Ms. Pushpa Machani is an Assistant Professor in the HR & Research Department at the Siva Sivani Institute of Management. She has 11 years of teaching and 2 years of industrial experience. She is currently working towards her research in the area of entrepreneurship and has published papers in the same field. 

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Being the Assistant Professor of theSiva Sivani Institute of Management, what are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

“We nurture students in each and every aspect of their career”

Being an Assistant professor in a Business school, there is a major role to be played beyond teaching. We make students corporate ready with extra learning by organizing talks from the experts from various industries, workshops from experts that give the students hands-on experience, Industrial visits to different enterprises for culture awareness and so on. We also motivate the students towards entrepreneurial careers by organizing visits to different incubation centers, knowledge sharing sessions with successful entrepreneurs and so on.

What valuable advice would you like to give to the students to have a prosperous career ahead?

“Every student needs to succeed in their professional and personal life”

As an Assistant Professor I always attempt to imbibe ethics and moral values among students and suggest them to carry throughout their life. A student with moral and ethical values not only becomes a successful human being, but also becomes a role model to many such people who want to succeed in their work life and family life as well. 

What are the interventions and approaches you bring in apart from curriculum to train/ teach the students?

“Apart from the regular curriculum, many co-curricular activities also take place”

It is my responsibility to enable the students to learn concepts in an applicatory way. Activity based learning enables the students to apply the conceptual knowledge gained through lectures in an applicatory mode. To do so, I always design certain interactive activities where students can participate as a team and also as an individual. With these activities students learn along with entertainment.

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Do you have any extracurricular activities/programs to enhance the skills of students or expose them to real-world challenges?

“ We have various clubs and cells for student’s comfort”

We have the following clubs and organizations in the college campus: 

  1. Group of students with common interests’ forms clubs like HR club, Finance Club, Entrepreneurship Club, marketing club and so on. Coordinators of each club organize certain events, competitions, activities, knowledge sharing sessions and so on. This enables students to develop competency in their area of interest.
  2. Sampathy’s Entrepreneurship Cell (A unit of SSIM) is active in conducting various events like Learning lessons from Streets, Hackathon, Memorandum of Understanding with ALEAP (Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of India) and so on.
  3. Institute of Social Responsibility(ISR) Cell also creates awareness about a variety of events like world entrepreneurship day, world tourism day and so on. At the time of the pandemic, the ISR team also distributed masks to the needy. Cell is very active as there are series of events happening under the umbrella of AZADI KA AMRUT MAHOTSAV
  4. Zumba sessions are part of their regular classes to keep the students physically and mentally strong.

Have you introduced new programs at your college?

“Yes, we offer various new courses in the college for the holistic development of a student”

PGDM BA (Post Graduation Diploma in Management – Business Analytics) program was introduced for the academic year 2020-2021. This program helps the students in analyzing the data and drawing valuable decisions out of it. Many organizations depend on Business Analytics in considering various crucial decisions.

Do you have any extracurricular activities to enhance the skills of the students or expose them to real-world challenges?

“We provide various internship opportunities in reputed organizations to the students”

We are working towards establishing relations with prestigious organizations like HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) where our senior professors are training the middle-level employees on various aspects of Human Resources. Padma Shri ChintakindiMallesham is invited to our campus to share his experiences and various struggles he underwent in coming up with Lakshmi Asu Machine. This helps the student to witness the real-world challenges and how they have to be prepared to face those challenges.

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How do you help your student to cope up with the competition being so high in the outside world?

“We provide training to the students from time to time to achieve their goals with minimal efforts”

Apart from the regular subjects our institute also include 

  1. Campus Recruitment and Training where the students will undergo specific training to face interviews, written tests, group discussion and other interview rounds if any. This training makes students easily clear the interview process.
  2. Managerial communication at three different levels in three trimesters will be taught to the student that helps them in not only cracking interviews but also helps to survive in the organization without any quandaries.
  3. Company Review Session where students have to study about one company of their choice in detail and present to the class. By doing so, students will understand the corporate structure, culture, governance style of each company and so on.