18 Jul 2011

Management Courses & Careers

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Management courses are offered in wide range of disciplines. Management covers courses in major areas such as marketing, human resources/ organizational behavior and strategic management etc. Teaching in these courses is drawn on a range of disciplines, which include mathematics, psychology, sociology, philosophy andeconomics. The ideas and practices from these diverse disciplines are applied to the understanding and management of voluntary, commercial and public sector organizations. Education in management has two aims. Firstly, to increase the understanding of the factors which influence the conduct of organizations and secondly to provide students with the tools and techniques which they may use to influence organizational life.
Management - a practical subject
Management education cannot be compared with studying other subject areas like chemistry, physics, mathematics or law etc. Management education can rather be compared with medicine. No doctor is allowed near a patient purely on the basis of theoretical knowledge. Doctors learn the professional skills by acquiring the practical knowledge that is taught by practicing doctors and hence they become experts in diagnosing the real physical condition of patients. In the similar way, in a business scenario also you have to do things, take decisions, take actions, and monitor results. You cannot operate any business by just planning what to do on paper. Planning is, though an important step in the process, there are many examples of businesses with excellent plans having failed because of non implementation of proper ideas.
How can this be done?
By having people who know about business techniques and can teach business management. First of all, the faculty is envisaged to be a special breed of people. They not only have high academic qualifications, but are also Masters or Gurus of the ideas they are discussing, "What we are doing right now" is the keynote among management students but, the thing which really makes a faculty special is the ability to teach and communicate in a very effective way.
One of the important things these people understand is that very few business situations will fit the textbook examples. The comparison with medicine is again valid. Each situation can be described as unique, requiring its own unique solution. To be able to do this, one should be able to analyze a situation, examine various alternatives and come out with solutions to solve the particular problem being faced or to achieve organizational goals.
The qualified faculty understands these situations and can correctly incorporate them into the learning process. Business today is global. Even the smallest company is affected by happenings outside its immediate geographical boundaries. Medium and large companies are automatically involved in cross-border business. The young businessmen and women needs to understand this, and, where necessary, to be able to exploit the situation. It is not possible today to teach domestic business and global or international business as separate subjects.
In the real world of business, few people can be expected to solve a problem themselves. The value of multiple inputs in reaching a better solution is widely recognized.
Management education enhances the managerial skills by sharing of ideas, the acceptance of others’ ideas and many of healthy discussions. Learning from other approaches is not always a natural and single study process. It has to come with active participation in a group of people and it happens in the Management Courses. Faculty and other students challenge statements, attack and defend ideas. The assimilation of other approaches forms an important part of the learning process.
Students coming from different spheres of life, bring with them all the advantages, disadvantages, fairness and prejudice of centuries of cultural heritage. These characteristics manifest themselves sometimes, in totally different approaches towards solving business problems and learning fundamentals of management. From all of these approaches there is something to learn. A multi cultured institute enhances the benefits gained from the participatory learning approach.
MBA is offered under various categories. Some of the most popular categories are listed here

§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Marketing
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Sales
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – IT Management
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Biotech Management
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Financial Management
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Human Resources Management (HR)
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – International Business
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Infrastructure Management
§  Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Family Business
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – General Management
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – IT Management
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – Biotech Management
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – Financial Management
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – Human Resources (HR)
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – International Business
§  Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) – Infrastructure Management
§  Post Graduate Diploma in Business management (PGDBM)
§  Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA)
§  Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management (PGDHRM)
§  Post Graduate Diploma in Biotechnology Management (PGD Biotech)
§  Post Graduate Diploma in IT Management
§  Post Graduate Diploma in Finance Management (PGDFM)
§  Executive MBA (eMBA) Program


MBA is a professional qualification. Admission in different MBA programs in India is offered on the basis ofentrance examination, Personal Interview (PI), personality tests and Group Discussions (GD) etc. There are many national level All India Entrance Examinations and State Level Entrance Examinations through which one may gain entry into a B School. Following are listed some of the Most Popular MBA Entrance Examinationsheld in India. 
§  Common Admission Test - CAT
§  Management Aptitude Test – MAT
§  Xaviers’ Admission Test - XAT
§  Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET)
§  IGNOU - OPENMAT
§  FMS - Delhi University
§  Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination (UPSEE)
§  Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP)

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