Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (
IIM-L) has announced its fifth six-month General Management Program (GMP) for Defence Officers.
The program for a total duration of 24 weeks aims to provide the officers with managerial inputs across all functional domains, preparing them for a career in the corporate world thereby giving them a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. This program would help the officers gain entry to another career after retirement from the army.
The program has been designed to provide the Defence Officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.
The first four programs conducted by
IIM Lucknow received an overwhelming response with the 49 officers of the first program, 60 of the second and 59 of the third getting good job offers.
The fourth General management Program is running at
IIM Lucknow's Noida Campus with 59 Defence Officers out of which 7 candidates are lady officers.
In the 5th program, after meeting the selection criteria, 65 officers (44 Army, 11 Air Force and 10 Navy) including 21 lady officers have been selected for the program
The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organizations and managing projects.
The program is conducted to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world's requirements.
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