QIMPRO CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Cause Effect Diagram on Poor Placement of

Students

Submitted by- Anshu Verma

Radhika Agarwal

Raksha Srivastava

B.Tech, Banasthali University, Rajasthan.

INTRODUCTION TO CAUSE-EFFECT DIAGRAM

What is a Cause-Effect Diagram?

A Cause-Effect Diagram is a tool that helps identify, sort, and display possible causes of a specific problem. It graphically

illustrates the relationship between a given outcome and all the factors that influence the outcome. This type of diagram is sometimes called an "Ishikawa diagram" because it was invented by Kaoru Ishikawa, or a "fishbone diagram" because of

the way it looks. The CE Diagram is basically used to investigate a problem, exploring, identifying, and displaying the possible causes

Benefits Of Cause-Effect Diagram:

1. Helps determine the root causes of a problem or quality characteristic using a structured approach. 2. Uses an orderly, easy-to-read format to diagram cause-and-effect relationships.

3. Indicates possible causes of variation in a process.

4. Increases knowledge of the process by helping everyone to learn more about the factors at work and how they relate.

5. Identifies areas where data should be collected for further study.

Steps for drawing Cause-Effect Diagram: Step 1: Identify and clearly define the outcome or EFFECT to be analyzed.

Step 2: Draw the SPINE and create the EFFECT box.

Step 3: Identify the main CAUSES contributing to the effect being studied.

Step 4: For each major branch, identify other specific factors which may be the CAUSES of the EFFECT.

Step 5: Identify more detailed levels of causes and continue organizing them under related causes or categories.

Step 6: Analyze the diagram.

Basic Layout of Cause-effect Diagram:

Advantages and Disadvantages Of Cause-Effect Diagram: ADVANTAGES • Cause-Effect diagrams permit a thoughtful analysis that avoids overlooking any possible root causes for a need.

• The fishbone technique is easy to implement and creates an easy-to-understand visual representation of the causes,

categories of causes, and the need. • By using a Cause-Effect diagram, you are able to focus the group on the "big picture" as to possible causes or factors

influencing the problem/need.

• Even after the need has been addressed, the Cause-Effect diagram shows areas of weakness that – once exposed - can be rectified before causing more sustained difficulties.

DISADVANTAGES

• The simplicity of a Cause-Effect diagram can be both its strength and its weakness. As a weakness, the simplicity of the fishbone diagram may make it difficult to represent the truly interrelated nature of problems and causes in some very

complex situations.

• Unless you have an extremely large space on which to draw and develop the fishbone diagram, you may find that you are not able to explore the cause and effect relationships in as much detail as you would like to.

Cause- Effect Diagram on Poor Placement of Students

Poor Placement

of Students

Economical Instability

Vision and Approach of

College

More no. of 2-Tier and 3-Tier Colleges

Poor tie-ups with major companies

More Theoretical approach of Courses

Lack of industry-institute interaction

Poor faculty ad infrastructure

Large batch of students

Lack of commitment

No industrial visits/tours

Depreciation of value of rupee

Recession and slowdown

Company’s profitability has been severely hit

Lack of required skills in

students

Interpersona l

Team work

Technical

Dedication

Practica l

approach

Cutting down of

hi ring number

Slow project rollout

Unable to

qualify GD,

aptitude test

Cooperation

Off-campus competi tion

Corporate culture

Lack of investment

Low pay package

Poor alignment

between corporate

and college culture

Curtail their

outlay

Recruit “ready to use

employee” Defaulting companies

Problem solving

Lack of

foreign

investment

Government

concern

Volatile political

s i tuation

Poor

education

system

Hires through PPO route Experiment with interns

Corruption

Lesser worth for time

Lack of funds Drop in market value

High payroll taxes

Generating fewer

jobs

Robots have replaced

humans

THREE Major Root causes

Economical Instability The economy plays a very important role in the growth of a country. It has a vital role in the placement of the students. Economic instability is one of the root causes of poor placement

of students these days.

Costs have gone up due to high interest rates and depreciation of the rupee. Most companies’ profitability has been severely hit.

Recession slows the market down and thus companies decide to cut down jobs as they are unable to pay the employees. So, students are struggling to get hired.

Lack of required skills in Students

A student without the skills required by the company is not worth being placed. Skills are of two types: Technical and Interpersonal.

Team work, communication skills and practical approach are some of the common skills which most of the students lack. Apart from that, they are unable to understand problems and also lack problem solving capabilities.

At the time of placement they are unable to qualify the aptitude tests and interviews which is a major reason for poor

placements. A student completely relies on his/her college for placements. Thus, the placement- cell of the college is an integral part

of the placement procedure. They offer theoretical courses which lacks practical skills required by the corporate sector. Today Students are not focused enough on their career and are not concerned about their future.

Corporate culture

Students are unaware of what goes inside the company. They have no idea about the companies’ strategies.

Companies plan to cut down on recruitment during final placements and prefer to hire using the PPO route by experimenting with interns.

Most companies put their expansion plans on hold or curtail their outlay.

There are slower roll out of projects and hence lesser jobs. The pay package of the companies has not increased and is not up to the employee’s expectations. These strategies

adopted by the companies are the root causes of poor placements.

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE: - RECOMMENDATIONS

• The students must work upon their intelligence, technical and emotional quotient instead of just cramming the

book(s).Studying approach should be made more practical and applicative.

• Students must be well-rehearsed for GD, aptitude test and off-campus competition.

• Government too should work upon their funds and eradicate corruption so that well - talented candidates can be

selected, having suitable salaries.

• Indian companies and manufacturers ought to improve their quality of production to increase their sales which

would make Indian rupee stronger.

• Stronger Indian rupee would reduce the import bill and narrow the overall trade deficits.

• Catalyzing domestic demand would eventually increase placements.

• The college too could improve on their standards by giving exposure to students through their training program.

• There is a large difference between the corporate and the college culture. This pit needs to be filled.

• Also, since robots have taken over many major sectors of work ,there is less human resource required , so the humans to be recruited must be extremely talented and "ready to use" employees.

• Most importantly, the candidate must have strong concepts, applicative knowledge and must solutions for

problems i.e., he/she must be a "problem solver". At the same time he requires a corruption free, conducive

working environment.

WHAT DID WE LEARN:- LESSONS

• Dealing with the placements problem, the team learnt about a lot of factors that affect the employment of an individual.

• The most common reasons that were found on asking most of the people were-

(i) Lack of talent and student capability and (ii) Recession problem.

• Student capability being a personal aspect could not have one general solution as it depends on the individual capacity and capability of hard work and his technical quotient and problem solving ability.

• The recession problem could have some suggestions such as:- A stronger rupee would reduce the import bill and narrow the overall trade deficits.

Catalyzing domestic demand would eventually catalyze placements (recruitments) with higher pay package.

• Moreover as always the team spent a lot of time analyzing the problem and pondered over its solution thus enabling it to take one more step ahead towards achieving the problem solving ability.

• Also, a great chance to conduct a healthy debate as to what is the root cause of the problem.