Quota problems, discussions on the fee structures and now Faculty of problems, Inde’s Elite Management Institute - IIMS - do not provide respite to the problems plaguing them. In the Faculty Arena, seems to be a battle between the private and the international system of school management in relation to the IIMS. While the brand IIM works for some, money dangled private institutions and foreign fingers at others.

“First good option remains a problem. People are rather for a company or exposure of education in universities abroad against the accession of our faculty,” said Bakul Dholakia, director, IIM Ahmedabad.

IIM Bangalore director Prakash Apte added: “We are losing potential candidates to B-schools and private businesses. For example, recently IIM-B for 15 people faculty, offered to 12 letters of appointment, but only two addressed the Institute. Given the current situation, it is difficult for our services before students intake.

According to Sunil Rai, joint director, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, “There are two things in a faculty research. One is the pay package. The other is research, publication and consultation. IIMS you the possibility of giving them more like most, especially as large companies, which themselves for projects. ”

However, the Faculty is that managers move when there is a chance to comply with an international institution, while the younger ones move many were private B-schools, he adds. IIMS Compared to other ranking Top-25 B-schools like MDI SPJIMR pay about 15-20 percent more. The salaries of teachers and teaching staff usually between 30000 and 70000 per month, RR.

Mr. Rai, said this is not the top-ranking B-schools that attract the best in the field, but newer and smaller, have not yet done so, in the Top 25 list, offers more than double Current treatments attract people away.

The salaries offered are almost twice as high as packages of teachers and board alongwith opportunities, juicy bait is not biting.

“We have tried to attract excellence of the Faculty IIMS by the Board of chances higher and better benefits packages, as occupy their wives and children in our schoools. We do not just treat the person, we adopted, his family, “said Ashok K Chauhan, president and founder, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, parent organization of the database of all institutions Amity.

Some IIMS as IIMB approved a compensation package offered to teachers and teachers. The Institute has decided to Shell-R 2.5 crore in payments-linked “for teachers and Incentives / bonus for non-teaching staff, subject to approval by the centre.

The Faculty IIMB faut pas non plus their prey (the amount) of its council projects worth up to Rs 6 lakh with the Institute on the lines of IIM, Ahmedabad. Apte prof said that the current model sharing 60:40 shall apply if the proposed payment of more than 6 lakh case The Faculty is also a payment of 30-40 per cent higher education in the direction of programmes.

However, M ISB dean Rammohan Rao said Faculty is not always a problem confined to India. “In the world there is an acute shortage of good faculty. Registering fewer students in PhD programs and research at the Faculty focuses on the decline. ISB on us as we face the same situation,” adds it.

Mumbai Educational Trust’s Institute of Management, Mumbai (METIM-M) ranks 98th (with a total score of 352.78) in the Cosmode Management Centre-Business World Top 100 B-schools listing of 2004. The ranking was based on performance on the following parameters: infrastructure and networking (which had a weightage of 100 points each in the total validation score of 1,000), faculty research and consultancy/ management development programmes and admission and delivery (250 points, each) and placement and industry interface (300 points). METIM-M has scored 35.70 points on infrastructure, 50.43 points on faculty, research and consultancy, 95.35 points on admission and delivery, 31.00 points on networking and 140.3 points on placement.

The ICFAI Business School (IBS) at Gurgaon is established under the aegis of ICFAI or the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad. According to the director, IBS Gurgaon, Rajan Saxena, “IBS Gurgaon has carved out a reputation for itself in the area of management education and we believe in delivering quality above everything else.”

IBS Gurgaon offers its flagship programme, MBA, a general programme with specialisations or various electives for students, which they pursue in the second-year of their study. These electives are in the areas of marketing; HRM; IT & systems; accounting & control; insurance; entrepreneurship; finance; operations management; international business; banking and investments. Saxena remarked, “Our pedagogy is unique in the sense that it inculcates elements of case studies as well as theoretical inputs.”

Outlining the areas on which IBS Gurgaon is focusing to strengthen its teaching and training base, Saxena said: “We are laying stress on developing core competence in the areas of faculty; research; study programmes; infrastructure and placement.” He said the faculty was the most important asset for a teaching institution and hence IBS had developed a strategy to bring in the best of the candidates. “We will be recruiting the best brains, wherever we find them, as a part of the faculty,” Saxena pointed out. According to him, for any B-school, the faculty should comprise a mix of academicians and industry people in a ratio of 60 to 40. He added, “A good faculty is known by its published works, papers or knowledge development and discrimination.”

Saxena elaborated, however that placement was the final barometer of the success of any management programme. “Our placement record has been 100 per cent with the students getting placed in some of the best companies - both Indian and multinationals and get started on an average salary of Rs 2.3 lakh per annum, which speaks of the level at which the students are placed, in terms of remuneration,” Saxena elaborated. Mentioning the name of a few of these companies he remarked, “These are Wipro, GE, TCS, IDBI Bank and Ranbaxy among others.” He added that the feedback from the industry suggested that IBS Gurgaon students were as good as students from any of the reputed B-schools in India.

On future plans, Saxena said: “We will be launching an executive MBA programme from the next year and a Ph D programme in management as well. The interested candidates will require an experience of at least five years to pursue the executive MBA programme.”

PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore (PIM-C), ranks 51st (with a total score of 497.15) in the Cosmode Management Centre- Business World Top 100 B-schools listing of 2004 (ranked 36TH in the listing of 2003). The ranking was based on performance on the following parameters: infrastructure and networking (which had a weightage of 100 points each in the total validation score of 1,000), faculty research and consultancy/ management development programmes and admission and delivery (250 points, each) and placement and industry interface (300 points).

PIM-C has scored 60.79 points on infrastructure, 115.56 points on faculty, research and consultancy, 127.70 points on admission and delivery, 37.0 points on networking and 156.09 points on placement.