Jharkhand: XLRI Jamshedpur, Leeds University Business School hold meet on industrial relations

PINAKI MAJUMDAR

Jamshedpur, Jan 10: To mark 75 years of labour and industrial relations research and education, XLRI with Leeds University Business School, Leeds, the UK and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), New Delhi, India organised a two-day International Industrial Relations Conference at XLRI campus here on January 8-9.

60 delegates from 10 nations

The two-day conference on a contemporary theme – ‘changing world of labour and work in the global south’ saw a participation of 60 delegates from disciplines such as industrial relations, law, economics, sociology, psychology, political science, history, labour geography and anthropology who have produced a range of evidence-based empirical, conceptual and theoretical research to advance theory and contribute to policy-making.

These participants drawn from 40 institutions from 10 different countries including the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland and Argentina presented 42 research papers in 12 parallel sessions spread across the two days.

These sessions were chaired by nine different session chairpersons drawn from different nations including the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and so on.

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There were two keynote speeches delivered by Prof. Mark Stuart of the Leeds University Business School and Amitav Mukherjee, the CHRO of ITC Ltd.

Workshops on academic writing

Besides, the delegates at the conference attended two workshops on academic writing where they met the editors of top-ranked journals in management.

Talking about the conference, Prof. Santanu Sarkar, who is a professor of labour relations at XLRI and also the chairperson of the conference shared that it took almost a year of careful planning and deliberation from receiving the submissions, reviewing them and finally having the authors of the scholarly works during the conference to present their work.

He said that the conference was the first of its kind in XLRI that allowed scholars across border to interact with each other and appreciate the diversity of thoughts and ideas.