L (2015) published an article

titled “ Lean Communication” in SIEMA

monthly magazine, January 2015

18. Vijila Kennedy and Juliet Gladies J(2015),

published a paper titled "Performance

M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m & F a c u l t y

Engagement :An Empirical Study in Higher

Education Institutions" in Journal of

Management Outlook, July-December 2014 -

Vol 4, Issue 2, Print – ISSN 2231-1769

19. Vijila Kennedy (2015), published a paper titled

"Impact of Institutional Environment on

Career Success of Faculty in Higher

Education Institutions" in International

Journal of Management(IJM)– January 2015 -

Vol 6, Issue 1, Online - ISSN 0976-6510 Print

- ISSN 0976-6502 Impact Factor (2014) -

7.22

20. Sangeetha S & Ambrose Arvin, published a

paper titled " Determination of Expected

Loss and Credit Risk Using Basel Ii's

Internal Rating Based Approach (IRB)

"International Journal Of Engineering

Research and General Science VOl.3, Issue 1,

January- February Edition, page 1161-1165

ISSN 2091-2730. Impact Factor of 3.843

21. Nedunchezhian V R & Hemalatha K (2015),

published a paper titled " An Analysis of

Weak Form Efficiency in Sectoral Indices: A

Study with a Special Reference to National

Stock Exchange in India" in Indian Journal

Of Applied Research VOl.5, Issue 3 , March

2015, page 197-200 ISSN 2249-555X

22. Nalini P (2015) published a paper entitled

"Consumer Awareness on Environmental

Issues and its Impact on Consumer Green

Product Purchase Behaviour" in the Book

proceedings under the theme Evidence Based

Management 2015(ICEBM 2015) organized by

Department of Management Studies, Birla

institute of technology & Science, Pilani

campus, Rajasthan on March 20-21, 2015, Vol

2, ,page 151-158, IBSN: 978-93-84935-18-4

23. Sangeetha S and Chitra K (2015), published

their research paper t it led " Indian

Microfinance Institutions - Are they

Financially Sustainable? - An empirical

study in Book proceedings under the theme

Evidence based Management practices in

Economics & Finance. The paper was

published by Birla Institute of Technology &

Science, Pilani, Rajasthan on March 20-21,

2015. Vol 1, Pages: 233-241. ISBN: 978-93-

84935-18-4

24. Kaarthiekheyan V and Sarasvathi T A (2015),

published a paper titled “Leveraging Social

Media Platforms for Market Development”

in the book proceedings of the International

Conference on 'Make in India – The Road

Ahead' jointly hoisted by Gandhigram Rural

I n s t i t u t e o f M a n a g e m e n t , M a d r a s

Management Association, National Institute of

Personnel Management and National ISTE

chapter conducted at Vivekananda Institute of

Information and Management Studies on

February 27, 2015. Pages: 193-197; ISBN:

978-81-910601-0-2

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25. Nedunchezhian VR and Nemavathi K S (2015),

published a research article titled “A

Comparative Study of Inter-Day and Intra-

Day Volatility Using Nifty” in International

Journal of Current Research, Vol 7, Issue 03,

March 2015 ,Pp.14112-14115, ISSN: 0975-

833X

26. Nalini P and Muruganandam Duraiswamy

(2015), published a paper titled “Students

Attitude and Preference on Marketing

Strategies of Business Schools” in

I n t e r na t i ona l J ou rna l o f E x c l u s i v e

Management Research , Special Issue-April

2015,Pages 216-222,Online:ISSN 2249-

2585,Print:ISSN 2249-8672. Impact factor-

5.76

27. Sangeetha S and Divya R (2015), published a

paper titled "Dwindling Crude Prices and Its

Upshot on Oil Exploration and Refining

Companies' Scrips", in ZENITH International

Journal of Business Economics & Management

Research ZIJBEMR, Vol.5 (5), MAY (2015), pp.

164-174, ISSN 2249- 8826. Index

Copernicus Value of Journal: 5.19. Impact

Factor ZIJBEMR is 4.134

28. Vinayagasundaram R & Kannan V (2015)

published paper titled 'Implementation of

Lean Manufacturing Practices and its

Impact on Productivity in Coimbatore

Foundries' in International Journal of Modern

Engineering and Research - Volume 5- Issue 5,

May 2015 – pp;62 - 69 ;ISSN - 2249- 6645

(Impact factor 1.227 by AQCJ and IC value

5.09 by Index Copernicus)

29. Nedunchezhian V R & Hemalatha K (2015)

published paper titled “ An Analysis on Weak

Form Efficiency of CNX IT- The Special

Evidence from National Stock Exchange”

in SS International Journal of Business and

Management Research (SSIJBMR)- Volume 5-

Issue 3, May 2015 – pp: 12 - 20 ;ISSN -2231-

4970

30. Nedunchezhian V R & Sivaraam Duraisamy

(2015) published paper titled “ A study on the

Impact of GDP Per Capita on Global

Competitiveness Index” in International

Journal of Engineering and Management

Research (IJEMR)- Volume 5- Issue 5, May

2015 – pp: 1 - 14 ;Online ISSN -2249- 2585,

Print ISSN-2249-8672. Index Copernicus

Value of Journal: 5.86

31. Mary Cherian (2015) published paper titled

“Determinants of Store Choice in Grocery

Retailing” in International Journal of Asian

Academic Research – Journal of Social Science

& Humanities (AARJSH)- Volume 1- Issue 35,

May 2015 – pp: 357 - 369 ; ISSN-2278-859X

32. Kaarthiekheyan V & Sarasvathi T A (2015)

published paper titled “Social Media

Platforms for Market Development: A

study among MSME Enterprises in

Coimbatore “ in International Journal of

Science, Technology and Management Volume

4- Issue 5, May 2015 – pp: 61 - 66 ;Online

ISSN -2394- 1537

33. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published

a paper titled “Assessing the Pedagogical

Competencies of Affiliated B-School

Facu l ty Members Us ing Pr inc ipa l

Component Analysis” in International

J o u r na l o f Commer c e , Bu s i n e s s &

Management (IJCBM),Vol.4,No:2 , April 2015,

pp. 1150-1155 ,ISSN 2319- 2828

34. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published

a paper titled “ An Analysis of Competency

of Management teachers in Using Different

Teaching Methods in Affiliated Colleges in

Bengaluru” in IOSR Journal of Research &

Method in Education (IOSR-JRME),Vol.5,Issue

3,Ver1 , May-June 2015, pp. 8-16 ,e-ISSN

2320- 7388,p-ISSN 2320-737X

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35. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published

a paper titled “Analysis of the Influence of

Demographic Factors on the Cognitive

Domain of B-School Faculty in Bengaluru “

in Research Journal of Commerce &

Behavioural Science Method in Education

(RJCBS),Vol.4,No:7,Ver1 , May 2015, pp. 32-

40 , ISSN 2251- 1547,Impact Factor 0f

RJCBS 3.139

36. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published

an article titled "A Competency Model for

Determining the Profile of B-School

Faculty in Bangalore “ in Transforming

Management Education for Sustainable

Tomorrow , by AIMA All India Management

Association in association with Excel Books

,May-June 2015, pp. 57-66 , ISBN 978-81-

8323-105-3

37. Viji la Kennedy and Sahana A(2015)

“Competency Mapping of Management

Faculty as a Tool for Sustainable

Development” in Sustainable Development,

Chapter- 7, Research India Publications (RIP)

May-June 2015, pp. 81-93, ISBN 978-93-

84443-03-0

38. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G (2015)

publ ished a paper t i t led “Exploring

Re l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n Pe r c e i ve d

Investment in Employee Development,

Satisfaction, Commitment and Stay

Intent“ in 3rd International Conference

proceedings on the Managing Human

Resources At the Workplace. ISBN: 978-93-

83302-01-7

39. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Nithyagowri P

( 2 0 1 5 ) p u b l i s h e d a p a p e r t i t l e d

”Effectiveness of 360 Degree Perceptual

Approach in School Education” in TRANS

Asian Journal of Marketing & Management

Research . Vol-3; Issue.6; pp-14-22;

ISSN: 2279-0667

40. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Nithyagowri P

(2015) published a paper titled “A study on

the influence of HR practices on teacher's

perceived organizational support –

Udumalpet “in International Journal of

Research in IT, Management and

Engineering", ISSN 2249-1619,Volume

5,Issue 4,April 2015,page no.39-48, Impact

Factor:5.309

41. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya Muthusamy

(2015) published a paper titled “A study on

Organ iza t iona l S i l ence based on

Demographic Profiles” in International

Journal in Management and Social Science

I S S N : 2 3 2 1 - 1 7 4 8 , Vo l u m e 3 - I s s u e

4,,(April2015)page 557-566, Impact factor-

3.25

42. Priya Dharshini A and

Chandrakumarmangalam S (2015) published

a paper titled “Ant Colony Optimization for

Competency Based Learning Objects

Sequencing in e-Learning “ in Elsevier

Journal of Appl ied Mathematics And

Computation 263, , May 2015 – pp: 332 - 341 ;

ISSN-0096-3003 .

