COURSE STRUCTURE FOR

EMBA Two Year Full Time (Evening/ Week End ) Programme

(Applicable from July-08)

Total Number of units: 24

Core Courses- 14 units
Functional Specialization Courses- 6 units (Major – 4 units, Minor – 2 units)
Projects -4 Units
No. Of classroom session per course: 32-36
1st Year (All Core Courses)

Semester 1

EMB 101 Management Principles and Practices

EMB 102 Managerial Accounting
EMB 103 Quantitative Techniques for Management
EMB 104 Organizational Behaviour
EMB 105 IT Management
EMB 106 Managerial Economics
Semester II

EMB 101 Marketing Management

EMB 102 Human Resource Management
EMB 103 Financial Management
EMB 104 E-Commerce
EMB 105 Business Research
EMB 106 Strategic Decision Making

2nd year
Semester III
Functional Major Specialization Courses- 2 Units
Functional Minor Specialization Courses- 2 Units
EMB 301 Project- 2 Unit
 Semester IV

EMB 401 Corporate Social Responsibility

EMB 616 Globalisation of Business
Functional Major Specialization Courses- 2 Units
EMB 401 Project - 2 Unit

Functional Specialisation. Students will opt for specialization in any two functional areas. They
will study 6 courses in any 2 areas of specialization. Four electives from either of the following
groups for Major specialisation and Two electives from either of the remaining groups for Minor
specialisation

Finanancial Management Area

EMB 627 Management of Finanacial Institutions

EMB 628 Investment and Portfolio Management
EMB 629 Corporate Accounting
EMB 630 Financial Planning and Control
EMB 631 International Finance
EMB 632 Corporate Finance
EMB 633 Advanced Cost Management
EMB 634 Strategic Financial Management

Human resource Management area

EMB 637 Manpower Planning

EMB 638 Industrial Relations
EMB 639 Wage and Salary Administration
EMB 640 Labour Legislations
EMB 641 Training and Development
EMB 642 Management of Employment Functions
EMB 643 Human Resource Development
EMB 644 Performance Appraisal and Career Development

System Management Area

EMB 647 RDBMS

EMB 648 Business Data Communication
EMB 649 Programming Technology – I (C++)
EMB 650 System Analysis and Design
EMB 651 Enterprise Resource Planning
EMB 652 Programming Technology – II (Java Applications)
EMB 653 Strategic Information Systems Planning
EMB 654 Management Support Systems
EMB 655 Operating systems

Marketing Management Area

EMB311 Marketing Research

EMB312 Advertising and Brand Management
EM313 Sales and Distribution Management
EM314 Customer Relations Management
EM315 Consumer Behaviour
EM316 Marketing of Services
EM317 Retail Management
EM318 International Marketing

Sectoral Specialisation

Students will opt for any one of the following sets of 4 courses each.

i) Health Care Management

EMB 667 Management of medical and Health services

EMB 668 Hospital Planning
EMB 669 Hospital Management and Law
EMB 670 Operations Materials and Marketing Management of Hospitals

ii) Operations and Manufacturing Management

EMB 671 Technology Management

EMB 672 quality Management
EMB 673 Supply Chain Management
EMB 674 Manufacturing Planning and Control

iii) Agro Business Management

EMB 675 Cooperative Management’

EMB 676 Economics for Rural managers
EMB 677 Agro Products Marketing
EMB 678 Farm Management
 iv) Safety Management

EMB 679 Safety Organisation and Management

EMB 680 Accident Prevention and Safety Acts
EMB 681 Safety practices
EMB 682 Safety Systems

v) Hospitality Management

EMB 683 Hotel Management

EMB 684 Tourism Management
EMB 685 Accomodation Operations
EMB 686 Front Office Operations

vi) Insurance and Bank Management

EMB 687 Bank Management

EMB 688 Insurance Management
EMB 689 Risk management
EMB 690 International Banking

B) Project : Students will undertake 1 project in their functional area of specialization and
1 in their sectoral specialization

EMB 695 Project I

EMB 696 Project 2
CORE COURSES
 EMB 601-MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES
- Nature of management
Definition and importance of management, management process, planning, organizing, staffing, leading
and motivating, controlling
Managerial levels, managerial skills
- Management schools
Classical School, Behavioral school, Integration and Contingency school
- Planning
- Concept, definition and importance, types of plans, essential features of planning, principles of planning,
steps in planning process, barriers in planning
- Organizing
- Definition, principles of organization, Formal and informal organization, Line structure, Line and staff
structure, Functional structure, Matrix structure, Committees
Authority, responsibility, accountability, delegation of authority, departmentation, decentralization
- Staffing and Directing
Overview of Staffing, Leading, Motivating and Communication
- Controlling
Definition, importance of controlling, characteristics of control, control process, types of control system,
essentials of good control systems, and techniques of control, Budgetary and non-budgetary control

Books
Management-Stoner and Freeman
Essentials of management – Koontz and Odonell
Management - Robbins
Management -Gilbert
Management Today – Principles and practice-Gene Burton & Manab Thakur

EMB 602 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

Finance Function: Concept and Importance of Finance Function:

Double Entry:

Books of original Entries, Accounts and Preparation of Financial Statement, Basic Accounting
postulates and principles, Nature and Importance, Balance Sheet as per Company's Act 1956,
Analysis of Financial Position.

An introduction to:
(a) Ratio Analysis,
(b) Cash Flow Statement,
(c) Fund Flow Statement.

Costing Function:
Nature and importance of cost accounts: Cost Sheet , Cost center concept.

Classification of costs

Reconciliation of cost, Financial accounting,

Relevant costs for Decision Making,
Cost Control Techniques,
Standard costing & variance analysis (Material and Labor)
Concept of Budget and Budgetary control.
Marginal cost - Concept and Applications.
CVP analysis.

Books:

Financial Management: I.M. Pandey (7th Edn.)

Cost Accounting: Horrngren
Cost Accounting: Rajudu
Advanced Accountancy: A.N. Agrawal
Modern Accountancy: Khan
Cost Accounting: N.K. Prasad

EMB 603 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

- Group discussion
- Etiquettes
- Extempore
- Debate
- Speech contest
- Pronunciation drills
- Describing an event
- Presenting view
- Asking questions
- Vocabulary
- Effective reading
Continuous Evaluation- 50 marks
External Viva – 50 marks

Note: -Theory paper on Business communication may be offered by the centres as a non credit
course

EMB 604 Organization Behaviour I

- Organizational Behaviour : definition, relevance and scope
- Attitudes & values: Theories of attitude formation and change
- Perception: Perceptual process Perceptual selectivity, Managing Perception.
- Learning: Definition, Theories of Learning, Tools for shaping behaviour
- Personality: Definition, Determinants of personality, Theories of Personality
- Motivation : Definition, theories-Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, Vroom’s Theory, Equity Theory and
Contemporary Theories
- Leadership: Concept, Theories, and Styles of Leadership.
- Communication: The process, barriers to effective communication and their remedies.
Books
Organisational behaviour- Robbins and Sanghi
Organizational behaviour-F Luthans
Organizational behaviour- Uma Shekharan

EMB 605 QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT

- Presentation of business data: Classification, frequency, distribution, diagrammatic
presentation and graphic presentation.
- Measure of central tendency: Arithmetic mean, geometric mean and harmonic mean; median
and mode.
- Measure of variation
Standard deviation, coefficient of variation.
- Correlation and Regression analysis
Karl Pearson’s co-efficient of correlation, Regression lines and Regression coefficients.
- Business Forecasting
Methods of forecasting; time series analysis
- Probability: Meaning, addition law, multiplication law, conditional probability and Bayes
theorem.
- Sampling distribution and test of hypothesis
 Central limit theorem, sampling distribution of mean and difference of two means.
Procedure of testing hypothesis, Type I& II errors and one tailed and two-tailed test
- Chi square test and students ‘t’ test
- Analysis of variances: Computation and ANOVA tables, one-way and two-way classification.
Note:-The treatment of the subject matter is to be application oriented.The proof of the theorem
and derivation of formula is not required .
Books
Business Statistics - Gupta & Gupta
Statistics for Management - Richard I Levin
Quantitative Analysis for Management - Render
Mathematical Statistics - Sharma & Goyal
Quantitative Analysis for Management –Render,
Quantitative Techniques-P.C.Tulsion And Vishal pandey

