b schools in india should also make work experience as a mandatory criteria for admission in mba

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2011-11-18 16:32:24

I would request experts like Priya Pooja Kohli arun dev aru.chopra Vikas Naidu Sathya Gopinath to share their valuable inputs.

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shaban | Guide-Level 11

2011-11-18 16:30:36

I would like to thanks all the experts for sharing their valuable inputs, these inputs will surely help all the readers.

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Arvind Joshi | Contributor-Level 9

2011-10-16 09:16:37

.(CONTINUED)An Executive MBA course consists of many older,even graying people.The students therein may not be fully serious about the concepts to be absorbed and to be applied in the job environment. Many of them are only interested in their promotion.Once through with an MBA degree, they ignore most of the concepts, because by way of age the habits have taken over the suggested procedures.If at all they think about the correct procedures to be followed, it is intertwined with the "how" of MANIPULATING the same in the work atmosphere. The sole idea is an ego inflated with an additional degree, to be used for the purpose of "promotion" or" ... view more

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Arvind Joshi | Contributor-Level 9

2011-10-16 09:15:20

MBA is a job oriented course. If there is a strict selection procedure, and not a loose one, the passing out students will match the standards and expectations of the employers during campus interviews.They will then join the lowest ladder of the management rung, and their pick-up of the job experience will be an ANTICIPATED one by the employers. Making work experience mandatory for admission to MBA course would mean that freshers without experience will not be allowed to enter this course. Rather, experienced people who are plain graduates/ post-graduates will be allowed to enter MBA course. But on what basis ? Definitely an entrance test... view more

MBA is a job oriented course. If there is a strict selection procedure, and not a loose one, the passing out students will match the standards and expectations of the employers during campus interviews.They will then join the lowest ladder of the management rung, and their pick-up of the job experience will be an ANTICIPATED one by the employers.
Making work experience mandatory for admission to MBA course would mean that freshers without experience will not be allowed to enter this course. Rather, experienced people who are plain graduates/ post-graduates will be allowed to enter MBA course. But on what basis ? Definitely an entrance test for their general awareness, managerial aptitude, quantitative and linguistic abilities etc. , followed by a group discussion and interview would be necessary. But, don't we find fresh candidates already having such abilities appearing for the MBA entrance tests?
We can improve upon the current trends in the practical exposure of the MBA students from the very beginning by INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE in the admission of working people,who are allowed two-year study leave by employer.The only care to be taken is to include such working people who are having not more than 2 to 3 years of experience AND ARE IN THEIR FIRST JOB, so that there is not much of age difference, and they can freely interact with the fresh students. They should be able to narrate their job experience in seminar classes, in college canteen, and elsewhere,so that a practical blend is possible with the theoretical concepts they all are collectively absorbing in the classroom.A MBA student who is 10 years older to the freshers will never be able to mix freely with freshers,or make them accept their ideas of job experience the way an elder sibling only 2 years older can do.
An Executive MBA course consists of many older,even graying people.The students therein may not be fully serious about the concepts to be absorbed and to be applied in the job environment. Many of them are only interested in their promotion.Once through with an MBA degree, they ig

MBA is a job oriented course. If there is a strict selection procedure, and not a loose one, the passing out students will match the standards and expectations of the employers during campus interviews.They will then join the lowest ladder of the management rung, and their pick-up of the job experience will be an ANTICIPATED one by the employers. Making work experience mandatory for admission to MBA course would mean that freshers without experience will not be allowed to enter this course. Rather, experienced people who are plain graduates/ post-graduates will be allowed to enter MBA course. But on what basis ? Definitely an entrance test for their general awareness, managerial aptitude, quantitative and linguistic abilities etc. , followed by a group discussion and interview would be necessary. But, don't we find fresh candidates already having such abilities appearing for the MBA entrance tests? We can improve upon the current trends in the practical exposure of the MBA students from the very beginning by INCREASING THE PERCENTAGE in the admission of working people,who are allowed two-year study leave by employer.The only care to be taken is to include such working people who are having not more than 2 to 3 years of experience AND ARE IN THEIR FIRST JOB, so that there is not much of age difference, and they can freely interact with the fresh students. They should be able to narrate their job experience in seminar classes, in college canteen, and elsewhere,so that a practical blend is possible with the theoretical concepts they all are collectively absorbing in the classroom.A MBA student who is 10 years older to the freshers will never be able to mix freely with freshers,or make them accept their ideas of job experience the way an elder sibling only 2 years older can do. An Executive MBA course consists of many older,even graying people.The students therein may not be fully serious about the concepts to be absorbed and to be applied in the job environment. Many of them are only interested in their promotion.Once through with an MBA degree, they ig

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MAYUR DESHMMUKH | Contributor-Level 7

2011-10-15 21:35:49

I would say NO to this.because many students wants to do MBA as their future career path and they study for that very sincerely.Most of the students thinks that they should get a good job after doing this , those who didnt got any job in their graduation course.So I think there should not be any work experience criteria for the MBA

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sameera shams | Contributor-Level 10

2011-10-15 15:10:12

sameera@ Yes, I too agree with @Nikhlesh Mathur ji and @Vikas Naidu sir .

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arun dev | Guide-Level 11

2011-10-15 15:03:33

I too agree with Nikhlesh Mathur ji and Vikas Naidu ji, creating working environment while on regular course will be much better.

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Vikas Naidu | Contributor-Level 10

2011-10-15 13:50:26

I am totally Agree with Nikhlesh Mathur i do think in similar manner

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Nikhlesh Mathur | Guide-Level 14

2011-10-15 10:20:11

Well. I would say "NO" to this if we are discussing regular mode of education for fresh graduates. There is no doubt that the idea is worth discussion and that experience would play a good role in students picking up managerial theories as they would easily reconcile with the practical aspects they have had during the little work experience before they join for MBA degree. True to a good extent. but I believe that one can imprint better / write clearly on a clean slate. If experience is mandatory then students from all type of careers / work experiences / different nature of jobs etc. would come. And then while the studies take place in a cla... view more

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shaban | Guide-Level 11

2011-10-15 10:09:02

SmritiMatra I slightly differ from your points, please remember MBA is a holistic course, which offer specialization in the field of HR,Marketing, Finance etc, and its a more of a practical course rather than traditional masters theoretical course, so a student who have some work experience in in his area of interest can really do well and understand the concepts well.Please remember at one end we say our country institutes are not in world rankings, at the same time we tend to ignore the teaching pedagogy which all the top institutes adopt, all the top B-schools requires a minimum work experience of 3-5 years.Also as a part of MBA curriculu... view more

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Ruchi Shrimali | Contributor-Level 7

2011-10-15 09:57:49

It will just mean more red tapism for students. I understand that work experience is a good basis for somebody who is going for Executive MBA because course curriculum does not include basics there. But in case of full-time MBA, where curriculum is designed to let students start from scratch, I think work experience would just mean wastage of two to five more years of students. As they say, put a person on the bottom and he will become a labourer and put him on the top, and he will become a leader. People are certainly capable of starting right at the top. Even companies know where to place fresher MBAs and how to use them, so what is the pro... view more