43. Poongodi B and Bogarappu Nikhil (2015)

published a paper tit led “Impact of

MGNREGA on Sustaining Agricultural

Labour - A Case Study” in The Journal of

Ag roeco l ogy and Na tu ra l Resou r ce

Management (JANRM), with Print ISSN 2394-

0786 pub l i shed by Kr i sh i Sanskr i t i

Publications, New Delhi, in Vol.2, No.2,

44. Lakshmi Subbramani and Arivazhagan G

(2015) published a paper titled ”Need for

Emotional Intelligence and Creativity

among B-School Students to Survive in the

Competitive Market” in European Journal of

Commerce & Management Research

(EJCMR),Special Issue 1, pp. 272-277.

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1. Jaisankar S presented a paper titled

“Inventory Management for FMCG

Products using Simulation” at the

International Conference on Sustain,

Transform & Transcend, held at PSG Institute

of Management on August 7- 8, 2014

2. Senthil Kumar A and Sowmiya A presented a

research paper tit led “Comovements

between the Indian and Chinese Stock

Markets – An Analytical Study” at the

Golden Jubilee International Conferences at

PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore

during August 07-08, 2014

3. Lakshmi Meera B L presented a paper titled

“Map the Relationship of Lean SCM

Pract ices on Green Supply Cha in

Management Practices – A Case study “at

the 5 th Internat ional conference on

D e v e l o p m e n t Po l i c y o r g a n i z e d b y

Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore and

The Institute of Finance Management,

Tanzania held at Avinashlingam University

Coimbatore on August 21-22, 2014

4. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G presented a

paper on "Exploring Relationship between

Perceived Investment in Employee

Development, Satisfaction, Commitment

and Stay Intent” at the 3rd International

Conference on Managing Human Resources at

the Workplace on December 5 & 6, 2014 at

SDM IMD, Mysore, India

5. Senthil Prakash P and Anitha J presented a

paper on "Environmental Factors and Job

Embeddedness : A S tudy on the

Relationship with Locus of Control as

Moderator" at the 3 rd International

Conference on Managing Human Resources at

the Workplace on December 5 & 6, 2014 at

SDM IMD , Mysore, India

6. Viji la Kennedy presented a paper on

“Antecedents of Institutional Commitment

in Higher Educational Institutions “at the

3rd International Conference on Managing

Human Resources at the Workplace on

December 5 & 6, 2014 at SDM IMD, Mysore,

India

7. Mohanamani P presented a paper on "A Study

on Causal Relationship between Foreign

Institutional Investments, Stock Market

and Exchange Rate in India." at the second

International Conference on Business

Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI) held at

Department of Management Studies (DoMS),

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on

December 18- 20, 2014

8. Sarasvathi T A and Raveendran presented a

paper on “ A Study on the Adoption of Cloud

Based ERP Solutions for Analyzing the

Reasons for Poor Acceptability among the

I n d u s t r i e s i n S o u t h I n d i a ”

a t the In ternat iona l Conference on

In fo rmat ion Sys tems Research and

Teaching (ICISRT-2014) held at the Indian

Inst i tute of Management, Indore on

December 22-23, 2014

9. Mohanamani.P presented a paper on

"Corporate Social responsibility in Indian

organizations" in the National Conference

on "New Age Solutions for Managing

New Challenges" at Berchmans Institute

of Management Studies, St. Berchmans

Co l lege, Changanacherry, Kera la on

January 15 & 16, 2015

10. Vijila Kennedy presented a paper titled

“Impact of Institutional Environment on

Career Success of Faculty in Higher

Education Institutions” at the International

Conference on Advanced Management-

Challenges in Knowledge Era (ICMA 2015)

organized by Jamal Institute of Management

,Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil

Nadu on January 8 & 9, 2015

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11. Kaarthiekheyan V and Sarasvathi T A

presented a paper titled “Leveraging Social

Media Platforms for Market Development”

at the International Conference on 'Make in

India – The Road Ahead' jointly hoisted by

Gandhigram Rural Institute of Management,

Madras Management Association, National

Institute of Personnel Management and

National ISTE chapter conducted at

Vivekananda Institute of Information and

Management Studies on February 27 , 2015

12. Sangeetha S and Divya R, presented a paper

on "Consortium loans and its effects on

NPA with Special reference to Kingfisher

Airlines " in the National Conference on

Emerging Trends in Financial Market Strategic

Challenges, opportunities and Operational

Issues held at Kongu Engineering College,

Perundurai on March 6, 2015.

13. Nedunchezhian V R and Thirunavukkarasu A ,

presented a paper titled “Study on Service

Loyalty of Air l ines Frequent Flyer

Passengers” in the Global Conference

on Managing in Recover ing Markets

(GCMRM 2015 : CONFLUENCE OF GLOBAL

STRATEGIES) organized by MDI Gurgaon on

March 11-13, 2015

14. Sangeetha S presented a research paper titled

"Indian Microfinance Institutions - Are

they Financially Sustainable?- An Empirical

Study” in the International Conference on

Evidence Based Management at Birla Institute

of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan on

March 20-21, 2015.

15. Nalini P presented a paper titled "Consumer

Awareness on Environmental Issues and

its Impact on Consumer Green Product

Purchase Behaviour" in the International

conference on Evidence Based Management

2015(ICEBM 2015) organized by Department

of Management studies, Birla Institute of

Technology & Science, Pilani campus,

Rajasthan on March 20-21, 2015

16. Nalini P presented a paper titled “Students

Attitude and Preference on Marketing rdStrategies of Business Schools” at the 3

National Conference on Business Paradigms

for Emerging Indian Economy organized by

Department of Management Studies at Erode

Sengunthar Engineering College , Erode on

April 17, 2015

17. Sangeetha S presented a paper titled

“Dwindling Crude Prices and Its Upshot on

Oil Exploration and Refining Companies'

Scrips” at the National Conference on Indian

Business Management at Sri Ramakrishna

Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on

April 25, 2015.

18. Sangeetha S presented a paper titled “Impact

of Pre & Post Budget Announcements and

Its Implications on Stock Returns for the

Study Period (2005-2015)”at the National

Conference on Indian Business Management

at Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology,

Coimbatore on April 25, 2015. The Paper was

selected as the Best paper in the conference.

19. Poongodi B presented a paper on “Impact of

MGNREGA on Sustaining Agricultural

Labour – A Case Study” at the International

Conference on Agriculture, Food Engineering

and Environmental Science- Sustainable

Approaches (AFESA-2015) organized by

“Krishi Sanskriti” at Jawaharlal Nehru

University on May 9-10, 2015

20. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Praveen Kumar T

(2014) presented a paper titled ” CSR and its

performance -a stake holder perspective

with reference to selected public sector

banks in Chennai ” at The 9th Yale - Great

Lakes Research Conference at Great Lakes

Chennai on December 29, 2014

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COLLABORATION

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESRESEARCH

An Executive Development Program on Project

Management Professional, PMP Certification was

organized by the Centre for Operations at KCT

Business School for working

professionals in service and

manufacturing firms. The

program objective was to

impart knowledge and skills

essent ia l for a project

manager on successfu l

completion of projects.

