Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) is the college for practicing managers that pioneered post-experience management education in India. Established in 1956 at the initiative of government and the corporate world, ASCI has focused its efforts on professionalising management. Its unique blend of management development, consultancy, research, and information technology pursuits are structured to developing strategic thinking, reformist leadership, and state-of-the-art skills among practicing managers in India and the developing world to achieve competitive dominance by confronting existing and emerging challenges to effectively manage regulatory, government, commercial and non-commercial organizations. Over 75,000 participants from industry, government and non-government organizations in India and the developing world have taken advantage of nearly 200 management development programmes offered by ASCI every year and over 300 organisations have reaped benefits from its research and consultancy services.

 

OUR WORK

 

Consultancy

The Administrative Staff College of India provides consultancy to industry, business and government in general management as well as functional and sectoral areas of the management. The objectives of ASCI Consultancy is to provide professional services for improving management practices in the organizations leading to improved economic performance and long-term effectiveness.

The ASCI Consultancy Team generally comprises of faculty members representing different functional and sectoral areas of management and uses a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving. Almost all the faculty members in the College are involved in consulting assignments so that they will get enough opportunities to experiment with new ideas and approaches in achieving economic performance and long-term effectiveness in problem-solving for the clients. This approach also provides an opportunity for the faculty to enrich their teaching inputs.

ASCI has undertaken several consultancy assignments for national and international clients. The principle objective of this service is to provide a multi-disciplinary approach in finding solutions to serious problems that plague industry, business, and government. Some of the areas in which consulting assistance has been provided by ASCI include strategic planning, organizational restructuring, human resources management and development, restructuring, health management, organization management, forest management, energy management, business process re-engineering and improving of service delivery of various Government institutions. At any point of time while the number of projects under implementation are around 50, over 1000 assignments have been carried out since 1965 till date.

 

Research Activity

Administrative Staff College of India started its Research Division in the year 1973 with support from Ford Foundation. Since then research on management issues in Indian organizations, both public and private, has been one of the main activities at ASCI, with potential linkages between research and consultancy / executive training.

Research at ASCI emanates from two sources namely,

-Research grants from external sources and

-Competitive internal research grant programme.

The research projects culminate in

-Publication of papers in various International / National journals,

-Conference proceedings,

-Working and Occasional papers

-Presentations in research colloquiums, seminars etc.

In addition, ASCI publishes ASCI Journal of Management and monographs.

Several private and public research sector organizations have initiated endowment of chairs for supporting research at the College, apart from several efforts that are under consideration to increase research productivity at ASCI, including

-Effective implementation of competitive internal research grant programme.

-Establishment of Case-study Center,

-Recruitment of research fellows for projects.

 

Centres & Areas

ASCI's core functions of research, consultancy and training are organized under the following areas/centres:

-Centre for Public Policy, Governance and Performance

-Centre for Poverty and Rural Development

-Centre for Human Development

-Centre for Health Care Management

-Centre for Economics and Finance

-Centre for Energy, Environment, Urban Governance, and Infrastructure Development

-Centre for Innovation and Technology

-Centre for Management Studies