One of my students was rather agitated with the increase of CQPI as a prior condition to get promoted. He adopted the angry young man avatar of Mr.Amitabh Bachaan and wrote: industry experts and alumni are saying that only 5% of what we learn in MBA program is useful in our corporate application, so why do you insist on the so called academic rigor.
His anger is genuine and understandable. When I shared his concern with my colleagues, they too agreed that only 5% of MBA learning is useful in their professional career, but no one knows which 5% is going to be useful, so they have to master all 100%.
Academic learning can’t be judged based on their application. Conceptual learning is fundamentally an exercise of brain. What is learned remains, if at all learned properly, in the realm of unconscious mind. When needed it emerges and helps us to understand the reality and come up with solution.
If you want to learn a subject purely based on its application, then you should opt for technical subjects like mechanics or car driving or any skill developing programs. It is there application is kept in mind and the syllabus is prepared.
If you think MBA is a skill development program, then you have committed a serious error of judgment in choosing this program.
Good lesson.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Father.
ReplyDeleteI think we keep learning all the time and application of that knowledge is solely at our own discretion. I can understand the feelings of this student, but he/she should remember that the bar of performance and excellence should always go up. That's how we build great professionals and institutions.
Anuj
RM 2008-10 Batch