Developing Teaching Materials for Management Development Programs at Kuwait University - Phase 2

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There is an urgent need to develop indigenous teaching materials in the form of cases and industry profiles studies for enhancing academic degree and executive education programs at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. The first phase of the Kuwait business case development program with a two-year research grant was successfully completed. As a part of this program, twenty-three Kuwait business case studies and four industry profile research studies were completed and the final report was submitted to KFAS. The need for good business case studies for effective teaching of management education at Kuwait University and other management development agencies in the country is a continuous one. Such additional case studies are needed to reflect the fast-changing socio-economic and business environments in Kuwait under the influence of globalization, privatization and liberalization. From these perspectives, it was proposed that the Case Research and Teaching Unit at the Centre of Excellence in Management, Kuwait University develop additional twenty more business case and/or industry profile studies based on Kuwait and Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) socio-economic and business environments. As in the first phase of this research, the second phase of the research project would involve twenty faculty members and a number of MBA (Master of Business Administration) students at the College of Business Administration over a two-year period (2008-2009 and 2009-2010). At the end of the first year, ten case studies will be completed and another ten studies at the end of the second year. Policies, procedures and quality control measures which were formulated and successfully implemented will be continued under the second phase so as to ensure the quality of these case studies and their dissemination for use in management education programs both in Kuwait and in the GCC region.