| MBA is synonymous to Smart guys with excellent | | | | end to knowledge delivery. So if the student |
| communication skills loaded with fast track | | | | pickup right communication skills, then the speed |
| knowledge (knowledge gathered by years of | | | | of capturing the knowledge will increase many |
| industry experience loaded in books) to run an | | | | folds. |
| organization with high speed, acting as catalysts. | | | | The first task is done right; the second task |
| While I was working with home loans division of | | | | automatically gets done. |
| ICICI Bank & BHW Home Finance I came | | | | However here comes the catch. |
| across many candidates for direct sales force | | | | Are the management colleges equipped to impart |
| who were carrying the so called MBA degree and | | | | good communication skills? Do they have faculties |
| can neither converse in English nor speak with | | | | who can look at their communication skills |
| confidence, hence are facing a lovely music of | | | | development as a challenge or just deliver a |
| being overqualified for a direct sales force job and | | | | lecture about what should be the good |
| not competent enough for managerial jobs. | | | | communication skill parameters? |
| Then the real question is how come they are out | | | | I strongly believe that most of the students |
| in the market flaunting their MBA degrees and | | | | taking admission with management colleges are |
| expecting a managerial job right from the Day | | | | interested to acquire the knowledge as well as be |
| One? Has the institute thrown away the degrees | | | | Smart Guys to get ahead in Life, but it is the |
| for just money without caring that these guys will | | | | lackadaisical attitude of the college management |
| actually spoil the repute of the college as well as | | | | who are just fighting to get the classes |
| making of an MBA? Can one think of a CA not | | | | conducted which makes the students just get |
| knowing debit/credit of accounts? Can one think | | | | lethargic and start cribbing the college. With |
| of a lawyer without basics of law? Can one think | | | | management colleges mushrooming all across |
| of a scientist without knowledge of Newton’s | | | | India, there seems to be a urgent need to |
| laws or Laws of thermodynamics? Similarly think | | | | address the aim of the management education. |
| of an MBA who can not communicate well? | | | | More issues like analytical abilities, the right |
| But how does this matter as with an MBA degree | | | | attitude, structured negotiating skills and team |
| at least one gets short listed for a job. What an | | | | spirit are also the key ingredients of the Right |
| Irony, Management education was started with an | | | | Management Education. |
| aim of smart entrepreneurs, and it has become a | | | | Is the regular course of MBA designed to equip |
| passport for job interviews? | | | | the students with loads of subject knowledge or |
| And most of these guys with MBA degrees in | | | | just a degree to flaunt or actual managers coming |
| hand go for personality development programs to | | | | out as solution providers to speed up the growth |
| enhance their communication skills which their | | | | of the organizations or create highly self |
| institute was responsible to get them before they | | | | motivated entrepreneurs? |
| passed out (barring top 50 or so institutes of | | | | This issue is not debatable on papers and in the |
| country) | | | | discussion rooms as everyone will agree to the |
| Now what exactly should be the basic constituent | | | | sole aim of management education is to create |
| of an MBA? Is it development of communication | | | | highly self motivated entrepreneurs as well as |
| skills or just getting the subjects run through? | | | | managers who can act as catalysts in their |
| Of course everyone will agree that development | | | | organizations. However, in actual practice the aim |
| of communication skills should be the first and | | | | seems to get lost with education being the |
| foremost task of a management college and | | | | money making machine for businessmen |
| subjects should take the back seat as there is no | | | | corporate houses and individuals. |