Diagnosing the HR Practices within a B-School System in India

Abstract

There was a phase in the early to mid-nineties of the ‘mushrooming’ of stand-alone B-Schools, that could be called as first generation B-schools owing to their incarnation as an institution deliberately manufactured to manufacture the input materials for the ‘about to be scaled up’ Corporate sector considering the Liberalization policy of the then existing Government. Three decades following this, another round of mushrooming is being witnessed again, but this time a more broad sensed University system aimed at offering a relatively bigger basket of more technical courses under the colossal propagation of the New Education policy of the Government. Universities are crossing the 1100 mark now in India, thereby, resulting in a rapid surge in demand of different kind of human resources to cope up with the speedy trajectory desired for positioning the Institution under the leader category! This article tries to find out whether approaches towards the fulfillment of HR acquisition objectives have a conducive directional flow or an erratic one, and also how the demandsupply is being managed! It tries to suggest effective ways in which requisite manpower for B-Schools can be had keeping in mind the emerging academic and industrial environment not only in India but across the Globe!