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Chapter 3
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2845-8.ch003
INTRODUCTION
It has been observed by the practitioners that
traditional class room learning has limited utility.
When salesman needs to know how his product
provides competitive advantage in the market
place in relation to other products available and
offering similar benefits, he needs to understand
consumer behavior, consumer expectations,
product characteristics and benefits it offers over
the other competitive products in the market and
how his product differentiates from the rest in the
Rajat Kanti Baisya
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Brane Semolic
University of Maribor, Solvenia
Evolving Corporate Education:
Relevance of Management Education
ABSTRACT
University education in traditional environment serves a very limited purpose in terms of the requirement
of skill and knowledge in a specifc job to deliver performance as expected in a highly competitive and
dynamic environment. The traditional knowledge as given in university setup provides basic modules as
per curriculum structure and content, and much depends on the teachers’ ability to impart knowledge and
also on students’ ability to assimilate the same. Although that helps students to develop thinking abilities
and also independent learning after completing the university programme, knowledge is expanding and
becomes double almost every two to three years and our university education and academic programme
are seldom revised. As such traditional learning is grossly inadequate to meet the demand of knowledge
and skill to perform in a highly competitive commercial world. Besides, the quality of such education
is also a big question mark. The traditional university system thus only creates unemployable educated
manpower in our system. While corporations try to take students and graduates from the better known
institutions and that too after thorough screening but for delivering the performance in business a con-
stant learning, training and re-training are essential. In knowledge economy, organizations with better
knowledge and skill are the only ones to survive; skill and knowledge level, therefore, are required to
be upgraded continuously.