The fifth edition of the Faculty Development Programme (FDP-2013) of Indian Institute of Management Indore concluded on June 28, 2013. The 8-week long Programme was held during April 22, 2013 to June 28, 2013. The Programme attracted 33 participants from various streams from different parts of India and abroad.
Aimed at enhancing teaching and research capabilities of management educators, IIM Indore’s FDP is a two-month, residential programme, specially designed for faculty members of management education and training institutes. The Programme enables the participants to develop competence in general management, understand recent advances in management research, and learn to improve pedagogies, effective presentation techniques, and behavioral skills to be an effective management faculty.
FDP is managed by a mix of faculty from IIM Indore as well as guest faculty from industry and other institutions for an intensive exposure to research, writing, teaching, training, and industry trends.
The modules of the 5th FDP included sessions on Simulation, library Services & Database Management, Marketing Management, Accounting, History of Management Thought, Fundamentals of Economics, Finance, Introduction to Spreadsheets, Decision Analysis, Collaborative Consumption, Customer Relation Management, Value In use Prizing, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behaviour, Contemporary Issues in Finance, Industrial Relations and labour laws, RM-Time Series, Data Analysis for Research, Information Technology, E-Governance, SPSS, Strategic Management, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Fundamentals of Economics, Case Pedagogy, Developing Case and Course Materials, Research Methodology, Communications. The program also included multiple industrial visits and BCG materials.
Some of the participating institutions included MPSTME, NMIMS University; ITM University, Gwalior; PSG Institute of Management; lumbini Academic Foundation, Kathmandu; Bar Council of Delhi; Oriental Institute of Management, Mumbai; Punjabi University, Patiala; Central University of Karnataka etc.