Re: Re: [MTC Global] On the job learning Vs MBA

Let me cite a few cases of PhDs:

1.
In 1985 I returned from IIT, KGP and my friend told me he has received PhD in Personnel
Management from the University, his hypothesis was those students who completed PT Diploma
from the Correspondence Cell Institute of the State were well placed in life, his sample was
25 students and a questionnaire.
2.
One IIT offered PhD in Humanity sometimes during 1995-98 on Quality Factors of Technical
Education, use of a questionnaire, the factors having highest frequency were proposed as
quality factors of Technical Education.
3.
During 1988-92, I had an opportunity to go through one PhD thesis in Economics of the a
University in Maharashtra. The hypothesis was Sahyadri Sugar Factory at Karad has improved the
standard of living of the people. Sample size 12, against 1200 workforce, the candidate could
not answer some queries on balance sheet prepared by somebody else; a part of thesis.

Let me put on record that universities in Maharashtra and Southern States stopped appointinmg
me as PhD/ME/M Tech/MBA examiner because I could not compromise with quality.

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:53:29 +0530 wrote
>Dear MTCians,
The issue raised by Dr.Bholnatha on On the Job Learning vs.MBA
Unfortunately, today's class room learning and education are limited to theoretical studies
only, whether it is Engineering or Management discipline. Leave alone the students, what about
the knowledge level of the faculty members who teach Management and Engineering ? Are they
exposed to practical experience as to what is required in industries once the students who are
taught by them come out of the college NEST?

 The faculty members before getting their doctorate degrees, prepare a nice questionnaire and
post it to several industries and request them to fill and send back which they will use for
the purpose of submission to the examining authorities.These questionnaires are mostly not
self made but downloaded from Google and several Websites.Such questionnaires contain issues
such as Method of recruitment, Training & Development, Attitudinal aspects, Growth prospects,
Canteen and other welfare administration, Product range and market trend, Competitors,
Industrial relations problems, Turn over of the company, Union-Mgt relations prevailing in
that particular industry where they are collating the data.

Once they submit the questionnaires duly filled, it satisfies the Project requirements for
their doctorates. How it really helps the candidate in knowing and understanding the
intricacies of Management or the Engineering  aspects of an industry? Unless they undergo
practical exposure on line in the shop floor they cannot learn anything which is actually
required of an  engineering or a management graduate. What is that they can teach the students
in the management  institutions? MBAs must  be Master of Business Administration and not
Master of BAD Administration.

MBA degrees were once deemed as a coveted degrees but nowadays it is available at a call. Not
that the entire MBA population is average or below average, but there are also outstanding
candidates who do well and excel in their studies  and become efficient managers also. A
situation must come when  all the MBAs become professionals or small entrepreneurs or
management consultants.  Nowadays we find 50 to 60 % of the MBA graduates are hunting for jobs
and underemployed. Students cannot be blamed for this. It is the curriculum that matters.

What is required is more of practical learning rather than of theoretical learning.Regards,

V.NAGARAJAN, B.A., LL.B.,PGDBA, PGDCA,Corporate Trainer & HR Consultant,
Motivational & Keynote Speaker,General Manager-HR (Retd.) TTK Prestige Limited, Hosur,
Former President & Advisor - National HRD Network, Hosur Chapter,(Mobile) +91 9994919619e-
Mail Id:  vnagarajan99@gmail.com



On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta wrote:

Graduate degrees, including the MBA, have proliferated in subjects and fields where on-the-job
learning used to be standard. Instead of being paid to learn, you must now pay to learn. So
careers which used to stretch from college graduation at 21 to retirement at 65 are now
compressed between graduate school graduation in your late 20s and early retirement in your
early 50s. You now have two decades to maximise your lifetime earnings rather than four.


The questions this poses for MBA programmes are ethical ones. Do they provide sufficient value
to students whose career spans are shrinking? Is it right for them to charge what they do for
the service they provide? Or are they peddling a qualification which has simply transferred
the burden of educating managers from companies to individuals, who now have ever decreasing
time left to cover its cost?


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