About XLRI

Xavier Labour Relations Institute, widely known as XLRI was born out of the vision of a Jesuit Priest, Father Quinn Enright. It was founded in 1949 in the Steel city of Jamshedpur. Since then the Jamshedpur Jesuit Society has nurtured the growth of XLRI in keeping with its commitment to "Magis" (excellence in everything).

The Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) of XLRI, Jamshedpur has launched a 6-month Post Graduate Programme for Certificate in Entrepreneurship Management (PGP-CEM) effective from March 2010. The salient features of the programme are indicated below.

PGP-CEM has been designed to provide competency-based education to the eligible candidates with a view to promoting entrepreneurship in Jharkhand and rest of the country. The programme will be pursued in such a manner as to encourage critical and lateral thinking and integrate theory with practice. The ultimate objective will be (a) to create effective and successful entrepreneurs out of those who have no exposure to this vocation, but have an inclination and desire to turn into such entities, and (b) to enhance the skills of those who are currently functioning as such.

The curriculum has been designed carefully in order to ensure that courses included in this programme will contain not only the usual inputs on functional areas of business like finance, marketing, strategy and human resource (HR) etc., but also fields of specific interest in the context of entrepreneurial development in India like women entrepreneurship, family business, agripreneurship and social enterprises.

The curriculum consists of three different categories of courses-the ones of foundational nature, the ones which are intended to enhance the entrepreneurial skills and those which impart an integrative approach to business.

The details of the curriculum and the number of contact hours involved may be modified if and when such modification is considered necessary for making the programme operationally more efficacious.