Challenges Faced By Educators In Management Education

The mushrooming of the management institutes and the spiraling number of MBA aspirants faced with dearth of good faculty at almost all B-schools has brought management education at the forefront of growing scrutiny wherein the management educators need to wrestle with questions of how to prepare students for their roles and careers in increasingly complex organizations. The Management educators with the responsibility of imparting world class managerial and leadership training to their aspiring students are not able to justify their role as they are facing some major challenges in their roles. The objective was to allow the educators to reflect on their teaching experience that would generate sufficient insights as to how the MBA market place is changing in a big way and how the faculty is coping with the challenges. They are feeling an intensified pressure to deliver differential pedagogy techniques as the student expectations have increased. The more daunting challenges faced by the educators pertain to predefining parameters and criteria for continuous evaluation. The students today have access to a myriad of internet based sources for completing their assignments and reports. The educators find it tough to develop the critical thinking and writing skills of their students. More challenges pertain to the development of the right mental attitude and the ethical code of conduct including the soft leadership aspects among the students. This paper discusses at key challenges faced by the community of management educators and ways to address the same.