This document provides information about the N L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research. It discusses the history and establishment of the institute in 1997. It highlights some of the institute's early achievements like organizing a marketing fair. It also profiles the director Prof. P. L. Arya and some of the changes he brought. The document then outlines the growth of the institute over the years in terms of faculty strength, specializations offered and competitive successes. It positions the institute now as one of the top 5 B-schools in Mumbai University.

1. selection process and is ranked
number one for its academic rigour.
The Institute is known for its trans-
parency, fairness and ethical stan-
dards. It is the only institute which
does not have any Management
Quota or Institute Level seats and
believes in providing the opportu-
nity to every deserving candidate.
The Institute has an excellent infra-
structure - A/c classrooms and Wi-
Fi connectivity. It has a state of the
art library and computer center. It
also has a unique, informal and fam-
ily type culture which is congenial
for higher learning and enables
every student to blossom and real-
ize his full potential.
-Prof P. L. Arya
(Director, N. L. Dalmia Institute
of Management Studies and Re-
search)
N L Dalmia Institute of Management
Studies and Research was estab-
lished in the year 1997. The Insti-
tute has inculcated the competitive
spirit among its students right since
its inception. It was the first insti-
tute to organize a Marketing fair in
line with the fair of XLRI. The event
was a grand success with 25 compa-
nies participating through various
management games. The Institute
had 60 students in its MMS Pro-
gramme and 30 in its Part Time
PGDBM Programme.
Prof P. L. Arya joined the Institute in
August 1998 and gave fillip to the
academic rigour and discipline. The
Institute had a small faculty team
and depended largely on visiting
faculty then. The major specializa-
tion during the first 4 years of the
Institute was Systems, followed by
Marketing, Finance and HR in that
order.
A lot changed during the subsequent
years, the Institute won its first
Dandekar Trophy organized by the
Bombay Management Association in
2001. In the year 2001 Dr. S Sadri,
Professor of OB and HR was
awarded the ‘Best Teacher of Man-
agement’ by BMA. Mr. Anurag Arya
and Mr. Amit Ahuja were awarded
the ‘Best Student of Management’ by
BMA in the year 2002 and 2003 re-
spectively.
The Institute proved its mettle in
Marketing Strategy by winning
“Comstrat” organized by FCB ULKA
in 2004. With the opening up of Fi-
nancial Market, the Institute found a
large number of students opting for
Finance as their specialization and
hence additional faculties were re-
cruited in this area. True recognition
came to the Institute when it won
the ‘Equity Research Competition
Khoj’ in 2005, a competition in which
IIM-A, B, C, XLRI and SP Jain were
the other finalists.
Today the Institute has 33 full time
faculty members. Many of them have
done their Management studies from
IIM, IIT and other leading foreign and
Indian Universities.
It is now amongst the top 5 B schools
in Mumbai University in terms of the
“Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed people can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only
thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead.
The HR Club, under the able guid-
ance of Prof. N. Rajan, Prof. Ronie
D’Costa & Prof. Pooja Shah; from its
inception has its roots in the deep
understanding of HR and manage-
ment related issues. Its purpose is
to provide highly competent manag-
ers with the necessary exposure to
the modern concerns related to
Human Resource Management.
The platform aims at giving the
essential corporate exposure to
the students by inviting eminent
people from the industry for guest
lectures and workshops.
It also provides an opportunity to
the students for putting on their
thinking caps and translating ideas
into actions. HR Club also facili-
tates live projects, works on in-
creasing corporate interaction and
brain-storming on current issues in
the area of Human Resources.
Club activities such as Management
games, Quiz and screening of movies
are organized on a regular basis.
Two major events of the HR Club
calendar are Manusandhan- a one day
seminar where eminent people from
the HR field speak on a particular
topic and Utkarsh- a national level
paper presentation competition.
The Club will also conduct an HR
Alumni Meet – a platform for all HR
Alumni to come back to the College
and share their experiences with us.
-Abha Deshkar (President, HR Club)
& Neema Chaturvedi (Secretary, HR
Club)
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Our Alumnus speaks... 2
The Beginning 2
The Secret Revealed 3
Leadership in Public Life 3
The hidden side of salary 3
Crossword 4
From the Editors Desk 5
HR Club Rocks!!!
7 T H S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 0V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
Lets Go Back!!
RISHTIKON
VISION BEYOND HORIZOND
THEN
NOW

2. D R I S H T I K O N
P A G E 2
it to completion, team skills
etc
The rigorous schedule that
one undergoes during MBA is
a real boon as it prepares one
for the real world. Multi-
tasking, meeting deadlines,
responding quickly and accu-
rately, are all very important
and these qualities are invari-
able learnt during the grill.
It is understandable that one
may have apprehensions about
what may lie ahead and how it
The Beginning……
Our Alumnus Speaks...
Hello! Dear friends….
I have to say I was delighted on
being asked to share my views
for the Newsletter. Opportuni-
ties such as these are always
nice as they give a chance to
retrospect and re-live cher-
ished memories.
Congratulations to all on being
a part of a dynamic HR team,
under such good leadership.
