Dr. Krishnan is our new faculty in the Department of Human Resources. He has his PhD in Human Resources and his MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Ahemdabad). His thesis was on the study of career management in different organizational contexts. His bachelor’s is in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute (Karnal- Haryana). He has worked with Alfa Laval, HCL Technologies and a GIVE Foundation- Giving Impetus to Voluntary Effort (a NGO based in Maharashtra). He belongs to Coimbatore, and is back home after quite a few years.
Following are some of the excerpts from the talk I had with him on the 16th Oct 2006.
Q1. Tell me something about things that you are really passionate about?
Answer: I wouldn’t be able to tell you one single thing that I am really passionate about. I had developed my interest in academics quite some time back and this move into teaching is a step in that direction. Diversity at work is something that’s important to me. I can’t keep doing the same thing for a long time. I enjoy reading but non fiction. I used to play quite a bit of chess during school days. I had traveled the country then to participate in many of the competitions. My father was the President of Coimbatore Chess Association because of which chess was something that I couldn’t miss out on.
Q2. You have done your Btech in Dairy Technology, MBA from IIMA, then your fellowship from IIMA. In all these years which were the ones that you enjoyed the most?
Answer: I enjoyed different things in all these years. So again choosing some years over the others might be difficult. In Karnal our batch was really small and over the four years we had got really close. So those days were great from at the personal level. The IIMA days were the best from a point of view of learning. Especially with there course structure being quite different from the types followed in quite many other colleges. We were never required to by heart anything. But my 4 years of fellowship were the ones during which my outlook changed the most. The self driven environment in which doctorate study happened gave me the opportunity to study the way I wanted to.
Q3. Why did you choose Human Resources?
Answer: After my MBA when I joined HCL at Chennai. I was in their business development group. So, I got the opportunity to see HR from a third person’s point of view. That’s when I developed an interest and need to know about this function. When I was with Give Foundation in Maharashtra I might have performed quite a few HR functions myself. This is sometime when I decided to do my fellowship in Career Management. Quite a few friends were already doing similar courses and suggested the same to me.
Q4. What was your thesis on?
Answer: My study tried to look into the specific relationships between strategic contexts of a company and its career management systems. The strategic context of an organization would mean the size, strategy, industry, demographics of the company and its related career management systems would be its recruitment, appraisal or training processes and policies.
Contributed By-
Pratyush Banerjee
MBA 2005-2007
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