Personal Effectiveness: A Study of Management Students in the University of Kashmir, India

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the personal effectiveness of the students of MBA in the University of Kashmir.  The Study has been carried out to select a sample of 240 MBA students 40 students each year starting from year 2011 to 2016 from South Campus University of Kashmir. The instrument called personal effectiveness (PE) scale to measure effectiveness of students has been taken from book Training Instruments in HRD and OD by Udai Pareek. The results indicate student's distribution in every category of personal effectiveness given by Udai Pareek. However interesting part of this study shows students both in effective as well as ineffective category. More than 1/4^th of students fall in the ineffective category. There is need to carry out such exercise individually for each student to access his effectiveness so that he can improve his effectiveness as suggested by Udai Pareek.