Development Of an Evaluation Model for Measuring the Competencies of Business School Faculty Members

Abstract

The present study in an effort to develop a competency model for exploring the competencies of Business School faculty in the realm of knowledge, skills and abilities. The variables for the study are drawn from the Academic Performance Indicators that form the basis for the Higher Educational Institutions teachers’ self-assessment framework framed by the University Grant Commission. To be a successful performer at the job, a faculty has to be competent in the fields of curriculum and pedagogy; research and consultancy; administration and governance and knowledge dissemination. There is a need to identify the competencies of management teachers in the domain of knowledge, skills and abilities. The interrelationship between knowledge, skills and abilities needs to be explored and there is a necessity to distinguish good and average performers. This study is guided by the research question: What can be the competency framework for evaluating the business faculty members? Therefore, the main objective of this study is to present a competency framework for business school faculty. Competency is a cluster of knowledge, skills and abilities that are associated to job responsibilities and can be measured to identify average and superior performers. The study was realized with faculty members working in business schools in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The population for the study comprised of faculty members working in university affiliated Business schools in urban Bengaluru and were either affiliated to Bangalore University or Visvesvaraya Technological University. Two stage simple random sampling process was used to identify a sample representative from the universe. All permanent full time faculty members working in                                self-financing and aided colleges formed the majority of the sample.  Literature review, job description as given by AICTE and Academic Performance Indicators (API) by University Grants Commission facilitated in identifying the statements in the questionnaire. The development of the instrument was designed in three phases and is explained in detail in this paper. Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to identify and group the latent variables of the competency clusters to the domains of knowledge, skills and abilities.