What is Management Education

What is Management Education?

Management, today, has evolved as a special stream of structured education, and training. It is multidimensional in
nature, applicable to every walk of life. New techniques, and new tools, are discovered and invented. The older,
earlier tools and techniques are adapted to modern thought process. New operational fields get identified and most
business organizations, big and small, have become aware of this today.

Thus, such, all comprehensive management education, has a positive impact on operations. It enables improvement
in productivity and profitability, simultaneously enhancing efficiency in every business and wherever else applied.

The individual business organization benefits but simultaneously it contributes to the economy of the nation, and
further to the global economy as a whole.

The most popular streams in management education are marketing , finance , human resource development , sales
etc…

However, of recent many other fields are also identified and the organizations have realized that ‘education and
training’ in these areas is also exceedingly significant and beneficial: for ex. management of risk, production,
project, strategy ,events etc…..

Apart from offering a thorough knowledge of the business requirement, management training brings about an
attitudinal change in a candidate which is exceedingly important to run an organization smoothly and successfully.

Management Education cultivates and induces many aspects in one’s personality. Some of them are listed below.

v Problem solving Ability

v Team Work

v Self Motivation

v Ability to motivate others

v Deal with the pressures though Stress Management Techniques

v Time management

v Leadership Qualities

v Sensitivity

v Ability to Develop solutions

v Prepare Reports

v Presenting the Project Report etc….

Naturally Business Schools are coveted institutes, and they hold a rigorous qualifying Entrance Exams for candidates
before they admit them. Some of these exams are

1. Common Admission Test CAT

2. Xavier Admission Test XAT

3. Joint Management Entrance Test for Management

Education through the IITs JMET

4. Management Aptitude Test MAT

5. Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies NMAT

6. Aims Test of Management Admission ATMA

These exams are conducted in three stages

1) A Written Test

2) Group Discussion (GD)

3) Personal Interview (PI)

For the written test, a candidate is assessed for

1) Verbal skills

2) Analytical skills

3) Quantitative skills

For a Group Discussion, approximately eight to twelve candidates are invited. They are given a topic for discussion. The candidate is judged for his/her leadership quality, communication skill, interpersonal relationship, behavior, confidence, Contribution of Ideas, Sensitivity etc…. by a panel of judges for about 20 mins to 30 mins.

Personal Interview is the final qualifying exam. that will lead the candidate to the Business School.

It is important that the students start preparations at the right time. Then alone can they be confident of acquiring their determined goals.

Some of the good institutes for Management are:

1) IIM (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozikode)

2) Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai

3) Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur

4) Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi

5) S. P. Jain, Mumbai

6) IMT, Ghaziabad etc…..

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