EMB 606- COMPUTER SKILLS IN MANAGEMENT

- Computer basics – Model of a computer, characteristics and problem solving

- Need of Computers in Management
- Data representation – representation of characters and integers in hexadecimal and binary.
- Input/output units – Computer input/output units and methods
- Computer memory – Memory cell, organization, ROM, RAM, Secondary storage devices –
Floppy disk, Hard disk, CDROM
- Computer architecture – Interconnection of units, processor to memory communication, I/O
to processor communication, Interrupt structures, Multiprogramming, RISC and virtual
memory.
- Computer language – Machine language, AsseEMBly language, High level programming
languages, example of high level language - C & C++
- Computer and communications – Need for computer communication, Computer network
topologies, LAN, WAN and TCP/IP
- Lab assignments in MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point
o MS Word
Creating document, save, print, print preview, Basic editing features, formatting
features,header, footer, footnote, Spell check, Grammar check, character spacing, line
 spacing, Auto text, Auto Correct, Basic tool bars, Case change, drop cap, arrangement
of windows, table, mail merge, standard and formatting toolbar
o MS Excel
Basic editing and formatting features, Inserting & deleting rows-columns-worksheet,
renaming worksheet, comments, goal-seek, scenario, charts, sort, filter – autofilter &
advanced filter, freeze panes, split, functions – sum, min, max, count, if, average
o MS PowerPoint
Creating a new presentation – Autocontent wizard, Design template, Blank
Presentation, views in powerpoint, master slide, cliparts, basic editing and formatting
features, background formatting, custom animation, slide transition
Books
Fundamentals of computers -V. Rajaraman
Computers Concepts and Uses - Summer
Computers - Long L
Application of Computers in Management
Introduction to Information Technology-ITL,ESL;Pearson

EMB 607 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

- Introduction to Managerial Economics, nature, scope, role and responsibilities
- Cost analysis, different types of costs for managerial use, cost function, cost output relationship, internal
economies and diseconomies, external economies and diseconomies. Break-even analysis.
- Demand function, determinants of demand, elasticity of demand, demand forecasting, product line policy
- Product function: producer’s equilibrium
Market: different types of market, equilibrium of firm under different markets, price determination
under perfect competition, imperfect competition oligopoly and monopoly.
- Economic fluctuations – effect of business cycle on business decisions
Books
Varshney & Maheshwari - Managerial Economics
D.N.Diwedi - Managerial Economics
J.L.Pappas &E.P.Briglam Managerial Economics
H. Craig Peterson, W. C. Lewis
Roy, Udipto- Managerial Economics- Asian Book Pvt. Ltd.

EMB 608 - MARKETING MANAGEMENT- I

- Nature and scope of marketing management

- Core concepts of marketing management and corporate orientations towards the market
place.
- Delivering Customer value and satisfaction: value Chain, attracting and retaining customers,
Concept of Relationship marketing.
- The Marketing Process, Contents of a Marketing Plan.
- The marketing environment: Macro environment forces and factors in the micro environment
- Market segmentation, targeting and positioning
- Consumer markets and consumer buying behaviour, factors affecting consumer buying
behaviour and consumer buying decision process
- Product management: Product mix, Product line decisions, Branding decision, Packaging and
Labelling decision, new product planning
- Concept of Product life cycle, Marketing Strategies for Introduction, growth maturity and
decline Phases
- Pricing objectives, Price determination, Basic methods of setting price
- Channel management – channel selection, co-operation, and channel conflict, vertical
marketing Systems.
- Integrated Marketing Communication, Meaning and role of the elements of promotion mix
- Contemporary issues in marketing – consumer protection, green marketing

Books
Marketing Management: Analysis, Plannning and Control - Philip Kotler
Marketing Management - Ramaswami & Nainakumari
Marketing Management – Rajan Saxena
Marketing in India: Cases and Readings - S. Neelamegham
Fundamentals of Marketing - Stanton, William J.

EMB 609 Human Resource Management

- Concepts and objectives of HRM

- Evolution of HRM, The 3 growth stages of HRM
- The functions of HRM
- Quality of work life: Participation; The essence of QWL
- Job Analysis and Job evaluation, Job Design, Job enlargement, Job rotation, Job enrichment,
- Manpower planning: The Concept, Factors affecting Manpower planning
- Recruitment, The Concept, Methods of external and internal recruitment
- Selection, An overview of selection process
- Training and Development
- Performance Appraisal
Books

Human Resource Management - Monappa and Saiyadrin

HRM - Leap and Crino
Personnel Management - Monappa and Saiyadin

EMB 610-FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Financial Management: Meaning and role.

Contribution of economics, behavioural science, accounting and quantitative methods to financial

management.

Analysis of finani\cial statement for managerial decision making

-Ratio Analysis
-Funds-flow Analysis
-Cash-flow Analysis
-Sensitivity Analysis

Investment decisions - project appraisal

Financing decisions - cost of Capital, capital structure and capitalization

Working capital Management: Methods of determining working capital requirement, working capital
financing; basic concept of management of working capital components.
Leverage: Meaning, types and significance.
Dividend policy: theory of relevance and irrelevance (Waltor’s and Gordon’s model)

Books:

Van Horne - Financial Management & Policy

Soloman Ezra - The theory of Financial Management
Soloman Ezra - Management of Corporated Capital
Kuchhal S. C. - Corporate Finance
Dewing A. S. - Financial Policy of Corporation

EMB-626 Systems Management

System Management and Computer Application

General System Model:- Introduction, models, types of models-physical, narrative , graphic,
mathematical , general system model-physical system, conceptual system, applications

System for business application-: Introduction to typical info system-HR subsystem, Material
sub-system, Accounting information system, inventory control subsystem, Client relation
subsystem, system integration.
Database management system (DBMS) – Introduction to DBMS, benefits of DBMS, Role of
DBA, Concept of SQL – Create, Insert and Select

Data processing & flow charting - Models of computer data processing, flow charting
technique-principles of flow charting, syEMBols used in flow charts, Benefits & limitations of
flow chart ,examples

Introduction to Programming Concepts through ‘C’

Elements of C Programming: Constants, variables, data types, operators,
Decision-making and branching: goto, if-else, switch statements.
Decision Making and Looping: while, do - while and for loop
.
Books:-
Info system concepts for management-H.C.Lucas
Management info system-Mudric Ross,elaggelt
Introduction to system analysis & design-Elias Award
Programming in ‘C’-e.Balaguruswamy.
Info system methodologies-M.N.Maddison.
Database concepts-Korth.

EMB-612 Organisational Behaviour II

- Group dynamics – Types of groups, Formation of groups, Group Behaviour Patterns,

participation, discussion, conformity, group consensus, group polarization, group problem
solving
- Effective interpersonal relationship – T A, OK and not OK influencing styles
- Stress Management Definition of Stress, Sources of Stress, Coping Strategies
- Power and Conflict in Organization, Sources of Conflict, Intraindividual conflict and conflict
management
- Organizational Culture and Organisational Climate
- Organizational Change and Development, OD Techniques
Books
Organisational Behaviour - S. Robbins
Organisational Behaviour - F. Luthans
Organisational Behaviour – Uday Pareek
EMB 613 - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Scientific Method of research.
Nature and importance of research methodology.
Problem formulation & development of hypothesis.
Value and cost of information – Bayesian Decision theory.
Research designs – exploratory, descriptive and experimental research.
Methods of data collection – observation and survey methods.
Questionnaire design.
Scaling Techniques
Data Tabulation and analysis.
Bivariate & Multivariate tools of data analysis.
Report Writing
Books:

Research methods for Business students - Saunders

Management Research – Bennet, Roger
Survey Methods – Fowli, Floyol
Exploring Research – Solkind Niel
Research Methodology – Goodday & Hack.

