Management Development programmes with focus on case studies and new learning Initiatives

With dynamic changes in the business environment in India, it is now becoming increasingly important that additional courses take their place in the existing management school curriculum. Some of the existing management courses can be revised with updated material from industry experts and the methodology of the learning are made more practical and oriented towards case studies.
The precursor to this activity starts with the following fact: the faculty’s deliverables who is the engaged in teaching the curriculum be aligned and oriented to a “revised”, “refreshed” and “rigorous” set of deliverables. The upheaval task that management institutes face in their development cycle is to initiate a  change the faculty mindset from teaching theoretical concepts to a more learning and practical study methodology.  One of the initiatives which management institutes can adopt for enhancing the value base of their faculty is by empowering them to think differently. This is a key step to the development of a programme which can focus on, for and by the faculty.
A comprehensive faculty development programme initiative can be created where faculty can be involved with learning initiatives so that they can be abreast with the times.
The suggested initiatives for faculty development programmes can be placed according to faculty experience, subject expertise and the number of exclusive new student batches the faculty faces each year. An extended criterion of these can be further applied to the faculty classroom’s performance based on the institute’s guidelines and later added to the faculty’s remunerations. Benchmarking of faculty performance in their teaching methodology and faculty performance programmes can be brought in an integrated way as a part of the management institute’s policy on a larger scale.

Emerging Trends in Management Institute development

1. Students “Today” and Faculty tomorrow: The strengths of the faculty  yesterday and the challenges faculty are and will be facing
2. The future of management school education: Should the faculty align itself with trends in the west?
3. Encouraging faculty to speak for a “pseudo”/Invisible audience- The age of webinars: from Seminars to Webinars
4. Tapping social media for understanding students –The Face book and Linked in factor; Encouraging faculty to initiate business blogging
5. The Demand Zone in Management education: Internet and General Research patterns
6. Story building and storytelling in management education: The Art of simplifying concepts and text book jargons- encouraging writing skills for the faculty -making them redefine the concept of teaching management education
7. Creation of  handouts/text books on key manufacturing and service industries: case based exercises
8. Long term advancement and efforts towards content writing /book creations for brand building faculties as authors and focus on the commercial aspect of book authoring on industry oriented topics

Sample programme design for faculty