MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC AND CONSULTANT WITH RICH AND VARIED EXPERIENCE
On the practical side, Joy has rich and varied top business management experience covering different sectors of industry and trade, spread over several countries. He has held high posts in multi-national corporations including Dr. C. Otto & Comp. GmbH. of Germany. Posts held by him include: Chairman, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Financial Controller, General Project Co-ordinator and Resident Construction Manager. He had been an empanelled consultant to The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, UNDP, and The Islamic Development Bank.
He has lectured and/or taught and given presentations at many renowned Universities, corporates and conferences all over India, including Anna University, Chennai; IIT, Madras; B S Abdur Rahman University, Chennai; S R M University, Chennai; Jadavpur University, Kolkatta; T K M Engineering College, Kollam; UAE Contractors Association, Dubai & Abu Dhabi; Indian Institute of Engineers, Vizag Chapter; Institute of Valuers, Chennai Chapter; Damodar Valley Corporation, Kolkatta; Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Dehradun; MECON’s International Seminar at Ranchi on project management; Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessels, Vizag; ITC, Kolkatta; Accountant General’s Office, Chennai; Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, Chennai; and Tamil Nadu Water & Sewerage Board, Chennai, to mention only a few.
ARBITRATOR & CONCILIATOR
Joy handles also counselling and dispute resolution. He is a Life Member of ‘The Indian Council for Arbitration ‘as well as of the FICCI’s Panel of Experts s for Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is on the panel of Padma Bhushan Dr. Sarada Menon for non-medical counselling.
AN ACCLAIMED AUTHOR
JOY is the author of Macmillan Publishing Company’s bestselling books ‘TOTAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT -- THE NDIAN CONTEXT' and ‘HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT', which are professional guidebooks and higher education textbooks/Reference books in engineering, architecture, and business management, throughout the country and abroad, as can be seen at Google search. These have gone into 14 to 15 reprints between 1993 and 2010. Major English Dailies including The Hindu and The Hindustan Times have called them "the firsts of their kind in the world". The Business Standard said that Total Project Management, the Indian Context’ "... is a mine of experience to explore". The Statesman has said that these books fill a gap that existed in India in the management of project planning and implementation. The Indian Express, The Financial Express, Business Today, Telegram (journal of The Institution of Engineers, India), NICMAR, and many other business and professional journals have praised these books in their reviews. In the review of Total Project Management book, the India Government body National Productivity Council’s publication Productivity has stated that the Organizational Behavior and Personal Commitment models created and published by Joy in Chapter 14 of this book puts him in the front line of behavior experts with Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Argyris and Alderfer, and in the Indian management context a step above these world leaders of behavioral science and organizational behavior. The World Bank has commented that "Dr. Joy's book on Total Project Management is a considerable achievement". Senior American authors have substantially quoted from this book. An example is John M. Nicholas Herman Steyn's book Project Management for Business, Engineering and Technology, Principles and Practice. Almost all Indian Universities' 'A' grade engineering colleges, schools of architecture and top class management institutes have prescribed these books, mostly at master's and research levels. Madras University has prescribed Joy's Total Project Management even for M.Com. (Banking) program.
'Trinity Press', the higher education imprint of Laxmi Publications Private Limited which has acquired the higher education department of Macmillan India Limited, will shortly release Joy's new book 'WHY SHOULD THE PUBLIC SECTOR FAIL?'. This is a well-researched work aimed at eliminating inefficiency in the performance of the Indian public sector. Joy's next book will be 'OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT' that he is writing for Oxford University Press.
JOURNALIST AND BOOK REVIEWER
For over three decades Joy has been writing articles and book reviews for The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, The Business Standard, The Economic Times, The Financial Express and Gulf News (UAE). Subsequent pages give links to newspaper articles and book reviews. Hs writes also for the publications of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA.
POET AND EDITOR
Several Indian and foreign literary magazines in English often carry his poems. He has won several awards, one of which is a crown displayed since 1994 in the anthropology section of the Government Museum at Egmore in Chennai city. This he won at an international poetry competition held in South Korea. He has 4 collections of poems to his credit, besides innumerable uncollected poems spread over the pages of a large number of journals and anthologies published in different parts of the world. The first collection The Final Goal was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. It was reprinted by Writers Club, Madras. The second collection For a More Beautiful World was first published by Writers Club Chennai and its second edition was brought out by Poetry Time Publications, Berhampur. The third collection Forced Smiles was published by Writers Club. All these three collections are presently available from Amazon, USA. His fourth collection titled Beyond Many Bends (ISBN - 978-81-908586-0-1) published in the year 2009 by Poetry World Publications carry 70 of his good selected poems of later years. Several literature students have done research on Joy's poetry. They include Chinnu Thomas of Gandhigram Rural University (under the guidance of Prof. Dr. M. A. Jayaraju) and Kumari Reshmi Dubey of Dhanbad School of Mines University (under the guidance of Prof. Dr. R. K. Singh).