The program was structured

with four modules starting

from November 15, 2014 to

January 10, 2015. The

program covered the Project

Management terminologies,

global standard for project

management, fundamental

practices needed to achieve

organizational results and excellence in the

practice of project management.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certication

Executive Development Program

21. Hemanalini R (2015)presented a paper titled

“Analysis of Socio economic issues of

women employees' in tobacco industries-

with reference to women bidi workers in

Tamil Nadu” at the Global Conference on

“Managing in Recovering Markets “GGMRM,

organized by Management Development

Institute, Gurgaon on March 11-13, 2015

22. Priya Dharshini A (2015) presented a paper

titled “Role of Cloud in Integrating

K n o w l e d g e M a n a g e m e n t a n d

E Learning System” at the International

Conference on “Advances in Computing,

Control, Communicat ion, Automation

and Structural Engineering “ACCCAS, in

Al-Ameen Engineering College , Erode on

April 10-11, 2015

23. Lakshmi Subbramani (2015) presented a

paper titled “Role of Intelligence and

Creativity in the Academic Achievement

among B-School Students” at the National

Conference on “ New Age Solutions for

Managing New Challenges “,organized by

Berchmans Institute of Management Studies,

Kerala on January 15-16, 2015

24. Lakshmi Subbramani (2015) presented a

paper t i t led “Need for Emotional

Intelligence and Creativity among B-

School Students to Survive in the

Competitive Market” at the National

Conference on “Managing Turbulence in

Business “organized by Adithya School of

Business on February 21, 2015

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KCT.BS conducted a 6 months Customized

Executive Development Course on Management &

Leadership for Aries Agro Limited, Mumbai. This

course was conducted for 60 mid career executives

of Aries Agro Ltd pan-India, who are aspiring to

grow, learn and progress along the experience

curve.

The Executive Development Program was uniquely

designed to the needs of Aries Agro Ltd which will

run in 3 Modules.

Module 1 is residential, conducted at KCT.BS from

May 4-16, 2015 focused on Fundamentals of

Management and Leadership. This module was

packed with lectures, discussions, group work,

field visits, extra-mural training and experiential

learning. To build in holistic development for the

participants, yoga, meditation, sports and other

activities were included.

Module 2 is on -site, where the participants will

carry out a Field Study in their domain from

June 1 - December 1, 2015 and the study will be

guided by the faculty of KCT.BS and the executives

of Aries Agro Ltd

Module 3 is residential, to be conducted at KCT.BS

from December 19 - 28, 2015 focuses on

Management and Leadership - Advanced Level,

wh i c h i n c l u d e s p r o j e c t p r e s en t a t i o n ,

implementation of new management techniques

and bringing changes & transformation in the

organization.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

Management & Leadership

Management Development ProgramBuilding Excellence at Work Place

The III edition of the Management Development

Program on "Building Excellence at Workplace"

started on July 23, 2014 with Mr.Niranjan.P, Country

Head Cameron Manufacturing India inaugurating

the program. The week long intensive program

focused on bringing out the best in the participants.

There were 30 participants who took part in the

program. The sessions revolved around self,

interpersonal and organizational context. The

facilitators for the program were from across

Tamil Nadu, sessions on yoga, the human face of the

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

organization, workplace ethics etc., were well

received by the participants. The week long

program also had outbound sessions that

facilitated the members to work in teams and

enhance their working styles.

The IV edition of the Management Development

Program on “Building Excellence at WorkPlace”

was organized from December 10- 17, 2014 for

the IV batch of middle level managers of Cameron

Manufacturing (India) Pvt Ltd. It was a weeklong

intensive program to build the behavioral skills of

the participants. The inaugural session had special

guests, Mr.Wayne Finger VP- HR from Houston and

Ms.Dawn Brady, Director HR from Singapore.

In the inaugural address Mr.Wayne discussed

about how the vision/mission/values system of

any organization gets its credit when it gets

instilled in the minds of its members. With this

note, he was able to set the context to the

participants about the program. Ms. Dawn Brown,

in her address to the participants reiterated on an

interesting career path model of 2x2x2. i.e., one's

career flow path should encompass 2 functional

r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s , 2 l o c a t i o n s , a n d 2

regions/geographies. She urged everyone to be

open to such possibilities in their organization

Optimizing Productivity throughLean Six Sigma

The Centre for Operat ions organized a

Management Deve lopment Program on

Optimizing Productivity through Lean Six Sigma

for working professionals in manufacturing

organizations on December 10 & 11, 2014. The

program was facilitated by Mr. Johanan A Daniel,

Senior Consultant, Six Sigma Master Black Belt,

Coach, Trainer and MD Juran Academy(India). The

main objectives of the program were to introduce

the participants to the concepts of Lean, Six Sigma

and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, to provide

information on how to select and conduct Lean Six

Sigma projects and to introduce the tools and

techniques of Lean Six Sigma.

ManagementDevelopmentProgramonOptimizingProductivitythroughLeanSixSigmaforworkingprofessionalsinmanufacturingorganizations

Marketing Training for

Frontline Staffs of India Post

KCT Business School conducted training on

marketing skills for 286 employees of Department

of Post, Government of India as a part of Project

Arrow. KCT Business School equipped the

employees of India Post through soft skill training

in relation to marketing for better customer

services. The training series conducted in six

batches commenced on January 30, 2015. The

training was conducted based on two different

themes: “Managing the services” and “Managing

the customers”.

Excel for Insurance Professionals

A Management Development

training on Excel basic and Excel

fi n a n c e a p p l i c a t i o n w a s

o r g a n i z e d f o r i n s u r a n c e

professionals by Centre for

Finance and Centre for System

on September, 20 and 26, 2014.

TrainingonExcelbasicandExcel�inanceapplicationforinsuranceprofessionals

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A training program was conducted for

supervisors working in manufacturing

units located in SIDCO, Kurichi,

Coimbatore on Lean Tools partnering

with Coimbatore SIDCO Industrial

Estate Manufacturing Association,

COSIEMA. The objective was to impart

knowledge and skills essential for

supervisors on usage of Lean Tools for

productivity enhancement, quality

improvement, wastage elimination,

cos t reduct ion, and customer

satisfaction. The training modules to

implement Lean Tools included 5S,

Poke-Yoke, JIT, Visual Controls,

Cellular Layout, SMED, and VSM in

their workplace.

The uniqueness of the program was

that the training sessions were

conducted over 4 weekends and during

weekdays the trainers visited the

participating companies and hand held

them to implement the Lean Tools.

Follow-up activity was monitored by

periodic visit to the participating

industries for process improvement

and implementation of tools. During

every subsequent sess ion the

participants demonstrated as to how

they actually implemented the Lean

Tools in their workplace. The entire

training was delivered in Tamil. Tools

were explained with videos, games,

discussions and quiz.

TrainingLean Tools for SME's

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50 students of IMBA (2014 -16 Batch) visited,

THE HINDU-Printing Unit, Coimbatore on

September 20, 2014. The visit provided an

opportunity for the students to understand the

newspaper printing process and gain real-time

industry exposure. The students learnt about the

various stages in the printing process, quality

checks, and automated packaging.

Student Visits to Companies

50 students of IMBA 2014 -16 Batch visited

ITC -PSPD Paper P lant , Karamada i on

September 20, 2014. The visit provided an

opportunity for the students to understand the

paper production process and gain real-time

industry exposure. The students were taken

through the various stages in the paper production

process, quality checks, and packaging.

48 students of MBA batch 2013 & 2014 visited

Sundaram Auto Components Limited - Chennai

on November 15, 2014 to understand the

manufacturing practices being followed in their

organization. The visit started with an

orientation on the company history and its

various departments. The students were taken

through the s tages invo lved in the

manufacturing of plastic auto components

through moulding process.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

48 students of MBA batch 2013

& 2014 visited DELL - Chennai

on November 15, 2014 to

understand the assembly

process being followed in their

organization. The students were

taken through the stages

involved in the assembly process

of building laptop, desktop and

server. The processes o f

assembling the computers are

ful ly automated and they

manufacture according to the

order placed on-line. Various

quality control charts were used

and students asked about

quality control procedures

followed in DELL.

