Exponential Growth of Business Schools - A Paradigm in Emergence: An Imperative Need to Transform Management Education and Development
Rapid technological advancement coupled with ever increasing interconnectedness has been opening the global opportunities for everyone, amidst rising global population and declining resources. It is an imperative need of management professionals to deal with newer and dynamic challenges in the public or private systems. Often newer challenges require varied solutions that can come from critical thinking younger generation management graduates and quality of tomorrow’s professionals is the result of today’s efforts in educational systems. Present scenario of management education presents a bleak future as most of our educational policies and systems are designed to produce mediocre professionals. Therefore, it is need of the hour to reengineer and transform most of the management programmes the way they are offered. The paper discusses the present scenario of management education, prerequisites for quality of management education, sustenance of quality, pedagogical tools and future outlook.
Developing Sustainable Infrastructure in Education and Research
Rapid technological advancement coupled with ever increasing interconnectedness has been opening the global opportunities for people possessing skills. Amidst rising global population and declining resources, the role of education has become vital, not only meet our present needs but also to find solutions for dynamic societal challenges. Often newer challenges require varied solutions that come from critical thinking younger generation graduates. Tomorrow’s quality of professionals come from today’s excellence in education that nurture knowledge and wisdom. Present scenario of education presents a bleak future as most of our educational policies and systems are designed to produce mediocre professionals. Therefore, it is need of the hour to reengineer and transform our educational system. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to highlight the necessity of paradigm shift in our educational policies. The paper discusses the present scenario of education and future requirements, prerequisites for quality of education and research, infrastructural facilities, pedagogical tools, and limitations of the study.
Tales of Ordinary Leadership. A Feminist Approach to Experiential Learning
La practica y la teoria feminista han conferido siempre valor al conocimiento producido a traves de las narraciones, principalmente por su capacidad de estimular el pensamiento reflexivo. En nuestra contribucion nos proponemos presentar y discutir una metodologia de formacion basada en el trabajo sobre la memoria, a fin de estimular un replanteamiento individual y de grupo sobre la dimension del liderazgo y su relacion con el genero. En particular, haremos referencia a un taller narrativo realizado con grupos de mujeres que trabajan en posiciones directivas, en la perspectiva del aprendizaje en los lugares de trabajo a traves de la refexividad experiencial. La metodologia narrativa ha demostrado ser un instrumento particularmente eficaz: ha ofrecido a las participantes la oportunidad de analizar retrospectivamente una esperiencia de trabajo pasada (individual y organizativa), generando, gracias a la interaccion con otras narraciones (las proporcionadas por la actividad de formacion y por las participantes en la misma), distintas perspectivas interpretativas y nuevas configuraciones de significado a fin de enfrentarse a las dinamicas organizativas y de la vida laboral.