Management of Office of the Educational Institutions - An Urgent need for a Special Curriculum

Abstract

The Offices in the Educational Institutions are entirely different from the offices in the Business Organisations and other Govt. Institutions. The Mail Management, File Management, Systems Management, Record Management, Leave Management, Stores Management, Cash Management, Applications Management, etc are very poor in the majority of the educational institutions. Budget preparation is another important function of the office. Even the Head of the Institution listens to every one for the maintaining the office. But majority of the educational institutions faces problem due to the lack of knowledge about the mail management, file management, cash management, stores management etc., such type of offices are the delay producing places. The importance of the commerce education has been decreasing every day. All activities totally depend upon the commerce education. Many people including the officers at higher level think that commerce education means only B.Com and M.Com. But in real sense, Accounts, Management, Costing, Income Tax, Computer Education, Secretaryship, Works, Finance, Marketing, Cooperation, Entrepreneurship, Administration, Banking, Auditing, etc., are all the branches of the Commerce Education. As such, M.Com, MCA, MBA, ICWAI, ICAI, IFCAI, ICS, BBA, BCS, BCA, Diploma in Business Management, Business Administration Financial Management, Personnel Management, and management education of any kind are all under the commerce education. So it is suggested to have a special Academic Office Administration (AOA) in the curriculum of the Commerce both at the Bachelor Level and Master Level in the name of B. Com (AOA) Bachelor of Commerce in Academic Office Administration & M.Com (AOA) with a view to weeding out the drawbacks of the offices in the educational institutions. The design for the newly proposed courses has been suggested along with the manner of posting. Computers and Typing play a vital role in the Office Administration/Management. As far as the Business English Subject is concerned, only a Qualified Commerce Teacher has to teach. If the office of the educational institutions, has the human resources with the above qualifications and if the head of the educational institutions have the management knowledge in the expertise level, it is believed that the delay will be avoided and the wastage will be minimized and the quality will be increased and all such improvements will be able to give a real human asset to the society.