Q1- Importance of awareness amongst students and educators, Q2- Importance of trained instructors at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Q3- It is more practical so practical training is required, Q4- Mastery only comes through practical experience,Q 5- Importance of prior knowledge in the field of PM.
Conclusion Majority of the practising executives responding to the questionnaire were from the middlemanagement cadre, from technical institutions with no prior exposure to PM training. Most of these were working on projects with value between
200–300 crores using very elementary
PM techniques such as PERT/CPM. It is interesting to note that ratings assigned to practically all the subjects in the Management and Technology area by executives are higher than the corresponding ratings assigned by the institutions. Several courses have on the average been rated as “ extremely important”. These include Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Techniques; Project Quality Management; Health, Safety and Environment Management; Cost Estimation and Budgeting; Quantity Surveying and Estimation; Project Site and Equipment Management; Project Procurement and Materials Management; Contract Management. The rest of the subjects have been rated on average as “ very important”. Furthermore, some courses are considered far more important by executives compared to the institutions. These are : Contract Management, Project procurement and Materials Management, Quantity Surveying and Estimation, Cost estimation and Budgeting, Health, Safety and Environment Management. One possible explanation is that these courses have a strong ‘execution’ and therefore
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