Mr. Sunil Agarwal, Head – HR, Bharti Airtel addresses MBA 2011-13 students
Mr. Sunil Agarwal, Head – HR, Bharti Airtel, addressed the MBA 2011 – 13 students sharing his experiences on various issues related to human resources. He has more than 15 years of experience in various sectors from production, IT, paints and presently in telecom. He is presently Head – HR looking after Bengal, Kolkata & Orissa.
He started the session giving us in depth details of Airtel as an organization and how it rose to become what it is today. He dwelled upon few key factors like
- How Airtel embraced new technology like 3G
- How they have launched Hello Tunes
- Why they have changed the logo
He then took the discussion one step talking about life and its various experiences and related to the examples which he has faced early in his professional career. He related the discussion on life with one’s goal and how to achieve it. He pointed out minute things in day to day life which could have an impact on your goals and ambitions. He stressed the importance of looking forward during struggles and obstacles and warned us against succumbing to pressure and to erase the word “PROBLEM” from our dictionary. He focused on the importance of academics and management education because according to him, this is a stepping stone toward building a rock solid foundation in one’s career.
He spoke about the various roles and responsibilities of HR i.e., performance management systems, staffing, compensation and benefits, employee engagement programs etc. etc.
Finally he concluded the session stressing on building good teams, bringing cohesiveness among members and increase in interpersonal relationships and group dynamics among participants.
Overall it was an excellent session from Mr. Agarwal and all of us really enjoyed it.
Subhajit Chattopadhyay
MBA 2011-13