National Conference on Achieving Distinctive Competence Through Service and Excellence -22nd & 23rd March, 2012

St Joseph Engineering College, Department of Business Administration takes great pleasure inviting you to participate in our forthcoming National Conference – 2012. The conference will take place in Mangalore, India on 22nd & 23rd March 2012. Service and excellence is the key to world economy in general and specific sectors such as manufacturing, services, IT, automobile, airlines tourism, hospitality, agriculture, retail and health sector in particular, that needs a serious introspection. Service and excellence models offer both challenges and opportunities to the industries across the sectors.

22nd and 23rd March, 2012

We from the Department of Business Administration, St Joseph Engineering College are privileged to host the National Conference-2012 on the theme, “ACHIEVING DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCE THROUGH SERVICE AND EXCELLENCE”. The St Joseph Engineering College is celebrating its decennial year and the college has the prime motto, Service and Excellence. In this context the present conference-2012 will provide a forum that stimulates a discussion on the above said theme by providing great opportunity for policy makers, researchers, practicing managers, academicians to think firmly and present their models and views over contemporary issues prevailing in the world of competitiveness. The conference will foster the much awaited issues which do need the attention from every walk of corporate and academic life. We are sure that you will contribute your research papers/articles/cases on the themes/sub-themes of the conference. Please share this information with your colleagues and peers. We sincerely hope that you will attend the conference on 22nd & 23rd March 2012 along with your colleagues at St Joseph Engineering college.

In relation to the conference theme, scholars are encouraged to submit papers on ACHIEVING DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCE THROUGH SERVICE AND EXCELLENCE across the sectors.

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Conference Chairman
Dr Prakash Pinto,
Professor & Dean
Department of Business Administration,
St Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor,
Mangalore -575028, Karnataka, India
Mobile- +91 94815 05974

Conference co-chair and convener
Dr Anjali Ganesh
Proessor,
Department of Business Administration,
St Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor,
Mangalore -575028, Karnataka, India
Mobile- +91 94491 80010

The Inaugural of First year MBA classes

The Inaugural of First year MBA classes for the academic year 2011-12 was on 3rd October, 2011 at 10am at the Mechanical Conference Hall. The chief guest was Mr. Joseph Stephen Pinto, Senior Manager, Head of Anti money Laundering Compliance, HSBC, Middle East. He mentioned in his speech that the students must grab all the opportunities and work on building a good reputation for themselves. Guests of Honour Rev. Fr.Henry Mascarenhas & Rev Fr Valerain D’Souza wished the students all the best. President of the function Dr. Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal motivated the young students to put in their best from the day one.

Dr. Rio D’Souza, Dean Academics & MCA welcomed the gathering. Prof. Eric Patrao, Dean Planning & development, Dr. Prakash Pinto Dean MBA, Dr. Pinto Pius HOD-E & E, Dr. Thirumaleshwar Bhat, HOD- ME were present on the dias. Dr. Anjali Ganesh proposed the vote of thanks. The programme was attended by HOD's & faculty of other departments, Faculty of MBA & MCA, First Year Students of MBA and MCA & MTech. Ms. Lorraine Joan Rosario, Asst Professor, Department of Business Administration compered the programme. The programme was followed by refreshments.

Colloquy-11 A symposium on wealth Management

Colloquy-11, A symposium on Wealth Management was organised by the Department of Business Administration, St Joseph Engineering College on 30th September,2011 at the Conference Hall.

The chief guest was the Inaugural function was Dr T. Mallikarjunappa, Professor, Department of Business Administration, Mangalore University. As a key note speaker, he addressed that India has huge pool of human resources who are technically qualified and is a centre of attraction. He referred population as wealth. and insisted on producing goods which are countable to increase the GDP of nation, this will help in growth of the nation. He made a distinction between wealth and profit maximisation and added on saying creation of wealth is superior to profit. Wealth management cannot be looked in a narrow sense and if you earned enough wealth after cutting on breakfast, lunch and dinner, you have not created wealth but destroyed your health. So, we should look at wealth in a broader sense.

Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal, SJEC was the Guest of Honour for the inaugural delivered his address by saying that wealth management is not easy and understanding this requires supreme knowledge and it was a priviledge to have Dr T. Mallikarjunappa to give us the inputs.

As a token of respect and gratitude, the Director of SJEC handed over the memento to our Chief Guest. Rev. Fr Valerian D’souza, the Director of SJEC was present for the inaugural. Dr Prakash Pinto, Dean of Business Administration welcomed the gathering and the vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Babitha Rohit, Organising Secretary, Colloquy-11.

The first session on the topic “Stock Market Investments and Wealth Management” was conducted by Mr. Norbert Shenoy, MD of Arunaanjali Securities, Mangalore. He made a mention that “Market respects no reputation, no academics, but respects one and only thing, that is DISCIPLINE.”

The second session on the topic “Financial Education and Wealth Creation” was conducted by Professor Radhakrishna Sharma, Associate Professor, Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte.

