Management: The Untouchable for Engineers

"Technical Knowledge" - we tend to believe we've gathered enough of it while graduating from university. 

Educationists, academicians and recruiting agencies carve careers of budding engineers. Aptitude, Technical rounds and GD's have become culturally inherent scales to assess capabilities of an engineer. 

To all those who can't clear such exams, don't think you're an utter failure in your studies or less knowledgeable. 

The general thinking of the final and pre-final year students is that university syllabus or professors or university itself are not helping and training them to gain practical knowledge or industry needs or latest technological developments. On the other side, professors strongly feel that students are not actively participating in studies and are not preparing themselves for "real-world" conditions. 

Both are striving towards the same goal yet failing significantly to bring the much-needed change. 

The dropout rate of freshers from jobs is quite high. The most common reasons for dropout is higher studies, more of management than technical, work-related stress, harassment from seniors and up to some extent homesickness.  

Above tests have failed to assess such qualities before recruiting a person. 

Concern is:

Are we addressing these issues in academic curriculum? 

Why freshers are struggling to accept the truth/reality of the world? That, management is as important as technical knowledge. 

As Engineers why are we treating "Managment" (either people or finance or resource) as untouchable?  

Why are we failing to manage seniors? And failing to establish a good and healthy relationship with them? 

Why don't we like talking to the labour force? 

What's the problem in having a word with the finance officer? 

Where's that textbook which makes us hate the responsibility of talking to vendors or contractors or clients? 

Before any freshie resigns from a job because he/she want to do higher studies should ask himself or herself this question:

Already when we're good technically why aren't we giving thyself enough time to learn new skills required for the modern world? 

Are we really missing university life or studies? Both these lie on a very different page. In university life, we do whatever we think: No responsibility. No questions. No commitments. No timelines. Getting grades is the ultimate goal. 

Work life is different and may seem like more onerous because it requires very different skill sets other than skills which helped us to score good grades. 

No, you can't do what you want to do. You must do what your company wants you to do. You're not sitting in a college canteen to order whatever you want. 

You're responsible and accountable for what you do, but you cannot do whatever you want to do. 

Even in higher studies, especially in courses like PhD, it's more of management than actual research. Managing boss, labours, colleagues, funds, resources, emails and many. 

Technical knowledge is just like a handbook to manage your work. It's already available in books and now also on the internet. Do we have sufficient expertise to use this handbook to manage your work should be the question? 

Why do we believe technical knowledge as the ultimate thing? Why so much negligence towards management? 

Technology without proper management skills is just analogous to drinking Slice in a mango farm.