This is a cause effect diagram on poor placement of students.

1. QIMPRO CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Cause Effect Diagram on Poor Placement of
Students
Submitted by- Anshu Verma
Radhika Agarwal
Raksha Srivastava
B.Tech, Banasthali University, Rajasthan.

2. 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.

3.  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:

4.  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.

5. Cause-EffectDiagramonPoorPlacementofStudents
Poor Placement
of Students
Economical Instability
Vision and Approach of
College
More no. of 2-Tier and 3-Tier Colleges
Poortie-upswithmajorcompanies
More Theoretical approachof 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
Recessionand slowdown
Company’sprofitabilityhasbeenseverely hit
Lack of required skills in
students
Interpersonal
Team work
Technical
Dedication
Practical
approach
Cutting down of
hiring number
Slow projectrollout
Unable to
qualify GD,
aptitude test
Cooperation
Off-campus
competition
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
situation
Poor
education
system
Hires through PPO route
Experiment with interns
Corruption
Lesser worth for time
Lack of funds
Drop inmarketvalue
Highpayroll taxes
Generating fewer
jobs
Robots have replaced
humans

6. 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.

7.  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.

8.  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.

9. 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

10. • 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.