Corporate Expectations from Management Graduates – Gap Analysis

Abstract

Education plays a remedial role in balancing the socio‐economic fabric of a country. India has made rapid progress and is well poised to being a knowledge economy. The knowledge becomes meaningful when it gets the skill of applying it at a right time. In the last three decades, the corporate sector is changing drastically across the globe and is delivering the products and services demanded by the challenging and changing needs of customers and clients. Subsequently, the business leaders who manage this corporate world expects dynamic management graduate who can possess required skills, knowledge, etc. The research paper aims at highlighting contemporary challenges that a management institution is facing while meeting corporate expectations. The study was carried out by exploring the existing literature sources. The study suggests that industrial collaborations, syllabus designed as per industrial expectations, etc plays important role in meeting the corporate expectations from a management graduate.