ADMAP
What is ADMAP?
The Assessment and Development of Managerial and Administrative Potential (ADMAP) is a course born out of our conviction and affirmation towards creating leaders, entrepreneurs and managers who can "get things done".
ADMAP is widely considered the poster-boy of SPJIMR’s prestigious "non classroom learning". It teaches the art of administration to business students in a fun, experiential way.
ADMAP introduces the participants to ‘self-learning’ and ‘management of the self’ through the prism of ‘doing, observing, reflecting and recording’. The learning is intended to inculcate the ideology of ‘getting things done’ and ‘getting along with others’.
Drawing and leveraging upon individual strengths, ADMAP endeavours to impart skills that encompass the three important roles in any organisation; leader, entrepreneur and manager. It enables and channels the minds of the participants to understand the importance of each in any organisation.
Through its accent on theoretical frameworks, it enables participants to understand the ‘administrative construct’ comprising processes, roles, context and strategy.
It builds upon combining theory with practicality by teaching the participant to understand organisational structure and identifying the presence and importance of positional power circles. By creating situations through which decision-making is taught, it strives to create a complete executive -- appreciative, empathetic and inclusive of the self and the subordinate.
How ADMAP unfolds
ADMAP is a three credit course spread through the first year of the two year MBA curriculum. It has a learned rather than a taught pedagogy and it transfers the learning responsibility to the students.
To do this, ADMAP’s course architecture moves over four distinct yet contributing areas. The process starts with an introduction to a well thought and etched out ‘theoretical framework’ of administration. This is done to make the linkages between the macro of management to the micro of administration clear. ADMAP then assigns students into committees which provide support in getting the institute’s administrative work done.
The committee work augments the Institute's administrative capacities, the outcome of which is a low student to staff ratio. The benefits to students are the access to real time situations in which they learn to prioritise, delegate, manage time and make decisions.
Dr. Sarabjeet Natesan, Head of the ADMAP course
The ‘getting work done' objective meets the 'getting along with others’ through fortnightly committee interactions.
ADMAP learning is further supported by workshops, leading to a reflective journal which records the participants' year long learning.