Dr. G.S. Balarama Gupta, the then Professor & Chairman of English Department of Gulbarga University published in the year 1991 a book titled P K Joy the Man and the Poet (ISBN 81-7159-006-3) which is a collection of review articles and critical essays on Joy’s poems. It is available from JIWE, Gulbarga, and from Amazon Books, USA.
Joy was the founder-convener of Writers Club, Madras, with more than 300 members from different states. It was very active in the 1980s with monthly poetry reading sessions and a monthly publication called The Indian Writer. He had been Co-Editor of Poetry Time quarterly (Berhampur) edited by Laxmi Narayan Mahapatra, and Associate Editor of ‘Kavita India’, (Muzaffarpur), edited by Dr. A. Chittranjan Sahay & A. Priyamvada Sahay. Also he has served as Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor of the international poetry journals ‘Crosscurrent’ (New Zealand) edited by Dr. Norman Simms, ‘Bitterroot’ (New York) edited by Menke Katz, ‘Reflect’ (Norfolk) edited by W.S. Kennedy, and ‘The Plowman’ (Ontario, Canada) edited by Tony Scavetta, besides that of a few Indian journals as listed on another page. Till the demise of Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Joy was an Executive Committee Member of The P E N India Centre. Joy was the Coordinator General of the Xth World Congress of Poets held at Bangkok in 1988 and the XIth Congress held in Cairo in 1990. He visited several countries to promote these events.
A FRIEND OF THE UNDER-PRIVILEGED FELLOW-HUMANS
Joy is a Free Mason of four decades’ standing. He leads an austere life while spending substantial parts of his time and resources for serving and up-lifting the under-privileged fellow-humans.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Joy can be reached at <pkjoypoet@gmail.com>, <thejoys40@yahoo.com>
Google Search <P K Joy> will give a lot of links to detailed information about Joy.
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"My aim is only success, not victory over you.
My gains and pleasures, from your pains and tears I don't brew". –P. K. Joy
"Let man and his welfare be the final goal of all ideologies ". -P. K. Joy
- P. K. JOY did formal studies and research on Industrial Engineering (Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA), Business Management (Chartered Management Institute, UK., Himalayan University, India), Accountancy (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK), Project Management (PMI, USA), Political Science (Madurai Kamaraj University, India), Public Administration (Madurai Kamaraj University and Madras University, India), and Law (Annamalai University, India). As a visiting professor he teaches at a few technical universities and management institutes. He is a life member of the quasi-government body The Indian Society for Technical Education, and a Life Member of both The Indian Council for Arbitration, and of FICCI’s Panel of Experts for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
On the practical side, Joy has rich and varied top business management experience covering different sectors of industry and trade, spread over several countries. He has held high posts in multi-national corporations including Dr. C. Otto & Comp. GmbH. of Germany. Posts held by him include: Chairman, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Financial Controller, General Project Co-ordinator and Resident Construction Manager. He had been an empanelled consultant to The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, UNDP, and The Islamic Development Bank.
He has lectured and/or taught and given presentations at many renowned Universities, corporates and conferences all over India, including Anna University, Chennai; IIT, Madras; B S Abdur Rahman University, Chennai; S R M University, Chennai; Jadavpur University, Kolkatta; T K M Engineering College, Kollam; UAE Contractors Association, Dubai & Abu Dhabi; Indian Institute of Engineers, Vizag Chapter; Institute of Valuers, Chennai Chapter; Damodar Valley Corporation, Kolkatta; Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Dehradun; MECON’s International Seminar at Ranchi on project management; Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessels, Vizag; ITC, Kolkatta; Accountant General’s Office, Chennai; Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, Chennai; and Tamil Nadu Water & Sewerage Board, Chennai, to mention only a few.
ARBITRATOR & CONCILIATOR
Joy handles also counselling and dispute resolution. He is a Life Member of ‘The Indian Council for Arbitration ‘as well as of the FICCI’s Panel of Experts s for Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is on the panel of Padma Bhushan Dr. Sarada Menon for non-medical counselling.
