Management Education

Management Education There is no doubt that Management Education is desired by a variety of students from ordinary graduates to professional graduates such as Engineers, Law graduates and even Medical graduates. It has been accepted that training in management helps one rise in the organization to top levels faster. The income, power and status associated with top management jobs are attracting the best of brains to this career. Booming of the economy and chances of jobs abroad in management with management education has also helped make its demand grow. Another attraction is the relative ease of undergoing this course (this course is offered by almost all Universities, and several of their affiliated colleges) and its acceptance of graduate of any discipline as input resulting in it being a choice for almost any graduate.   Management degree programs are multidisciplinary in nature. The two-year MBA program is by far the most popular program among all management programs offered. The MBA program starts with a basic understanding of some foundation areas such as Accounting, Quantitative Techniques, Computers, Communication, Principles of Management and Economics. Then a couple of core/compulsory courses are given in the areas of Finance, Operations, Systems, Human Resource and Marketing.   There are electives that are offered in each of the areas of specialization. It is practice in management students to take electives in one or two areas of specialization. Electives are also provided with specific sectors in mind. Some of them are Insurance, Banking, Small business, Entrepreneurship, Hospital Management, Hospitality management, Retailing, Supply chain and Logistics, IT business, Tourism management, technology management and International business. There is also a trend to have management courses focused on any one of the above sectors.   There are Post Graduate management programs on Entrepreneurship, Hospital management, Supply chain management and logistics etc. These programs are usually called Masters in Entrepreneurship Management(MEM) , Masters in Supply Chain and Logistics management(MSCLM) etc. Such courses become necessary when a sector grows and management practice and research produces enough understanding and changes in that area to create need for a full-fledged course in that area. Such courses also have many core courses as in the MBA program and then go on to cover the courses in the sector concerned. Many such courses such as master of Human resource management, Master of International business etc, have become established.   For a student choosing a management course to study even today MBA is the first choice because of its long existence and universal acceptance. Students are reluctant to make a choice of getting in a narrower specialization by taking a masters program in a sectoral specialization. There are management programs that are offered through distance education. They do not produce as good a learning and training experience as the regular program. However there are regular programs with quality much lower than a good distance education program such as MBA from IGNOU. Distance programs are more suitable for working managers who have the knowledge and experience but do not have the formal qualification, which they would like to acquire the necessary qualification.   MBA program gains popularity because of the wide employment opportunity it offers. Thanks to the general boon in the economy the demand for management graduates exceeds supply. But, there is a note of caution here, quality of the management graduate available is also a very important concern. Because of the proliferation of this course, mainly due to the limited investment needed to start such courses, many institutes have mushroomed all over. This sudden expansion has led to lack of qualified and trained faculty especially at the middle and top levels. This and commercialization of education has created dent in quality of education provided.   Management graduates find employment mainly in the area of sales and marketing with both traditional sector companies as well as FMCG(Fast Moving Consumer Goods). They are also employed in service industry including insurance and banking. Since no other course produces inputs for sales job, most of the higher paid sales jobs are filled with management graduates. Some find jobs in operations in Banks/ Insurance sector. Many get employed in IT companies- in sales, business analysis or HR. Some even take a career in finance management. Human Resource management career is also the option for many specially lady students.. Of late the jobs in supply chain management and logistics sector has been increasing rapidly.   Types of Institutes The top management Institutes are the Indian Institutes of Management these institutes have very good infrastructure and faculty with fully residential program. Admissions are done after a highly competitive examination (Common Admission Test ,CAT), the best of the students aspiring for management education reach here. The institute and its facilities coupled with peer learning in such a group, produces the much sought after and often overvalued IIM management graduate. Most of the IIT's also have their own management schools but these have not yet made as much of a mark as the IIM.   There are many private national institutes (such as XLRI,XIM,Bajaj) and central University departments that run management programs. The strength of such departments is their tradition and good faculty. Physical facilities are usually not comparable to the IIM's. The competition is lesser here. University departments have lower fees whereas private institutes have high fees.. Some private institutes have uniforms and dress code too. The next layer of management schools are those run directly by the state Universities. These are constrained by the University setup and function as another of the many departments of the University most of the time. Their strengths again are the rich tradition they have and also the good faculty in the system. Infrastructure and money are their weaknesses. These schools also attract a good number of students.   There is then the youngest among the group, the new management institutes in private or self-financing sector. There are good institutes here and there is very poor quality ones. One should examine the institute and the course it offers before commiting oneself to it. Because one thing is guaranteed the experience is going to be expensive.   This is the time for management education to boom and grow in India, MBA program will remain the most popular program for a long time to come. Since different quality MBA programs come in many forms from many sources at different price the prospective student is advised to exercise informed discretion when choosing the institute and the management course it offers.

