Redefining Management Education

Description

This book is created as a recorded eye-opener to sensitise aspirants, students, freshers, executives, employers, academicians and even institutions on the huge void to be closed between ‘Management’ as taught under MBA programs (classroom learning) and real world practice of ‘Management’. It is the creation of an Engineer & PhD in Management from a tier 1 IIM (Indian Institute of Management) with four decades plus diverse experience in consulting, research, academics, independent working and authoring. Objective of  this book is not to educate the reader on any advanced management tool, technique, technology or process in any ‘management’ area, function or domain; but to highlight the need for ‘recognition of the interplay / integrated nature of standalone ‘management’ disciplines in practice, gain insight into cross-discipline influences and ‘contextual considerations’ that drive real world practice of management. ‘Management’ learnt in classrooms unwittingly carries a message that real world of Management practice replicates the ideal conditions / discipline / area approach to handle management problems. Many elements of consideration in real world rarely find explicit space in formal ‘management’ classrooms, are beyond the ‘standalone’ pigeon holes of formally taught disciplines / tools of ‘management’ such as finance, OR, statistics, economics, mathematics or even digitally driven tools of analysis; that are considered progressive, logical, rational and statistically valid and amenable to mechanical application. Reality is far from it

Key words: Formal management education, Life cycle of Management theories, Systems approach to Management practice, Bridging knowledge and practice, Knowing the rules & learning the ropes, Gaps in Management education, MBA to Manager transition dilemma, Employability, Management education in the AI Chatgpt evolution, Learning beyond classrooms