MANAGEMENT FACULTY COMPETENCIES FOR DEVELOPING LEADERS IN GLOBALLY SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE PARADIGM
Education is seen as a principal tool for accomplishing the goal of sustainability. 'Sustainable Development has emerged as the new paradigm of development across the world. Spectacular technological advances and complex economic systems have allowed us to flourish. These however brought with it a range of complex socio environmental challenges which neither science nor the technology has easy answers. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has provided management education an opportunity for rethinking the method of management education. It provides a new vision of educational approaches like systems thinking based learning, values based learning, problem based learning, critical thinking based learning and social learning. This research paper seeks to examine the relationships between Specialization of the Management Faculty and a set of the core competencies required for education for Sustainable Development like Systems Thinking Competency, Anticipatory Thinking Competency Collaborative Interpersonal Competency and Strategic Thinking Competency .Analysis of the research data have indicated that there is significant difference in the response of different specialization and competencies like Systems Thinking and Anticipatory thinking competency of the Faculty.