Good day, Mhd Samroodh. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Hello, Sir.

Good day, Professor. Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

OK Sir, my name is Doctor Mohammad Samrudh and basically I have like I have done my Bcom, Mcom and I will also complete my PhD in commerce and I have qualified UGC NET in commerce and UGC NET and Jr. are also in commerce and management. Then I have a good experience like after my PhD I have completed from 2023, I have completed my PhD from Aligarh Muslim Central University.

And after that I have two years of first PhD teaching work experience in preschool ecosystem.

Sure, Sir. Umm, the application of a have a lot of potential in the application of human resource management, whether it is HR analytics or even in the teaching and even if the research also, I have applied this, I will tell you like how it has been done. Like I have taken the subjects, uh, in human resource management and organization behavior and in the human resource management, all the basic functions in starting from the recruitment selection. Uh, and even in the resume screening, conducting AI interviews.

Professor Mohammed, let's verify the specific skills and competencies listed for this role. I’ll begin by assessing your expertise in each area systematically. Firstly, can you discuss how you have applied HR Analytics or AI in HRM, either in your research or teaching? Provide an example or scenario if possible.

Application in the HRM is very important and I have already taught these subjects during my teaching experience in my prior institution and also for the research purpose. I have done a lot of conference purpose and also some articles which demonstrate how the importance of AI usage in the HRM.

Everywhere the application of.

Understood. Could you elaborate specifically on any AI tools, programs, or methodologies you used in either teaching or research to showcase the application of HR analytics or AI in HRM?

Can you please repeat the question?

Hello.

Certainly, Professor Mohammed. Could you provide specific examples of any AI tools, programs, or methodologies you’ve utilized in teaching or research to demonstrate the application of HR Analytics or AI in HRM?

OK, in terms of HR analytics, I used to the like there are lots of tools available right now like Aria AI, uh, then, uh, Lina AI PIN uh, then, uh, biometrics and uh, there are many softwares like this, uh, which can be used for AI automation, AI automation and like onboarding experience and two for resume passing. This kind of a lot of tools are available and in my teaching. So I have used.

To explain these AI tools, how it is being used in the industry for semi screening or a application, in the recruitment, everything so and also in HR analytics. I have demonstrated my students how HR analytics is being used in the industry and how it can be applied for taking informed decision-making in the context of HRM.

Got it, Professor. Thank you for that explanation. Next, could you share your experience or approach in teaching entrepreneurship, especially in guiding students to develop actionable business plans or strategies?

OK, Uh, so like how I, uh, like, I wanted to inculcate, but basically, and entrepreneurship is very important. Like that building that entrepreneurship mindset among the students is very important for me as an educator or as a faculty. What I used to do is like more than teaching the theoretical concepts of the entrepreneurship, I used to take more efforts and through my industrial conducts, I used to conduct a lot of guest lectures, uh, which gives a good.

Insights to my students, especially from the startup owners, some people who are already successful in the entrepreneurship to build that entrepreneurship mindset. Apart from that, I also used to conduct a lot of industrial visits for my students and also I encourage them to apply for a lot of internship costs in certain industries so that by conducting industrial visit and all, I also along with the students, I was to go with them, go with them I also.

Them to interact with the industry people, how the practical application of the concepts we are teaching them is being applied in the industry, is being taught, is being observed directly. So it helps them to build that entrepreneurship mindset. This is my practical and practical approach for building an entrepreneurship mindset among the students.

Understood, Professor. To further clarify, have you worked with students on formulating or evaluating real business plans or helped them analyze the viability of entrepreneurial ventures? If so, could you provide an example?

Yes, I have given my students are you have the practice of giving my students practical assignments and projects. For example, in the context of HRM, I just gave them. I never feel like I explained that what is a job description? What is a job analysis, how a job specification is done, everything I used to do, but at this end, I asked them to go for it. I if I give a role, I asked them to prepare a job description by themselves and I used to give the resources.