53 students of Batch 2014-16 visited ABT

Industries Limited – Dairy Division, Pollachi on

May 9, 2015. The visit provided an opportunity

for the students to understand the various

stages of milk production process, bi-products

(Ghee, Butter, Paneer) production, milk

storage, silos and packaging. The students

learnt about operation processes involved in a

dairy industry and also about various quality

checks in milk processing and distribution to

wholesalers and retailers.

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Industry Experts Share Knowledge with Students

KCT.BS believes in promotion of strong links with industry and industrial activities. To enable this, speakers

from the industry are frequently invited to share their expertise with the students.

The speakers who addressed the student during the academic year 2014-15 were as follows

Date Facilitator Topic

November 3, 2014Premanand Jothy Joint Commissioner - Income Tax, Mumbai

Role of Fiscal Policy in Economic

Development

November 3, 2014Arun Aravind & Sarath NairCluster Head, Tamil Nadu

Mahesh Krishnamurthy Senior Credit Manager, HDFC Bank Ltd, Coimbatore.

Institutional and Trade Credit

November 5, 2014Kumar KProgram Manager / Consultant-SAP

e-Supply Chain Management

November 5, 2014Rajesh Arumugam Senior Manager- Assembly & Testing,

ZF Wind Power Coimbatore Limited, Coimbatore.

Production Planning and Control

Strategies

November 6, 2014Bindu.N.Nair Managing Trustee- AROH Foundations, Coimbatore.

Strategies for Not-for-Profit

organizations

November 7, 2014Ravi KChief Financial Officer,

Roots Group of Companies, Coimbatore

Breakeven Point and Marginal

Costing applications in

manufacturing organizations

November 7, 2014Koushik Rajendran Co-Founder, Healtho5 India

Managing Technology and

Innovation

November 10, 2014Ranjana Singal Partner, The Terra Co

(That's Y Food and On the Go Coimbatore)

Services Marketing Strategies in

Hotel Industry

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

November 12, 2014Shanmuga Rajan Head – BFSI Division, Testree Solutions,

Bangalore

Application of Business

Intelligence in Industry

November 13, 2014Mohan K AGM & Regional Head,

Federal Bank Ltd, Coimbatore

Service Innovation & Strategies of

Federal Bank

November 13, 2014

Maharaja Muthukumar Solution Architect Head Delivery,

Microsoft Dynamics,

Techknowledge Consulting Group Chennai

Microsoft Dynamics ERP in

Industry

November 17, 2014Sujatha NAManager Marketing-Brookfields, Coimbatore.

Consumer Behaviour in the

Indian context

November 12, 2014Peter Arokiam Managing Director,

Manickam Radiators Pvt.Ltd, Coimbatore.

Strategies for Family Managed

Business

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Date Facilitator Topic

November 18, 2014Kalyanamoorthy SDV international Logistics Limited

Breakeven Point and Marginal Costing

applications in manufacturing organizations

November 19, 2014Ravi Life Skills Coach and Trainer

Time Management skills

November 21, 2014Dhanalakshmi BSenior Manager – Finance,

Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, Coimbatore.

Corporate Financial Budgeting and

Control practices

November 21, 2014Dr.Radhika Meenakshi Shankar Founder,Wise Owl Consultancy, Hyderabad

Entrepreneurial Insights

November 25, 2014Leo Arun Corporate Trainer and lead-CSR

Pricol Corporate Services LtdSustainable CSR – From Ideas to Action

November 28, 2014

Samuel D Rajkumar Deputy GM, HR, ITC ltd. Paper Board Unit

Sasirekha Venkatesh Chartered Accountant, Vengatesh & Co

Prof. Swaminathan SHead Corporate Relations, KCT-BS

Corporate Governance and Compliance

Management

December 4, 2014Vijayaraghavan RChief – Training,

Sakthi Excellence Academy Coimbatore

Negotiable Instruments -

A Banker's perspective

February 4,2015Santhosh RamdossIndependent Consultant

Careers in Social Impact

February 20,2015MuruganathanClient Relationship Manager

Metayage

Intellectual Property/Patents Rights

February 21,2015Narendran TVice President, Finance and Admin

Aqua Group, Coimbatore

Changing roles of CFOs in

Dynamic Business Environment

March 7, 2015Muthu KumarMD, Launchpad

Orientation on career opportunities

for MBAs

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

March 18, 2015Dr. Manikandan Sundaresan CEO,

Youth Corp Training Solutions , Pollachi

Workplace Professionalism

April 28, 2015Vandhematharam A MadhavanZone Trainer

Junior Chamber International - India

Safety and Health at Work

May 11, 2015Sundararaman RManager, Ford India. Coimbatore

Integrated Materials Management

May 16, 2015Ayyaswamy K RAsst. Director (Retd)

Reserve Bank of India , MumbaiConsumer Behaviour in the Indian context

March 9, 2015Johanan Daniel EMD & Principal Consultant,

Juran Academy (P) Limited, Chennai

Orientation on Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

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We Connect Across the Globe…Dr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, Assistant Professor,

Depar tment o f Manufac tur ing Systems

Engineering & Management & Director, Ernie

Schaffer Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

College of Engineering & Computer Science,

California State University, Northridge was in KCT

campus on August 04, 2014

Dr. Takako Hashimoto, Associate Professor, Chiba

University of Commerce Coordinator, (IEEE R10

Asia Pacific Region) Women In Engineering Chair,

IEEE Japan Council Women In Engineering Affinity

Group visited KCT BS on August 5, 2014 to discuss

research collaboration possibilities with KCT

Business School.

Interactive discussion on curriculum, pedagogy, assessments, projects, student

support services, student engagement, outreach, career guidance and IT in

academics and other academic processes from student perspective of doing

MBA , was shared by Ms. Huldah Sheena, a MBA graduate from the Bentley

University, USA on January 6, 2015 with faculty of KCT Business School .

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

Dr.TakakoHashimotoduringhercollaborationtalkswithKCTBusinessSchoolKCTBSFacultyinteractingwithDr.JimmySGandhi

Ms.HuldahSheena,sharingstudents'perspectiveofMBA

Mr. Rob Meikle, Chief Information

Officer (CIO) for the City of

Toronto, Cananda addressed 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

RobMiekle,ChiefInformationOf�icerofTorontoduringaninteractivesessionatKCTBusinessSchool

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Dr. Gary Sussman, representative of Tel Aviv University

visited the campus on January 25, 2015. Dr. Gary

discussed collaboration with KCT Business School like

Student Exchange, Executive MBA Programs etc

35 students of II MBA Batch

2 0 1 3 - 1 5 w e n t o n a n

international field trip to Kuala

L umpu r, Ma l ay s i a f r om

January 29- February 3, 2015.

As part of the Cross Cultural

Management course, students

visited Malaysia to study the

cultural differences within

Asian countries. They also

visited TAMCO Switchgear (M)

S D H B H D a n d t o H E L P

University

Prof Joseph Klafter President Tel Aviv

University, Israel and Dr. Gary

Sussman, Co-Founder Ben Simon

Sussman Capital visited, KCT

Business School on March 28, 2015

to further explore the possibilities of

Executive MBA Program, Curriculum

Development, and Executive PGMS.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION

Dr.GarySussmanfromTelAvivUniversityduringhisvisittoKCTBusinessSchooll

StudentsofBatch2013-15duringtheirInternationalStudyTourtoMalaysia

ProfJosephKlafter,PresidentTelAvivUniversitydiscussingcollaborativetalks

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AlumniAn alumni interaction session with Mr.Karthi, Sr.Analyst of BEROE

was organized on October 6, 2014 to interact with students of batch

2013-15 and give them necessary inputs for the students appearing

for placement during BEROE Drive.

