The FDP was launched by IIM-A in 1979 and is a multi-tier programme for management faculty from India and abroad. It is designed to meet the management education requirements of teachers, researchers, and trainers in HRD, training colleges and industrial organizations. The 16-week long programme covers basic disciplines like economics and statistics and core management areas like marketing, finance, human resource management, operations management and strategy, and also focuses on academic writing, case writing, qualitative and quantitative research methods and pedagogical techniques.
A component of the FDP is, providing information and guidelines to develop expertise in conducting management development programmes, doing consultancies, and providing ways to access funding agencies for doing the funded projects. This year, the programme included exercises and live projects in various courses, and industrial visits to Reliance Refinery and Amul Dairy.