You are in an absolute wonder-
ful phase of learning. Please do
make the most of it. Do take
up any opportunity that comes
your way, or better still find
new opportunities that will
benefit you, your colleagues
and the Institute at large. A lot
of opportunities may come
across your way, where you
can discover certain qualities
or hone existing qualities, e.g.
speaking in public, interacting
and dealing with variety of
people/senior management,
taking up a task and executing
would be in the industry. I
would just suggest on keeping
up the learning curve. It is never
too late to learn anything new
and no kind of work is little.
Be open for any kind of work
in the beginning as it is all a
part of learning. Also, no mat-
ter how high you go, and no
matter how many equally
tempting paths may lie ahead
of you, if it is not the ethical
way to go about it, you would
rather not tread it.
Lastly, I think the Alumni
Newsletter is a wonderful
initiative. When we speak
about academic-industry inter-
face, this helps in its own way.
All the Very Best!
Regards,
Bhavna (Paratey) Ate
(Bhavna is currently working as
Resource Management Lead -
LSHC at Tata Consultancy Ser-
vices)
reduced
And then the events began to
unfold,
As everyone had their hearts’
stories told
I heard them all, with an in-
credulous look
Coz they were reading pages
from my life’s book
And then it all started to make
sense
Understood life and its essence
Life’s like a movie, I have to say
Where we all have different
roles to play
Group of twenty five divided
into two
What laid ahead none of us
knew,
We entered the room in t-
shirts and jeans
We giggled and laughed as girls
in their teens,
We spoke of fear, film and
song,
Anything we could to get along,
But the facilitator did not allow
As he yelled “Here and Now”
We looked at each other, to-
tally confused,
All excitement gone, all fun
Our scripts are similar ; our
stories are same
How we enact is the name of
the game
One, two, three as the days
went by
Made 14 new friends,
including I
At the end of it all
I have something to say to sum
it all
It’s only at the end of something
That you realize how beautiful
was the Beginning…….
- Ms. Leena Rajput
(leenarajput2006@yahoo.co.in)
PERSONAL GROWTH
LAB
Ms. Bhavna Paratey
Batch 2006-08

3. ‘The Secret’ Revealed
P A G E 3V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
The HR Club was kick started by
the first event which was the
screening of the movie ‘The Secret’
based on the novel by Rhonda
Byrne. Prof. Rajan, Prof. Khedkar,
Prof. Mohite, Prof. Pooja Shah, Prof.
Ameet Dubey and Prof. Ronie
D’costa marked the start of the
Club with us students.
The Secret talks of The Law of
Attraction. The process is broken
down into three steps: ask, be-
lieve, and receive. The underlying
theme is: you are the creator of
your own destiny. Your thoughts
have the power to manifest your
desires.
The Law of Attraction goes beyond
positive thinking. The book empha-
sizes the use of visualization tech-
niques, gratitude, faith and affirma-
tions to help focus your mental
energy. The overall concept re-
quires that the individual believes
strongly in the process. Believing is
defined as “acting, thinking and
speaking as if you have already re-
ceived what you are asking for.”
The book describes The Se-
cret through the voices of many
highly successful experts from many
different fields including philoso-
phers, psychologists, life coaches,
motivational speakers, and business
professionals. Each explains their
understanding of the Law of Attrac-
tion and how it affects reality.
- Ms. Sonali Kapadia
(sonalikapadia@gmail.com)
Mr. Vijay Kumar Mahajan, an expert
on the subject Compensation &
Benefits visited HR students. .The
session was an interactive & enlight-
ening experience. His profound
knowledge on the subject was evi-
dent throughout the session.
Sir gave a detailed explanation of
The Hay Method of Job Evaluation
which is the most widely used in the
world. It is perhaps best known for
its application to management, pro-
fessional and technical jobs. It is
also extensively used for clerical
and manual jobs and when a
single top-to-bottom evaluation
method is required as the basis
for integrated pay and grading
structures.
This can be represented by the
simple model:
INPUT - Know How
PROCESSING- Problem Solving
OUTPUT–Accountability
Raju, Central PF Commissioner
(West zone) clearly pointed out the
harsh realities of public life in India.
With 4400 Acts in place, flouting
rules is rather easy. India ranks 2nd
with respect to Natural Resources,
Technical, Scientific & Managerial
skills, yet we lag behind when it
comes to strive for perfectionism in
our public life.
Corruption is seen as an essential
tool to “get things done” and poli-
tics is termed as a dirty game by the
youth. Professions like Doctors,
Engineers, CA, are over and above
preferred to politicians (only 1-3
percent choose politics). It is essen-
tial we posses holistic knowledge
over and above the confines of the
management curriculum. Leadership
in public life is manifold. Such
qualities cannot be acquired
merely with qualifications.
We must leverage on our
knowledge resource and use
it to contribute to the better-
ment of our country. We
must aim to resolve conflicts
between preaching and prac-
ticing. Be it something as
simple as civic sense and
maintaining public hygiene. It
is high time we made a start.
