Executive Management Program for Defence Officers

The Executive Management Program for Defence Officers is designed by XLRI Jamshedpur in association with Directorate General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, for Officers from the Armed Forces, who are seeking a career in the Corporate world. It allows a smooth transition and re-orientation for the Officers towards their life and career as Business Managers and Entrepreneurs. The Program provides an insight of how their inherent capabilities, by virtue of having served as Officers of the Armed Forces, would apply to the organisation where they would serve , thereby facilitating them to sharpen their managerial skills and commensurate them with the challenges and demands of the Corporate arena. The course comprises of Officers from the three services i.e. The Army, The Navy & The Air force, who come from distinctive educational backgrounds comprising Engineering, Medicine, Management, Commerce, Architecture, basic sciences and arts coupled with the vast and rich experience, ranging from 6 to 34 years.

This is a full time residential programme for six months and is broadly divided into three terms, of approximately two months each. In first two terms the participants undergo 12 core subjects in various functional areas such as Human Resource Development, Managerial Economics, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Organisational behaviour, Business Communication, Soft Skills Development, Corporate Strategy and Quantitative Techniques. In the third term the Officers are offered 12 courses as specialisation in the key areas of Marketing, Human Resource or Operations Management, with 4 subjects each, out of they have to choose any 6.