The US-based Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the professional association devoted to human resource management, is trying to host the 2010 global HR conference in India. It is also aiming to help Indian HR professionals to come together as a body and recognise the value contributed by them to industry.
“Several Indian groups are talking to us to host the global forum conference, that we do every year, in 2010. We are trying to focus on that possibility, SHRM India’s director (business development) Nina Woodard told FE recently.
Woodward was at the XLRI here recently at an invitation from the B-School’s Students Association of Personnel Management & Human Resources (SAPPHIRE). She said SHRM was a big driver in the US in the legal and legislative action with respect to the workplace by engaging its members do grassroots lobbying with Congressmen.
“This is one thing that the Indian HR community needs to do, it will have to make their presence felt in the way the (labour) laws are written or revised in this country,” she said.
SHRM comes out with at least 12 research papers a year, which is not done by the HR community in this country, including the prominent National HRD Network.
SHRM India, which is engaged in discussions with XLRI on holding business education programme, is also developing business aid programme with XLRI that could be used in the Indian context.
The B-School will also help Indianise the business education programmes of SHRM, Woodard said.
The American HR body is also trying to develop a student network by making student members on payment of an annual fee of $35.
“From our side we have committed four quality programmes in a year for the students network,” she said.
SHRM also has a knowledge partnership with the Delhi School of Economics and the South Indian Education Society (SIES).
