promotes the special needs of human resource in an organisation setting which is no different from similar needs in any community setting. directionally personnel management converges to community health.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Management schools and People practices
While we come across critical analysis of various people practices, benchmarks, surveys prevalent in industry and commercial institutions in general or even in NGOs for that matter, rarely we see any such academic interests on people practices prevailing in business schools. Are faculty and non-faculty seen as equal stakeholders in such institutions ? or are learners' customers ? What happens to values and ethics as subjects for greater appreciation than SCM? How much the business school graduates are oriented towards social responsibilities of businesses ? what is the visibility for priority shown to resources like people and community. How are knowledge resources and infrastructure resources are integrated to improve administrative quality in schools? are the hr practices benchmarked internally and externally ? or are they seen as mere administrative service areas? It's high time that business schools practice innovative hr practices at home and recognise that hr functions cannot be seen any longer as an administrative service as it exists now. For e.g.: a business school with no regard to quality health and safety practices cannot be an excellent learning centre. Similarly quality education will get reflected in the people practices that the institution is committed to. That then will differentiate top business schools from the rest.