At the websites from where they can capture the data regarding, uh, what are the skills, attitudes, everything which is required for preparation of a job description and have the job, job analysis should be done. Uh, then I used to give this kind of practical assignments and try to solve this so that they are prepared for in the future. How it can be solved later like that. Also, I used to give some practical datasets, uh, with through Excel, they can use that to find the attrition rate.

Etcetera.

Thank you, Professor. Now turning to the field of managing family businesses, could you describe your approach to teaching or guiding students on the specific challenges they might face within such enterprises?

Uh, can you please repeat the question?

Of course, Professor. Could you elaborate on your approach to teaching or guiding students about the unique challenges they might encounter when managing family businesses?

Yes, I can manage a call a family businesses. So it is very important that the decision making is very important that there are a lot of chances of conflicts because it's not only about a formal kind of relationship. It's like there are in the family business there are certain authority figures which has to be elected to. The As an entrepreneur, you are having some good ideas, but it.

Is very difficult to convince them with the authoritative figures in the, uh, in the family who is very active in that, at that particular decision making. So, uh, these kind of conflicts, everything, uh, or confusions are very common, but it, we should be, uh, good enough to manage these kind of conflict without any conflict. We should be able to convince the authoritative figures in taking the good decisions, which is beneficial for the, uh, family businesses.

Understood. Could you provide an example or a specific case study you might use in your teaching to illustrate conflict resolution or decision-making in family businesses?

Yes, of course. For example, take an example of a family business like some of the you know, I'm not taking any real context. Let let us take a fictitious example. For example, there is a firm, it's a family business and there is a elder brother who is managing the things and who is much more experienced everything. And there is a younger brother who also in the same who is also a part of this family business. Maybe he's a recently graduate from a graduated in and we have a, he holds an MBA and he have good idea about like for example, international business. So the traditionally the family business is only dealing with the domestic business and this particular the new generation or the Arab generation has more awareness about the international business context, how the AI sorry, how the export and importance have been happened. So he know how to expand the business to that level.

So at that time, what can be done is like, if we can just convince the, uh, through his good negotiation skills, he can convince the elder brother and tell the advantages of how our, the traditional businesses or the family business can be, uh, like, uh, can be, uh, taken into the next level by entering into the global market, seeing the potential of the global market.

But his elder brother may not be who is authoritative figure in that particular organization or the family business team and would be that like he may not be allowing that the younger brothers idea to expand to the international borders. So that may lead to a small conflict between these two people regarding their decisions.

So this is how you can solve such a conflict resolution, et cetera.

Thank you, Professor. Moving on, can you explain how you integrate strategic management concepts in your teaching to help students understand the formulation and implementation of business strategies?

Yes, of course, see uh, when it comes to the uh, like uh, you're, you're telling about how to integrate the status plan as well, OK, whenever any taken, any decisions are taken from the management are the strategy is very important. You should always look into the strategic aspect, OK, so uh, like proper business analysis should be done. Whether it is we can go for any kind of analysis environment and.

This is what analysis, whatever may be, whatever strategy tools you are using, your frameworks you are using is fine, but it should be properly done so that the current scenario of the organization, its business environment is properly understood and proper properly curated strategies has been done to ensure the success of the organization.

It can be integrated in any function of the management and even in the HRM also. It is like that if you can go for the recruitment anything but you should have a clear strategy behind that. The decisions you are taking should be aligned with the business strategy.

Thank you. How do you encourage students to apply strategic management frameworks, such as SWOT or PESTEL analysis, in real-world organizational scenarios?

Yes, to encourage students for the AIR to understand the importance of the strategic management frameworks, especially like what you told like SWOT analysis.

And these kind of frameworks what I am going to.

Like how we can encourage them is that, uh, always need some practical assignments, OK, give some like case study kind of scenario. This is the case study and this is a brief introduction of what a particular organization. And this is the context. Now you start giving some questions or regarding how some business kind of example kind of questions, some scenarios, simulated scenarios, then what you have to do is that you have to give the students or.

Students to apply this framework and I'm like do is what analysis of this particular firm and come up with a solution to solve this practical scenario. So they understand how what is the strength, what is the weakness. They do it their research from their side, which needs a lot of idea to them and the importance of conducting this kind of framework analysis whether it is a pistol analysis OK. And these these are the aspects political, environmental, economical aspects which is affecting the personal so like that.

