Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

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Leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpact has roped in professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow to give its employees lessons in management skills and improving productivity.

Through electronically enabled interactive sessions, workers at Genpact’s operation hubs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Jaipur will learn the finer nuances of management, soft skills and strategic planning from senior professors of the business school.

This is an e-certificate programme in general management (e-CPGM) and there are 119 participants, most of whom have worked for one to three years.

“The objective of this programme is to develop managerial capabilities among people who are at the early stages of their career to enable them to effectively undertake managerial responsibilities,” said Ajay Singh, course director of IIM Lucknow.

The programme is divided into 12 modules. Keeping in mind the requirements of the industry, the modules are designed to create managerial and leadership competence among the professionals. There are 120 hours of e-enabled interactive sessions.

Singh said the programme was being run from IIM Lucknow’s Noida campus, which was being developed as a centre of excellence in the area of executive education.

The India headquartered Genpact operates service delivery centres in India, China, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the US.

Samford University’s Brock School of Business is changing the schedule of its evening MBA program.

The graduate program - taken often by working professionals - is being revamped into two semesters that are nine weeks each with a 10-week summer semester, the school reported Thursday.

The program used to have five, nine-week terms in a year.

Under the new schedule, each course will meet for a two-hour class each week, giving students more time to study and learn the material, school officials said.

“We have retained the flexibility and convenience for working professionals through the option of attending one evening a week,” said Larry Harper, director of Graduate and Executive Education Programs at the Brock School of Business in a news release. “In addition, students can complete the degree in as little as 12 months by attending full-time or 22 months by attending part-time.”

The new curriculum covers all business functions and is designed to offer a more complete general management experience. Students also learn to exercise ethical business practices.

“Managers need comprehensive skills and sound values in order to achieve the disparate goals of their investors, customers, employees and the public at large,” said Beck A. Taylor, dean of the Brock School of Business. “At the Brock School, our charge is to help current and aspiring managers to discover solutions that meet these goals.”

The evening MBA program is the oldest in the state of Alabama and takes applications year round. Students can enter the program in January, June and August.

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The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIM-B) has entered into a partnership with Hughes Escorts Communication Ltd (HECL) to offer a host of long-term programmes to working executives over the Hughes’ Direcway Global Education Platform.

These specialised programmes cater to the needs of a broad spectrum of industries. In the coming years, IIM Bangalore will also target international markets such as Sri Lanka, Singapore and parts of West Asia.

Two new programmes - Advanced General Management Program (AGMP) for IT and ITES professionals (AGMP) and Executive General Management Programme (EGMP) - are slated for launch in the next two months. These on-campus programmes will be beamed live instantaneously to 47 Direcway Global Education classrooms located at 35 cities across India.

It’s a Sunday afternoon and class time for 39-year-old IT worker Seema Shetty. Her feet curled under her in a swivel chair, she sits in front of a computer monitor, adjusts a set of headphones, and scribbles in a notebook. Shetty, who works for consulting firm Mastek in Mumbai, is in a virtual classroom in the Vile Parle suburb, where a dozen computers link students to some of India’s elite management institutions. Today’s class is a three-hour general management lecture, part of the online education course conducted by the Xavier Labor Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, in the remote northern Indian state of Jharkhand.

A consultant for various industries from insurance to banking, Shetty signed up for an online certificate course to “learn more about my clients’ business requirements,” she says. By enrolling in the 14-month, six-hour-per-weekend online course, at a cost of $4,600, she can further her education without having to take a two-year career break to get an MBA. Learning online, says Shetty hopefully, “will definitely boost my job prospects.”

Shetty is part of a growing tribe of working professionals and students in India who have enrolled for online education certification. While it’s difficult to determine numbers of students, the online education market in India today generates about $200 million in revenue, and industry experts expect it to touch $1 billion by the end of the decade. The winning proposition: Getting knowledge from top-notch professionals without disrupting fast-track careers.

Chennai, June 9 - MR Rama Nathan Kannan is regarded as the director of the Institute of Chennai-Financial Management & Research (IFMR) on 1 July. It resumed by Professor S. Ramachander, which is the retirement age to 30 June, on completion of his term of six years.

