HR Education in B schools, HR Students perspectives and Areas and Levels of HR Students’ Satisfaction: Need to look at Relevance to Corporate Expectations

The paper draws the significance and importance of HR education in India for proper restructuring of management education. India?s Management education is in a phase where in there are umpteen number of differentials, which in-turn create different scenarios, which are growth oriented one hand and chaotic and negatively connatated on the other, across various business schools in the country. The University structure of traditional education and training tomorrow?s business leaders has been rendered obsolete. This picture has been discarded now. The process of privatization and globalisation demands drastic changes in the traditional educational approach, but also stress a need for introduction of new age employability knowledge, skill sets and attitudes, which have more economic value in today. This paper based on empirical enquiry, tries to explore the current issues of HR management education in India with special reference to the gap between academia and the industry, especially, the issue of satisfaction levels pertaining to value and outcome of HR program. A questionnaire has been developed, which aims to understand the overall perspective of HR education in Postgraduate Management program. A total of 238 students studying in twenty-three institutions in different Universities were covered throughout the state of Karnataka. The data was analysed using Chi Square, Coefficient of Correlation and other basic statistical tools. The results have been analysed and discussed based on appropriate hypothesis. Quality accreditation status was the standard sought as the primary benchmark in evaluation of b-school. Other areas such as course of study; presence of prestigious academician; low student to academicians ratio; job placement of graduates as standard of benchmark, were the other parameters for better positioning of HR as a career and stream. There exists a crucial requirement to shape the HR education in accordance with the changes to bring competitiveness and employability of the students? community in the near future.