Articles in TISS

For the third consecutive year, the TISS test clashed with another biggie, this time JMET . How was the test? How did it stand in comparison to last year’s entrance. We interviewed Akanksha Sharma, Avneet Sethi, Kapil Sangvikar, Neha Seth and Dr. Sushrut Joshi who took the test today. They spoke to Pagalguy about the […]

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, better known as TISS, runs one of the most sought after post graduate courses in Human Resources Management (HRM). The entrance test for the school is on December 12, 2010. With less than 10 days left for the exam, we will advise you on the things you […]

School of Management and Labour Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, will consider academic background of a candidate only as an eligibility criterion from 2009. This step has been taken to bring all students from various disparate educational boards on the same level. We talked to Sasmita Palo, Chairperson, Centre for Human […]

18 percent of the students were offered jobs by Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) such as IOCL, BPCL, GAIL and National Housing Bank and this is a substantial increase from the previous year’s placements. The students also accepted 12 Pre-Placement Offers this year. Major companies which recruited from TISS came from diverse sectors. Tata Steel and […]

aI have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep, miles to go before I sleep.a Robert Frost might well be cringing in his grave but his classic words served as an election slogan in the student body elections at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) campus. The picturesque campus was neatly […]

Maximum offers in the summer placements this year were made in the manufacturing sector by firms like Cummins (India), L&T;, Essar, Tata Motors, Essar and RPG taking along with them 21 pc of the batch. 10 pc of the students opted for consulting firms like Ernst & Young and Hewitt. FMCG sector was opted by […]

The theme of this yearas corporate sessions was ‘Thriving through uncertainty, leveraging Human Capital’. The event was flagged off by a key note address from Capt Gopinath of Air Deccan. On the occasion he also inaugurated HRM-LRas quarterly publication THINK. The inauguration was followed by the ‘Leadership roundtable’, where executives debated on a ‘Perceptions and […]

Human Resources Management in the only function in a business which directly deals with people. Ethical behaviour therefore becomes extremely significant to it. Corporations are mostly interested in profits, sustainability, brand building etc. Hence the HR function must take the call in practicing the aUniversal Firsta principle which is fundamental to ethical behaviour. Professor Kolodinsky […]

Participants are expected to send in their venture plan based on the above mentioned theme. To mentor the shortlisted teams, a two day Boot Camp (Prerna) would be conducted in TISS Campus two weeks prior to the final event. A panel of experts will mentor the participants and help them improvise their plans. The final […]

ADECCO, headquartered in Zurich, is a merger of Ecco (France) and Adea (Switzerland). Present in seventy countries, it provides end to end HR solutions for banking, finance, IT, engineering processes, consumer retail and services. The conference was a part of initiative called ATLMRI (ADECCO-TISS Labour Market Research Initiative) which is an alliance (established in Sept, […]