The Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) is an Indian business school, located in the steel city of Jamshedpur. It was founded in 1949.
Over the last few decades, XLRI Jamshedpur has contributed its best to the professional growth and management of innumerable institutions that serve the public, especially organized industry, labour, service agencies, engaged in rural development, education, health and other public systems. Besides the focus on developing managerial competence among the pupils through acquisition of specialized knowledge and skills, the Institute emphasizes the importance of developing a sense of social justice, with right attitudes, and values of discipline, dedication and commitment among all its members.
Academic Programmes
XLRI Programmes use state-of-the-art ideas, pedagogical tools, and technologies to address the needs of business and communities, facing challenges posed by the globalization of the Indian economy. Besides the Postgraduate Programmes in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Business Management, Doctoral Programmes, XLRI offers a one year General Management Programme (a full time programme) for candidates with prior work experience of at least 3 years. It also has a 3-year Executive Postgraduate Programme, which is designed to facilitate experiential learning and the transfer of learning into practice through assignments on current organizational problems.
XLRI's post graduate program in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations is the best in the Asia Pacific region.
Student Exchange Programme
In 2004, XLRI tied up with the Malardalen University, Sweden and Asian Institute of Management, Philipines for student exchange programmes. The tie-ups were initiated by the student exchange committee called POISE.
Administration
XLRI's current director is Father N Casimir Raj S.J. while Prof. P. Venugopal is the Dean (Academics). The Chairman of the Board of Governers is Mr. B. Muthuraman who is also MD, TATA Steel. Other members of the board include Mr. Y C Deveshwar (Chairman, ITC Ltd) and Mr. Arun Maira (Chairman, Boston Consulting Group).
XLRI Culture
XLRI has consistently been ranked by national magazines as a top 5 business school in India. Over the years, XLRI has also evolved a unique culture of its own, that separates it from most other business schools. To begin with, a compact campus that houses the faculty, students and the academic blocks within 40 acres leads to a lot of camaraderie. The 400 odd students pride themselves on knowing every other student/faculty personally. The campus is nestled in the green city of Jamshedpur with its own hills to the west (Dalma hills) and the Subarnarekha river.
The students have an active hand in college affairs - for instance the entire placement process is organized and conducted by a group of students that form the Placement Committee. Other committees exist too - Asterix (strategic workshops), Finax (Finance workshops), Socrates (XLRI network administration), POISE (student exchange) etc.
The students stay together on campus for two years and then graduate to join a vast, active network of XL alumni around the world. Alumni meets are held every year around May-June in various cities in India as well as in the USA, UK and Dubai.