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To get original professional glamor rather
than artificial make-up, B-Schools must
remain steadfast. Now, its challenge is
to meet global trends by imparting new knowledge,
enhancing creative and entrepreneurial talents, ethical values and mould MBA aspirants as
global managers. MBAs must take prudent career
choices which will help them to learn all the essential
skills required on the job in order to become
effective managers. Those who fail to acquire this foundation of managerial competencies in
the starting days will suffer badly in future when
they are promoted as team leaders or run their own enterprises. An MBA graduate can be described
as one who acquires knowledge and enhances corporate skills in a wide range of areas
that together makes him a competent manager.
Skills developed during the course of the program
enable students to show real professionalism by giving
the right shape to management practices,
exhibiting managerial skills and creative talents and
imparting new management techniques to bring real
corporate image to the organization. Many young
MBAs (especially B-School students) want to find the
best campus placements. They come under enormous pressure from their parents to bag
high-salaried jobs on campus recruitments and are also
expected to have a corporate look after two years of the
MBA program. So, students must develop soft skills
and basic corporate skills to lure the employers.
The transition from a theoretically-oriented classroom coaching and a
spoon-feeding environment has became obsolete. The
present world demands aggressive learning methods to
face the real world of cut-throat competition. It is
likely to be unmanageable for students unless they
are properly trained. Admissions have to be merit-based followed by quota. Smart alumni should
be invited to motivate the students by sharing
their experiences and insights on the extent to
which they learned at the institution that has helped
them to succeed in life. Besides classroom coaching,
live projects, paper presentations, seminars and industrial visits must be added to the
curriculum as mandatory. This would help MBAs to relate
to what is taught to what happens in the real
world. To inculcate self-grooming and learning
capacities in students allot some activity-oriented tasks
such as library assignments, classroom seminars,
group discussions, role-plays, quiz, talent search,
etc. These are immensely useful for students to
exhibit their talents. These activities must be considered
as academic and some marks must be allotted for internal evaluation. |