EMB 614 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

- Nature and scope of operations management
- Planning and controlling the operations,line balancing
- Capacity planning management and operations scheduling, dealing with capacity change
- Reliability engineering, failure, measures of reliability, the bath-tub curve, system reliability
- Learning curves
- Purchasing objectives and policies, organizing purchasing
- Manufacturing resources planning (MRP II) optimized production technology (OPT),Service
Resource Planning,Distributers requirement planning
- Just-in-Time manufacturing, JIT philosophy, implementing Just-In-Time systems,Lean
Systems
- Work study fundamentals, productivity concepts, measurement of productivity
- Principles of ergonomics, human factors engineering
- Introduction to SCM
Books
Theory and Problems in Production and Operations Management - S. N. Chary
Production and Operations Management - Alan Muhlemann, John Oakland & Keith Lockyer
Production and Operations Management - concepts, models and behaviour
Everette E Adan, Jr. and Ronald J. Ebert
Production/Operations Management- Roger W Schmenner

EMB 615 MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

- Nature, scope and importance of Materials Management in Business world.
- Importance and advantages of an integrated system of Materials Management.
- Materials requirement planning.
- Purchasing functions and purchasing systems.
- Concepts of inventory management, EOQ, ROP, safety stock, ABC and XYZ analysis.

- Make or buy decision, value engineering.

- Stores functions, systems and procedures.
- Classification, codification, standardization and variety reduction.
- Application of computers in Materials Management.
- KAN BAN system of Materials Management and Push and Pull Systems

Books
Materials Management – An integrated approach
P. Gopalakrishnan and M. Sudersan
Purchasing and Materials Management - Lamas Lee Jr and David N. Burt
Key areas on Materials Management - Sen S. L. and Rathi
Introduction to Material Management - Arnold

EMB 616 MARKETING MANAGEMENT – II

- Market Oriented Strategic Planning, Business portfolio Evaluation,

- Analysis of competitor’s strategies and estimating their reaction pattern and competitive
position
- Dealing with the Competition: Identifying Competitors, Analysing Competitors
- Market leader strategies: Expanding the total market, Protecting market share, expanding
market share
- Market challenger strategies, Market follower strategies, Market Nicher strategies, Balancing
customer and competitor orientations
- Industry segmentation
- Competitive market strategy for Emerging industries, Declining industries and Fragmented
industries

Books
Competitive strategy; Techniques for analyzing industry competition - Porter, M E
Competitive advantage; Creating, Sustaining superior performance - Porter, M E
Marketing Management: Analysis Planning, Implementation and control - Philip Kotler
Strategic Marketing - Cravens, D W

EMB 617 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

- Introduction to strategic management Definition of strategy, levels of strategy, types of
planning systems, strategic planning to strategic management
- An overview of strategic management
Nature of strategic decision making, issues in strategic decision making, approaches to
strategic decision making, process of strategic management
- Strategy formulation
Mission and purpose, business definition, dimensions of business, objectives, goals,
procedures and Programmes
- SWOT Analysis
- Environmental appraisal
Concept of environment, characteristics of environment, components of external
environment, ETOP Profile and its applications on strategy formulation
- Organizational appraisal -Assessment of internal strengths & Weaknesses , preparation of
strategic advantages profile, matching ETOP with SAP.
- Strategic alternatives
Stability, Growth (Expansion, Diversification, Vertical Integration, Merger, takeover, Joint
Venture Strategies. and Joint Venture strategies), Retrenchment (Turn around, divestment and
liquidation strategies)
- Strategic choice - Hoffer Analysis, BCG Matrix, G E nine cell matrix , Directional Policy
matrix
- Strategic implementation, evaluation and control, functional, structural and behavioural
implementation, techniques of strategic evaluation and control
Book
Business Policy - Azhar Kazmi
William F. Glueck -Strategic Management & Business Policy
S.B.Budhiraja & Atheya- Cases in Strategic Management
Wheelen and Rangarajan- Concepts in Strategic management and Business Policy

EMB 618 E-Commerce

Introduction: - Conceptual Framework of E-Commerce
Emergence of E-Commerce: - E-Commerce on private networks, Forces affecting E-Commerce

E.D.I.- Its nature, data and information flow in E.D.I. enabled business transactions, public
standards for E.D.I. (E.D.I.F.A.C.T), Applications of E.D.I.
Types of E-Commerce: -Inter Organizational (B2B) E-Commerce, Intra-Organization E-
Commerce, Business to Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce, Consumer to Consumer (C2C) E-
commerce, Government to Business (G2B), Government to Consumer (G2C)
Building on E-Commerce Enterprise: -Ascertain the need for E-Commerce, Setting up a Website.
Security Issues in E-Commerce: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authenticity, and Non
Repudiability, Audit ability
Security Solutions: - Cryptographic Techniques, Digital Signatures and Certification Authorities
(CA), Virtual private Network (VPN), Secure Socket layer (SSL), Secure Electronic transaction
(SET), Intrusion Detection Systems, biometric devices firewalls Proxy servers, tunnels, Operating
system control, anti-virus software
Electronic Payment Systems - Electronic or Digital cash, Online credit card based systems
 Legal Issues-Laws for E-Commerce, Trademark, Copyright, and Domain Name issue,
Defamation, Linking and framing, Jurisdiction issues, problems of multiple currencies, taxation in
Cyberspace.
Books

Frontiers of Electronic Commerce - kalakota

E-Commerce-Agarwala & Agarwala
E-Commerce :business, technology, society, Laudon Kenneth C. & C.G. Traver
Krishnamurthy Sandeep, “E-Commerce Management Text and cases”
E-Commerce E-Business, C.S. Rayudu,
Basics of E-Commerce – Legal and Security Issues

EMB 619 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Introduction to the MIS: The Technical and Business Perspective

Organization Structure and the Role of IS in an Organization
Organizational Systems and Application of Information Technology: Types of
Organizational Systems, Transaction Processing Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) –
Introduction to ERP, Implementation of ERP, ERP in IT companies
Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-
Introduction to CRM, CRM technology – Types of CRM Technology, Need of CRM –
Operational CRM, Analytical CRM, Collborative CRM, CRM and eCRM
Managerial Support Systems: Decision Support Systems, Data Mining, Group Support
Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Executive Information Systems, Artificial
Intelligence, including Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Virtual Reality

Systems Development Approaches: Traditional life cycle approach (Systems Development Life
Cycle, or SDLC), Prototyping, Systems integration (outsourcing), End user development.
Security, and control Issues in IS Management

Books

Turban, Rainer, and Potter, Introduction to Information Technology

E. W. Martin, C. V. Brown, D. W. DeHayes, J. A. Hoffer, and W. C. Perkins,
Managing Information Technology
Handbook of IS Management, Edited by Robert E. UEMBaugh
Mudric R. G. & Ross J-.E. Information System for Modem Management
Babb George: Computers and Information System in Business
Management Information System:Laudon & Laudon

EMB 620 International Business Environment

 - International Business an overview-Types of International Business
- The external environment; The economic and political environment; the human cultural
environment
- Government influence on Trade Investments; Determination of Trader’s Partner’s
independence, interdependence and dependence
- Tariff and Non Tariff trade barriers
- Foreign Exchange market mechanism, Determinants of exchange rates, Euro currency
market, offshore financial centres. International Banks
- World Economic Growth and the environment
- Multinational Corporations – Definition and meaning, Importance and Dominance of
MNCs.
- WTO, Regional Blocks

Books:
International Business Environment and Business: Bhalla V.K. and S. Shivaramu
International Business: Daniel John and Radebangh, Lee H.
International Economy: Liberalization Process, Bhalla VK
International Business Environment – Text and Cases, F. Cherunilam

EMB 621 OPERATIONS RESEARCH

• Introduction of theory of optimization.

