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kizee
#21 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 10:56:50 AM
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ProverB wrote:
vinii wrote:
Shame on you Shame on you At Strathmore college does not allow students to attend classes in:
- jeans
- mini skirts
- short sleeved shirts
- tops plunging necklines etc etc

Apparently the university's intention is to instil a culture of 'formal dressing as part of an early preparation of students for the corporate world'.....(see story in today's Daily Nation)

I personally feel the college is too conservative. In some of the most successful organizations (e.g Microsoft), employees are encouraged to dress down as it brings about a relaxed enviroment in the workplace which in turn translates to increased output. Why is Strathmore still a prisoner of the past??Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you



why not pick up the matter with them?



is he/she not entittled to an opinion
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Elder
#22 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 10:57:38 AM
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Magigi wrote:
...The purpose of going to university is to learn how to make choices, learn how to use freedom responsibly. How you gonna do that when you are being treated like a primary school kid?
...If banks do not have a strict dressing code any more(completely dress down on fridays), which corporate world is the university preparing students for?


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TAZ
#23 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:01:29 AM
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@ Kizee....i totally agree with you. What value does your dress code add on your performance? What's even more humiliating is that it all starts at the gate. Most institutions have their own policies which the students or employees are required to abide but they don't go about enforcing them na kifua.
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theman192000
#24 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:13:21 AM
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Wow! This topic has elicited a lot of responses so early on a Friday morning when people are more inclined towards turning down their work engine, in a manner of speaking, ahead of the weekend.

This could be due in part because image of self plays a large role in how people express their individuality and is an extension of our egos. This is why the neighborhood you reside, the car you drive, the schools your kids attend, where you shop for your groceries or the company you keep matters to many people whether we acknowledge it or not.

It should therefore not come as a surprise that organisations too have "egos" and also want to express their individuality.
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ProverB
#25 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:20:23 AM
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What is the bigger picture here?
is it possible that a strict dress code has nothing to do with the future of dressing rather than character qualities of discipline, consistency and realization the world is not about you?

Has it occurred to anyone that one of the sublime purposes of wazua is to transform members here into employers themselves rather than employees with a side gig of cashflow? and then what quality of employee would you search for for your enterprise?..why are you more likely to employ a graduate from strathmore business school compared to other colleges?

There is something imparted into students of strathmore through the quality of extra curriculum requirements the campus calls for..

I remember business students of Kenya Poly at some time back were required to dress formal too..how comes no one is pointing out that?
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reox
#26 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:24:13 AM
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TAZ wrote:
Reox....The dress code makes you equal, c'mon we are talking of adults here not high school kids.


A full time student will understand my point here. This is a college for mostly well to do kids and a few very poor kids who have been sponsored by the college.

For crying out loudly, All is required is dress decently. (i mean no tight fitting clothes, minis etc.after all we are there to learn not to be distracted by the way one is dressed.
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kizee
#27 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:27:45 AM
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ProverB wrote:
What is the bigger picture here?
is it possible that a strict dress code has nothing to do with the future of dressing rather than character qualities of discipline, consistency and realization the world is not about you?

Has it occurred to anyone that one of the sublime purposes of wazua is to transform members here into employers themselves rather than employees with a side gig of cashflow? and then what quality of employee would you search for for your enterprise?..why are you more likely to employ a graduate from strathmore business school compared to other colleges?

There is something imparted into students of strathmore through the quality of extra curriculum requirements the campus calls for..

I remember business students of Kenya Poly at some time back were required to dress formal too..how comes no one is pointing out that?



that was then and this is now...its clear that how u dress has zero value to ur productivity..strath are just trying to be pretentious(sp)..
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chikita
#28 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:34:56 AM
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Ondiek wrote:
I recall at a UON campus guys used to peep out of the window from their beds and if you see the lecturer's car being packed, you jump out of the bed onto slippers and run to class in the shorts you were sleeping in.



And most of us now are able to don SERIOUS suits with no problems whatsoever!!

I don't see what the school is fussing about!
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alma
#29 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:36:20 AM
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theman192000 wrote:


This could be due in part because image of self plays a large role in how people express their individuality and is an extension of our egos. This is why the neighborhood you reside, the car you drive, the schools your kids attend, where you shop for your groceries or the company you keep matters to many people whether we acknowledge it or not.



Theman you have pointed out exactly what the problem is.

We are producing students who's main business curriculum is how they look in the eyes of others. Rather than how to improve the businesses they work for.

Anyone who's ever received applications and resumes from these colleges will agree with me that it seems our students are busy learning how to look good, smell good, rather than producing.

This is not to say that one shouldn't dress decently and appropriately.

Probably one of the reasons when Indian companies come here the first thing that managers from these schools do is to complain how our Kenyan businesses are being taken over.

We are so busy dressing and looking good, we forgot to DELIVER RESULTS.
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Jacy26
#30 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 11:43:36 AM
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The way you dress portrays the kind of person you are.

I'm also an alumni and I can say I learnt to dress appropriately for every occasion. Mostly all catholic schools are like that and you can't change them.
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