On Novembe r 18 , 2014 ,

M r.Kab i l an Chak rava r thy,

Manager HR, Greeno Tech

Solutions Pvt Ltd Coimbatore,

spoke to students of Batch

2014-16 on "Life after MBA”. He

emphasized the importance of

having a good resume with

real ist ic career object ive,

attitude building, the need to

understand job description,

certification courses and to hone

skills sets and stressed to have

focused mind towards career. He

also spoke on the industry

expectations. Kabilan is an

alumnus of KCT Business School.

2 1 A l u m n i m e m b e r s o f

KCT Business School attended the

Global Alumni meet organized by

KCT on December 20 & 21, 2014.

They discussed with faculty about

their experience in their jobs, as

well the industry requirements and

the need for improvisation in the

curriculum.

Alumni Meet

Alumni Talk

About 150 student alumni of Batch

2011-13 and 2012-14 attended the

alumni meet on March 28, 2015 They

shared their perspectives on the job

experiences, curriculum design and

Specializations.

The Center for Corporate Relations started the

Placement schedule for II MBA students

Batch 2013-15 by conducting a 3 day “Placement

Competency Assessment Camp”. The program

was conducted from August 7 to 9, 2014.

The camp started with a parent's meet, wherein

166 students attended the meeting out of which

155 students were present with their parents. Dr.

Vijila Kennedy, Director addressed the parents and

briefed about the various activities of the B school

and the efforts taken to bring about all-round

development in students. Prof. Swaminathan,

Head-Corporate Relations spoke about the

importance of Training & Placements and the role

each stakeholder needs to play for achieving the

objective. Ms. Gokilavani, Lead-Trainer briefed

about training plans for next 3 months and

Mr. Sridhar Babu Lead-Corporate Relations spoke

about the achievement of placement centre during

the last two years and the process to be followed

for the forth coming placement season.

A mid review of the student's performance was

conducted along the same parameters. A

comparative study was conducted and the

statement was sent to the parents along with the

placement track records

PLACEMENT ASSESMENT CAMP

STUDENT WORLD

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Student AssociationThe Student Association body of KCT Business

School is structured to mould and guide the

students' in becoming brand ambassadors of the

Business School. It aims at fostering discipline,

brotherhood, exposure to real time management

situations, encouraging talent and camaderie. The

selection process included a Personal Interview

w i t h t h e s t u d e n t s a n d f a c u l t y o n

September 13 & 17, 2014.

The investiture ceremony of the Student

A s s o c i a t i o n 2 0 1 4 - 1 5 w a s h e l d o n

October 16, 2014. Mr.Arun Kumar, Show Producer

at Radio City 91.1 fm was the chief guest and he

enlightened the office bearers & students on

“how student should react to the options in the

world”. Presidential address was given by

Shri Shankar Vanavarayar Joint Correspondent,

KCT. His thoughts were vibrant and inspiring, he

also quoted that “lion grows into the role and it's

not coronated as the king”. The program ended

with an oath taking by the office bearers of 2014-

15 led by the CEO of the association Tharun S J II

MBA.

The elected office bearers are as follows

Chief Operating Officer

Sarankumar.S

2013-15

Chief Executive Officer

Tharun.S.J

2013-15

Chief Placement Officer

Javed.J

2013-15

Marketing Forum

Executive

Jeyalakshmi.M

2013-15

Finance Forum

Executive

Sridevi.S

2013-15

Systems Forum

Executive

Nirmal.A.V

2013-15

Operation Forum

Executive

Sabarison.S

2013-15

The or ientat ion o f the tenth batch o f

KCT Business School involved both the students

and parents. The objective of this program was to

create a comfort zone for the new students and

familiarize them with the culture of the B School.

The seniors welcomed the juniors, mentored and

guided them on the academics, co-curricular and

extracurricular activities of the business school.

The orientation program was followed by the

Freshers Learning Immersion Program(FLIP). This

initiative of KCT Business School is synonymous

with a bridge course and lays the basic foundation

for the two year MBA Program.

Orientation of Batch 2014-16

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Cultural League Executive

Hari.G

2013-15

Sports League Executive

Kasinathan.R.M

2013-15

Quiz League Executive

Vijay Chander .V

2013-15

DESIGNATION NAME BATCH

Vigneshwaran R

Hari Vimalesh D

PraveenKumar M

Santhosh G

Aruneesh N

Nandhini B

Aravind Kumar J

Suraj S Nair

Sharmila P

Suganya K R

Vishnuprabhu V

Manoj J

Abinaya G

Monisha A N

Chief Coordination Officer

Placement Coordinator

Batch Manager

Finance Forum Coordinator

Marketing Forum Coordinator

Operation Forum Coordinator

Systems Forum Coordinator

HR Forum Coordinator

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

Community League

Executive

Revathy.G

2013-15

HR Forum

Executive

Bhuvaneshkumar.M

2013-15

Adventure &

Photography

League Executive

Harisudhan.S

2013-15

Environment League

Executive

Vignesh.S

2013-15

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Shri Gowtham M

Preethi Jyotsna K

Dileepan S

Arrun Vignesh R

Sundeep A

Kishore Kumar M K

Community League Coordinator

Environment League Coordinator

Adventure & Photography League Coordinator

Sports League Coordinator

Cultural League Coordinator

Quiz League Coordinator

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

2014-16

Semester RechargeStudents 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

Graduation 2015 The graduation ceremony of Class 2011-13 and

2012-14 MBA students of KCT Business School was

held on Saturday March 28, 2015 at Ramanandha

Adigalar Auditorium, Kumaraguru College of

Technology, Coimbatore. 116 students of Class 2013

and 156 students of Class 2014 received their MBA

Degrees. Prof. Joseph Klafter, President Tel Aviv

University, Israel awarded the Degrees accompanied by

Thiru. Shankar Vanavarayar, Joint Correspondent;

Dr. R.S.Kumar, Principal of Kumaraguru College of

Technology, Coimbatore and Dr. Vijila Kennedy, Director

of KCT Business School, Coimbatore . Addressing the

gathering of graduands, parents, faculty and students

of KCT Business School, he emphasized that both

cultures place a premium value on education, and the

young people – such as the youth – work very hard to

excel academically. He also reiterated that the

entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing in both our

countries. Democracy, diversity, education and

ambition; when you mix them together you get

dynamic enterprise which is the basic blueprint for

entrepreneurial ventures.

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Founder's DayFounder's day was celebrated on March 21, 2015 with great fervor and reverence in memory of our late

beloved Chairman Padma Bhushan Dr. N. Mahalingam.

Students of KCT Business School were recipients' of various awards for excellence in academics and overall

activities

Jayashree P of Batch 2011-13

was awarded the Prof. Subbu

& M a r a g a t h a m S u b b u

Memorial Management gold

medal for excellence in

Academics.

Premalatha D of Batch

2012-14 was awarded the

Prof. Subbu & Maragatham

S u b b u M e m o r i a l

Management gold medal for

excellence in Academics

Raghavi S of Batch 2011-13

was awarded the Best Project

Award for the academic year

2012-13

Kulothungan M of Batch

2012-14 was adjudged the

Best Outgoing Student for the

academic year 2013-14

Ramkumar K o f Ba t ch

2012-14 was awarded the

Best Project Award for the

academic year 2013-14

Abi Adhithyan of Batch

2013-15 was adjudged the

Best Outgoing Student for the

academic year 2014-15

Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship

An astute Gandhian, Dr. N. Mahalingam has made social

contributions in numerous fields of socio-economic

spectrum and has benefitted scores of institutions and

individuals. To symbolize this intent, in 2006 he

instituted the annual Mahatma Gandhi Merit Scholarship

Awards. On the occasion of Founders Day on

March 21, 2015 fifty seven students from KCT Business

School received the Mahatma Gandhi Merit Scholarship

Awards worth Rs.5.7 lakhs. Thirty students from batch

2013-15 and twenty seven students from batch

2014-16 were recipients of this prestigious scholarship

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I I OUTREACH INITIATIVESSTUDENT WORLD

Choosing a Specialization –A Career PerspectiveThe students of batch 2014-16 attended the orientation on

how to take the major decision of finalizing their area of

specialization on March 20, 2015. The Centre heads and their

representatives gave a brief presentation on the courses

available, Certification programs offered under each area of

specialization and the major career options available to them.

