Human resources week at Nirma engineering college

Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation managing directro B.M. Vyas began with the remark that in his organisation the human resorce function did not exist. Instead it began with its 600 employees, whose work extended to some 10,000 villages of which some 20 lakh families were part of GCMMF’s marketing chain. Quality and leadership at all levels and the need to bring the customer into focus, Vyas said, were the routes to success in any organisation.

“The liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991 was the period when the management at Amul took stock of the situation,” Vyas said, adding that consequently it started its whole plethora of HR activities per se in the organisation.

In his lecture, Dr S Chandrashekhar of NIIT predicted that the designation of the HR manager would be extinct by 2000. He said that there was no need for a priest between a devotee and God in an age where the manager can fulfil the role as agents of change.