AICAR introduces courses with cross-disciplinary and social focus

August 13, 2009

The world is facing extreme economic and environmental challenges today due to man’s pursuit of ‘success’, as ‘success’ is traditionally defined. Unless we change course dramatically, mankind may have to face even greater hardships in the days to come. In such a scenario, can management education be redesigned to provide solutions to the challenges faced by mankind today? Can it help mankind find answers to today’s global economic and environmental challenges and produce managers whose skills and abilities not only make them recession-proof, but equip them to fight the recession? The answer is: A beginning can be made. With this as the basic premise,  Neral-based AICAR Business School is introducing a unique course as part of its management education curriculum that will help students challenge preconceived notions, discover new ways of thinking and evolve into independent learners/thinkers.

The course titled ‘Discover Success with Leaders,’ will pursue these objectives through interactive sessions combining theory and practical experiences. The theory sessions will expose students to extensive work already done to examine ‘knowledge’ and how human beings acquire ‘knowledge’ and how the process of acquisition of ‘knowledge’ causes inherent biases in what we believe we ‘know’. The course would be like a weekly workshop meant for all the participants at AICAR.

The practical sessions will involve real activities that demonstrate the theories discussed with students and interactions with Leaders-in-Residence – people from different walks of life and not just people who have reached positions of leadership in the corporate sphere. The intention is to expose students to as wide a cross section of society as possible, so that they may know about diverse patterns of thinking and diverse definitions of success.

The theory and practical sessions will enable students to release their minds from the imprisonment of accepted definitions of success, create their own definition of success and roadmap to achieve the same, equip them to travel on the road they themselves have fashioned, and embark on and complete journeys that open up new vistas for mankind. Ultimately, AICAR Business School believes these personal journeys undertaken by students could lead the world into a recession-proof future characterized by sustainable growth. The course would be offered to all the participants of the MBA programme at AICAR starting August 15, 2009.