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Jayashree Mahesh

Associate Professor, Department of Management,
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Achievements

Teaching Achievements:

  • Case Studies, Role Play, In tray Exercises, Situational Judgement Test, Videos, Projects, Mock Interviews and other interactive activities were used in all the courses. 
  • Presentation of students were video recorded and objective feedback was given to them to improve their presentation skills
  • Psychometric tools were administered to know personality type and job suitability
  • Students were asked to take up real time issues and work on them for projects. Appropriate findings were incorporated to make business changes
  • Developed material specific to medical profession for the course HHSM ZC417 which is targeted towards medical professions doing their masters in Hospitals and Health Systems Management
  • Guided MBA students in preparation of competency based resume and career objective 
  • Been the Instructor In charge of multi section course MGTS F211 Principles of Management

Research Achievements:

  • Received the Best Paper Award for Innovative Research for a paper titled ‘Educating Generation Z- An Ethnographic Insight for Managing and Organizing Higher Education Institutions in the Indian Context’. Paper presented at the Second Conference of Aston India Centre for Applied Research (AICAR), held at Aston University, Birmingham from August 31 – September 1, 2018. 
  • Presented a paper at the 76th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), held at Anaheim, California from August 5-9, 2016. The paper was titled "How Global is 'Indian' Management - A Study of Management Practices in the Indian I.T. Sector".
  • Best Paper Award received for a paper titled "Indian Management Practices: A Chimera or Reality", presented in the International Conference on Management in the New World Order, held at IIM Ranchi from August 13-14, 2013
  • Attended a Faculty Development Program on 'Case Method Pedagogy' conducted at Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Other Achievements:

Workshops/Seminars/Conclaves Organized

  • Convened a HR Conclave titled ‘Workplace in the Era of Industry 4.0 – Skill Upgrading and Development’ on March 1, 2019 at BITS Pilani – Pilani Campus in collaboration with WILP.
  • Convened a HR Conclave titled 'Bridging the Talent Gap - Issues and Challenges' on 20th January, 2017 in India Habitat Centre, New Delhi in collaboration with WILP.
  • On behalf of Teaching Learning Centre, convened a 2.5-day conference on behalf of Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) in collaboration with the three campuses of TLC at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus between 12 -15 February, 2020. The theme of the conference was 'International Conference on Best Teaching Practices for Engaged Student Learning'.
  • On behalf of Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani – Pilani Campus convened the workshop called “Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW)” for orienting new faculty on 25-26 July, 2019
  • Delivered a collaborative session on “Reflective Teaching" in ITW organized by TLC at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus on 25th July,  2019.
  • As core member of Teaching Learning Centre and in charge of arranging workshops, coordinated and participated in a workshop on ‘Team Based Learning’ on March 9, 2019. Dr. Preman Rajalingam of LKC School of Medicine, Singapore engaged a one day hands on session for faculty participants from BITS Pilani - Pilani , Hyderabad and Goa Campuses.