IIM, Lucknow, Three Year (Part-Time) Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Working Executives

The Working Managers' Programme As part of the mission of NOIDA campus, in July 2005 IIM Lucknow launched the Three Year (Part Time) Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Working Executives, also popularly known as Working Managers’ Programme (WMP). The Ninth batch would commence on 27th June, 2013.  The WMP is a uniquely designed programme for working executives, entrepreneurs and professionals, who desire to enhance their managerial knowledge and skills through formal management education, while continuing to work full time in their ongoing professions / businesses. The programme is structured to meet the learning needs and methodologies of those who continue to work, and engage in formal education simultaneously. The programme is designed to maintain the high standards and rigour expected from all post graduate programmes in management at IIM Lucknow. It aims at developing strong conceptual fundamentals and skills required to mange businesses of the future. The WMP aims to help to inculcate leadership and teamwork amongst participants, and foster the development of change agents to take leadership roles in the global area. The 27 months programme has over thirty credits worth of courses which must be successfully completed. The specific objectives of the programme are to enable the executives to: Comprehend the meaning of socio-economic, technological and ecological environment of modern societies and their characteristic values; Acquire the prevailing state-of-art knowledge and skills in the functional areas of management; Develop analytical and innovative foresight to gauge change holistically, and to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of business systems; Value societal well being and the responsibility of corporate citizens. Diploma Students would be awarded the "Post Graduate Diploma in Management for Working Executives" on successful completion of the Programme.