The symposium was attended by the 200 students of both MBA and M.Com programmes of various colleges in Karnataka State.

The valedictory function was graced by Mr. Michael Lobo, Cluster Head, South Canara and North Karnataka, HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd who addressed the issue of Mutual Funds and its affect on the Indian economy. He stated the role of mutual funds in risk reduction, benefits reaped by the investors from the professional management skills of the fund managers.

Dr Anjali Ganesh, Professor, Department of Business Administration, welcomed the august gathering.  Ms Lorraine Rosario, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration proposed the vote of thanks.

Report prepared by: Renuka Prabhu and Shalet D’souza (3 Semester MBA)
Pics by: Suraj Francis Noronha

Rendition -11 A National Level Paper Presentation Contest and Alumni Excellence awards distributed

Rendition 11, A National Level Paper Presentation Contest organized by the Department of Business Administration, St Joseph Engineering college was inaugurated on 29 September, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. in the Conference Hall, Mechanical Engineering. Block, SJEC. The dignitaries on the dais were Dr. Vijaya Prakash, CEO, D.K. Zilla Parishad as the Chief Guest, Rev. Fr Henry Mascarenhas, Assistant Director – SJEC and Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal – SJEC as the Guests of Honour, Rev. Fr Valerian D’Souza as the President, Dr Prakash Pinto, Dean – MBA, Ms Smita Jesudasan, Rendition Organizing Secretary, Mr Rayan D’Souza, Mr Lanston Pinto and Ms Divya Fernandes, the Student coordinators.

Dr Vijaya Prakash, CEO, D.K. Zilla Parishad in his Inaugural Address remarked that the foresight of the college in organizing the paper presentation contest for the MBA and M.Com students was commendable. He added that the post graduate students should focus and imbibe soft skills apart from the technical skills to succeed in the corporate world.

Dr Joseph Gonsalvis, Principal – SJEC, in his Guest of Honour address wished the paper presenters a success and hoped that they would enrich knowledge and be open to learning.

Rev. Fr Henry Mascarenhas, Assistant Director, SJEC in his Guest of Honour address commented that the paper presentation would be a success when God showers his blessings and graces.

Rev. Fr Valerian D’Souza, Director, SJEC in his Presidential Remarks stressed that the paper presentation contest would provide fodder for the thought provoking process of knowledge and learning. He encouraged the students to read and improvise on their factual and empirical acumen.

Rev Fr Valerian D’Souza, Director, SJEC conferred the Alumni Excellence Awards to Mr Riyaz, President, Talent Research Foundation of the Batch 2007 – 09, Mr Nelson Castelino, Proprietor, Nithyadar Battery Works of the Batch 2008 – 10 and Ms Priya Sequeira, Entrepreneur of the Batch 2008 – 10.

Ms Smita Jesudasan, Rendition Organizing Secretary welcomed the august gathering. Mr Rayan D’Souza, Student Coordinator, Rendition 11 proposed the Vote of Thanks.

Report by Ms Smita Jeusdasan, Assistant Professor

Colloquy-11 A Symposium on Wealth Management

 

Workshop on Entrepreneurship organised in collaboration with RACHANA

Workshop on Entrepreneurship organised for the MBA students of the Department of Business Administration, SJEC in collaboration with RACHANA.

Workshop on Motivation and Leadership

“Together everyone achieves more”

The placement cell under the guidance of  Mr Peter Brian Benjamin,Assistant Professor organized a one day placement workshop on the following topics: Connectivity & Inter-connectivity, Organizational culture, Conflict & Stress Management and Being selective for success.

Mr. Arun John Mathais, an energetic personality was the spokesperson for the day. He had the charm in him to capture the audience and have an everlasting impact on our lives.

In the morning session Mr. Arun spoke on Connectivity & Inter-connectivity. It means “if you want something you never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done before.” And hence “all you do is all you have done, is all you get what you have got.” The next session was on Organizational culture which is referred to as the DNA of an organization. The individual’s DNA should gel with the organizational DNA and only then the talent can be acquired and retained.

In the post lunch session on Conflict & Stress Management, he elaborated on the causes of conflicts, the ways to resolve them and the means through which we can manage stress. The last session was on being selective for success in which he spoke about time management and its importance in our work environment.

All good things do come to an end but the goodness of good things lasts a lifetime. It is good to build rather than learn and relearn.

Ms. Lin Pinto, 3rd Sem-MBA welcomed the gathering. We invoked god’s blessings through a prayer song led by Mr. Lanston Pinto and the choir members. The sessions were very educative as the spokesperson used his personal experiences as examples for various situations and interacted with the audience by answering all the quality queries. The session ended with the vote of thanks proposed by Mr. Martin D’souza, 3rd Sem-MBA.

The session helped us to explore alternate methods and ways to deal more effectively with the problems that would be coming our way in the corporate world.

Report by: Ms Preeti Menezes (3rd Sem-MBA)