The leader of our team
DR. P. K. JOY THE LEADER OF OUR TEAM.
THE LEAD ROLE IN THE PLANING AND DELIVERY OF OUR SERVICES IS PLAYED BY Dr. P. K. Joy, a multi-disciplinary academic, consultant and author, with rich and varied experiences. He was born on 25 September 1940 to Mr. Kankalil Philipose Abraham and Mrs. Annamma Abraham in Kurathikkad Village in the Alleppy District of Kerala State in South India.
Right from his boyhood he wanted to be a poet and writer. But much against his wish, he was required to pursue job-fetching education and then go for employment. But in later years he pursued higher education in many disciplines and research on serveral topics, which he thought would equip him well to serve the under-privileged members of the society. He got the opportunity to get extensive guidance from a foreigner senior colleague with whom he worked and also resided. His mentor was many years older, but as he was an unmarried man of austere living, he had good amount of time to spend for Dr. Joy. Almost all of his wakeful time outside the office hours, was available to Joy. The older gentleman’s association was a great blessing to Dr. Joy.
After his mentor’s death, Joy joined another German company with huge business connections with India’s steel industry development.
When he was just 42 years of age, Dr. Joy resigned his job of Financial Controller (CFO) of his German employer and moved to Chennai to take advantage of the available huge opportunities for multi-pronged academic activities comprising learning, researching, teaching, writing and training others. He also headed an engineering company in Chennai. His sizeable savings from the well-paid multinational companies’ jobs were invested in this Chennai company.
After developing his company and partly leaving its management to his two teams of partners, one after the other, Joy spent considerable portion of his time for teaching and writing. His partners along with a team of financial consultants and allegedly with two bank officers, defalcated the company’s money and other assets. Joy had to rush in and take back the management when the company was already sick. He sold out all his family assets and cleared employees’ and creditors’ dues. This huge misfortune made joy lose his business and wealth. He then took to consulting, professional writing and teaching. This huge failure added to his rich and varied management experience, which The Business Standard daily has called ‘a mine of experience to be explored’. The rest of his background and achievements which have groomed him with rich education and varied experiences to serve others well are contained in the following sections.
DR. P. K. JOY’S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
He did formal studies and research on Industrial Engineering (The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, USA); Business Management (Chartered Management Institute, UK., Miramar University, USA; and 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 University of Madras, 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 FICCI’s Panel of Experts for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
On the practical side, Dr. Joy has rich and varied top business management experiences covering different sectors of industry and trade, spread over many countries. He has held high posts in multi-national corporations including Dr. C. Otto & Comp. GmbH., of Germany and Otto India Limited, besides a couple of other companies in Dubai and India. Posts held by him include: Chairman, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Director, Financial Controller(CFO), 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.
Dr. Joy has lectured and/or taught and given presentations at many renowned Universities, corporates and conferences in India and abroad, 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 and 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
Dr. Joy has handled many arbitrations and ADRs. He is a counsellor for the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is on the panel of Padma Bhushan Dr. Sarada Menon for non-medical counselling.
AN ACCLAIMED AUTHOR
Dr. P. K. 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 dozens of reprints. Macmillan Publishing company’s higher education business in India has since been bought out buy Trinity, an imprint of Laxmi Publications Private Limited, Delhi.
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 be explored“. 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, Telerama (journal of The Institution of Engineers, India), NICMAR, and many other business and professional newspapers and 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 Behaviour and Personal Commitment models created and published by Dr.Joy in Chapter 14 of this book puts him in the front line of behaviour experts along with Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Argyris and Alderfer, : and in the Indian management context a step above these world leaders of behavioural science and organizational behaviour. The World Bank has commented that “Dr. Joy’s book on Total Project Management is a considerable achievement”. Senior authors the world over 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.
JOURNALIST AND BOOK REVIEWER
For several decades Dr. 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. He writes also for the publications of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, USA.
POET AND EDITOR
Several Indian and foreign literary magazines in English often carry Dr. P. K. Joy’s poems. He has won serveral awards. One of them is a gold crown he has won for poetry competition held in 1988 in South Korea in the name and style of ‘ Poetry Olympiad’. The crown replicates the actual crown of Kaya Dynasty of Korea of the 5th Century. This award won by Joy is displayed in the anthropology section of the Government Museum at Egmore in Chennai city. 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. His first collection The Final Goal was published by Prof P. Lal for Writers’ Workshop, Calcutta. It was reprinted by Writers’ Club, Madras. The second collection For a More Beautiful World was first published by Poetry Time Publications, Berhampur, and its second edition was brought out by Writers’ Club, Chennai. His 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)was published in the year 2009 by Poetry World Publications of the late Dr. Krishan Srinivas, Padma Bhushan. This carry 70 of his good, selected poems of later years. These Poems were republished by ‘Poems Hunter’ an online publication . 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. Jeyaraj, and Kumari Reshmi Dubey of Dhanbad School of Mines, a Central University, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. R. K. Singh.
DR. G.S. BALARAMA GUPTA’S BOOK ‘P K JOY, THE MAN AND THE POET’
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 also from Amazon Books, USA.
PUBLICATIONS CARRYING P K JOY’S POEMS
Dr. P. K. 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. Chittaranjan 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 IXth World Congress of Poets held at Bangkok in 1988 and the XIth Congress held in Cairo in 1990. He visited many countries to promote these events.
A FRIEND OF THE UNDER-PRIVILEGED FELLOW-HUMANS
Dr. P. K. Joy is a Free Mason of many decades’ standing. He leads an austere life in a Tamil Nadu village while spending substantial parts of his time and resources for serving and up-lifting the under-privileged fellow-humans.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. P. K. Joy can be reached at pkjoypoet@gmail.com, pkjoyauthor1940@gmail.com, drpkjoysbooks@gmail.com, thejoys40@yahoo.com,,
The following pages give lead to a lot of information about Dr. Joy’s books, some articles, book reviews, Universities that have prescribed his books for higher education and research, Mega projects executed by him and team, others’ review of Joy’s books, etc. Many of his Profiles appearing on the internet are outdated. They need Updating.
Please also visit P. K. Joy at Wiki C C., a member of the Wikipedia group.
“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