Guest lecture by Mr.Sanjeev Dixit

SIMSREE was privileged to have Mr. Sanjeev Dixit on campus on the 22^nd of September, 2012. Mr.Dixit is currently leading People Management and Development Strategy as Chief People Officer at ABD. Mr. Dixit has done his Post graduation in Management from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune and was a Silver Medalist in the batch 1997. He has been felicitated with the “Pride of HR Profession” award by Indian Human Capital summit and World HRD Congress.

Mr.Dixit started the session with a discussion on the definition and practice of values in an organization. He encouraged an interactive session. He emphasized on the point that for the efficient working of any organization, the marriage of the person’s and the organization’s values must take place. The alignment of the employee’s beliefs to the company’s belief is essential.

Later on, he described his journey through various companies ranging from Hindalco Industries, Pepsico, Pt Indorama Synthetics and Philips and stated that adaptability to various environments is very essential for growth. Then he threw light on ABD Company’s mission, the values which they believe will enable to move towards it and the initiative taken by the HR department of his company to imbibe the values into each and every employee of the company and instill a sense of ownership into everyone’s minds. He also emphasized that rewards and appraisals are very important for the growth and motivation of an individual.

Then in the end, he opened the question answer session and very satisfactorily answered the questions posed by the students on value based management and HR strategies of his company. The session was very engaging and we look forward to more such sessions.