Projects

Description (…Workshop in progress, UAE, Dubai)

The aim of this 10 workshops based project is to prepare a customized personal development plan, an action plan including short-term, mid-term and long-term goals for women learners from diverse backgrounds, on a funded project titled: ‘Empowerment’. This will focus on aligning learners to their professions either through self-employment or through employment within the government, non-profit or the private sectors.

–Kshatriya, S. (2016-17), Dubai, UAE

Description (Consultancy in Progress, Dubai, UAE)

The top 3 priorities defined by Dallas employees as a result of an ongoing consulting exercise are: (1) Sales, (2) Employee Centricity and (3) MIS, all inter-linked by key employee processesat the core. The aim of the consulting project is to recommend and ensure a person-organization fit at Dallas Group through the following: Visibility – ensuring the commitment of top management towards the HR goal and employees’ perception of it; Transformation – of a family managed organisation to a more corporate and professional one ready for the next stage of growth; and Basic HR Strategy– defined by reviewing the Vision and Mission, Key Performance Indicator’s, Person-Job fit (Job Analysis), Job Description’s linking KPI’s, JD’s and Performance Management.

-Kshatriya, S. (2016-17)

Description (Selection System Potential Research Project, Global Mental Health Lab, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, WHO funded, Potential Collaboration with Centre of Excellence for Research and Training (CERT) and Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE)

Potential for creating an assessment system by conducting a job analysis to identify important knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes (KSAO) and competencies (behaviours) required of a successful employee. Involves identifying reliable and valid methods of measuring these KSAO’s and competencies, and creating a system for measuring and collecting the resulting data. Further, examining of the data collected from each measure to ensure that it has an appropriate mean and standard deviation while using correlation or regression analysis to evaluate any redundancies among the measures to assess how well the group of measures predict job success. Also, considering adverse impact and the cost of the measures in evaluating each measure and, after the final set of measures are identified; developing selection rules to determine which scores are passing and periodically re-evaluating the usefulness and effectiveness of the system to ensure that it is still predicting job success without adverse impact.

-Verdeli, Helen & Kshatriya, S., Singh. (2016-17)

Description (…workshop in progress, Columbia University, New York, USA)

Developing powerful women leaders and needed skills to the current global workplace including the capacity for collaborative problem solving, team building, empathy, ability to read others and a high degree of risk taking. This 2-day, non-credit, experiential workshop explores Embodied Leadership, a radically different way of learning to lead. Particularly significant for women leaders, this body/mind approach enables women to experience the body as a source of intelligence and power in ways that directly impact their ability to act with agency, develop a consistent voice, take a stand for self and others, engage conflict and negotiation with compassion and dignity and build the resilience to deal with ambiguity, complexity, and power dynamics individually and within academic, profit and non-profit organizations.

–Bennett, Carmela., & Kshatriya, S. (2016-17)

Background

Interview with Faculti, London University, UK, USA

Sunitha Kshatriya makes a comparison of learning models implemented at Al .r University College, Dubai and Laurea University, Finland while trying to synthesize post-secondary education’s (PSEs) functions and their role in enabling student success; against a backdrop of PSEs social and economic impact on 21st century learning skills around the world. Dr Sunitha Kshatriya is an Associate Professor & Institutional Effectiveness Director at Al Dar University College, Dubai and Chairperson of the ‘Empowerment Centre for the Advancement of Education'(ECAfE), a not-for-profit based in Toronto, Canada. In the past 12 years Sunitha Kshatriya has played a key role in establishing academic and not-for-profit institutions in Dubai and Canada including various strategic partnerships related to Education and Women Empowerment initiatives. She specializes in program creation, teaching, training and curriculum design, reinforced with an extensive breadth of international experience in HR management, policy development, and strategic leadership in the public, private, and academic sectors. ECAfE’s mandate is to support marginalized and disadvantaged groups in the community through education, training, mentorship and development and, whose principle objectives include Education and Training, Supporting Women, Seniors and Adolescents suffering Domestic Abuse including Health Care / Mental Health needs. She received the Status of Women, Canada award in 2012 for her project on Women Empowerment.

Background

Interview with Faculti, London University, UK, USA

Sunitha Kshatriya discusses factors that help better align professional training and area of expertise with jobs within the corporate sector in the UAE. The proposed Research aims to provide a direct link between training and job performance through experiential research, aimed at building policy/advocacy capacity for the corporate needs of the UAE. Dr Sunitha Kshatriya is an Associate Professor & Institutional Effectiveness Director at Al Dar University College, Dubai and Chairperson of the ‘Empowerment Centre for the Advancement of Education), a not-for-profit based in Toronto, Canada. In the past 12 years Sunitha Kshatriya has played a key role in establishing academic and not-for-profit institutions in Dubai and Canada including various strategic partnerships related to Education and Women Empowerment initiatives. She specializes in program creation, teaching, training and curriculum design, reinforced with an extensive breadth of international experience in HR management, policy development, and strategic leadership in the public, private, and academic sectors. ECAfE’s mandate is to support marginalized and disadvantaged groups in the community through education, training, mentorship and development and, whose principle objectives include Education and Training, Supporting Women, Seniors and Adolescents suffering Domestic Abuse including Health Care/ Mental Health needs. She received the Status of Women, Canada award in 2012 for her project on Women Empowerment.

