Reflections of real life in a classroom
Today I attended a class of Managerial Competencies and Career Development (MCCD). We were supposed to ORCE (Observe, Record, Classify, Evaluate) the behavioural aspects of one candidate out of six present there for a Group Discussion. The GD was about a candidate to be sent abroad to develop the person into a manager, who would be ready to take up responsibilities in foreign business, work well in uncertain conditions of job, well educated and so on. Each of the six persons was the Head of one department and each had a candidate. The discussion started and the time limit was 30 minutes, which btw was sheer torture for those who were ORCEing it. Ideally, the best candidate was to be selected out of the six. The Heads were supposed to put forward the application of their candidates but the primary concern was to be the 'Organizational Perspective' so that the organization gains in the end. When the GD started, one person started about his candidate, communicated all the grand th