• Linear Programming: Formulation of problems, Graphical methods, Simplex method,
Maximization and minimization of L.P.P. Duality in linear programming, Dual simplex
method. Degeneracy in L.P.P.
• Sensitivity analysis applied to linear programming problems.
• Transportation Problems: Balanced and unbalanced problems. The N-W corner rule,
Vogel’s approximation method. Modi method. Degeneracy.
• Assignment Problems: Balanced and unbalanced Assignment Problems.
• Game Theory-Two person zero sum games, some basic terms. The maximin-Minimax
principle, Game without saddle point(Mixed Strategies)Graphical solutions of 2*n and
m*2 games
• Introduction to Networking concepts-PERT & CPM

Books
Operating Research - By Kanti Swarup, P.K. Gupta, Man Mohan
Management Operating Research - M. Satyanarayana Lalitha Raman,
Quantitative Techniques in Management - N.D. Vohra.
Operations Research - By Sharma
Introduction to operation Research-Frederic Hill & Geraldlieberman Stanford University-TMH.

EMB 622 BUSINESS ETHICS

- Introduction to Business Ethics

- Ethical principles in business: Utilitarianism, Justice and Fairness
- Ingraining ethical process in life & work
- Relevance of ethics in the marketplace
- Social responsibility of business organizations
- Introduction to Corporate governance
- Board of Governors; Role and responsibilities
- Ethics and Environment
- The ethics of Consumer protection and environment
- Business and its Internal constituencies: Employee issues.
- The individual in the organization
- Indian Ethics: Self and conciuosness
- Ethical leadership
- The description of a highly ethical organization.
.
Books:

Business Ethics: Concepts &Cases - Velasquez

Ethics & the conduct of Business – Boatright
Ethics in Management – S. K. Chakraborty
Organisational Behaviour - Robbins
.
EMB 623 Foreign Language

Any one of the following languages :

A) German
German Alphabet and punctuation, Repeat and Grammatical Terms
Past/ Imperfect Tense,The Define Article
Case Nominative/Accusative,Perfect Tense, Auxiliary Verbs
Native Case, Trregular Verbs – Imperfect Tense
Past Participle-Irregular Verbs, Plural = noun (=accusative or Native propositions)
Forms of questions (Interrogative), Adjective, Genetive case
Interrogative pronouns, Word Order (Grammatical)
Relative Pronoun , Familiar Persons in conversations
Separable Verbs, Auxiliary VerbWERDEN and it’s use, Verbs used with direct object in German,
Prefix showing movement
Subjunctive mood, Conditioned form – with subjunctive words to be said
Impersonal; verbs
Each Unit shall be followed by exercises/assignments, New Viocabulary/New Words,
Conversational Practice.

Books
German in three months - Hugo

B) French

The verbs etre, avoir , habiter, s’appeler

L’apostrophe, Masculin / Feminin, Plural forms
Days of the Week
Adjectifs possessifs
NuEMBers, Negation, Indicators of tenses, Interrogation
Pre’sent, passe’ compose’, Si / non plus / aussi, etc.
Adjectifs Demonstratifs, Telling the time, Presenting oneself, others.
The verbs: Comprendre, apprendre, aller, venin, etc.

Books

TEMPO’
Note:-Classes will be held during 4th & 5th Semester.

EMB 624 BUSINESS LAW

- Contract Act 1872

General Rules of contract, remedies for breech of contract, indemnity and guarantee, pledge
and bailment
- Companies Act 1956
Promotion, incorporation, floatation
- Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
- The Indian Partnership Act 1932
- Patent Regime and IPR
Books
M.C.Shukla - Mercantile Law
P.P.S. Gonge - A textbook of Business Law
M.C.Kuchhal - Business Law
Functional Specialisation
Courses
 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT- area
EMB 627 MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

INTRODUCTION:
Financial Assets: Meaning and Concept, Types of Financial Assets, Role of Financial Assets in
economic development; Indian Financial Institutions and their role in economic development.

FINANCIAL MARKET:
Indian Financial system; Indian Financial Market: Meaning and Concept of Money Market and
Capital Market, Important players of Money Market & Capital Market in India; RBI and
Commercial Banks: Their organization and management and roles in Indian Financial System

LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT THEORIES IN FIs

Introduction; Different types of Liquidity theories e.g. Commercial Loan Theory, Shiftability
Theory, Anticipated Income Theory etc.

LOANS & ADVANCES of FIs:

Concept of Loans and Advances; Types of Loans and their features: Cash Credit, Overdraft,
Term Loan, Demand Loan; Formulation of Loan policy; Credit Appraisal.
MANAGEMENT OF INVESTMENT of FIs:
Concept of Investment; Process and need of Bank investment; Types of Investment options, RBI
guidelines on investments of FIs.

PROFITABILITY OF FIs:
Concept of Profit in FIs; Reasons of low profitability rate in Indian FIs; Suggestions to improve
the profitability rate in Indian FIs; Diversification strategy of FIs in India and their present
position.

EVALUATION OF BRANCH PERFORMANCE:

Importance of Performance Evaluation of Branches / Offices of FIs. Performance Budgeting;
Zero-based budgeting in FIs, latest guidelines of RBI on performance evaluation of FIs.
DEVELOPMENT BANKS IN INDIA:
Role of Developmental Banks- SIDBI, NABARD, NHB and SFCs.

Books:
Indian Financial System – M.Y.Khan
Management of Indian Financial Insitutions – R.M.Srivastava
Indian Banking – Vasant Desai
Banking Theory and Practice – P.K.Srivastava.

EMB 628 INVESTMENT & PORFOLIO MANAGEMENT

INVESTMENT:
Introduction; Concept, Investment and GaEMBling; Pre Investment decision factors; Influencing
factors of Investment Decision, Financial Decision vs. Investment Decision; Process of
Investment program.

RETURNS:
Meaning and concept; Measurement techniques using Statistical tools- like, Mean etc.

RISK:
Definition; Risk classification: Diversifiable and Non-diversifiable risks; Types of Risk:
Measurement of Risk: Range, Quartile Deviation, Lorange Curve, Standard deviation and
Variance, Analysis of Risk factors; Capital budgeting: Non DCF techniques and DCF technique;

NVESTMENT OPTIONS:
Investors Classifications: Bonds, Preference Shares, Equity share, Public issue, Private
Placement, Right Issue, Government securities, Post office deposits; Real estate, Venture Capital,
Mutual Fund, Gold, Silver, Diamonds, Stamps, Antiques.

VALUATION and ANALYSIS OF SECURITIES:

Valuation of Bond; Valuation of Preference Shares; Valuation of Equity shares; Valuation of Real
Estate.

DERIVATIVES:
Financial Derivatives: Recent trends; Derivatives market in India; Options, Futures, Hedging :
Objectives , Benefits and Process, Swaps.

INVESTMENT & TAX PLANNING:

Investment and tax planning: Exemptions and Deductions.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT:
Introduction; Concept; Portfolio Risk and Return; Diversifiable and Non diversifiable Risk;
Markowitz portfolio model, Sharpe model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory: APT model: Assumption,
Derivation, and Practical application.

