Shaping Business Leaders: What B-Schools Don′t Do - Softcover

Bhandarker, Asha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8178298457 ISBN 13: 9788178298450

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The book reveals that graduates of India′s top schools demonstrate:

" Low capability to influence others-a core leadership competency;

" Average competency in managing self-another primary requirement to manage and influence others;

" Moderate capability to handle complexity and manage diversity, both essential for succeeding in the contemporary world of discontinuity and global diversity; and

" Greater comfort in dealing with structured rather than unstructured situations.

The author examines common perceptions which the business world holds about the MBAs and the impact of education imparted by B-Schools in shaping future leaders. She argues that B-Schools have to traverse miles before they can truly achieve their self-proclaimed motto of grooming business leaders. B-Schools have to re-examine their educational paradigm, course structure and pedagogy, and also realign the competencies and disposition of faculty towards grooming future leaders.

About this title

About the Author:

Asha Bhandarker is well known in the field of HR and Leadership Studies in India as a scholar, consultant and researcher. Prior to her current assignment as a Distinguished Professor OB at IMI-Delhi, she was the Raman Munjal Chair Professor of Leadership Studies as well as Dean Research and Consulting at MDI-Gurgaon.

She has published 7 books and 40 research papers and cases in peer-reviewed, national and international journals. She was awarded the highly coveted Senior Fulbright Fellowship for research in the United States, where she studied the best business schools and their practices and pedagogies. In addition, she has, over the years, received the Best Paper award, Best Case award and the Best Teacher award.

Over the last 28 years, she has worked closely with the corporate sector in the areas of training, organization development and capability building. She is one of a handful of professors working with board levels and top management teams of many organizations. She is a recognized HR expert and has been invited on many boardlevel HR committees. Dr Bhandarker is actively associated with professional bodies and has addressed participants of national and international conferences. She has widely travelled across the USA, Europe and Asia and has rich experience of teaching and consulting in India and abroad.

Review:

The focal point of the book is business leadership and management education. It dissects the management education in the country with clinical precision and offers excellent suggestions to groom potential business leaders... It is authentic because the concepts are explained, analyzed and interpreted in detail...The references and the literature survey enlisted in the book is very extensive. Another important aspect of the book is that nowhere does it appeal to be technical. It should appeal to everyone besides the management teachers, corporate executives and management alumni....It really awakens us to the reality that there is an indispensable need to overhaul the management education in the country. It is very much the need of the hour in these days of globalization.

Author: South Asian Journal of Management

This small, potent book is backed by a sound conceptual framework with up-to-date bibliographical references that will be helpful even to academics spearheading into leadership issues. Thoughtful practitioners, like human resource professionals and industry leaders, can skip much of the conceptual and methodological work and still make the best of the powerful insights and information provided in this book. But there is not one concerned business school leader, whether in India or elsewhere, who can do without reading this book.

Author: Thunderbird International Business Review

A book that examines the widespread impression that young professionals graduating from India’s business schools are constantly job hopping, focus more on their own gains and lack entrepreneurship skills.

Author: Deccan Herald

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 8178298457
• ISBN 13: 9788178298450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236