Understand that and they try to solve their issues, so they understand the importance of this kind of strategic frameworks.

Thank you, Professor. Moving forward, could you explain your approach to teaching organizational behavior and career management, specifically in developing soft skills such as leadership, communication, or teamwork among students?

Uh, can you please repeat the question?

Certainly, Professor. Could you explain your approach to teaching organizational behavior and career management, specifically focusing on developing soft skills like leadership, communication, and teamwork among students?

Yes, yes to the UH2UH2UH gains about people to inculcate that uh, major aspects of which is major skill set, which is in uh, much needed in the context of organization behavior like good negotiations, good teamwork, are these kind of things. First we have to do is that we have to give a lot of uh, class, uh, activities. You can give uh, to understand the importance of doing a teamwork is that certain activities are there which.

If of course, if the student is doing the same activity by himself alone, it may not be that successful and within the time schedule he may not be able to do that particular active activity very successfully. But whereas if he is having a good team and we are, when they do their activity as a teamwork, it can be easily established in a very short span of time. So they understand the importance of the cars is inculcated the importance of. These kind of skills set like.

Work which is very important.

Understood. In addition to these activities, how would you assess and provide feedback on the development of these soft skills in your students?

OK, to, to understand and double uh, to develop the soft screens. What I understood is like we have as a faculty, we can have a good awareness of our students based on their performance in their classes. And we always interact with our students. We always mentor them personally. So we can understand the what is the strength and weakness of each of the students sitting in front of us. So by giving proper uh activities, their feedbacks from them and by understanding their weakness. We do, uh, keep more input, more motivated, motivate them.

For a certain strategies to upskill themselves and to gain some important skills which is lacking in the currently so that they can succeed in the industry or the market once they have completed their course.

Thank you, Professor. Now, turning to teaching methodology, how do you balance teaching theory-based concepts alongside practical, laboratory-based applications in your courses?

So how it can be done and which are the tools used for that? Some use cases, certain companies has used with this one and how it has impacted their productivity. So these kind of case studies I will find and I will analyze that and I will I will detail these kind of case studies and demonstrate to my students so that they get a practical insights and a good conceptual clarity on.

Yes, especially in the causes of human resource management. Most of the concepts are theoretical which AI explained them very clearly with the examples of case study. I use case methodology of teaching which helps them to understand each and every scenario very easily. Also I demonstrate certain practical contexts how use cases, especially how for example you are using a recruitment IAA application recruitment.

Understood, Professor. Beyond classroom lectures, how do you ensure students retain and effectively apply both theory-based knowledge and hands-on laboratory practices in real-world professional scenarios?

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OK to, uh, for example, in the teaching you're, you're telling, if you're telling about the teaching, like my pedagogy is like, I tried to give a balance between both the theoretical and the practical concepts so that the students understand the both aspects. For example, theory concepts I demonstrate very clearly explain with a lot of cases, case studies, etcetera. For to understand the theoretical concepts more practically. And also our uses a lot of use cases, practical cases, how certain companies. Used to this particular technology in the context of HRM, for example in recruiting this particular software they have used how it is has impacted their productivity and how it has been applied in the industry. These kind of knowledge I used to keep them and also I used to guide them to write some research papers, these kind of things. And it's research based projects, assignments, everything. So they do their own research in the back end after the class and they understand more practically the things. So this is how I make my subject more.

Yes, Professor. To reframe the question, beyond your regular teaching methods, how do you ensure that your students are able to retain and apply both theoretical knowledge and practical experiences effectively in real-world professional settings?

Practically aligned.

Thank you, Professor. Shifting to evaluation, could you outline your experience in assessing students' performance, particularly in designing exams or conducting evaluations that balance conceptual understanding and practical application?

Sorry to interrupt, we're down to the last 5 minutes.