Books:

Investment Management – Sharpe and Alexander

Investment Management – Jordan & Fischer
Investment Management – Security Analysis and Portfolio Management – V.K.Bhalla
Investment Management – Preeti Singh
Investment Management – Barua, Verma and Raghunathan
Security Analysis- Avdhani, A.V. - Himalaya Publications

EMB 629 CORPORATE ACCOUNTING

1. Business income: Introduction, concept of business income measurement-accounting

standards and shares
2. Valuation of enterprise: Concept of valuation, valuation of inventories, goodwill and
shares.

3. Preparation of company accounts – amalgamation, absorption, reconstruction and

capital reduction, holding companies, merger accounts
4. Accounting System in different organisations – farm accounting, hotel accounting –
accounting for how profit making organisation e.g. accounting for hospital and
educational organisation. Accounting for local self government-rural and urban
5. Government accounting System in India – general principles – comparison with
commercial accounting – role of the comptroller and Auditor General of India and Public
Accounts Committee – review of accounts.

Books
Advanced Accounting (Sultan Chand) R. L. Gupta
Practical Aspects of Advanced Accounting Maheswari & Gupta
Principles and Application of Accounting Vol. I (Tee Dee Publication)Amitabha Basu

EMB 630 FINANCIAL PLANNING AND CONTROL

 Evolution of Financial Environment -concept & Need for Financial Planning and
Requisites for effective planning.

Profit Planning and budgeting:

Objective Setting - Different Techniques

Budgeting Process, Types of Budgets, Formulation of Budgets, Functions of Budget
Committee.
Budgetary control - Significance and limitations.
Current AssetsManagement and Control.

Risk in current assets management.

Analytical techniques and their applications

Strategies for planning and control of current assets.

Financing Decisions:

Problem of optimal capital structure,

Sources of financing and their evaluation,

Management of Earnings:

Dividend policy of the firm and its impact on Valuation.

Tax Planning

Financial control

Designing control systems

Financial control practices in industries at different levels.

Books:

Robert N. Anthony - Planning and Control: A Frame Work for Analysis

Chattopadhyay - Decision Phenomena & the Management Account
Premchand - Performance Budgeting
Welsch - Budgetory Planning and Budgetory Control
Antony Dearden & Vancil -Management Control System Cases and Readings
Dewbg - Financial Policies of Corporation Vol.I& Vol.II

EMB 631 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

Introduction to forex market and its mechanism

Intricacies of Foreign Exchange Markets, Spot and Forwards Exchange

Rates, Eurocurrency and Domestic Interest Rates, Quotations and market rules
 Parity conditions in International Finance :

` Purchasing Power Parity, Covered Interest Parity, Real Interest Parity, Parity Conditions
and Managerial Implications

Forecasting Exchange Rates :

Fundamental Factors Affecting Exchange Rates, Time Series Forecasting Models,Role of
RBI & relevance of balance of payment

International Sources of Finance for the Firm :

Bond Financing (Fixed and Floating Rate Notes), Loan Financing (Syndicates Loans),
Securitised Financing (Euronote), Equity Financing (GDR .ADR and IDR), Features of
Loan Agreements: Loan Negotiations

International Financing Decision :

Issues in Overseas Funding Choices
Economic Circumstances and Overall Funding Choices, Funding and Risk Management
Aspects

Analysis of International Capital Budgeting :.

Cost of Capital of a Foreign Investment,evaluation of international capital budgeting

Foreign Exchange Risk Management :

Conceptual Overview, Nature of Exposure (Economic, Transaction, Translation),
Hedging and Speculation
Derivatives and Exposure Management, Currency Forwards, Currency Options,
Currency Futures, Currency Swaps
Interest Rate Risk Management:
Framework of Managing Exposures, Accounting Implications of Forex Transactions.

Books
-International Financial management-2nd edition, New Delhi, Annual
-Managing International Investment & Finance, New Delhi, Annual 1997
Multinational Finance- Buckley, Adrian, 3rd Prentice hall
Multinational Business Finance - EITEMAN

EMB 632 CORPORATE FINANCE

Introduction to Environment of Business Finance,

Economic environment of business
Financial markets and intermediation

Strategic Financial Management

Depreciation allowances, Depreciation and funds flow, Depreciation and tax liability,
Depreciation and product costing, Depreciation and dividend, Shareholders Value Analysis
(SVA)
Risk analysis and capital budgeting:
Introduction, Degree of uncertainty
Allowing for risk in project evaluation, Risk analysis in project selection
Value of information- perfect information and imperfect information

Cost control process in projects

Phases of cost control
Capital disinvestments

Capital structuring,
Introduction, Costing and risk, Relationship between capital structure and profitability,
Determination of optimum capital structure
EBIT-EPS Analysis:-i. Financial break-even and indifference analysis Risk return trade off,
Financial risk, Assumptions of risk return trade off, Basis assumptions of capital structure
theories
Financial distress

Corporate restructuring,
Introduction, Reasons, Broad areas of restructuring
Rational for diversification, Techniques for corporate restructuring

Finance in public sector,

Objectives of accounting in public sector
Distribution between public sector and private sector accounting, Strategic financial planning
in public sector,Performance Budgeting

Books
Finance and environment and decisions (Harper International Edition, Harpers and Rood Inc.
N.Y.) Christy, George A and R den Peyton
Basic Business Finance - Hawards and Vption
Financial Management - Srivastav, R M

EMB 633 ADVANCED COST MANAGEMENT

Nature and Scope of Cost Management:

Meaning, objectives, and Functions of Cost accounting, Installation of Costing system, Financial
Accounting vs Cost accounting, Cost accounting vs Management accounting, Methods of
Costing, Types of Costing.

Marginal Costing:
Application of Marginal Costing, Basic characteristics, Distinction between Marginal costing
and absorption costing. Advantages and limitation of Marginal Costing in decision making, use
of CVP technique in decision making

Overheads:
Definition, Importance, Classification of Overhead costs, Distinction between. Indirect
Expenses and Direct expenses, Collection of production costs. Allocation and apportionment of
overheads to cost center. Basis of apportionment, principles of Apportionment of overhead costs,
Reapportionment of Service Depaprtment Costs to production, departments. Methods of
reapportionment.

Responsibility Accounting:
Meaning objectives, Responsibility center. Advantages and limitations.

Variance and their types:

Material cost variance, Labor cost variance, Overhead variance, and Sales variance. Computation
and interpretation.

Joint products and by products:

Meaning, difference between joint products and by products, Methods of apportionment of Joint
costs.

Cost Control and Cost reduction:

Cost control - Meaning, cost control Techniques essential for success of cost control. Difference
between cost control and cost reduction, Areas of Cost reduction, Tools and Techniques of cost
reduction.

Cost Audit: Concept, Importance and Mechanism.

Books:

Cost Accounting - C. S. Rajudu

Principles and Practice of Cost Accounting - N. K. Prasad & A. K. Prasad,
Cost Analysis and Cost Control - P. K. Ghosh and G. S. Gupta, Vision Books.
Cost Accounting - A Managerial Emphasis – Charles and Horn green.
Cost Accounting - P. K. Ghosh.
Standard Costing - J. Battery.
Costing for management -S.k.Bhattacharya

EMB 634 STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Capital budgeting and project appraisal
Time value of money: Concept
Techniques of compounding and discounting
Value added analysis:
Meaning and definition, Generation and application/uses
Product life cycle costing:
Concept, phases and characteristics of product life cycle
Total quality management:
Business process re-engineering, financial engineering
Strategies in working capital management:
Strategies--Conservative, Aggressive
Corporate Expansion techniques: Mergers, amalgamation, Takeover, Joint venture, Business
alliance, Foreign franchise- motives and strategies
Divestment techniques: Sell-off, De-merger (spin-off)
Management buy-out, Leveraged buyout, going private, Share repurchase, Buy in, Reverse
merger
Opportunities for foreign trade and investment: Risk in international projects i)Economic
risks ii) Monetary risks iii)Political risks, Modes of foreign investment in India.

