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Dr. Usha P.M.

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (Self Financing)

  • DESIGNATION
    Assistant Professor
  • Mobile
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  • E-MAIL
    pmusha.72@gmail.com
  • EXPERIENCE
    23 years of teaching and 6 years of industry experience
  • QUALIFICATION
    MBA, MCA, MPhil, AMT, PhD, UGC NET
  • AREA OF INTEREST
    Management and Information technology
  • ADDRESS
    Devagiri
FACULTY DETAILS

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Since June 2022

  • Working at St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Devagiri in the Department of Business Management.
  • Holding the position of Assistant HOD
  • Handling classes for BBA, BBA Honours and BCom Professional
  • In charge of Add-On Certification Programs and Corporate Interface Club
  • Functioning as Placement Coordinator of the Department
  • Involved in admission responsibilities
  • Part of team handling MOU as part of IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell)

From March 2012 to June 2022

    • Worked as Associate Professor at SNES Institute of Management Studies and Research, Kunnamangalam, an MBA Institute approved by AICTE and affiliated to University of Calicut.
    • Training students on advanced tools in Microsoft Excel
    • Handled core and specialization papers in Information technology, Human Resource Management, Organization Behaviour, Project Management and Operations Management.
    • Carried out research surveys for industries.
    • Functioned as Campus Placement Coordinator.
    • Functioned as Course Coordinator.
    • Functioned as Associate Editor for the Journal JOMAR (Journal of Management Studies and Research) (ISSN 2278-6716)
    • Active involvement in training students for placement.
    • Guided academic projects.
    • Functioned as Nodal Officer for IEDC (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre which is a flagship initiative of Kerala Startup Mission) at SNES IMSAR.

From May 2010 to March 2012

    • Worked as Faculty Member-IT/HR in IIPS (Indigrow Institute of Professional Studies)
    • Subjects handled are
      • Management Information Systems
      • Human Resource Management
      • Human Resource Planning
      • Training and development
      • Industrial Relations
      • Organization development
    • Also functioned as Campus Academic Coordinator
    • Functioned as Faculty Guide for Summer internship program

From October 2004 – May 2010

  • Worked as Faculty Member in ICFAI National College, Kozhikode,Kerala
  • Subjects handled includes
      • Information technology for Management
      • PC LAB
      •  IT and Systems
      •  Enterprise Wide Information systems
      •  Management Information Systems
      •  Software Engineering
      •  Internet and Web technology
      •  E-Business
      •  Operations Management
      •  Management Control Systems
      •  RDBMS
  • Functioned as Campus Exam Coordinator (4 Academic Years)
  • Selected as lead faculty member for IT
  • Was Faculty Supervisor for Management Thesis (Semester III & IV)
  • Successfully completed One month Faculty Training Program at ICFAI National college Headquarters, Hyderabad
  • Attended a 3 day Faculty Development Workshop at ICFAI National college Headquarters, Hyderabad.
  • Attended workshop on “Case study methodology” at ICFAI National College, Trivandrum
  • Was actively involved in training students for placement.
  • Functioned as Regional MIS reporter for Summer Internship Program for campuses in Kerala Region

From 2001 August to 2004 October

  • Worked as Lecturer in BSc. IT Center of Calicut University at Providence Women’s College, Calicut
  • Subjects handled are
      • C, C++,
      • Data Structures
      • Computer Graphics
      • DBMS
      • Modelling and Simulation
      • MIS
  • Responsibilities handled also include liasoning with University for academic and non academic matters concerning the center.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

  • “Mobile Advertising- The buzzing media” , Advertising Express, The ICFAI University Press, April 2009
  • “Web Mining - An Important Tool for Molding business” (online article)        http://www.indianmba.com/Faculty_Column/FC763/fc763.html
  • “Ethical  Dilemmas in the Digitized Era’ , SNES Global Journal of Management Studies and Research(ISSN 2278-6716), January 2013
  • “HR Policies and Practices – A Comparative study of Public, Private and Multinational Banks” ,SNES Global Journal of Management Studies and Research(ISSN 2278-6716), July 2014
  • “Ethical Dilemmas in the Digitized Era”, Entrepreneurship in the Globalized World published by New Century Publications, ISBN: 9788177083798
  • “ Data Mining for Talent Management in Business Enterprises”, Entrepreneurship in the Globalized World published by New Century Publications, ISBN : 9788177083798
  • “Emerging Technologies in banking”,SNES Global Journal of Management Studies and Research(ISSN 2278-6716), July 2015
  • “Sentiment Analysis - The future Of Marketing” (ISBN-978-81-925944-8-4)
  • “Business Intelligence in Banking” (ISBN-978-81-925944-8-4)
  • Published an article on “Social medial analytics and recruitment” in the magazine of Calicut Management Association.
  • Published an article “Analysing Employee Attrition Using Machine Learning” in the Karpagam Journal of Computer Science.
  • Published “An Analysis of the Use of Machine Learning for Employee Attrition Prediction – A Literature Review” in the Journal of Information and Computational Science, UGC-Care Group-II Certified Journal
  • Published an article “Impact of Machine Learning In Modernizing Human Resource Management” in “Linguistica Antverpiensia” which is Indexed by Scopus and Web of Science.
  • Published “A comparative study on machine learning algorithms for employee attrition prediction” in IOP Material Science and Engineering which is indexed by Scopus.
  • Published an article “Chi square enhanced fuzzy clustering for attrition prediction” in Design Engineering (Toronto) which is indexed by Scopus.
  • Published an article “A Grey Wolf Optimization Improved Deep Belief Network for Employee Attrition Prediction” in International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology which is Scopus Indexed
  • Published an article “Educational Data Mining for the prediction of Entrepreneurial career decisions of students” in the proceedings of the National conference on ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA – ISSUES AND CHALLENGES organized by XITE College, Gamharia on October 1st 2023.

