West will follow India's new management curriculum

Trichy: The entire world will talk about the Indian management system, leadership and ethos in the coming decade, director of Indian Institute of Management, Trichy (IIMT), Bhimaraya Metri has said. He was speaking after inaugurating the leadership training camp for college students at National College Trichy (NCT) on Thursday. He said that the time had come for the world to look back to the Indian management system.

Indian ethos and business ethics had been introduced as compulsory course this year onwards in management schools by the AICTE. Bhimaraya Metri, who was the chairman of the model curriculum for management, said that after 5-10 years this curriculum would be compulsory in the rest of the world.

“We have been following the western management system and later the Japanese system which gained prominence in yesteryears. With the new curriculum, we have added strategic lesson from Indian ethos that include lessons from Chanakyaneeti, Bhagawat Geetha and other Indian literatures. We have also made the curriculum very flexible so that students achieve their dream and the institutions’ their vision,” he said.

Further speaking on leadership, he highlighted the qualities of great leaders of the country who turned crises in other parts of the world to their advantage. He said that Wipro chairman Azim Premji and Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy saw opportunity in the shortage of manpower for developing software and became great leaders.

He said great leaders were good managers during their time. Asking students to set high goals to become a good leader, he asked them to think differently to get different results apart from being creative and innovative. He listed out the names of prestigious alumni of the college that include several scientists and eminent personalities.
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