Books
Corporation Finance - Kuchhal, S C
Financial Management and Policy - Vanhorne, James C.
The theory of Business Finance - Archer Stephen H. Charles A.D. AEMBrose
Strategic Financial Management- Jakhotia

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMNT AREA

EMB 637 MANPOWER PLANNING
- Concepts and significance of manpower planning.
- The manpower environment
Technological, social, economic and political
- Determining manpower needs
The manpower planning process, manpower inventory, skill inventory, manpower audit,
integration of manpower plans with business plans, skill inputs and outflows.
- Job analysis and job evaluation
- Forecasting of manpower
- Human Resource Information system

Manpower Management - R. S. Dwivedi

Manpower Planning and Control - Gorden and Mcbeath
 Manpower Planning Strategy and Techniques - Edward Leek, Loveridge LuEMBey and
Morgan Silver

EMB 638 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

- Industrial Relations – definition, objective and scope, trend in labour-management relations

- Collective bargaining – nature, significance, meaning determining factors of bargaining
power, collective agreements
- Union and Unionism
- Trade Union Act 1926
- Industrial Disputes Act 1947
- Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946
- Grievance Procedure, Discipline, Domestic Enquiry
- Industrial democracy and worker’s participation in Management
Works committee, Joint Management Councils (JMCs), shop council and joint council
scheme.
- SLCs and ILO ; Issues and Conventions

Books:

B.Ghosh- Personnel Mgt. & Industrial Relations

T.N. Bhogoliwal- Personnel Mgt. & Industrial Relations
Charles E. Mayers-Industrial relations in India
John T. Dunlop- Industrial Relations Systems

EMB 639 WAGE AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION

- Concept and Significance of wage and salary administration
- Foundations of compensation strategies.
- Principles and objectives of wage and salary administration.
- Factors influencing wage and salary administration.
- Changing trends in the determination of pay.
- Payment by time systems, payment by results, collective bonus schemes, performance related
pay and employee benefit schemes.
- Minimum, fair and living wages.
- Wage structure and wage differential.
- Theory of wages.
- Individual and group incentive scheme
- Salary structure, salary scales and merit scales.
Books
Personnel Management - C.B. Mamoria
Salary Administration - Mc Beath and Rands
Personnel Management & Industrial Relations - Bhagoliwal

EMB 640 LABOUR LEGISLATION

- Payment of Wages Act 1936

- Workman Compensation Act 1923
- Minimum Wages Act 1948
- Payment of Bonus Act
- Equal Remuneration Act 1976
- Payment of Gratuity Act 1972
- Employee Provident Fund Act 1952
- Factories Act – 1948

All the acts will cover in detail – Meaning, objectives, scope, provisions, coverage, registrations,
Rights, Penalties, fixation and Tribunals.

BOOKS
Text Book: 1. Labour Laws one should know- Garg, Ajay- Navi Publication
Reference Books:
1.Hand Book of Industrial law-Malik PL
2. Industrial relations and Labour law-SC Srivastava

EMB 641 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

- Definition of training, Need and rationale of training, Systematic approach to training

- Objectives, Significance of training, Determining training needs
- Benefits of training for employers and for employees
- Types of training, Sensitivity training
- Methods of training
(a) On the job (b) off the job
- Designing and organizing of a training programme
- Essentials of good training, Principles of training
- Evaluation of training
- Nature and objectives of employee development, Objectives of executive development

- Difference between Training and Development, Necessity of executive development

- Organization of E D P, Essential principles of executive development

Books
Employee training and development- Raymond A.NOE
HRM: Productivity, Quality of work life, profits - Wayne F. Cascio
HRM - Mirza & Sayadain

EMB 642 MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT FUNCTIONS

- Recruitment
Importance, purpose, sources, procedures and policies
The prescriptive approach towards recruitment, the various stages of the recruitment and
selection process
Equal opportunity and recruitment; recruitment in fluctuating labour markets; recruitment in
multinational organizations
- Selection - Purpose, process, testing, selection tools
- Promotion:- Importance need and policy; promotion VS recruitment from outside; criterion
of promotion ; Demotion; Influences of career planning, potential evaluation and
performance appraisal on promotion
- Transfers: - Importance, need and policy.
- Induction and placement: - Importance of Induction and placement; the process of induction
and placement.
Books: -
- Human Resources Management --- T.N. Chhabra
- do --- C.B. Mamoria
- do --- K.K.Ahuja
- Personnel Management & --- Surinder Kumar & P.Padhy.
Industrial Relations

EMB 643 HRD

- Employee orientation programme: Planning & Evaluating an Orientation Programme
- Employee training: objectives
 Assessment of training needs, Training process, Selection of trainees, Selection of training
techniques
- Identification and development of management cadre , Problems associated with selection of
managers, The management selection method
- The goals of management development and management development techniques
- Performance appraisal: The Concept, The performance appraisal process
Uses of performance appraisal information, Requirements of effective performance appraisal
systems
Books
Human Resource Management: Mirza and Sahyadrin
Personnel / HRM: Leap and Crino
Personnel Management: Monappa and Sahyadrin
HRM: Productivity, quality of work life profits: Wayne F. Cascio
Successful Application of HRD: Dayal Ishwar

EMB 644 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

- Nature and importance of performance appraisal, Self Appraisal

- Purpose of and designing an appraisal system
- 360 Appraisal
- Improving performance through constructive discipline
- Role of personnel department in disciplinary process
- Career Development concepts and Process
Career Stages, Career success, Career development, Career planning, Career management,
Career counseling
- Potential Appraisal

Books:

D A Beach; Personnel; Macmillan

E.H. Burack/R.D. Smith; Personnel Management; John Wiley and Sons
TVR – HRD Audit
Uday Pareek and Ralph Lynton – Training and Development
 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AREA

EMB 647 RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Database concepts: Overview of database system, basic database system terminology, data
model, Introduction of data base management System(DBMS), Feature of DBMS, Architecture
of DBMS

Physical data Organization & Network Model: Model for external storage organization Storage
hierarchy, index files, B-Trees, Files with variable length record, DBTG definition
Implementation of Network and programme environment.

Relational database Concepts: Introduction to Relational data base Management System,

(RDBMS) Relational data Models, Features of RDBMS, Functional Dependencies,
decomposition of relational schema, Normal forms(1NF,2NF,3NF,BCNF).

Introduction to SQL: SQL as standard relational database language, data definition

language(DDL) data Manipulation language(DML), EEMBedded DML in a host programming
language, Authorization and Integrity Specification, Transaction Control Statements.

Recovery System:-Types of failures,Storage Structures,Recovery with concurrent

transaction,Advanced recovery techniques-transcatiobn rollback,fuzzy checkpoint,savepoint

Books:

1. Fundamentals of Database Systems, R. Elsmari

2. Database System Concepts, H. Korth, Et al
3. Database Management System-C.J.Date

EMB 648 BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATION

Introduction to data Communications: Components of Communication Networks, network

application, email, document based groupware, group support system, video teleconferencing,
email on internet, w.w.w. Examples.

Data Communication hardware: Host Clients, special devices, Network layers, topologies,
Routing, protocols, examples

Local Area Network: LAN definition LAN components, Ethernet, Token Rings, LAN
performance, examples
Network management: Feasibility Plan, Network design plan, Network requirements, Network
configuration, Implementation performance and fault management, End user support, cost
management, examples.

Network Security: Security types, Risk Assessment control of unauthorized access, examples.

