Media Release

Mangaluru, Nov 26: A two-day managerial skill development programme for the employees of MRPL was conducted by the post graduate department of business administration, AIMIT, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), on November 26 at the AIMIT Beeri campus. The inaugural function was graced by Dr (Fr) Kiran Coth SJ director, AIMIT; Sandesh J Coutinho Prabhu, CGM HR, MRPL, Dr Rajani Suresh, dean, school of business and management, Ritu Raj, manager HR; and Poonam Shetty, training assistant, HR, ‘MRPL’, the participating employees, faculty members, administrative and support staff.

The programme commenced with a short prayer service conducted by college choir. The inaugural event was compeered by Dr Annette Maben. The dean, Dr Rajani Suresh warmly welcomed the gathering. This was followed by the lighting of the lamp. The director Dr (Fr) Kiran Coth SJ, AIMIT, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University) addressed the gathering and emphasised on the need to keep learning because Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going the transform the complex world of work.

Training and learning are the tools that could be harnesses in order to remain employment ready and employment worthy. Dr (Fr) Kiran Coth maintained that in order to remain competitive, development of critical thinking, leadership and communication skills are a must and encouraged the participants to make full use of the opportunity provided by the managerial skill development programme.

The pre noon session will be handled by Sandesh J Coutinho. MRPL and Ritu Raj MRPL both extremely skilled in training and development of employees. The post noon sessions titled – ‘Leading a value driven life’ engaged by Fr Roshan Pereira SJ, and ‘Co-creating a value-based organization’ Fr Balaraju SJ aim to add depth and generate value.

Day 2 of the training session will have morning sessions tiled ‘Enhancing engagement at work’ and ‘From engagement to flow- embracing agile’, engaged by Dr Rajani Suresh and Dr Anette Maben aim to generate satisfaction, engagement and flow among employees. The post noon sessions titled ‘Organizational commitment with emphasis on peer involvement and employee ownership of quality issues’ and ‘Creating a culture of quality and cost consciousness’ engaged by Dr Justine James & Dr Swapna Rose aim to elevate the organisational commitment and work culture in the organisation.