At the outset, I express my heartfelt deep condolences for the un-
timely demise of (L) Gopinathji Mundhe, a great mass leader in
India.
The case study may be a real fact, fictitious, simulated or created
by one in order to emphasize a concept or theory taught. Case study
technique is being used since time immemorial right from Gurukul
system. You may come across several cases in Vedas, Upanishads
too.
The point is do not use case study if it does not help to drive home
the essence, surely not as a fashion, or it is a trend that you
follow blindly, to be in step with the others, e.g., do not use
technology as it happens to be just over there. A Case study helps
arrive at
a decision in view of several diversified factors, in totality.
Inclusion of a case study is a matter concerned with lesson
planning, to be discussed at a point in a time frame (scheduling),
involving one and all, making them to visualize the actual scenario,
leading to brain storming, simulation, creative and analytical
thinking and so on.
I have published a few case studies: see the attachments: two
published industrial case studies, the first one was awarded the
medal for the best published case study of the year 1991.
Regards.
Yours,
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:33:50 +0530 wrote
>Dear Dr Reddy:
Whatever you have sent has been communicated before.
Is there something specific youare trying to say?
From my experience, the interest of students in case method is
limited. Also, very few teachers are interested and/or comfortable
with case method of teaching, unless they are inclined to follow the
methods of Harvard Business School. These would include IIMs
Ahmedabad, Indore and Bangalore, XLRIand also some other schools.
Faculty should not merely teach cases written by others but should
also be inclined to develop/write cases. For this, keeping eyes and
ears open for case development/writing is extremely important. For
this qualities of imaginativeness, innovativeness, creativity,
thinking ability, argumenting abilily, etc. are also very important.
Cases are not merely accounting problems like preparation of a
balance sheet, cost accounting problems like arriving at variances,
statistical and mathematical problems. If cases are limited to
these, they are unlikely to hold interest for long.
Regards to all.
Satya Prakash Agarwal
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:33 AM, 'Dr. Pratap Reddy S' via Management
Teachers Consortium, Global wrote:
A case study is a description of an administrative
situation/problem involving a decision to be made or a problem to be
solved. The
situation/problem could be real or fictional, could be something
that actually
happened or has been simulated just as described, or could be that
certain dramatis
personae have been disguised for reasons of privacy. The
readers/participants
takes the place of the real/fictional manager and discuss,
deliberate and
decide while the instructor moderates.
The single greatest value in learning through "case
method" is that one acquires incisive critiquing, lateral thinking,
and
analytical reasoning. Reading a sentence (or between the
lines)require
constant attention. This is, as experience would tell us, not an
easy task. Navigating
paragraph by paragraphs requires focus, attention, concentration,
continuous analysis,
raising and fulfilling expectations, and resolving ambiguity when a
word/phrase
can serve more than one denotation. This ability to reason
critically is as important
and as beneficial to a manager as it is to the lawyer parsing
sections of a
law, or the mechanic diagnosing an engine problem, or a doctor
diagnosing an illness.
Case studygives a critical perspective on human
affairs, dilemmas, and conflicts. Closer and incisive study of a
case reveals
plenty of examples in decision making vital to a professional
manager. It takes
MBAs to dig deeper than just to skim news, tweets, and SMSes, ad
infinitum. It
forces them to look into world unseen and, at times, unknown. It
compels them
to think on the toes, play a survival game, and take decisions. But
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don't allow appreciation of how rare true good decisions or
completely bad
decisions are, nor of the peril of one-dimensional thinking and
uncompromising
conflict resolution (adapted from http://www.commercialappeal.com/).
Case study emphasizes debate and controversy because
"reading with absorption" and enjoyment and talking, even arguing
with others about what we read are not opposedbut rather deeply
interdependent activities. All of us most fruitfully read a book (or
watch a
film, look at a painting, or, indeed, experience almost any event)
when our
attention is directed and intensified by our awareness of others'
responses .In fact, we would argue that we need this awareness of
others'
responses to inspire us to make our own contributions to the ongoing
discussion. Thus the case studyemphasizes controversy - not just
conversation - because controversy, increasingly, is the
contemporary discourse.
Under-graduate students coming to college from families and
neighborhoods
where book review and intellectual discussions are not every day
events are shy
and silent and feel intimidated during the case discussion.These
students may be advised “Never mind how the elite react, tell the
moderator howyou feel†. Remember,
it’s not about “how†you talked or “how much†you talked but
about
“what†you
talked. And the reasoning behind what you talked. If you don't open
up then you
are only going to widen the gulf between you and those who "talk the
talk†/"walk-the-talk".
They will get the A's and are destined for better professional
career tracks leaving
the shy far behind!
Learning by controversy in a case discussion offers not only
a practical solution to the “hidden meaning/problem†but also an
effective
response - not reaction - to the debate. Exposure to pertinent
critical
controversies in a class room helps greatly to dispel initial fear
and
confusion. (Adapted from Gerald Graff & James Phean-adventres of
Huckleberry Finn-Pub Bedfor/St.Martin's).
Epilogue
Case method, like any other method has its merits and
demerits. Definitely, it scores several points compared to the
traditional
methods. But what is disturbing is that it has become a kind of fad.
It is fashionable for many to claim that they too are using case
method, notwithstanding
the efficacy of teaching or effectiveness in the given context with
respect to
learners and their learnability.
No two situations are similar in the firmament of managing a
firm; hence a solution can never be applied ipso facto to another
seemingly
similar situation. The Case study method will not be a panacea to
learning
"controversy/conflict resolution". There could be an extension of
this wonderful pedagogic tool where an impending or
"yet-to-occur"problem could be prevented from occurring through
sagacious
prognostication using simulation and other methods.This avoids
treatment as well as the consequent trauma undergoing the
trreatment.Prepare to deal with the unknown and preempt,
if possible from its happening.Peter F.Drucker is right in saying
"management enables future happen now!"
Dr S Pratap Reddywith Dhruva Consulting Team
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