Background

Recognizing the mutual benefits to be gained through strengthened cooperation and contacts between Professors of higher education institutions, Columbia University, New York, (hereinafter Prof. Columbia) and Al Dar University College, United Arab Emirates, (hereinafter Prof. ADUC); hereby agree to enter into a strategic collaboration agreement. This agreement establishes the general principles and conditions under which the collaboration will be pursued.

Background

Recognizing the mutual benefits to be gained through strengthened cooperation and contacts between the two higher education institutions, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland, (hereinafter Laurea) and Al Dar University College, United Arab Emirates, (hereinafter ADUC), hereby agree to enter into a strategic collaboration agreement. This agreement establishes the general principles and conditions under which the collaboration will be pursued.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Al Dar University College (ADUC), represented by Dr. Ezz Hattab, and Institute of Business Management (IoBM) represented by Mr. Shahjehan S. Karim, (hereinafter referred to as Parties) hereby agree to establish the following co-operation agreement for the purpose of promoting and expanding international development, understanding and friendship by stimulating and supporting educational, scientific, professional and cultural activities.

Description
Skills for Change, Toronto, Canada

This was called a 1-year ‘Leaders in Residence’ project funded by Status of Women Canada, awarded through Skills for Change – a not-for-profit based in Toronto. The aim of this project was to support 3-5 women immigrants who were between 35 to 55 years of age and, most in need of help, and who were unemployed or underemployed and / or at risk of violence; get from a situation of dependence to a situation of self-employment or a job; leading to their empowerment; by working on customized goals for each based on their needs’ assessment.

http://www.skillsforchange.org/move_into_employment/women.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OQSsBvZTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exl5Dy2A27A

–Kshatriya, S. (2011, Sept), Toronto, Canada 

Description

York University, Toronto Canada

This was a consulting project that was carried out and completed for Melrose Painting Inc., a Canadian company, further to a project proposal that was handed to the client, after signing off a confidentiality agreement. The deliverables of the project were to give a prospect database and a market penetration strategy report to the client, in order to enable its penetration into the Property Management Segment within Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario regions.

By Kshatriya, S., Titlay, I., Porteus, M., Murillo, A.G.G., & Millan, O.

Kshatriya, S., Titlay, I., Porteus, M., Murillo, A.G.G., & Millan, O.

-Kshatriya, S., Titlay, I., Porteus, M., Murillo, A.G.G., & Millan, O. (2012, July) York University, Toronto, Canada

Description

The Selection System Project (SSP) was aimed at developing a Recruitment and Selection system for a ‘requisite’ position within a private Canadian Organization. The SSP was based on an accurate, detailed, thorough and thoughtful job analysis and the rest of the project flowed from this. The job position was based on the National Classification Code. The Job Analysis was based on Functional Job Analysis technique and arrives at Task Statements and the Task Inventory with Rating of Task Statements done against Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Attribute’s (KSAO’s)’ identified. The Performance Appraisal Tool developed used Graphical Rating Scale as a valid and reliable predictor tool based on critical criteria derived through job analysis to evaluate Task, Contextual and Counter Productive Behaviours. A Recruitment Action Plan was developed on the basis of Internal and External Analysis, Organization Analysis and Job Analysis. Screening of job applicants’ considered Minimum Qualifications based on KSAO’s identified and demonstrated various screening methods that could be used. The Employment Testing methods showed the KSAO’s that would need to be tested and cognitive and non-cognitive testing methods were recommended, giving justifications for each test. The Interview tool developed used Behavioural Description Interview technique, complete with Probes and Scoring Guides. Finally, Decisions-Making used the Multiple Hurdle Model and Top-Down Approach for combining scoring date from all predictors based on which, the final decision on selecting the right candidate for the SSP position could be made.. 

-Kshatriya, S. (2012, March), York University Recruitment Strategy Research Project, York University, Toronto, Canada

Description

This Project looked at Lululemon Athletica- a public organization to understand the strategy and implications on its HR policies. It’s Annual Reports, Financial Statements and Business Articles were analyzed to understand Lululemon’s goals, mission, purpose, core-values, vision, culture, strategic climate, its various stakeholder groups, its value proposition and product market focus and, to arrive at its value chain and organizational strategy. Michael Porter’s 5-Forces Model was applied to evaluate Lululemon’s external environment and Killing’s Diamond E Framework was applied to understand the internal environment of the organization to understand its ‘fit’.

By Kshatriya, S., & Mitrakhovich, A. (2012, March), York University Research Project, York University, Canada