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Teaching methodology

 

Given here is our teaching methodology, designed after meticulous observation of the industry demand and the qualities of the available raw material, i.e. YOU. It is only you to open the mouthbefore the interview board, it is the way you answer the interviewer’s questions that matters, it is your appearence that matters, it is your convincing skills that matters, it is your argumentative skills that matters, it is the sharpness & creativity of your mind that matters and finally it is your INDIVIDUAL EXPOSURE during the two year period  you spend at your B- School that matters a lot. Your placement depends on only ONETHING, i.e. what you have done in these 2 crucial years as an individual.

100 Assignments:  An assignment is a bunch of answer sheets prepared by you for a given topic, after due consultation with 3 to 4 reference textbooks, related websites & working managers. This will enable you to work on one hundred crucial management topics, which results in gaining huge wealth of knowledge that is not possible through our age old method of textbook mugging. At least one assignment will be assigned every week.

100 case studies: A case study is the study of a live problematic situation faced by an organisation in the course of its
business. On studying the situation & storming your brain to come out with different alternative solutions - you have to fix on a single solution. A wrong solution might cost your promotion, image or even your job. Handling 100 case studies with the help of your faculty, who are picked up direct from the industry, help you find solutions to many business problems after your placement.

All Fridays are exclusively reserved for case studies & management games. At BITM, people who
never worked in any company will not be allowed to teach business management. Problematic subject are exempted
.

100 speeches: Every student is supposed to speak on a given topic for a minimum of 10 to 15 minutes contineously. She or he has to answer the questions posed by the audience for another 5 minutes. Stage fear, public speaking phobia etc will no more be your weak points. Also you will learn how to argue & convince a large group, being a.l..o...n....e. The secret advantage with this technique is, you will also learn 24 different topics by intently listening to 24 of other par ticipants’ speeches. Because the class size for this program is 25 students.

All Saturdays are exclusively reserved for this oral presentation program. BITM is the place where you can’t escape by sitting in the back bench or by bunking the class on a crucial day, as every day is a crucial day here & every student is forced to open his mouth before a large crowd of future managers, every week.

What others like to do, but BITM does NOT ?

Industrial visits: Most B-schools organize industrial visits & tours to observe how manufacturing firms work. Service
sector is contributing 55% of India’s total income, where as agriculture & manufacturing together is contributing
45%. More than 80% jobs for MBAs are offered by service sector. Then what is the necessity in visiting large manufacturing
industries? Only 2 industrial visits will be there in BITM. However, there will be 20 visits to service sector
offices, as part of our short term projects & assignments

Assignments : Sample assignment question from other B-schools: What are the different motivational theories available
to motivate the employees of an organization?
To answer the above question, the student is simply required to copy the content from textbook to the assignment
paper.

Sample assignment question from BITM: Which, out of the following, would most effectively motivate a sales
executive of a financial services company:
a) Rise in salary
b) Monthly incentive
c) A return ticket to Bangkok with spouse
d) Reducing the working hours in his case
e) Promotion
No student can answer this question with the help of a textbook alone. He will be forced to meet the Branch Manager /
HR Manager of a financial services company to answer this assignment question.

Certified Professional Manager: Observe the difference between the following 2 sample questions.

Sample MBA question of most Universities & B-schools:
What factors drive a consumer in taking a buying decision? To answer this question, mugging the textbook is
enough.
Sample CPM question from BITM:
Differentiate the factors that drive a consumer in taking a buying decision for the following products & services:
a) 5 kg sugar packet
b) Cadbury chocolate from a big mall
c) Car
d) Body massager from a door to door sales executive
e) Life insurance policy.

To answer this question, the student is required to possess some market knowledge and logical sense in addition
to textbook knowledge. These things are taught and facilitated at BITM only.

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