Yes, for the evaluation purpose, what I used to say suggested is that always go for a not only for subjective violation. I also give importance for the objective evaluation. That means I used to give them a lot of MCQS after each of my session and from which I will get an understanding about whether they have have gained A conceptual clarity on the theoretical concepts I have taught in this taught in that particular lecture. If they have, if I have found that they are lacking in that, I used to re explain the same.

Again, and also I try encourage them with giving more feedbacks so that some extra reading materials they can go for and some books they can refer. And also at the subjective evaluation also is also happening during the test model test on regular basis. I used to contact to evaluate their performance before going for their final exam as well. And also I used to give a lot of practical projects, assignments, everything which also has a lot of.

Uh, weightage when it comes to their internal marks. So based on all these aspects, I can try to maintain a balance and get a proper feedback from the students and evaluate them, OK?

Yes, my basic approach in guiding the students is like first, I first and foremost factor is that I motivate them to do a lot of research activities and I encourage myself about what is the what is the importance of research? Everything I used to motivate them first and create an create an attitude so that they can learn and they have an interest in the research. Then I used to guide them to contact.

Thank you, Professor. Moving on, could you explain your experience and approach to guiding student projects and research, including any notable

Uh, mentor somehow, practically, I demonstrate them how from where is databases like, uh, Scopus or, uh, other Academy or other Academy adjust or these kind of a lot of scoppers Web of science access is available in the institution. I will go through those old databases and how they can find their accurate or, well, uh, researched, uh, uh, well cited high impact research papers in that particular field and how you can make. A bibliographic data of that particular things.

And maintain a proper literature review. How you can write a literature review. I used to give them some good research papers how they have to understand how the research paper has been prepared, how the literature review has been done, how the research caps has been found. So these kind of things are used to teach them and demonstrate them practically. And I also encourage them to apply for some conferences writing research purposes and do their final year projects everything very effectively and also. I also give them an insight about how the which are the variables in their study? How?

Some people who face any issues I used to demonstrate in front of them so that they get an understanding about both the data analysis, everything is done. Once these aspects has been done, I guide them how to write that particular, how to report the results. So this and how to do the proper referencing through a lot of referencing tools and softwares like mentally zeros, this kind of preference managing tools, how to add to that. So these kind of hands on experience. Also I used to train my students.

Uh, hypothesis is being formulated and how, which are the test you have to, uh, test, uh, for example, in the context of data analysis, whether it is umm, like descriptive analysis or you are going for an inferential analysis, what kind of tools like regression, correlation, these kind of things, which test is more applicable for your hypothesis and how to do that particular analysis? I used to demonstrate them and.

Thank you, Professor. Lastly, could you elaborate on your experience with publishing research in reputed journals, especially processes you followed to ensure quality and alignment with journal standards?

Yes, I first go through the scope of the scope of the particular channel and once my research article is aligned with the scope of the particular journal, I used to send my articles to that particular journal transiting that high quality papers. And I have I know how to do the proper literature review which make sure that the hypothesis formed as well well justified and I have good understanding about the research data analysis tools and test which has to be aligned.

How to do the analysis properly and how to report the results and justify my results? So this is my approach.

To begin, could you tell me about a particular teaching method or classroom approach that you find most effective in facilitating learning in Human Resource Management?

Yes. I wanted to know that, uh, whether I will be getting a good, uh, support for my pursuing my, uh, uh, research activities. Like I wanted to publish more papers and I wanted to contribute to a lot of research related aspects. Uh, so whether I will be getting a good support for that, whether I'll be able to balance my, uh, all balance the role by giving some importance to research also.

Our scheduled time for the interview is now up. Before we conclude, do you have any questions related to the role or the company?

That's a thoughtful question. Research is indeed an integral part of academic roles, especially in a professorship. Let me clarify by seeking precise details about the role's research expectations and support structure. Hold on a moment.

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No, no, no, no. I'm well aware that I'm very happy to hear that the BIT is supporting the research endeavours of the faculty.

I'm really happy to work with you.

No.

You all said I was.

Thank you, Professor, for your time and input during this session. Just to confirm, would you like to conclude the interview at this point?

Yes, Sir.