CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PARTICIPANTS

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CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PARTICIPANTS
MORNING : A guided Yoga session begins at
6.00 am on the terrace - or on the ground floor
lobby- of your hostel. The wake up session
increases your energy throughout the day and
prepares your mind for another great day filled
with opportunities and challenges. Tea /coffee is
served right from 5.30 am to enable you to attend the Yoga session. Yoga session is
compulsory.
Our course is based on the principles of adult learning
which says “the onus of learning is on you – the adult
learner ! “ Therefore you would be requested to create
an ATMOSPHERE OF LEARNING for yourself
and others. To minimize distractions, it is mandatory to
put the cell phones off at the start of each session.
Laptops are permitted only if the instructor wants you
to. This policy will avoid you from getting distracted by
SMS, surfing, e mails, going out for phone calls, and
side discussions etc. Please realize that if the trillion
pages on the net could be delivered to you as readymade knowledge on your desktop,
you would not have been here ! You are here to maximize the benefit from your personal
contact with the teacher. Stay in the class and be focused on the subject. One mike is
provided between two – please use the same so everyone can benefit from your questions
and comments.
We expect all participants to come with their own LAPTOPS which can be used by
them outside the classroom. Internet connections are provided inside the hostel rooms but
the participants are advised to bring with them extensions for power cords and for
internet socket connections so that they can be used from anywhere in the hostel room.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE : Attendance will be taken in the class and a minimum
requirement of attendance is 85% in the program. LEAVE OF ABSENCE from the class
will be granted only with a prior permission and never afterwards. Your attendance is an
important part of your academic input and scoring. If your performance in exams and
assignments is not timely and good, you may be required to re-do the contact with the
next batch.
If the reason for the absence is that the employer wants you to do something and hence
you are remaining absent with full concurrence of your employer, you may be given a
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
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LEAVE OF ABSENCE by making a request in writing by mail to your Batch
Coordinator stating who from your company has permitted you to be taken away from
the class work and for what time. Your mentor & HR should also be marked on this
mail.
ASSIGNMENTS/ EXAMS : All examinations will be conducted on campus, invigilated,
and shall be in universally accepted paper and pen format. Most assignments are off
campus and need to be uploaded on our E Learning platform. To keep pace with the
program each assignment has a schedule of submission. Late submission will be
accepted only up to 7 days from due date and all such late submissions may carry penalty
by way of reduction of marks.
The primary intent of assignments is to encourage you to apply learning in the class to
your job / company / industry and thus reinforce it. As such, your mentor is in the best
position to comment on whether the assignment has been properly attempted and is
useful to your employer. We have also deployed Research Associates who will provide
additional input to you by scoring and commenting on your assignment.
Please approach the assignments with utmost sanctity. While you may discuss with one
another, each and every assignment should be original i.e. every participant should take
the pains to work on his/her assignment individually.
You will not be allowed to appear for the end term exam and attend the contact of the
next phase if
a) You have attempted less than 70% assignments in each subject in each contact of
the phase( 2 contacts comprise of a phase)
b) Less than 70% of the assignments submitted, are on time (i.e on the due date).
In case you do not clear a course of a particular phase you will have to reappear for the
exam or submit the pending assignments in order to make –up your grades.
BATCH SCHEDULE : Once you join a batch, SPJIMR commits its resources like
classrooms, hostel rooms and faculty irrevocably to accommodating you on given dates
during the 7 contacts over 21 months. You must therefore realize that any skipping of
contact and wanting to study the contact with some other future other batch creates a
significant problem for SPJIMR because the seat / room in the skipped contact becomes
vacant which we could have given to some other participant and charged fees for.
Secondly, we also need to find an alternate seat / room for you in a suitable future batch.
Therefore as a matter of policy we discourage you from deferring your attendance to
another contact or exiting from the program.
Only under exceptional circumstances we permit change of schedule and that too after
writing an explicit application sufficiently in advance and seeking formal permission of
the Chairman of the program. Please note that such a decision will be agreed by SPJIMR
only under exceptional circumstances and that too only if SPJIMR is convinced that the
reasons are beyond the control of participant, employer & the mentor and are the
circumstances are compelling enough to prevent the participant from meeting his
commitment to the course.
Any Participant who moves to a another batch will have to bear a charge of Rs10,000/- as
a re-admission fee for admission into a new batch. If the time gap in the course is more
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and if the course fees have changed between the time of the person’s enrollment in the
program and the starting of the batch he wants to join, a differential in the fees will also
need to be paid. This will be charged on a pro rata basis for the number of future contacts
to be still attended.
We will not entertain change of batch more than once for a given person for the course.
The conditions under which the shift of batch is possible are as follows.
1. The participant has informed EMP batch coordinator in writing one week before the
first day of the contact that he will miss it.
2. The participant has completed 70% the assignments of the earlier contacts with his
original/previous batch.( eg to join in Integration phase i.e-contact-3 he should have
completed all assignments of foundation phase with his original batch)
3. He has appeared & cleared all exams till the contact period he wants to join.( eg to
join in Integration phase i.e-contact-3 he should have cleared orientation phase exam)
4. The request is made with approval of the HR dept of the partner company, if the
participant is sponsored
5. The participant is ready to make his lodging & boarding arrangements, if we are
unable to make these with the new batch the participants wants to join
6. A written commitment that henceforth he will be regular and attend all sessions and
do exams and assignments in time is given by the participant and counter signed by
the HR department and also the Mentor.
If the person does not join within 1 year of attending the last contact, it will be taken as
an indicator that he has chosen to discontinue from the program without refund and
credits. If he wants to join afterwards, he joins as a fresh student as if he has not been in