Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Debate- II] Inderdisciplinary Offering in Classes

Dr Bholath - You have touched upon the right topic - Multidisciplinary approach - It is the way to for Management education.It is a solution for its various pitfalls,  at present.

It can be introduced provided a Marketing Faculty has a good understanding of Strategy & OB; so also an OB Faculty should have a good grasp of Marketing & also a fix on how a strategy is devised. The situation at present in 70 to 80% of faculty are less experienced, quite young, not exposed to industry & cannot teach from a holistic perspective. They are forced to stick to syllabus, ensure its timely completion, internals, awarding good scores, attendance management, question papers, etc. You need exposure, a deep knowledge & an ability to relate to various cases & examples.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. - Nido Qubein

Only Professors, Deans & HOD"s will be able to do it if they have to take out time & many are not into a multi disciplinary.

Next, there is a clear distinction in teaching various Management subjects - basics & advanced. For eg, I only teach advanced - Foundations of Technology Management, Technology transfer, Technological forecasting, R & D Mgt, Innovation & Change Management. A broad based understanding of all these subjects are needed for every Management Faculty teaching Mgt priciples, Business environ, law, Mktg, HRM, Finance, Strategy, Research methodologies, SCM, BPR & the likes. Only then, the students can become industry ready, irrespective of the institution whether its based in metros or tier 2 cities & towns.
That is also the reason MBA/PGDM garads are becoming unemployable, as I keep interacting with Corporate managers from various sectors.

The writing is on the wall.The need of the hour is a huge Technology Transfer involving hundreds of technologies from Source to Receipient in Management education - from Senior Faculty & Industry managers to the Junior faculty, for the future of the institutions.

regards

Ramesh Vemuganti

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you support interdisciplinary offering in classes like where marketing, strategy and OM faculty come together to teach a course is the way forward because in real life situations most issues have multiple dimensions. If effective, the challenge is how many B-schools can afford it as there would be pressure on the cost.

 

I have seen in a limited way the approach for the course lie Research Method where in functional faculty along with faculty with expertise in statistics teach together. Also SPSS/PROWESS/MINITAB  resource person are also engaged.

 

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