Prof. Bholanath, Prof. Ramesh, Prof. Vinod and Prof. Prabhakar and esteemed members,
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:55:49 +0530
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Debate- II] Inderdisciplinary Offering in Classes
From: vemugantiramesh@gmail.com
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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.
regards
Ramesh Vemuganti
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Good morning on Sunday! It is a privilege to read all the important views on such a crucial issue that could benefit the student fraternity. I understand that many senior academics are members of these forum and appreciate these view points, though they may not have worked in the industry. With due respect, I would like to suggest that if a compilation of these views on such matters could be mailed to many senior bureaucrats in UGC, AICTE, HRD Ministry, other faculty members and other senior management academic heads, who are either not members of this forum or do not have experience of industry workings or do not perhaps appreciate such observations! It would be a great service, if we could slowly make an impact at the right place for building up opinion for policy formulations!
Keeping in line with the views expressed earlier, I could further reinforce with some experience! We once invited one prominent HR placement consultancy for campus placement of our MBA graduates; they recruit HR- freshers as research associates who form part of the team that helps to look for senior management heads for their clients. The CEO and GM were interested to recruit from our campus and both visited for the pre placement orientation! They highlighted the fact that a HR graduate also needs to have a rudimentary knowledge about industry verticals like BFSI, Power, FMCG, Automobile etc and their strength, weaknesses and work process in such organisations...........otherwise how would they understand the appropriateness of the tentative profile and their work experience, and how would they understand the interactions and learn, when their seniors are discussing and negotiating with the prospective candidates!
I also teach statistics, and place lot of importance on business and managerial implications of the results! The subject needs to be taught in a lucid manner with links to everyday examples that a student can identify easily. Prof Prabhakar has rightly pointed that out. The industry examples are linked to problems in marketing, finance and HR, otherwise how the students can appreciate the usefulness and purpose of a subject! And in the process the subject areas have to be explained practically and briefly to make them relevant to application of statistics! And why should they study, when in the first place many would like to avoid this paper, though it is important! But this approach, may not be appreciated by many subject academics who may consider it, I am afraid to say, as a trespassing upon their subject areas!
kind regards,
P.S.Raychaudhuri,
New Delhi
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 21:55:49 +0530
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Debate- II] Inderdisciplinary Offering in Classes
From: vemugantiramesh@gmail.com
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
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
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
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.
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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