Authors

1. Ms. Nidhi Srivastava
2. Dr. Siddarth Singh Bist

Affiliation

• Assistant Professor LJ Institute of Management Studies Ahmedabad
• Dean LJ Institute of Management Studies Ahmedabad

Abstract

To study role, challenges and opportunities faced by management institutes in order to meet the corporate expectations with specific focus on Self Finance Institutes of Gujarat.
The purpose of this study is to understand and analyze the corporate expectations and competences of management graduate in SFIs of Gujarat.
The methodology applied is exploratory followed by descriptive research, by reviewing the relevant literature on the subject and by interviewing, senior professionals of corporate.
The gap of corporate’s expectation from management students are yet to match. Although the gap is reduced as management institutes have put lot of efforts to survive but more focused approach is required to bridge this gap completely.
This study is limited to the vicinity of Gujarat and it contains view point of corporate of Gujarat only. The views are limited to management program conducted by Self-Financed Institutes.
This study will give an insight on the improvement areas of management education in Gujarat. It will help to define the role of management institutes from corporate’s perspective.
Management education has been discussed in past researches. However there is hardly any research which indicates the real problems faced by management graduate in meeting corporate expectations with special reference to Gujarat.

Keywords

Management Education, Business School, Gujarat, SFIs,, Industry Demands.

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