Student AchievementsSports

S.No Date Event Event

Organised byParticipants Batch Position

August 15-16,

2014

September 9-10,

2014

September 30 -

October 1, 2014

Volleyball

Handball

Anna university

Zone XI"

Hockey match

KCT

Sri Ramakrishna

college

Abi Adithiyan

Sathyan S

Prathip S

Arrun Vignesh R

2013-15

2013-15

2013-15

2014-16

Winner

Runner

Runner

1

2

3United College

of Technology

Abi Adithiyan January

21-23,2015Volleyball

Tournament

Sri Krishna

College of Engg.2013-15 Runner4

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Extra Curricular Activities

S.No Date EventEvent

Organised byParticipants Batch Position

Jagadeesh H

Javed J

Dheepan V SSeptember 29,

2014Business Quiz

Karunya

University

2013-15 I Prize

Overall

Winners

October 1, 2014

Dheepan V S

Praveen Kumar

Prabakaran S

Javed J

Jagadeesh H

Vimalkumar M

Abi Adhithiyan M N

Vimalkumar M

Arrun Vignesh R 2014-16

Finpoly

HR event

Quiz

Phalak Yuddha

Progyan 2014

National Level

Management

Meet,

Sastra

University

2013-15

I Prize

I Prize

I Prize

III Place

1

2

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October 15-16,

2014

Jamal College,

Trichy

Gowtham G

Kartic M C

Prabhakaran S

Jagadeesh H

Dheepan V S

Sasi Kumar T

Karthick Krishna Raj

Praveen kumar S

Abi Adhithiyan M N

2013-15

II Prize

I Prize

II Prize

II Prize

II Prize

Overall Runners

Best CEO Event

Financial

expert

Quiz

a-v-mix event

Stock wars

event

November 29,

2014

Operations

Game

Finance game

TNAU,

Coimbatore

Preethi K

Sivaranjani K

Hemajeya Keerthana

Sharmila

2014-16

I Prize

III Prize

November 7,

2014

Best Manager

Treasure Hunt

Best

Management

Team

Business Plan

RVS College of

Management

Gowtham G

Vikram N

Diwakar L

Sasikumar T

Yogeswaran M

Dheepan V S

Jagadeesh H

Dinesh Kishore

Praveen Kumar S

Jagadeesh H

Dheepan V S

2013-15

I Prize

III Prize

II Prize

III Prize

November 4 & 5,

2014

Best Manager

Business Quiz

Mangalam

College

of Technology,

Kottayam.

Gowtham G

Dheepan V S

Jagadeesh H

2013-15

II Prize

III Prize

3

4

5

6

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S.No Date Event Event

Organised byParticipants Batch Position

Baranidharan.B

Sivapragash.V.K

January

23 & 24, 2015

Pitstop Delta Amrita

School of

Business

2014-16 II Prize7Conqiestare

Divya K

Arun PrabakaranMarch 11, 2015

Merrill Lynch

competition

D J Academy

of Managerial

Excellence

2014-16 II Prize8

Jagdeesh H

Dheepan V SMarch 19, 2015

Tata Crucible

Business QuizTATA Crucible 2013-15 VI Place9

Kavishree. RApril 25, 2015

National

Conference on

Indian Business

Management

Sri

Ramakrishna

Institute of

Technology

2013-15 Best paper10

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SymposiumLogistics- Industry's Best Practices

The greatest challenge for a marketer is to satisfy the customers' needs and wants. There are chances even

for a product of good repute to fail, if it is not delivered at the right time, right place and at the right form to itʼs

end users. With this background idea, a one day symposium on Logistics – Industry's best practice was

organized for students of Marketing and Operations. The symposium was jointly organized by KCT Business

School and CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai. 140 participants had registered for the program. Industry

Delegates, Faculty, Research scholars and students from other institutions of Coimbatore and itʼs

neighborhood were present for the occasion.

Mr. K.Ashok Kumar, Assistant General Manager, Godrej Storage

Solutions, Chennai, Mr. C.M. Vijay Ramesh Vice President-

Exports, Roots Multi Clean Coimbatore, Mr. R.V. Mohan, General

Manager, Supply Chain Management, Pricol Limited

Coimbatore, Mr. Manoj, Area Manager, Dalmia Bharathi

Cements , Kerala and Ms. P. Uma Maheswari , Executive Officer ,

CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai were the dignitaries who

shared the dais for the day.

The symposium witnessed several contemporary and best

practices adopted by the industries in Logistics and the experts

shared their knowledge- as concepts, functions and practice for

value addition.

ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I I OUTREACH INITIATIVESSTUDENT WORLD

1. Shabarikanth SV (Batch 2013) presented

a paper titled “Nano Technology &

Va r i o u s A p p l i c a t i o n s “ a t t h e

International Techno Cultural Fest, Arista

organized by the Department of

Information Technology, KITE on

September 11-12, 2014

2. Senthil Raj S (Batch 2013) presented a

paper titled “Cloud Computing “at the

International Techno Cultural Fest, Arista

organized by the Department of

Information Technology, KITE on

September 11-12, 2014

3. Javed J & Yogeshwaran (Batch 2013)

presented a paper titled “Mapping

Business Excellence – Marketing

Strategies” at Jamal College, Trichy on

October 15-16, 2014

4. Dheebika.G and Sharmila.P (Batch 2014)

presented a paper titled “Empowerment

is where evolution Began” at the

National Level Conference on Strategic

In tegra t ion and Ent repreneur ia l

Innovation organized by Department of

Management Studies, Karpagam College

of Engineering on November 15, 2014

5. Praveen Rajan.S and Jeyachandran R

(Batch 2014) presented a paper titled

“Work life Balance of an Entrepreneur”

at the National Level Conference on

Strategic Integration and Entrepreneurial

Innovation organized by Department of

Management Studies, Karpagam College

of Engineering on November 15, 2014

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Paper Publication by students

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6. Navin Aravinth R and Shanmitha R

(Batch 2014) presented a paper titled

“E th i cs and Va lues o f Ind ian

Entrepreneur” at the National Level

Conference on Strategic Integration and

Entrepreneurial Innovation organized by

Department of Management Studies,

Karpagam College of Engineering on

November 15, 2014

7. 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" at Berchmans

Institute of Management Studies, St.

Berchmans College, Changanacherry,

Kerala on January 15 & 16, 2015

8. Vidyesh S (Batch 2014) presented a paper

titled “Role of Emotional Intelligence

a n d C r e a t i v i t y i n A c a d e m i c

Achievements in B-Schools” at

Berchmans Institute of Management

Studies, St . Berchmans Col lege,

C h a n g a n a c h e r r y , K e r a l a o n

January 15 & 16, 2015

9. Divya. R (Batch 2013), presented paper

titled “Dwindling Crude Prices and Its

Upshot on Oil Exploration and Refining

Companies' Scrips” at the National

Con fe rence on Ind i an Bus i ne s s

Management at Sri Ramakrishna

Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on

April 25, 2015.

10. Kavishree. R (Batch 2013), presented

paper titled “Impact of Pre & Post

Budget Announcements and Its

Implications on Stock Returns for the

Study Period (2005-2015)”at the

National Conference on Indian Business

Management at Sri Ramakrishna

Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on

April 25, 2015. The Paper was selected as

the Best paper in the conference.

11. Boggarappu Nikhil (2014) presented a

paper on “Impact of MGNREGA on

Sustaining Agricultural Labour – A

Case Study“ at the International

Conference on Agr icu l ture, Food

Engineering and Environmental Science-

Sustainable Approaches (AFESA-2015)

organized by “Krishi Sanskriti” at

Jawahar l a l Nehru Un ive rs i t y on

May 9-10, 2015

Sowmiya. A (Batch 2013) authored and

p resen ted a r e sea r ch pape r t i t l ed

“Comovements between the Indian and

Chinese stock markets – an analytical

study” at the Golden Jubilee International

Conferences at PSG Institute of Management,

Coimbatore on August 07-08, 2014. PSG

Institute of Management, PSG Centre for

Advertising & Communications, Vol.1/Issue 1,

p52 August 2014.

