Fwd: Invitation for 7th National IR Conference'16, XLRI Jamshedpur
Suresh Kandulapati
From: Fire@x <fi...@xlri.ac.in>
Date: Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:29 AM
Subject: Invitation for 7th National IR Conference'16, XLRI Jamshedpur
To:
XLRI : XAVIER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Jamshedpur
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7th National Industrial Relations Conference 2016
Jan 9-10, 2016
Respected Sir,
Greetings from XLRI School of Business and Human resources.
The Forum for Industrial Relations at XLRI (Fire@x) is honoured to invite you to the 7th National IR Conference on the 9th,10th January, 2016 at XLRI, Jamshedpur.
The theme of the conference is
Changing Labour Market and Industrial Relations, Changing times: Make in India and Ensuing Labour Reforms
on 9th and 10th January, 2016
at XLRI Jamshedpur
About the theme:
India’s ever expanding service sector has been under pressure from other countries offering lower labour arbitrage. Coupled with a stagnating manufacturing sector, the current landscape offers a variety of challenges for trade union activists, policy makers and the management. Notwithstanding the above deliberations, there have been other contributing factors to the changing IR scenario. Changing workforce demographics, decline in trade union membership, trade union leadership dilemmas and renewed concerns regarding the social and labour security of workers in the unorganized sector have further complicated the various industrial relation mechanisms and will be the focus of discussion in this year’s edition of I&ER conference. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his speech on Independence Day, reiterated his aim to consolidate existing 44 labour laws to 4 codes. In light of his statements and other government proposals to aid the much advertised Make in India campaign, the conference would bring to light various perspectives and discussions evaluating the ramifications of the proposed labour law reforms. An attempt would also be made to benchmark our practices with labour practices across other nations to identify lacunae in our system and to facilitate its betterment. Discussions on what steps need to be taken to provide social security to workers in the unorganised sector and the failure of trade unions in addressing their aspirations will also be on the agenda.
It would also be worthwhile to mention here that the conference has always seen active participation from industry leaders and top academicians, as was evident from the participation to the 6th National IR conference, which saw speakers of the likes of:
· P N Prasad, Chief HRM, Tata Steel
· Alfred Osta, EVP, Mahindra and Mahindra
· Dharm Rakshit, AVP, Mondelez
· Sahil Lal. Head ER, Maruti Suzuki, Manesar plant
· Gautham Mody, General Secretary, NTUI,
· N Vasudevan, President, NTUI
· Prasenjit Bose, Social activist
· Karthik Shekar from UNITES
· Prof. N. Ernesto (IIMA)
· Prof. Jerome Joseph (IIMA)
· Prof. Ratna Sen, HOD, IISWBM
We would thus solicit your active participation and cordially invite you to attend the conference and/or share your research by means of a paper presentation in the presence of eminent dignitaries in the conference.
The Conference will have panel discussions on
1. Make in India - Ensuing labour law reforms and learnings from global best practices
2. Industrial Relations in the Unorganized Sector
Papers are invited from researchers, practitioners and academicians on the following tracks
1. Make in India – Indian labour reforms and learnings from global best practices
2. Industrial Relations in Unorganised Sector
3. Emerging trends in Industrial and Employment Relations
The best submissions for each track will be selected for presentation in presence of the eminent delegates during conference. Top three papers will be given “Best paper award”, accompanied by a cash prize. All papers deemed worthy by the faculty will be submitted for publication in XLRI’s esteemed in-house journal, Management and Labour Studies (MLS) subject to the guidelines of the journal. Each paper will undergo independent scholarly peer review process as per established procedure of the journal.
Important Dates:
Last date for registration: 15th September, 2015
Last date for submission of paper: 10th November, 2015
Date of Paper presentation: 10th January, 2015
Registration:
To attend the conference or to submit your paper, please fill the form here or write to us expressing your interest.
1. Registration Link for Delegates to attend the conference : Click Here
2. Registration Link for Paper Presentation : Click Here
Please visit our website : www.xlri.ac.in/irconf for registration and other details
Upon receiving your mail or entry via the form, we will mail you the further details regarding registration including the payment details.
Registration fee for delegates before 15th September, 2015: Rs. 4000
Registration fee for delegates after 15th September, 2015: Rs. 5000
Registration fee for Paper submission: Rs. 1000
Please find the attached brochure containing the details of the conference, its theme and guidelines for the submission of papers. Please e-mail us for any further queries at fi...@xlri.ac.in
About Fire@x:
Fire@x serves as a platform for discussion, promotion and dissemination of ideas about Industrial Relations. In its 19 year history it has emerged as the hub of all IR related activities at XLRI. Starting out simply as a platform for discussing labour law and IR, FIRE@X has evolved into one of the leading collegiate societies on Industrial Relations.
Hope to see your enthusiastic participation.
Thanking You.
Yours sincerely,
Team Fire@x
( Forum for Industrial relations at XLRI )