Filling the vacancy: strategies used by the business schools in India Online publication date: Fri, 13-Dec-2013
by Rajib Lochan Dhar
International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management (IJICBM), Vol. 6, No. 2, 2013
Abstract: This paper aims at exploring the different strategies adopted by the private business schools to fill the soaring vacancies of the teaching staff. Qualitative methods have been used to collect the data based upon phenomenological principles. Based on the principles of phenomenology and anomie theory, it was found that the business schools use five different strategies to fill their faculty openings. These were: (i) hiring freshers, (ii) promoting existing employees, (iii) hiring experienced employees from the industry, (iv) social networking and (v) unethical methods. This study indicates that the business schools use both overt as well as covert strategies to fill the vacancies and/or show the vacancies filled to the regulatory bodies for the purpose of getting an approval (for running a management course) from them. It highlights the prevalence of corrupt practices carried out in the private business schools in filling the faculty openings.
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