-Ms. Deepika Rao
(deepskr@gmail.com)
Leadership is the ability to take
initiatives rather than choosing to
be a spectator.
Mocking the governing body for its
follies, the corruption engulfing our
system and more importantly criti-
cizing our leaders for their inade-
quacies is easy. But what does it
take to enter the muck to clean up
the filth? The Youth today, the
Generation X, are termed as
‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. But can
they truly live up to these expecta-
tions when they fail to display lead-
ership in the simple nuances of
public life?
Our esteemed guest Dr Mahendra
Leadership in Public Life
The Hidden Side of Salary
“It is true that you
may fool all the
people some of the
time; you can even
fool some of the
people all the time;
but you cant fool
all the people all
the time”
Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln
Other highlighting points from
the session were Mr. Mahajan’s
views that the only objectives
of compensation are attracting,
motivating & retaining employ-
ees & that compensation needs
to be used strategically because
it is not the panacea to all the
organizational evils.
-Ms Deepika Amesar
(deepika.amesar@yahoo.in)

4. P A G E 4
D R I S H T I K O N
Crossword
Put employees in a room with only a table and
two chairs. Leave them without any instruction
and check back on them in two hours.
If they have taken the table apart...assign them
to Engineering!
If they are counting butts in the ashtray...put
them in Finance!
If they are talking to the chairs...assign them to
HR!
If they are sleeping...they are Management
Material!
If they do not notice when you walk in...place
them in Security!
And if they have left early...put them in Sales.
“How to Assign Functions”
ACROSS
1. He proposed Management by Group objectives (MBGO)
2. A manager who maintains a network of outside contacts , who
provide favors and information
4. An individual’s capacity to perform the various tasks in a job
5. While placing executives in Middle East countries the biggest
importance should be given to
8. Sector in which Indian government allows 100% FDI
9. Systematic study of cause and effect of personal space require-
ments
10. ___________ - Characteristic of Indian firms that helps Indian
women work
13. The personality who introduced the concept of 'Bureaucracy'
in 1922
14. Welfare facility provided to workers where the number of
women working is more than 30
15. Company that has emerged as the ‘Best Company To Work
For’ in India in 2010 according to Rediff Business.
16. In Expectancy theory Force = ________ x Expectancy
DOWN
1. A relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a
result of experience
3. Company that won 2 awards at Asia Best Employer Brand
Awards
6. Individuals who achieve goals through other people
7. The Process of Certifying the competence of a person, an em-
ployee in an area of capability
9. _______________’s Classical Conditioning Theory
11. His Theory is commonly referred to as the 'Hierarchy of Hu-
man Needs'
17. The group which showed the most improvement in productiv-
ity after being granted stock options.
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5. P A G E 5V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
S N E A K P E A K
I N T O N E X T
M O N T H ’ S
D R I S H T I K O N :
• Transaction Analysis
with Dr. M. C. Agarwal.
• Performance Manage-
ment Systems with Ms.
Seema Saxena.
• Management games–
The Human Side of
Human Resource
• HR Club Inauguration.
and lots more…...
From the Editor’s Desk
DRISHTIKON believes in VISION
BEYOND HORIZON i.e. to reach
the pinnacle of success and after
reaching there DONT STOP, find
another peak to conquer. Drishtikon
will work as a medium to share stu-
dent’s point of view with the Alumni.
It is an initiative of the HR Batch
2009-11 and the whole theme be-
hind publishing the e-newsletter is to
get all the Full time/Part time HR
alumni back to their roots. Every
edition of the newsletter will highlight
in brief the activities organized by HR
Club, Views from alumni, creative
contribution from students in the
form of poems, crosswords, quotes
and many more
We, The Drishtikon Team, would
like to extend our gratitude to the
management & the faculty of N.L.
Dalmia Institute of Management Stud-
ies and Research for their help and
guidance in publishing the e-
newsletter.
We would also like to thank the
Alumni for sharing their thoughts
with the HR students. Last but not
the least we would like to ac-
knowledge the people who are
always there to provide a helping
hand for the newsletter i.e. “HR
students of Batch 09-11”.
- Team Drishtikon
Priyanka Shah
Akansha Khare
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The HR Batch of 2009-11 is one of the
most unique batches one would ever
come across. The class comprises of
twenty six girls and a very lucky boy. It is
highly unlikely for someone to be on
campus and not notice the ever ener-
getic batch.
The students come from diverse educa-
tional backgrounds like Engineering, Psy-
chology, Management, Science, Com-
merce, Economics Honours and even
English Literature .The batch comprises
of a blend of freshers as well as experi-
enced students, with their experience
ranging from Banking, IT right up to Me-
dia.
The class is always bustling with enthusi-
asm and creativity, which is highly evi-
dent even if you happen to peep into the
class right from the door to the class
notice board. Everyone in the class adds
a new hint of freshness to it. In the class,
breakthrough moments can happen any
time.
A place where every idea sees the light
of the day because every ‘can we do
this?’ transforms into ‘let’s do it’ and
soon to ‘done!’
It is a place where everyone has a syn-
onymous feeling – ‘Proud to be a part
of the HR Batch 2011’.