A Collaborative Auto Ethnographic Study of Concerns of Faculty Members of Postgraduate Management Programs

While discharging their duties B-school teachers interact with several entities inside and outside the academic world. These dealings confront them with certain problems from both within and beyond. This ethnographic inquiry strives to study examine such issues faced by teachers of postgraduate management programs. As a collaborative auto-ethnographic study, it involved multiple researchers (forty-one, to be precise); all of them B-school teachers. In phase 1, seven researchers first wrote their own expressions and then brainstormed and discussed these transcripts. In phase 2, thirty-four researchers helped in perusing the narratives crystallized in phase 1. In phase 3 a limited team of researchers, like in phase 1, took the data filtered in phase 2 ahead. It was then coded after several passes using open and axial coding. The iterative exercise of coding gave rise to eight categories viz. challenges in teaching, oversized syllabus, issues in examination, concern for continuous learning, students' attitude changing gradually, acceptance to teachers by the industry, commercialization of education and regulatory compliance. With repeated coding, fragmenting and re-assembling the chunks of data, two themes emerge: endogenous issues and exogenous issues. It is fervently hoped that the study could help B-school teachers toward betterment of their academic delivery.