Selecting IIM Directors
MSM have been quite shrill about MHRD’s use of ads seeking applications for the directorship of the IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Kolkata. T.T. Ram Mohan, a professor at IIM-A has a different — and more nuanced — take on this controversy:
Incidentally, I have often wondered about the presumption amongst IIM faculty as to their right to be consulted about the choice of director. Agreed, faculty are important stakeholders but does consultation mean that the director should be somebody with a high or the highest acceptability to faculty? When a company appoints at CEO, does the board go round asking the GMs and VPs whom they would like best for the job?
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Saurabh Johri
July 20th, 2007, 8:30 am | #
By putting the ad, the Govt. is only ensuring that there is more transparency in the process. I do not understand as to what is the fear of such a process? Who does it threaten? Was there some other method followed earlier for appointments? The ad system would only ensure that there is a wider choice available. Earlier the ministry used to struggle with the limited number of names provided by the slection committee. I see this whole thing as a non-issue.
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