Book:-

Business data Communication & Networking- Fitzerlad, F. Et.al

Busines Data Communication - Stallings
Computer Network-Frouzen
Computer Network-Tannenbaum

EMB 649 PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY-1 (C++)

C++ Programming Basics: Basic Program construction, operators in C++

Functions: Simple Functions, Passing argument to Function Returning values, Reference arguments,
overloaded Functions, inline functions, storage classes.
Object and Classes: class and objects, Constructors, Destructors, Objects as Function arguments, Returnin
object from Functions, Static class data.
Operator Overloading: Overloading unary and binary operators, Data conversion
Inheritance: Derive class and base class, Derive class constructors, overriding meEMBer functions, class
Hierarchies, Public and private inheritance, Levels of inheritance, Multiple inheritance, AEMBiguity in mul
inheritance, containership.
Pointers: Memory management, pointer to object, pointers to pointer.
Virtual Functions: Virtual Function, Pure virtual function, Friend functions, Static functions, Assignment a
copy initialization, this pointer.
Files and organisation: Introduction – files and streams.

Books:
Object Oriented Programming in Turbo C++ - Robert Lafore;
Object Oriented Programming with C++ - E. Balagurusamy
The C++ Programming Language - B. Stroustrup
Let us C++ - Yashwant kanetkar

EMB 650 SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Overview of systems analysis and design, Business systems concept, system development life
cycle. The structured SMethodologies. Systems Analysis, Tools and Techniques: How to
analyse an information system. Process modeling with physical and-logical data flow diagrams,
data modelling with logical entity relationship diagrams, Project Dictionary.

System Design
Designing conventional computer files and controls, designing modem databases, Designing and
prototyping computer outputs and control, Structured design, feasibility and cost benefit analysis
tools and techniques, Hardware and Software selection.
System Documentation:-Principles of system documentation,types of documentation and their
importance

Wit yen J.L. - Systems Analysis and Design Methods.

James A.S – Analysis of design of Information systems.
Awad E. M. - System Analysis and Design.

EMB 651 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

Introduction to ERP : Evolution, characteristics, features and need of ERP

Enterprise Modelling and Integration for ERP

Next generation enterprise : Emerging trends, information mapping, role of

centralised/distributed databases Linkages of the enterprise customer - enterprise, vendor
enterprise, link with in the enterprise and links with environment Client/server architecture

Supply Chain Management & ERP: Definition, supply chain integration, benefits of SCM,
performance, aims and ERP Vs SCM

Business Re-engineering & ERP: Introduction, definition and Common myths about BPR. The
7Rs of Re-engineering, Making BPR projects successful

Information Technology Plan for ERP system: Best technology practices, information technology
assessment, review the IT plan, review organization, service level, product mix and technology

Integration in ERP: Integrated data, master data, transactional data, and integrated process

Selection of ERP: Approach to ERP selection, different approaches of selection

Implementation of ERP: Methodology for ERP implementation (Understand, simplify) principle,

reengineering Vs USA approach features involved in successful implementation role of BPR in
implementation

Case studies
Text Book

Enterprise Resource Planning by Ravi Shankar S Jaiswal, Gangotia Publication

Reference Book:-Enterprise Resource planning-Leon& Leon

EMB 652 PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY-II (JAVA APPLICATIONS)

- Introduction to OOPL, Overview of Java language, Constants, Variables and data types,
Operator and expressions, Decision and expressions Decision making and branching,
Decision making and Looping
- Classes objects and Methods, Arrays, String, and Vectors Concepts on Packages and its
application Concept on Applets HTML, Web Design

Books
Programming with java-Balaguruswamy E
The Complete Reference on Java 2 – Patric Naughton

EMB 653 STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING

- Key issues in Information Systems Management and the role of the CIO
- Analytical framework for strategic IT initiatives
- Sustaining competitive advantage by use of IT
- Creativity, learning organizations and role of information technology in business
transformation information partnerships
- National information infrastructure and IT policy at the national level
- Planning for strategic IT resources
- Managing the IT function
- Outsourcing IT function

Books
Strategic Information Management: Challenges and strategies in managing information
systems. - Galliers, R. D.
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through information technology. - McKenney,
James L
Strategic information systems: competition through information technologies. New York,
MacMillan College, 1994
Creative Destruction: A six-page process for transforming the organisation. - Nolan,
Richard L

EMB 654 MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS

- Decision making concepts - a need for decision support
- Decision Definition-Component of DSS,different types of DSS
- Role of decision support systems in different functional areas in Business
- Modeling in decision support-Mathetical,Heuristic,Static,Dynamic,Simulation &
Certainty,Uncertainty,Influence diagram
- DSS Development-Different types of development methodologies-System development life
cycle,CASE tools,rapid application.Development methodologies,prototyping,end-user
development DSS,Selection of DSS tools.
- Group decision support systems-Definition,Benefits,Development of GDSS.
- Use of DSS technology for marketing, finance, production and HRM
- Need and application of intelligent systems
- Fuzzy knowledge in rule based systems
- Executive information systems and their applications
Books
Prolog: Programming for artificial intelligence - Bratko, Ivan
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. - Patterson, Dan W
Decision Support System-efrain Turban,Pearson
Decision support System in the 21st century-George M.Marakas,Pearson.
DSS applied Managerial approach-Vicky sauter,wiley publication

EMB 655 Operating Systems

Introduction of operating system,Simple batch systems,multiprogrammed batch

systems,time sharing systems,parallel systems,distributed systems,real time
systems.
Operating system structure-system components,system services,system
calls,system programs,system structure-simple structure.

Process concept-process state,process control blocks,process

scheduling,scheduler’s threading.

CPU scheduling-CPU-I/O burst cycle,scheduling criteria,scheduling

algorithms(non-preemptive-FCFS,SJF,RR)

Memory management(contiguous
allocation,paging,swapping,segmentation).virtual memeory-Demand paging,page
replacement,page replacement algorithms FIFO,LRU)thrashing

File system strcture-file allocation(contiguous,linked,indexed),free space

management(bit vectot,linked list,grouping,counting)

Computer system structure-computer system operations,I/O structure,storage

structure,storage hierarchy,hardware protection.

I/O hardware-polling,interrupts,DMA,spooling,buffering.

Disk structure-disk scheduling(FCFS,SSTF,SCAN),disk

management,formatting,boot block,bad block,swap space management.

Security-the problem,authentication,,program-threats,system threats,encryption.

MARKETING AREA

EMB 657 BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING

- Introduction to Business to Business Marketing
Nature and objectives, classification of industrial customers and industrial products
- Industrial marketing environment
- Organisational buying and buying behaviour
Organisational buying process; buy-grid model; buying centers; Jagdish n Sheth’s model of
buying behaviour.
- Segmentation of business-to-business markets, macro and micro segmentation.
 - Strategic Market Planning, The strategic planning process; scanning, tracking and tackling
competition.
- Marketing strategies in business-to-business markets regarding product, price, promotion and
distribution.

Books
1. Industrial Marketing – Analysis Planning & Control Reeder and Brierty
2. Industrial Marketing Management Hutt and Speh
3. Industrial Marketing Hill and Alexander
4 Industrial marketing-Cases & concepts. E. Raymond Corey-PHI

EMB 658 Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications

Introduction to Advertising: Concept of Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communication,

History of advertising, Classification of advertising, The advertising world; Advertisers,
Advertising agencies, and Media.

Economic Social and Ethical issues in Advertising, Advertising Regulation, Role of ASCI and
other regulatory bodies.

Planning and executing an advertising campaign: Setting the advertising objective, Response
Hierarchy models, DAGMAR, Defining the target audience, Apportioning the advertising. Budget

The Advertising. Agency, Agency structure, Flow of work in an Agency, Agency Compensation,
Client Agency relationship

Media Strategy: Types of media, Media characteristics, Media Objective, Evaluation of Media,
Media Measurement in India, Media selection and scheduling, Media Buying

Creative Strategy: Positioning strategy, Creative approaches, Creative style, Mood and appeal of
the message, The Big Idea, Elements of the message Copy. Appeal of the message, Comparative
Advertising.

Testing Advtg. Effectiveness: Communication and sales Effectiveness, Various methods of Pre
& Post testing.

