 Filling the vacancy: strategies used by the business schools in IndiaRajib Lochan Dhar International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2013, vol. 6, issue 2, 185-206 Abstract: This paper aims at exploring the different strategies adopted by the private business schools to fill the soaring vacancies of the teaching staff. Qualitative methods have been used to collect the data based upon phenomenological principles. Based on the principles of phenomenology and anomie theory, it was found that the business schools use five different strategies to fill their faculty openings. These were: (i) hiring freshers, (ii) promoting existing employees, (iii) hiring experienced employees from the industry, (iv) social networking and (v) unethical methods. This study indicates that the business schools use both overt as well as covert strategies to fill the vacancies and/or show the vacancies filled to the regulatory bodies for the purpose of getting an approval (for running a management course) from them. It highlights the prevalence of corrupt practices carried out in the private business schools in filling the faculty openings. Keywords: business schools; corruption; business education; caste; networking; India; teaching staff; staff vacancies; phenomenology; anomie theory; ethics; freshers; employee promotion; hired employees; social networking; unethical methods; faculty vacancies; management courses; higher education. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:6:y:2013:i:2:p:185-206 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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