Impact of Out-Bound Training (OBT) on MBA Students in Developing Their Leadership Skill: A Study on South India

Outbound Training (OBT) is in the Centre stage in the periphery of management domain. It is indeed an area of opportunity to encourage more reciprocate approaches over other methods of conventional training. The motion of time has changed the dynamics and dimension of business stream, so training methods also demands the change of its approach towards more resulted oriented and innovation to have substantive outputs. Training has been a roller coaster ride since it has entered into the territory of challenging business environment with the factor of changing business approaches under the influence of globalization. Now, when the management education is on the threshold of a new orientation, particularly Indian management education envisages a multi-dimensional stride to unleash its value in comparison with Global standard, training methods to improve student’s management skills need a face lift to embrace the said challenges. This study envisages the challenges OBT takes over other methods of traditional training in management education. Satisfaction about OBT training in students is abundant that has been proven from this study. Leadership development is the key factor among Indian management students that reflect their employability which cause major concern for corporate. This study highlights the influence of OBT to create more impact on Indian management students in embedding managerial skills, particularly leadership has been well acclaimed among management students. In addition, that OBT need more core competency driven training activities need to be incorporated to reach to the accuracy of accomplishing skill development among students.