AN ACCLAIMED AUTHOR
JOY is the author of Macmillan Publishing Company’s bestselling books ‘TOTAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT -- THE NDIAN CONTEXT' and ‘HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT', which are professional guidebooks and higher education textbooks/Reference books in engineering, architecture, and business management, throughout the country and abroad, as can be seen at Google search. These have gone into 14 to 15 reprints between 1993 and 2010. Major English Dailies including The Hindu and The Hindustan Times have called them "the firsts of their kind in the world". The Business Standard said that Total Project Management, the Indian Context’ "... is a mine of experience to explore". The Statesman has said that these books fill a gap that existed in India in the management of project planning and implementation. The Indian Express, The Financial Express, Business Today, Telegram (journal of The Institution of Engineers, India), NICMAR, and many other business and professional journals have praised these books in their reviews. In the review of Total Project Management book, the India Government body National Productivity Council’s publication Productivity has stated that the Organizational Behavior and Personal Commitment models created and published by Joy in Chapter 14 of this book puts him in the front line of behavior experts with Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Argyris and Alderfer, and in the Indian management context a step above these world leaders of behavioral science and organizational behavior. The World Bank has commented that "Dr. Joy's book on Total Project Management is a considerable achievement". Senior American authors have substantially quoted from this book. An example is John M. Nicholas Herman Steyn's book Project Management for Business, Engineering and Technology, Principles and Practice. Almost all Indian Universities' 'A' grade engineering colleges, schools of architecture and top class management institutes have prescribed these books, mostly at master's and research levels. Madras University has prescribed Joy's Total Project Management even for M.Com. (Banking) program.
'Trinity Press', the higher education imprint of Laxmi Publications Private Limited which has acquired the higher education department of Macmillan India Limited, will shortly release Joy's new book 'WHY SHOULD THE PUBLIC SECTOR FAIL?'. This is a well-researched work aimed at eliminating inefficiency in the performance of the Indian public sector. Joy's next book will be 'OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT' that he is writing for Oxford University Press.
JOURNALIST AND BOOK REVIEWER
For over three decades Joy has been writing articles and book reviews for The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, The Business Standard, The Economic Times, The Financial Express and Gulf News (UAE). Subsequent pages give links to newspaper articles and book reviews. Hs writes also for the publications of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA.
POET AND EDITOR
Several Indian and foreign literary magazines in English often carry his poems. He has won several awards, one of which is a crown displayed since 1994 in the anthropology section of the Government Museum at Egmore in Chennai city. This he won at an international poetry competition held in South Korea. He has 4 collections of poems to his credit, besides innumerable uncollected poems spread over the pages of a large number of journals and anthologies published in different parts of the world. The first collection The Final Goal was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. It was reprinted by Writers Club, Madras. The second collection For a More Beautiful World was first published by Writers Club Chennai and its second edition was brought out by Poetry Time Publications, Berhampur. The third collection Forced Smiles was published by Writers Club. All these three collections are presently available from Amazon, USA. His fourth collection titled Beyond Many Bends (ISBN - 978-81-908586-0-1) published in the year 2009 by Poetry World Publications carry 70 of his good selected poems of later years. Several literature students have done research on Joy's poetry. They include Chinnu Thomas of Gandhigram Rural University (under the guidance of Prof. Dr. M. A. Jayaraju) and Kumari Reshmi Dubey of Dhanbad School of Mines University (under the guidance of Prof. Dr. R. K. Singh).
Dr. G.S. Balarama Gupta, the then Professor & Chairman of English Department of Gulbarga University published in the year 1991 a book titled P K Joy the Man and the Poet (ISBN 81-7159-006-3) which is a collection of review articles and critical essays on Joy’s poems. It is available from JIWE, Gulbarga, and from Amazon Books, USA.
Joy was the founder-convener of Writers Club, Madras, with more than 300 members from different states. It was very active in the 1980s with monthly poetry reading sessions and a monthly publication called The Indian Writer. He had been Co-Editor of Poetry Time quarterly (Berhampur) edited by Laxmi Narayan Mahapatra, and Associate Editor of ‘Kavita India’, (Muzaffarpur), edited by Dr. A. Chittranjan Sahay & A. Priyamvada Sahay. Also he has served as Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor of the international poetry journals ‘Crosscurrent’ (New Zealand) edited by Dr. Norman Simms, ‘Bitterroot’ (New York) edited by Menke Katz, ‘Reflect’ (Norfolk) edited by W.S. Kennedy, and ‘The Plowman’ (Ontario, Canada) edited by Tony Scavetta, besides that of a few Indian journals as listed on another page. Till the demise of Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Joy was an Executive Committee Member of The P E N India Centre. Joy was the Coordinator General of the Xth World Congress of Poets held at Bangkok in 1988 and the XIth Congress held in Cairo in 1990. He visited several countries to promote these events.
A FRIEND OF THE UNDER-PRIVILEGED FELLOW-HUMANS
Joy is a Free Mason of four decades’ standing. He leads an austere life while spending substantial parts of his time and resources for serving and up-lifting the under-privileged fellow-humans.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Joy can be reached at <pkjoypoet@gmail.com>, <thejoys40@yahoo.com>
Google Search <P K Joy> will give a lot of links to detailed information about Joy.
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"My aim is only success, not victory over you.
My gains and pleasures, from your pains and tears I don't brew". –P. K. Joy
"Let man and his welfare be the final goal of all ideologies ". -P. K. Joy
