G V Muralidhara (GVM), Faculty member of IBS

1
Operations Management info_at_casestudyhelp.in91
94220-28822
2

• Operations Management
•  
• Case study (20 Marks)
• G V Muralidhara (GVM), Faculty member of
  IBS , a wellknown educational group in Hyderabad,
  India, was involved in teaching the MBA and BBA
  courses. While talking to another faculty member,
  G Vijayudu (Vijay), GVM remarked on the important
  role attitude played in the placement of students
  in companies. While GVM felt that the students
  were reasonably good in communication, he
  wondered whether they possessed the positive
  attitude that was so critical during selection by
  companies. He felt that students who lacked a
  positive attitude would suffer in terms of
  recruitment, team building skills, and leadership
  qualities.

3

• With a view to improving the students
  communication skills and attitude, GVM and Vijay
  scheduled and asked the students to give a
  presentation on the importance of attitude. This
  exercise was meant to create awareness on the
  subject and develop a good attitude among
  students. The BBA V semester section F
  consisted of 34 students (25 male and 9 female).
  As students were told that this would be part of
  their internal assessment, they prepared very
  well. Meanwhile, GVM told Vijay to go in for peer
  grading instead of traditional teacher grading.
  Vijay argued against peer grading saying students
  would give grading in arbitrary manner or would
  be biased toward their friends and might show
  favoritism. GVM, however, disagreed.

4

• He described the benefits of peer grading.
  He said that a study by Philip M. Sadler and
  Eddie Good had shown that when student grading
  was used responsibly, it could be highly accurate
  and reliable and help save teachers time. In
  their study, Sadler and Good had found that self
  grading appeared to further student understanding
  of the subject matter being taught. Finally, GVM
  and Vijay decided to adopt peer grading. The
  faculty members made the students responsible for
  grading each other. The collected grading data
  was given to Muthukumar, analyst, for analysis.
  This enabled us to understand and analyze the
  gathered data to identify the highest graded
  student and compare each student's grading with
  the overall classs grading.
•  

5

• Answer the following question.
•  
• Q1. Discuss the advantages of gradings by peers.
•  
• Q2. Why the positive attitude is so critical
  during selection by companies? Explain.
•  

6

• www.casestudyhelp.in
• info.casestudyhelp_at_gmail.com
• info_at_casestudyhelp.in
• 91 94220-28822