Ria Dua's Blog

Last week LIBA got over with its annual B School Fest CHRYSALIS, and the theme this year was "Business in Technicolor". It was the time of Lights... Camera..... and Action...... in the campus. We decided to go beyond the texts and classrooms.It is here that the learning from movies begins...... Its a classic example of management being fun and management leading to fun! A brief on the HR Game will help you understand how we went about it. We required teams of 3. There were 3 main rounds in the game. Round 1: The 1st round was a quiz round to test the intelligence of the participants and to churn out the cream from the lot. Quiz had 30 questions which were to be answered in 20 minutes. 6 teams qualified for the 2nd round. Round 2:  It is here that the actual test began. Its quite easy to use HR jargon like downsizing, benchmarking etc but the test begins when one has to communicate these terms not in words but in actions. Yes! this round was DUMB CHARADES . It tested how ...

It is funny how your daily life makes you face certain situations that teach you a lesson for life. This was an experience I had at the beginning of my 2nd year. The Beyond Management team of our college has taken the responsibility of organising guest lectures for the students every Thursday. They invite industry experts who share their experiences with us and also help us keep up to date with the happenings in various industries. As a custom, the juniors always occupied the first half of the audi and the seniors the second half. It was assumed that as we are in 2nd year now, we would be at the receiving end and would have the privilege of occupying the last few rows (it gave us a chance to fool around a little if we dint find the lecturer interesting without offending anyone). But things did not turn out that way. The same rules were not applied this year. Everyone had the liberty to occupy which ever seat they wanted and the last rows were always the first to be occupied. Don’t...