Mr. Kannan appointment was at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Institute will take place on Tuesday, said a statement by Dr Nachiket Mor, Executive Director, Icici Bank and a member of the Board of Governors, IFMR. IFMR is a body whose promoters Icici Bank and the House of Kotharis and was in 1970.

Mr. Kannan holds a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Before his arrival at IFMR, he was Director General of Icici Bank for the period 1997-2003, various research groups the treatment of structured products, oil and gas and infrastructure financing and technology services.

He has over 30 years of industry experience and serves as director of the offices of a number of major groups.

In addition to the contribution of a whole series of articles in various newspapers and magazines, M. Kannan has also taught in institutions such as NIBM, IIT, and Bankers’ Training College.

He told that at the Business Line IFMR continue its ongoing general management, would focus on budgetary management.

He said that the Institute would be the leverage its ties with Icici Bank to develop its expertise in finance.

Chennai: Chennai-based Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) has announced admissions for the 29th batch of the 3-year part-time PGDBM (Post Graduate Diploma In Business Management) program.

LIBA’s PGDBM program is approved by AICTE (All India Council For Technical Education) and offers specialization in Marketing, Finance, HRM or General Management. Last date for receipt of completed applications is May 10, 2007, a press release said.

Structure of the Program

The part-time PGDBM program has 35 courses - 26 compulsory courses of 3 credits each and 9 elective courses of 4 credits each, and a masters level dissertation in the last term of the third year for 6 credits, totalling 120 credits. The postgraduate Programme consists of nine terms each approximately of three months duration. The classes are held from 6.45 pm – 8.30 pm Monday through Thursday.

Eligibility for admission to the program is university graduation with 50 per cent of aggregate marks and at least 2 years of full-time work experience. The applications received will be scrutinized and eligible candidates will need to present themselves for an admission test at the LIBA campus. Candidates selected on the basis of their performance at this admission test will be required to attend a personal interview followed by group discussion.

LUCKNOW: The second General Management Program (GMP) for officers of the defence services was signed on Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, on Monday.

Like many of the armed forces of 60 officers began its mission MBA ‘under the direction of the administration of the brightest minds in the country.

Procedure at the initiative of the Directorate of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, the two years of operation of the education sector postgraduate programme (PGP) was encapsulated IIM-L-experts in six months a certificate especially the MBA program.

In various sectors of the army, the quota at the IIM-L-Campus of the year for the specific training, including 41 officers of the Army, Navy, and 10 from nine Air Force.

Out of 60, 10 female officers. Last year, there were 48 officers, including four women. Last year, the success provides high visibility this year.

LUCKNOW: With an highest annual salary package of US $ 75000 for international job and Rs 16 lakh for domestic one, placements at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, (IIM-L) this year broke all previous records.

Key trends this year were the increase in the spiking coveted consulting and i-banking jobs and increase in the number of students opting to start a venture of their own.

Nine students including the batch-topper signed out of the placement process to start new ventures.

“The best part has been that every student got what he / she wanted,” said Prof Pankaj Kumar, chairman, the investment committee.

Attributing the upsurge in consultancy jobs to strong base of general management IIM students, he said that the trend also highlights the excellent pedagogy, skills and values that students acquire at IIM Lucknow

NEW DELHI OCT. 5. Using technology once again as the bridging force, the Hughes Direcway Global Education Platform has launched three new courses as part of its new tie-up with Cornell University.

The prestigious university will be offering three of its popular courses in general management, human resource management and hospitality management through the virtual classrooms of Hughes that currently offer management programmes on the same medium through their tie- up with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and Xaviers Labour Research Institute (XLRI). To be delivered across ten cities of the country, the programme is now open for working professionals.

Founded In 1865, Cornell University is a private endowed university and federal land-grant institution of New York State. A member of the Ivy League and partner of the State University of New York, it established the first four- year school of hotel administration and industrial and labour relations.

The general management courses are for mid level to senior level managers who want to upgrade their existing fundamental skills.