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

  • Presented a paper on ‘Ethical issues of Information systems in business’ at the National Seminar conducted at SNES IMSAR.
  • Presented paper at AIMS Baramati National Conference on “Sentiment Analysis – The future of Marketing”
  • Presented paper at AIMS Baramati National Conference on “Business Intelligence in Banking”
  • Presented paper on “Impact of Block chain technology on Human Resource Management” at AIMS Baramati National Conference - Reconnect to Basics: Value Based Learning & Transformation.
  • Presented paper on “Role of Data Analytics in Public Sector in India” in the National Seminar on “Contemporary Developments in Management” at Farook Institute of Management Studies, Farook College.
  • Presented paper on “A comparative study on machine learning algorithms for employee attrition prediction” at the Annual International Conference on Emerging Research Areas (AICERA 2020) which is to be held at Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally.
  • Presented paper on “Analysing Employee attrition using Machine Learning” in the NATIONAL CONFERENCE on “Recent Trends and Advances in the Field of Information Technology” (NCIT'19)   on 27th September 2019 organized by Karpagam Academy of Higher Education.
  • Presented paper on “Fuzzy logic-based machine learning for attrition prediction” in 12th Annual Research Congress at Karpagam Academy of Higher Education.
  • Presented paper on “Educational Data Mining for the prediction of Entrepreneurial career decisions of students”  in the National conference on  ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA – ISSUES AND CHALLENGES on October 1st 2023 organized by XITE College, Gamharia.
  • Presented paper on “Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Impact of Cutting-Edge Technologies” in the National Level Management Conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Service Sector’ at Ahalia School of Management on 26th March 2024.
  • SEMINARS ATTENDED
  • Business Process Re-Engineering in Times of Global Financial Meltdown, Organized by Department of Management Studies and Computer Applications, KMCT College of Engineering, Kozhikode, May 05,2009
  • IT-HR Summit conducted by Calicut Management Association and Calicut IT Initiative
  • One-day Symposium on PKI Outreach Programme, Organized by Controller of Certifying Authority and CDAC
  • Attended a workshop on ‘How to develop a research report’ at SNES IMSAR.
  • Attended ‘National e-governance plan workshop’ hosted by University of Calicut
  • Attended National Seminar on “Innovative Banking Practices” conducted at SNES IMSAR.
  • Attended two day work shop on Data Analytics conducted by Keltron.
  • Attended workshop on “Data Analytics with Excel” organized by Nehru School of Management.
  • Attended 5th Kerala Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Lecture delivered by Prof.A.H.Kalro, Academic Advisor, Ahamedabad Educational Society and former Director, IIMK  on  the topic  “Building an Institution: The Case of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK)”
  • Attended “Shaping Young Minds Programme(SYMP)” organized by Calicut Management Association.
  • Attended one week National Workshop On “Applied Data Science and Business Analytics with Python and R" at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut
  • Attended one day workshop on Python for research scholars conducted by IIT Mumbai.
  •  Attended online program on “BIG DATA ANALYTICS TOOLS” organised by National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) Calicut.
  • Attended One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on "Recent Advances in Business Studies -2020”, organised by the Karpagam Academy of Higher Education (Deemed to be University)
  • Attended two weeks Faculty Development Workshop on “Predictive Analytics” organized by Department of Computer Applications, SAINTGITS College of Engineering, Kottayam
  • Attended two days workshop on “Business Intelligence using Power BI” conducted by Skill Nations.
  • Attended two days FDP on “AI Tools for Teaching and Research” conducted by Farook Institute of Management Studies.
  • Completed an online course on “R for data science” conducted by Great Learning

 

Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation

Also a resource person for handling IT training classes at Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation (CREST), an autonomous institution launched by the Government of Kerala., offering programmes to cater to the educational, cultural and socio-economic mobility of the Scheduled Communities of Kerala.

Other achievements

  • Handled Data Analytics classes at AIMER Business School, Kaithapoyil.
  • Was resource person for a session on “Data Analytics and Visualisation for Effective Decision Making” at Saintgits College of Applied Sciences.
  • Nominated as subject expert for the DEPARTMENT ADVISORY BOARD MEETING at Saintgits College of Applied Sciences.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE(NON-ACADEMIC)

From 1996 to 2001

  • Worked as Programmer in Grasim Industries Ltd. Mavoor (Adithya Birla Group)
  • Responsibilities include
    • Programming modules for raw material section, purchase section, payroll, finance section etc. using RDBMS
    • Creating month end reports in Excel
    • Training users
    • Trouble shooting software problems

       


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