MANAGING
FUTURE B-SCHOOLS: A STEP AHEAD
For
a good management institution to survive and to develop a good academic system,
certain things are extremely essential which must be looked into.
- ACADEMIC
PROCESS
Based
on the diagram above, the academic process has two important components which include: delivery by the teachers
and learning
by the students. Hence for
effective delivery mechanism the most important focus should be on the course
plan designed in coordination with the vision and mission of the
institute, Directors ideology and the university curriculum. The course plan has four important
components: COURSE OBJECTIVES, ASSESSMENT PARAMETERS including both internal as
well as external, CREDIT SYSTEM and the ACTIVITY SCHEDULE. Second important component is the learning
process of the student. The learning
objective is to be designed keeping in view the course plan in mind which
includes: objectives learned by the student, outcomes of internal and external
assessment, actual credits earned and the participation of the student in the
activity. The success of the academic
system would depend upon the percentage of the learning actually grasped by the
student in accordance with the course plan designed. Hence, designing of the course plan is the
most important and the primary and the essential requirement of any B school
which must be done with a proper pre-SWOT analysis.
2.ADMINISTRATIVE
PROCESS
Looking
to the administrative process, three simultaneous sub-processes keeps running
under the actual administrative process.
These three sub-processes are student outreach mechanism, financial
management and the feedback system. The
student outreach mechanism is the process through which the institution
develops a connect or a Rapport with the students of the course so that day to
day development reaches them on time; finally resulting in their increased
involvement and higher participation in the programs execution. Hence, the student outreach process involves
daily messaging/mailing to the students about the activities, schedule,
classes, timetable and assessment parameters, dates of important
activities/exams as well as any other information which the institution feels
important and necessary to be communicated to the students. Secondly, it also includes student’s online
responses as well as offline and tele-responses to the messaging and mailing
been done by the institution. This helps
the institution to increase the attendance of the students resulting in achieving
increased programme outcome and also highlights some deficiencies (if any) in
the course program due to which students are deviating/de-motivated to achieve
the learning outcomes.
Financial
management includes working in accordance with the approved budget, creation of
the corpus fund and periodical review of the amount spent against each activity
task and acting in accordance with these three important sub-processes is the
final objective of the financial management.
The
third important part of administrative process is a continuous feedback system:
both online as well as offline. This is
finally assessed on weekly basis where the previous week’s target is assessed
and based on it, the next week’s target is assigned to the staff and the
faculty. Even the feedback of the
students taken through online or offline mode is communicated in the weekly
meetings for the purpose of enhancing the performance of the faculty and
helping them increase their performance.
3.STANDARDIZATION
PROCESS
Most
B-SCHOOLS after achieving some of their substantial course objectives reaches
to a level of self sufficiency which is very harmful for any B-SCHOOL to
maintain continuity in the present scenario.
Hence Standardization of the process is extremely important to achieve a
benchmark as well as for repeatedly witnessing the best practices of the
institution again and again. Hence, standardization
is required in the following areas: teaching delivery mechanism, learning
process, feedback process of faculty, feedback process of students,
content development system and process and the weekly task revision. The system should be documented initially and
later on should be converted into online process. Periodical audits unit-wise
fortnightly and entire process audit should take place on a quarterly
basis. This can keep the regular check
on the quality monitoring and mechanisms system of B-SCHOOLS.
