Executive Fellow Program In Management

The Executive Fellow Programme in Management is a non-residential doctoral programme designed to cater to the scholarly needs of working business executives. It prepares executives for careers in management teaching and research, as well as in management practice, consulting and development.

The Executive Fellow programme is designed to:

• Enhance the research and consulting skills of the executive.
• Increase the executive's understanding of research methodology and techniques.
• Build on the executive's past experience and academic achievements.
• Help the executive maximize his/her effectiveness as an educator or practitioner.

As a consequence, the executive is expected to develop / learn the following as part of the programme:

• An appreciation of the potential contribution of research in management practice.
• The ability to plan and carry out a research project in the field of management, and to ultimately implement the research findings.
• The ability to make an original contribution to know-how in the practice of management.
• The ability to improve personal performance through the analysis of past practice.

Thereby the programme is expected to help executives in their current senior management roles, as well as in preparing them for possible careers in academics or consulting.

The programme consists of two phases. The first phase of the programme consists of course work involving completion of a series of FPM-level courses followed by a Comprehensive Examination. The second phase of the programme consists of Thesis work involving preparation of a Thesis Proposal, Thesis development, and its examination. In all, the programme is expected to take between 4 and 5 years to complete. The next session starts in the last week of June / first week of July, 2008.

The institute currently offers the Executive Fellow Programme in the following knowledge domains:

• Business Communications
• Economics
• Finance
• Human Behaviour & Organisational Development
• Information Management
• Marketing
• Operations Management
• Strategic Management
• Public Systems & Governance