Kolkata: IIM Kozhikode has announced a year-long empowerment programme for high potential women who would assume leadership roles in different sectors in the future.
As part of this initiative, IIMK in collaboration with the Malabar Gold Group is planning a series of leadership workshops targeting the best secondary/ higher secondary teachers of the country in multiple sectors. Hundred teachers will be offered scholarships to participate in this programme.
"This is IIMK's modest contribution for making the better half of India take their rightful place in the growth and progress of the country," said IIMK director Prof. Debashis Chatterjee in a statement.
The institute, on its part, has been increasingly giving emphasis to diversifying the concept of inclusive growth on a much larger and global scale. In the first PGP batch at IIMK (Class of 1999), the number of women was only 1 in a total batch strength of 42. At present, the Class of 2013 has 36% women, which is a national record for any comparable B-School. The objective behind this has been to achieve enhanced diversity including gender diversity to the student profiles.
"Women make better managers. Women in our country have learnt to be more competent in a diverse set of skills and attitudes - things that are required of managers of this country. We acknowledge skills such as networking, social intelligence, empathy and environmental sensitivity that women bring to the repertoire of management skill sets," said Prof. Chatterjee.
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