*Research Scholar, GITAM Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam, India
**Professor, Ph.D., GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India
Online published on 10 November, 2021.
Faculty is the cornerstone of the education system. Their adequate size, and their continuing development produce the expected performance on key success parameters like Admissions, Pass Percentage, Placements, and Salary Packages. But, the poor quality of engineering graduates coming out of the educational institutions these days is a pointer to the serious issues with faculty size and their development. The stewards of the institutions are still not fully convinced about the faculty size and their continuing development, as attested by the poor quality of the graduates coming out of the engineering colleges.This research article attempted to establish a link between faculty-related initiatives, i.e., faculty size, their higher qualifications, their continuing development, and their individual learning efforts, and the institutional and student success parameters.
Findings: Total Faculty Size is indispensable for all success parameters, i.e., Admissions, Placements, First Division Pass and Salary Package. Actual Working Faculty is a consideration for Admissions only, but not for Placements, First Division Pass and Salary Packages. Same is the case with Doctorate Faculty. It has some relation with Admissions only but not with other success parameters. The Number of Articles published and Presented has some relation with Admissions but not at all with other parameters. Same is the case with FDPs attended by faculty, which has some relation with Admissions but not with other parameters.
Originality: The link between faculty development initiatives and the institution's success parameters was not properly investigated in this part of the world; this absence of literature presumably holds back the investments in the faculty development.
Managerial Implications: The findings of this study help the institution's stewards to sit back and reflect on the criticality of the faculty-related issues to their success, and build their conviction to pay adequate attention to them.
Faculty, Engineering Education, Faculty Development Programs, Faculty Training, Faculty Size, And Faculty Publications