Divya.R (2015), published a paper titled

"Dwindling Crude Prices and Its Upshot on

Oil Exploration and Refining Companies'

Scrips", in ZENITH International Journal of

Business Economics & Management Research

ZIJBEMR, Vol.5 (5), MAY (2015), pp. 164-

174, ISSN 2249- 8826. Index Copernicus

Value of Journal: 5.19. Impact Factor

ZIJBEMR is 4.134

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Placement

Placement training on Aptitude, Group Discussion,

Extempore and effective handling of Interviews

have been given to students as part of the regular

placement training. Systematic Assessment Test

on the necessary pre-requisites for successfully

clearing an interview was conducted for batch

2013-15 and 2014-16. Company Specific

placement training conducted at regular intervals

has proven to help students clear the interviews

with ease. Apart from this regular placement

guidance counseling sessions were organized for

batch 2014-16.

Students have been offered summer placement

with stipend by the following companies

Redington, MMM.COM, TTK Services Pvt Ltd, GRE

edge, CareerNet, Cameron Manufacturing India,

Max value, LinkedTeams Software and Reliance

Foundation

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Bogarappu Nikhil (2015) published a paper titled

"Impact of MGNREGA on Susta in ing

Agricultural Labour - A Case Study" in The

Journal of Agroecology and Natural Resource

Management (JANRM), with the Print ISSN 2394-

0786 published by Krishi Sanskriti Publications,

New Delhi, in Vol.2, No.2

DivyaMuthusamy(2015) published a paper titled

"A study on Organizational Silence based on

Demographic Profiles" in International Journal in

Management and Social Science ISSN: 2321-

1784, Impact Factor- 3.25, Volume 3- Issue 4 ,

(April 2015) page 557- 566

Logistics Banking

Consulting Education

Financial Services FMCD

HR Consulting Insurance

KPO

Sector wise placement

Percentage Placed (Eligible)

No. Of Recruiting Companies

Average Salary Offered (Rs.Lakhs)

Max Salary Offered (Rs. Lakhs)

On Campus Recruitment

2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015Performance Indicator

97%

52

3.00

6.6

9

80%

55

3.00

5.22

11

88%

55

3.12

5.4

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Placement Training

60

7%

16%

9%12%

6%

2%

15%

16%

7%10%

TrainingI & II MBA students are provided with regular soft skill & placements training and mock Group Discussion &

Personal Interviews. Our external training partner, to enhance the soft skills of our students include Keymind

Learning India Pvt Ltd, Talentsprint, Launchpad LLC.

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Career Guidance Counselling

A Career Guidance Counselling Session for

Students of Batch 2013-15 and 2014-16 was

conducted. Students were briefed about the

emerging sectors in the market. II MBA students

were briefed on how to utilize the company specific

training programs and ensure they earn a

placement in their dream company. I MBA

students were briefed on the importance of

maintaining high grades and also the importance

of internship which

would pave the way for

their final placements.

Company specific training program for students

was conducted regularly a day prior to the

placement drive. Students underwent such

training for all the recruiting companies. This

helped the student to perform well during the final

interview process.

Company Specic Training

October 17 & 18 , 2014Marketing Forum

November 3,

6 & 11, 2014

Operations Forum

Student Forums

April 24, 2015

February 21, 2015

November 24 & 25, 2014HR Forum

JSW ANGADI 2014- A Trade Fair

Assembly Line Activity

Business Case Analysis

Fake Product Exhibition

Operations Technical Puzzle

Lean 5s Game

Production Simulation Games

Activity was based on the values of

KCT.BS namely Trust, Learning, and

Competence

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November 22, 2014 IPL AuctioningFinance Forum

November 17, 18 &

20, 2014

Simulation game to suggest online

apps tools suggested to enhance

productivity.System Forum

April 30 ,2015 Debate Session

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April 30 ,2015Exhibition of Models on working of

Modern technology

Sports League - Knightz

A series of activities was conducted for the

students of I MBA from November 8 to 14, 2014.

Cricket tournament for boys and Badminton

tournament for girls (doubles & singles) between

batch 2014 and batch 2013 students were

conducted.

KCT.BS Alumni Students played a game of

football with the current batch of students.

Alumni Santhosh Raja, Christopher, Hariram,

Raja Ramachandran, Saravanan were part of the

team. With amazing energy and performance the

alumni team won the football match on

December 22, 2014 .

Leagues & ClubsThe student Leagues and Clubs of KCT.BS was active during the semester

It is all very well to say that a man should play for

the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but

to the working man it is impossible” these words by

J. J. Bentley proved wrong when the employees for

corporate teams from Pricol technologies, Steps

Sourcing, India Garments, AV properties, Surphine

tools were fiercely fighting in the cricket ground to

win the ultimate DPL 2015 trophy. KCT Business

School students believe in the dictum “Work for 8

hours a day for survival. Anything beyond the 8

hours is an investment in the future”. They

actualized this belief when they went beyond the

regular curricular activities to organize a grand

Dooshra Premier League (DPL) – season 3, in

association with Young Indians, Coimbatore

chapter, where corporate employees and college

students challenged each other in cricket ground.

Three teams out of 25 have secured the first three

positions after playing tough matches. Teams from

KV Institute of Management Studies, Krishna,

SNS, Happy Valley, Jansons, Hindusthan arts,

SREC, Professional, NGP in the college students

pool battled it out on February 8, 12, 13 & 14 2015

in the Kumaraguru College of Technology grounds.

Winners were Step Sourcing Pvt Ltd, followed by

Hindusthan Arts & Science college, who were the

first runner-up and KVIM , second runners up from

PG pool.

T & T Club works by meeting people to

learn-by-doing workshop in which

participants hone their communication

and leadership skills in a student driven

atmosphere.

There is no instructor or staff in a

meeting. Instead, members evaluate

their presentations. This feedback

process is a key part of the club's

success.

Talk & Thoughts Club Community League

Buddy Mentoring

Buddy mentoring at KCT.BS originally was initiated

by the students of 2012- 2014 batch. With the

encouragement and support of Dr. Vijila Kennedy,

the Director of KCT-BS and Dr. K irupa

Priyadharshini, the Centre Head of HR; the

students of 2013-2015 batch formed a team to

design the core documents for buddy mentoring

namely Mentoring Proposal, Mentor Guide and

Protégée Guide. The program consists of 20

sessions of meeting with mentor and mentee. The

second year students as mentors support, the

protégée to focus on academic and extra-

curricular activities. The protégée improves

oneself in six various dimensions namely

academic, personality, skills, general awareness,

career exploration and hobbies and interests. The

program aims at developing self responsibility

within the individual and the mentor kindles the

protégée to identify one's own goals which would

be packed by the action plans. The protégée

receives motivation in executing the action plan.

On November 15, 2014, students of I MBA

(Batch 2014-16), visited Universal Peace Foundation

and an orphanage and spent few hours with the

children and senior citizens residing over there. The

team visited and donated few sacks of rice, eatables

like biscuits and gently used clothes. They played with

the children and shared thoughts with the elders.

Students of I MBA(Batch 2014-16), visited

Chinnavedampatti village as a part of Clean

India Movement(SWACH BHARAT ABHIYAN) on

September 30, 2014-Gandhi Jayanthi Week. Students

continued the Clean India Movement activity at the

panchayat village.

As a part of community league, students of

Batch 2014-16 donated old clothes, cereals and

eatables to an old age home, named Ozanam near

Saravanampatti on May 6, 2015. Students also

collected some money and bought basic grocery like

sugar (15 kg), cereals, dals, washing powder, wheat

flour, coconut oil etc for the old age home.

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Workshop on BASICS OF DSLR

The league of Adventure & Photography conducted

a half day workshop on “BASICS OF DSLR” on

November 29, 2014. Mr.Ganesh, Commercial &

Wildlife photographer was the speaker for the

program. The workshop was organized for I & II

MBA students' and for the faculty fraternity.

