Foreign managers
I think Mr. Mamun (letter published on Aug 10th) understood differently from what I understood after reading the original post by Mr. Imtiaz (letter published on Aug 1st) on this topic. If I understand correctly the proposition of Mr. Imtiaz, it is not the question whether our educational institutes are producing capable managers, but rather whether we have done enough to groom our local people before allowing the recruitment of otherwise costly and partially grooming-inhibitive foreign experts. We need to understand that expertise does not come overnight. This is true for a foreign business-school graduate and this is equally a harsh truth for us too. Further, we do not have the dearth of resources.
Before suspecting qualification as a problem, the question is that how far have we gone to check whether we have commensurate resources of our own? That's the missing part here. Even in the US, an employer has to go through certain clumsy and expensive process and justify to the government that it tried to hire a local resource but went in vain and hence it needed to hire a foreign candidate. US government charges a good amount of money against the employer for two main purposes, first, to encourage the employer to do hard work before deciding to recruit a foreign candidate and secondly, to re-invest the money for the development of resources at home. If the world's largest economy can do that, why can't we?
Again, we are not talking about our people's capabilities to take the helm of the Fortune 500 companies and relocate to their base countries. On an average, our English may not be at par with a country where English is being used as a state language. Nevertheless, we have efficient people well-evidenced by their significant presence and respectable positions in the in-country management of both domestic conglomerates and MNCs.
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