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Health problem caused by ASBESTOS

Asbestos is a group of minerals with long, thin fibrous crystals. Asbestos became increasingly popular among manufacturers and builders in the late 19th century due to its resistance to heat, electricity and chemical damage, its sound absorption and tensile strength. When asbestos is used for its resistance to fire or heat, the fibers are often mixed with cement or woven into fabric or mats. Asbestos is used in brake shoes and gaskets for its heat resistance, and in the past was used on electric oven and hotplate wiring for its electrical insulation at elevated temperature, and in buildings for its flame-retardant and insulating properties, tensile strength, flexibility, and resistance to chemicals

Health issues

Chrysotile asbestos, like all other forms of industrial asbestos, has produced tumors in animals. Mesotheliomas have been observed in people who were occupationally exposed to chrysotile, family members of the occupationally exposed, and residents who lived close to asbestos factories and mines.Brown asbestos, like all asbestos, is hazardous. Blue asbestos is commonly thought of as the most dangerous type of asbestos. Tremolite often contaminates chrysotile asbestos, thus creating an additional hazard.

Asbestos exposure becomes a health concern when high concentrations of asbestos fibers are inhaled over a long time period. People who become ill from asbestos are almost always those who are exposed on a day-to-day basis in a job where they work directly with the material. As a person's exposure to fibers increases, either by breathing more fibers or by breathing fibers for a longer time, that person's risk of disease also increases. Disease is very unlikely to result from a single, high-level exposure, or from a short period of exposure to lower levels.

Other asbestos-related diseases

• Asbestos warts – caused when the sharp fibers lodge in the skin and are overgrown causing benign callus-like growths.

• Pleural plaques – discrete fibrous or partially calcified thickened area which can be seen on X-rays of individuals exposed to asbestos. They do not become malignant or cause other lung impairment.

• Diffuse pleural thickening – similar to above and can sometimes be associated with asbestosis. Usually no symptoms shown but if extensive can cause lung impairment.

Asbestos as a contaminant

Most respirable asbestos fibers are invisible to the unaided human eye because their size is about 3.0-20.0 µm in length and can be as thin as 0.01 µm. Human hair ranges in size from 17 to 181 µm in width. Fibers ultimately form because when these minerals originally cooled and crystallized, they formed by polymeric molecules lining up parallel with each other and forming oriented crystal lattices. These crystals thus have three cleavage planes, just as other minerals and gemstones have. But in their case, there are two cleavage planes that are much weaker than the third direction. When sufficient force is applied, they tend to break along their weakest directions, resulting in a linear fragmentation pattern and hence a fibrous form. This fracture process can keep occurring and one larger asbestos fiber can ultimately become the source of hundreds of much thinner and smaller fibers.

As asbestos fibers get smaller and lighter, they more easily become airborne and human respiratory exposures can result. Fibers will eventually settle but may be re-suspended by air currents or other movement.

Friability of a product containing asbestos means that it is so soft and weak in structure that it can be broken with simple finger crushing pressure. Friable materials are of the most initial concern due to their ease of damage. The forces or conditions of usage that come into intimate contact with most non-friable materials containing asbestos are substantially higher than finger pressure.
Asbestos can be found naturally in the air outdoors and in some drinkable water, including water from natural sources. Studies have shown that members of general (non-occupationally exposed) population have tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of asbestos fibers in each gram of dry lung tissue, which translates into millions of fibers and tens of thousands of asbestos bodies in every person's lungs.

Asbestos from natural geologic deposits is known as "Naturally Occurring Asbestos" (NOA). Health risks associated with exposure to NOA are not yet fully understood, and current US federal regulations do not address exposure from NOA. Many populated areas are in proximity to shallow, natural deposits which occur in 50 of 58 California counties and in 19 other U.S. states. In one study, data was collected from 3,000 mesothelioma patients in California and 890 men with prostate cancer, a malignancy not known to be related to asbestos. The study found a correlation between the incidence of mesotheliomas and the distance a patient lived from known deposits of rock likely to include asbestos, the correlation was not present when the incidence of prostate cancer was compared with the same distances. According to the study, risk of mesothelioma declined by 6 percent for every 10 kilometers that an individual had lived from a likely asbestos source.

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

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Here is an important info for u all.

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.

IF EVER your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.

If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

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