Adventure & Photography League

On November 16, 2014, Environmental league

organized a trek to Thoovaanam Falls. 39 Students

from Batch 2013-15 and batch 2014-16 along with

faculty Sangeetha.S Assistant Professor (SRG) and

Senthil Prakash, Assistant Professor.

Environment League

Unity in Diversity is the catch word of our nation, and in keeping with that

notion, the harvest festival of Onam was celebrated by decorating the

campus with colorful pookolams by our I MBA Students (Batch 2014-16) on

September 4, 2014.

Special Days

Onam

Teachers Day

Students of KCT BS commemorated the

birthday of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan by

showing their appreciation to their

faculty by cutting a mega cake. All the

faculty & staff of KCT BS were felicitated

on Teachers Day with a rose, on

September 5, 2014

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As a part of the World Standards Day Celebrations, operations

specialisation students of 2013-15 batch visited industries of

repute in Coimbatore (Sharp Industries, Sakthi Auto Components,

Deccan Industries, Rajtharun Textiles India (p) Ltd, Valarmathi

Hatcheries to name a few) on October 13, 2014 with an objective to

understand the product / process standards being adopted by

these companies and to acquire practical insights of the various

standards applicable to the industry.

Students had an opportunity to study standards like ISO/ DIN/

BIS/ QMS/ EMS being followed for their product / process and their relevance.

World Standards Day

International Accounting Day

O n I n t e r n a t i o n a l A c c o u n t i n g D a y ,

November 10, 2014 Centre of Finance organised an

“Awareness Camp on Financial Products”. The

programme aimed at exhibiting many financial and

bank products. People from various financial

institutions like LIC, Annamalai Capital Services,

APSAL, DSP BLACKROCK MUTUAL FUNDS

displayed their products in our B-School.

Financeopedia, a special event was organised on

International Accounting for I MBA Students

(Batch 2014-16). The objective of the game was to

test the knowledge on Financial Jargons

World Food Day

October 16, 2014 World Food Day was

celebrated at KCT.BS with the theme

“Feeding and Caring “.To mark this

occasion a POT LUCK lunch was

organized among the faculty team

with all homemade delicious, healthy

and hygienic food .

International Men's Day

The women power of KCT BS wanted

to acknowledge the support, the

dedication and the care the men

bestow on them. Towards this end the

Men 's day was ce lebrated on

November 19, 2014. A special thanks

and a small memento was presented

to the men in the Faculty and Admin

teams.

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Centre of Marketing (CoM) led the

Christmas celebrations through the "Chris

Friend Celebrations week". All faculty and

staff of KCTBS picked up their Chris Child

through lots and played Santa by giving

gifts and tasks to their Chris child starting

on December 15, 2014 and ended with a

Christmas party on December 22, 2014. A

lot of funny tasks, treasure hunts and

quirky gifts passed hands and brought

childhood memories back and helped

bonding for a lot of faculty and staff at BS.

Chris Friend Celebrations week

World Safety Day

A special lecture session on 'Safety and Health at Work' was conducted for the

2014-2016 batch students by Vandhematharam A Madhavan, Zone Trainer,

Junior Chamber International - India, as a part of the World Safety Day

Celebrations on April 28, 2015 .

The session began with a short

introduction on the importance

of physical and mental health at

work and the precautionary

measures to be taken to avoid

mishap. He explained about the

various concepts of Health and

Safety and also explained about

safety aspects on fire safety, food

habits for college students,

exercises, and work related

stress.

Farewell Class of 2015It was time to bid Au Revoir to our students of class

2015. The farewell of the seniors began with a photo

shoot followed by entertainment program by the

juniors. Students shared their experiences at KCT.BS

with nostalgia, outlining their expectations and their

outcomes. Joint Correspondent shared a few words

of encouragement and the evening ended with fun,

frolic and dinner.

Women's Day

The gentlemen of KCT

Bus i ne s s S choo l ,

treated the ladies to a

s p e c i a l d a y o f

sumptuous food and

thoughtful gift. The

ladies were in for a

s u r p r i s e w i t h t h e

thoughtful celebration

o f womanhood on

March 8, 2015

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Training Program forAirport Authorities ofIndia LtdA major CSR Initiative "Project Delight Your

Passenger (DYP)" - Training Program for 120

Ground Staff, was done by the Centre for HR for

Airport Authorities of India Ltd. The Project

included identification of training needs for eight

departments ( Counter staff, Vendors, House

Keeping, Trolley Staff, Car Parking Staff,

Commercial Staff , Security )of AAI. The project

started in May 2014, where a team of five students

were a part of the training need identification. A

one month internship at the airport helped the

team understand the needs for training. The

Centre for HR designed the content and the

training program based on the approved modules.

This work submitted to the AAI received

appreciations. The first program for the top level

executives of Airport Authority of India on

Leadership was delivered on October 1, 2014. The

consecutive program for housekeeping and

loading staff was on October 8, 2014. This session

emphasized on Self Esteem, Commitment at

Workp lace and more impor tant ly T ime

Management for improved work performance. A

session on handling customers to the team of

vendors was on October15, 2014. This was

followed by a session for the Security staff on

effective handling of customers, emotional

intelligence and motivation in November and

December 2014. Sessions were handled in English

, Tamil & Hindi faculty from Centre of HR

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Workshop on 'Use of Computers inSchool Education' for School TeachersAs a part of the outreach strategic imperative of KCT Business School, a one-day workshop was organized 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 48 middle-level and higher secondary school teachers and to

enable them to use Internet tools in their day-to-day teaching-learning process.

The program was structured

with three skill sessions that

included topics on e-mail ID

creation, Messaging, Social

Media, YouTube & Google

s e a r c h , P o w e r - p o i n t

p r e s en t a t i o n , MS Exce l ,

Students data uploading, and

documentation in TN Govt.

website. Hands-on training

using computers were given to

the participants.

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Leadership Training for

IPO & ASP's of India Post

KCT Business School conducted training on

Leadership for two batches of IPO & ASP's of India

Post on October 31, 2014. The training program

was inaugurated by Mr.T.Murthy, Chief Post Master

General, Tamilnadu Circle Chennai. Accompanied

by Ms.Manju P.Pillai, Postmaster General,

Coimbatore and Mr.G. Natarajan, Director Postal

Service.

The participants enjoyed and learnt various

leadership qualities & managerial skills. The

platform provides various inputs for the

development of behavioral skills. The trainers

encourage participants to actively participate in

various activities of training program and also to

implement the outcomes of the program at the

work place. Fifty four employees from Tamil Nadu

region benefitted from this training.

MISSIONWe exist to make an impact

on all our stakeholders through advancement,

integration and application of knowledge.

VISION:Weaspiretobecometheknowledgehiveformanagerialexcellence

StrategicIm

perative

s

Offer diverse programs

with market-responsive

curricula which are

assimilated through

research based reality

learning in a stimulating

academic ecosystem

ACADEMICS

Recruit, enhance, and

retain faculty who are

outstanding scholars and

teachers and diverse

staff who provide

outstanding support to

faculty and students

Provide innovative,

distinctive, and excellent

services to give

purposeful campus life

experiences and

build belongingness

PEOPLE STUDENTSERVICES

Invest in sustainable

facilities, and technology

that inspire in the

students and faculty

a zest for learning

and growth

INFRASTRUCTURE

Develop stronger

engagement with the

alumni, industry,

professional bodies and

academic institutions for

mutual development

and impact

Make meaningful

contributions to local

community through

formal and sustained

extension programs.

COLLABORATION OUTREACH

OurValuesinaction

Learning

˜ Creative

˜ Continuous

˜ Shared

˜ Enjoyable

Trust

˜ Honesty

˜ Diginity

˜ Belongingness

˜ Openness

Competence

˜ Pro-activeness

˜ Perseverance

˜ Achievement

˜ Recognition

Mission, Vision and Values of KCT.BS

StrategicImperatives

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