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Business Of B-Schools October 2011

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Business - BIt is good news that management education is flourishing in Nepal. In last one and a half decades, after Kathmandu University launched its MBA, a lot of management colleges have started offering management degrees. A lot of them have been successful in their mission and produced quality human resources. However, prominent positions in Nepali corporate houses are dominated by foreign university graduates. This somewhere underlines that our graduates are not as good as those coming from foreign colleges or at least the employers have this perception.

The teaching-learning methodology and the educational environment in Nepal are much criticised by the teachers of management colleges. They are the ones who are responsible to improvise new methodologies to meet the kind of current demand and need. It will be better if they can implement the best practices of foreign universities. However, the trend is gradually shifting lately in new management colleges. In most colleges, though they claim modern methodology is being used, the teaching is limited to lectures only. The quality of teachers can be questioned after their failure to revolutionise the classroom. On the other hand, students are not much prepared for modern day classroom activities. They have been passive learners since their schools days and most of them do not have any work experience as they are straight out of the undergraduate colleges.

Teachers are treating teaching merely as a job, forgetting their professional ethics and responsibilities. They reach almost half a dozen colleges every morning to teach. They completely lack self-study and research practices. Though professors are expected to engage in research activities, only a handful of them are pondering over research and innovations. In some cases, teachers are unable to answer the queries raised by students.

So, only the course material will not do miracles until delivery of it is revolutionised. For that, teachers will have to be competent and business schools should rise above their profit motive and realise the responsibility to improve the quality of education. Business schools should not be established only for business but also to meet the demand of the evolutionary business environment.


- Rohit Shrestha
New Baneshwor, Kathmandu
 

Telephone Boom

Lately, Nepal's telecommunication market has grown tremendously. Almost 50 per cent of the population now have access to telecommunication services though largely dominated by GSM mobile telephone. Now rural areas are being slowly covered by the network of either NTC or Ncell or rural telecom operators.

Constantly declining cost of services and communication devices has attracted a lot of new consumers. Compared to the mobile telephone service, Internet has still not reached a substantial number of people. Users of Internet are largely concentrated on urban centres. However, the services like 3G and GPRS/EDGE has gathered huge number of mobile Internet users. With the advent of smartphones, trend of using Internet on mobile is growing both nationally and internationally.

Still, a large chunk of population i.e. around 50 per cent population does not directly have access to such services. But this population includes children and those who use telecommunication indirectly from home telephone or use devices of family members and friends. This is the market segment everyone is trying to tap both network operators and handset makers. If their marketing strategy succeeds, the number of consumers is certain to increase. Looking at the growth trend and usage pattern, it is certain that more Nepali people will have greater access to telecom and Internet services in the future.

- Prativa Panthi
Pokhara
 

 

Workplace Harassment

Workplace harassment - either in psychological or physical form - is reported in all organisations. . Most common harassment is sexual as established by various studies. In many cases the complaint against harassment is resolved within the company while some cases reach the court. In Nepal's case, they rarely reach the courts though there is legal provision for this. Most often, such problems are solved within the organisation and common disciplinary action is firing the accused. Experts say this is not the best action as such provision encourages employees to take advantage of the system. Any workplace harassment must be discouraged at any cost and strong actions must be taken by the organisation as well as such cases should be taken to the courts. Employee's behaviour and preferences must be well understood while dealing with them as someone might feel harassed by similar approach while for others it could be completely normal. Companies must be careful to avoid such harassments at the workplace and should take more care while hiring new employees. Along with the company, employees themselves have to maintain a discipline that makes the working environment safe and healthy.


- Purna Bogati
Bhaktapur

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