GTU 3150004 Contributor Personality Development Program: Basic Information and Course Outcome

Teaching and Examination Scheme per semester:

Subject CodeSubject NameLTPCreditsESE (E )PA (M)Viva (V)PA (I)Total
3150004Contributor Personality Development Program200270303020150

Note:

1) Weekly 2 hours of Classroom facilitated sessions are planned which include Solutioning and Self-discovery sessions.

2) In addition, there will be individual/ team projects as part of Practicals. Students can do this on their own, with faculty as guide.

Note:

It is the responsibility of the institute heads that marks for PA of theory & ESE and PA of practical for each student are entered online into the GTU Portal at the end of each semester within the dates specified by GTU.

Type of course: Work-Personality Development

Rationale: The Contributor Program aims to accomplish the following outcomes in the lives of students–

• Improve the employability of students by giving them the right work ethic and thinking that employers are looking for.

• Build their confidence with which they can go into any job and contribute meaningfully.

• Improve their ability to engage better in the workplace and to be able to handle the challenges that come up there.

• Build their career-worthiness and help them develop into future-ready contributors with ability to navigate a career in a volatile, changing world.

• Widen their choices of career and success, so that they are able to open up more opportunities for themselves and take up unconventional career pathways.

• Enable them to recognize how they, as technical professionals, can participate and make a positive contribution to their communities and to their state.

Towards this goal, the Contributor Program has been designed to awaken and strengthen students from within, in terms of building positive self-esteem, increasing their confidence level and I-can attitude, improving their aspirations, giving them new methods of thinking, building their cognitive capacities, exposing them to the skills and practices associated with being contributors in the workplace (not mere employees).

The Program content is also designed to expose students to real-world workplace scenarios and sensitize them to some of the challenges faced in society around them, especially in the local communities around them and in their own state of Gujarat.

The Contributor Program syllabus has been evolved and fine-tuned over several years, (a) to address the changing need and contemporary challenges being faced by industry and what employers of today are looking for in the people they hire and (b) by working extensively with universities and students building an appreciation of their challenges and concerns. At the core, the program is guided by the higher ideas and principles of practical Vedanta in work.

Distribution of Theory Marks:

R LevelU LevelA LevelN LevelE LevelC Level
15152020

Legends: R: Remembrance; U: Understanding; A: Application, N: Analyze and E: Evaluate C: Create and above Levels (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy).

Course Outcome:

Students will be able to recognize & appreciate two alternative ideals of work – ideal of a “worker” and ideal of a “contributor”. And why organizations of today expect people they employ to be contributors and not just workers.

Students will be able to recognize & appreciate alternative ways in which they could define themselves or “who am I” (their identity) – and which are positive identities that will lead to building intrinsic self-esteem and confidence in oneself; in contrast to identities that will lead to extrinsic self-esteem that makes them more dependent on their environment.

Students will be able to recognize & appreciate a “victim” stance as distinct from a “creator of destiny” stance in the way people approach challenges and situations; and how the latter frees individuals to take on challenges and open up opportunities.

Students will be able to differentiate between two alternative approaches to success – ‘building one’s engine of success’ and ‘chasing the fruits of success’; they also appreciate the payoffs/ consequences of both and which is more likely to lead to sustainable or lasting success in the long run.

Students will be able to recognize & appreciate different career models and their value; to help them make more informed career-related choices.

Students will be able to recognize & appreciate how one can expand the contribution possible in any role, thereby opening up an alternative way of career growth to them.

Students learn to re-interpret their life and college experiences to showcase their contribution affinities which are relevant for employers.

Students learn to apply contributor thinking to real-world or career relevant challenges.

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