Sunday, February 15, 2009

COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CO-OPERATION IN IRMA

IRMA exemplifies collective action and co-operation in the true spirit of the word. If you are finding some course related difficulty, there is no dearth of friends and seniors for answering your stupidest query. If you fall ill, friends are always around you to look after you, right from taking you to the doctor to administering you medicines timely to entertaining you. If you feel homesick, your faculty assumes the parental roles. So, it is a family outside home. Also, unlike the other B- Schools where all relations are need based, the relations that are formed here last lifelong. And these relations are cherished throughout your life. People here do not cooperate with each other for selfish or narrow interests but come together on genuine grounds. These are the values that we imbibe here. The various initiatives taken by our Acad com especially are commendable in this regard because they work in the larger interst of the student community. They try their best to establish an egalitarian society where no student of the batch is left out of the welfare process. They try to establish parity between the haves and havenots. They have to bear the brunt of teachers when they go to the faculty requesting them to postpone the quizzes, defer the submissions to a date that is comfortable for all students. So, they put our interests before theirs. This is an excellent example of moral economy approach.

1 comment:

Shankar(29064) said...

I agree with you Anushri. there are several instances where collective action has put an impressive impact on the outcome of an event. Lets take the case of first term where some of our friends were at the verge of repeating the term. Due to collective action of the students and faculty, it was possible to restrict the number of participants repeating the course to three.
Now adding another dimension to what you said is that do we really understand the meaning of collective action in totality? I doubt because the past few instances failed to prove me wrong.
Each one of us are here to complete our PRM course and need good grades for that.In working towards getting good grades, we often try to neglect the interest of others. This can happen due to ignorance but I found that it happens to score over others as well.
When the incentive for not following the rules for collective action is higher , we tend to move towards maximizing our personal gains. And this can happen to any one. In a nutshell,when greed takes over the morality, collective action fails.