Dr. Salla Vijay Kumar

Dr. Salla Vijay Kumar, is senior lecturer at Institute of Hotel Management (IHM) Ahmedabad, widely considered to be one of the India's best hospitality and hotel management schools. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya (KSV), an M.Phil from Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), and a B.Sc. (H & H.A.) degree from IGNOU from Institute of Hotel Management (IHM) Ahmedabad. He has 5 years of International & National industrial exposure at Holiday Inn, Ahmedabad, Baisan International, Bahrain, and Sarovar Group, Ahmedabad, and teaching at Baisan Institute of Hotel Management, Bahrain; he is serving IHM Ahmedabad since 2002.

Dr. Salla Vijay Kumar is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with him through LinkedIn.

Executive Profiles

Innovative Traditional Learning

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Background – We have grown and equipped our basics from the traditional system of education. It started with the students staying at the GURUKUL, attaining academics and life lessons from the tutors. Urbanization saw the advent of schools and researchers continue to study the effectiveness of the system on the...

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THE TEACHER HUMILITY

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Members of any team, including those in academic institutions, are more open and willing to share more ideas and conversations when they work in a psychologically safe work environment. The team spends more time solving problems than managing member relationships (Bradley et al., 2012). Resilience with varying degrees of intensity...

Business World

Accept Result and Strategize

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Background – In continuation to my address in Without the Fear of Assessment in LEAD THE CHANGE: AN ANTHOLOGY TO EMPOWER SCHOOL LEADERS (2019) I believe that your feedback even on a dress or drawing matters the very feeling of a job well done. The mood and moment, the tenacity...

Executive Council

Grooming Hospitality for Different Pastures

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Background - I remember a beautiful anecdote that said among most professions, Teachers can be accredited a little higher for the simplest reason that they help create professionals. Coming down to hospitality it also stands true. Therefore, it can be concluded that the hotel schools with their able team of...

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Examination as a Healthy Wellbeing

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In many instances we are being compared constantly with the top scorers as a recurring scenario. The scores can be considered with the earned value of each household. It differs, and so are the scores. The parents back home and the teachers especially the friends all act as catalysts in...

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Stay DESTINED or Create DESTINY

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We often hear the stereotypical notion that what if Sachin Tendulkar’s parents had put him to singing instead of Cricket, and these examples haven't left Late Lata Mangeshkar either. Let us confess we're all obsessed with success stories and paint the same color thereof. Parents feel that their children should...

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The Indian Medico Paradise

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Tourism for all. Medico Tourism for good. As a state, Gujarat has been a hub for medical cure, Ahmedabad being the medical treatment spot. At the time when medical services are available and designed to be at your doorstep, exigencies have also been addressed and accounted to resolve in the...

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Managing to Learn Time

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Dear Reader, I appreciate your concern in reading the title “Learning to Manage Time”. There have been theories, speeches and exercises that have professed how to manage time. I would like to talk about the children at schools gearing up for counseling careers. I took this excerpt from my son...

CEO Insider

Smile Is Expensive

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KEEP SMILING. Since the last four and half decades, I have been compelled to believe that a smile costs nothing but gives much, it enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. Contented on the same, I have been professing the same with family, friends, neighbors, temporary/ transit...

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The 2nd Generation coming up, to uphold Hospitality

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There have been studies regarding older employees living their lives and later leaving the workforce and younger hospitality employees entering the hospitality industry. Understanding this future hospitality workforce is crucial as experiential studies of past generations (Baby-boomers, Generation X and Generation Y) have reported high turnover patterns among the hospitality...

Executive Council

The No Hope Positivity Defined

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It has been more common than the Sun rises in the East, do we hear to always be positive. My fellow countrymen global will agree that in any instance of life, any situation fatal or anyone deceived, in all the cases we are supposed to be positive and hope that...

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Equipped Enough to Learn

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Learning has evolved further through digital literacy that entails assessing, experiencing and disseminating information in a digital world and can be differently utilized depending on disciplines. Hagel (2012) stated that the online mode of education has enhanced and continues to cultivate our understanding on how to effectively and efficiently utilize...

Global CEO Forum

The Sociomaterial Flip

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Learning has always been a part and parcel of each one of us, at infrequent but on a regular intervals. Many don’t realize and many consider themselves learned enough. I agree to many that learning is for lifetime, even for the learned. While I was passing through my two decades...

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Sustenance Workmanship through Education

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IN THE READY- TO- DELIVER HOSPITALITY WORLD One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our...

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Cuisine Conservation A’LA MINNESOTA

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On April 15, 1917, with less than two weeks after the initial call to war, President Woodrow Wilson asked all Americans to become citizen-soldiers. He emphasized to supply abundant food for themselves, their armies and also a large part of the nations because without abundant food… the whole great enterprise...

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