Other Tools of Promotion:

Public Relations, Direct marketing, Sales Promotion, Merchandising, Event Marketing

Books
Advertising Management - Aaker David, Myers and Batra
Advertising and IMC – Tom Duncan
Advertising and Sales Prom otion – Kazmi and Batra
Integrated Advertising Promotion and Marketing Communications – Clow and Baack
Advertising Procedures- Otto Kleppner,
Advertising Management: Borden and Marshall

EMB 659 SALES AND DISTRIBUTRION MANAGEMENT

- The modern physical distribution system and logistics Management
Introduction need and benefits, distribution as a link between production and marketing.
Distribution as a service function. Information systems for physical distribution. Designing
a distribution logistics system.
- Warehouse Management - Transportation by Road, Rail, Air and Sea. The suitability of
movement, cost- benefits analysis.
- Channel management Decisions: Selection, Compensation & managing Channel Conflicts
- The selling process- prospecting, Planning the Sales call, Selecting the presentation method,
Making the sales presentation, Handling Sales objections, Closing the Sale, Follow up.
- Time and Territory Management-Sales quota, its types, purpose, importance, routing and
Scheduling
- Recruitment and selection of the sales force
- Training successful sales people
- Sales force motivation
- Designing sales compensation plans
- Evaluation of sales force
Books
Fundamentals of selling – Charles Futrell
Marketing Channels - Louis W Stern and Adel L Ansary
Sales Management-Still and Cundiff and Giovonni
Selling and sales management - Jobber
Andersen R - Professional Sales Management
Sales Management: Concepts and Cases- D.S.Darlymple

EMB 660 Marketing Research

 Conceptual framework: Content, characteristics and functions of Marketing Research; the M.R.
Industry; M.R. and Marketing Information System.

The Marketing Research Process- An Overview

Research Designs: Exploratory Research, Descriptive Research,Experimental Research,

Uncontrollable Variables: History, Maturation, Testing Effect, Measurement Variation and
Interactive Effect.

Types of Data: - Primary Data and Secondary Data, Secondary Data Sources for M.R.in India.

Sampling: Census and Sampling, Sampling Error, The population, Sample frame, Sampling
Units and elements, Sampling Techniques, Sample Size Determination.

Data Collection: Survey Vs Observation method Various Interviewing Methods, Process of

Designing a Questionnaire, Types of Questionnaire

Attitude Measurement: Types of scales, Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio Scales, Thurstone and
Likert Scales and Semantic Differential Scales, Disguised Structured methods, Depth Interview and
Focus Group Interview, Disguised and Unstructured Methods, Projective Techniques

Processing Raw Data: Editing, Coding, and Tabulation

Data Analysis: - Statistical Estimation, use of percentages and Measures of Central tendency,
Test of Hypothesis, Type I and Type II Errors, application of “z”& “t” tests, Chi-square Analysis,
Analysis of Variance

Measures of Associations- Application of Correlation and Regression Analysis

Explaining Interdependencies- application of Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Conjoint
Analysis

Report Writing –The contents and characteristics of a good report

Books

Green & Tull: Research For Marketing Decisions

Boyd & Westfall: Marketing Research
G C Beri: Marketing Research
T Kinnear & J Taylor: Marketing Research
David Aaker: Marketing Research
B N Sethna & Leonard Greanveld: Research Methods in Marketing Management

EMB 661 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR

Introduction to consumer behaviour, scope, nature, diversity, application of consumer behaviour

Consumer research – process, research methods and measurement techniques
Socio cultural influences on consumer behaviour: Culture, sub-culture, social class, reference
groups, family, roles.
Personal and Psychological influences –Age, life cycle, life style, personality, self concept, need
and motivation, learning, attitude, VALS
Consumer decision process – problem/need recogonition. Information search, evaluation,
purchase decision, post purchase behaviour
Consumer decision making models – Howard Sheth Model, Engel Blackwell, Miniard model
Diffusion of innovations, process of diffusion and adoption, innovation, decision process,
innovator profiles
Consumer and society – consumerism, consumer protection, consumer right and consumer
education, legal consideration
Introduction to E-buyer behaviour – trends in E-buyer behaviour, the E-Buyer vis-à-vis “Brick &
Mortar” buyer.
Books
Consumer Behaviour - Schiffman and Kanauk
Consumer Behaviour - Loudon Delta Bitta
Consumer Behaviour – Engel and Blackwell
Consumer Behaviour - William Williamson
Consumer Behaviour in Marketing - John Howard .A

EMB 662 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

- Nature and scope of International Marketing

- Special problem of international marketing vs domestic marketing
- International marketing environment, Cultural environment, Business customs and
ethics, Political environment, Legal environment
Balance of payments
- Protectionism
- International Marketing Research: Reliability of secondary data, difficulties of
gathering primary data, multiple cultures, etc.
- Segmentation and selection of International Markets
- Developing Global Marketing Strategy, Alternative market entry strategies
Global Market & product development
- Product adaptation & product standardization
 - Overseas Distribution system, Alternative Middleman choices, (Home country
middlemen, foreign country middlemen, and government-affiliated middlemen).
Selection of Agents, Locating, selecting & motivating channel meEMBers
- International Promotion Strategy, Global advertising & world brands
- International Pricing Strategy, Pricing policy & objectives
- Dumping, Leasing

Books
Onkvsit, Sak and Shaw-International Marketing-Analysis and strategy
Keegan – Global Marketing Management
S.B.Bhattacharya: Export Marketing,Strategies for Success
R.Sarthy & V.Terpstra , International Marketing

EMB 663 SERVICES MARKETING

- Introduction to services marketing, distinctive aspects/characteristics of service marketing,
differences between services and goods.
- Scope and growth of services marketing – contribution of services to the national economy,
growth of service marketing in the Indian scenario, the services marketing environment,
classification of services, future trends
- Services marketing management – services marketing organization, internal customers,
internal marketing, marketing research applications in the services marketing, marketing
planning process in services, strategic issues in services marketing, system approach to
services marketing
- Positioning in services marketing – role and importance, positioning maps, communication
issues in service positioning
- Services marketing mix – pricing issues in services marketing, promotion management in
services marketing, logistics and distribution in case of services marketing, the ‘people
element’ in services marketing, physical evidence and process issues
- Application of services marketing – marketing of banking services, insurance, hotel and
hospitality services, health care, tourism etc – their nature and scope
- Misc. issues in service marketing – after sales service, its importance to the consumer and
industrial markets, relationship building with the service customers
Books
Services Marketing - Helen Woodruffe
Services Marketing - Lovelock
Services marketing - Ziethmal & Bitner
The Essence of Services marketing - Newton M.P. Payne

EMB 664 BRAND MANAGEMENT

- Concept of a brand, Logic of branding
Brand as a strategic asset, overview of brand asset management
- Definition of brand success
- Concept of brand equity
Cost based, price based and customer based brand equity
- Brand extension
Need for brand extension, types of brand extension, category related, image related and
unrelated brand extensions, risks of brand extension, line vs brand extension
- Brand image and brand personality
Importance definitions, implementing a brand personality strategy
- Brand positioning: Definition, components of brand positioning, perceptual mapping,
repositioning strategies
- Measuring return on brand investment (ROBI)
Books
Brand Management -Y L R Moorthi
Brand Asset Management- Scott M Davis
Strategic Brand Management - Keller
Brand Positioning - S. Sengupta
Brand Building Advertising - M. G. Parmeswaran
Managing brand equity - David A. Aaker
Building Brands Directly - Steward p.
 Sectoral Specialisation
Courses

Health Care management

EMB 667 Management of Medical and Health Services
 • Historical evolution of health services in India and abroad. Overview of Health Services
in India. Health Services A summary of Perspective

• The psychological bases of Health, Disease and Case seeking

• Government Health Services Background and Present status

• Private Health services: Background and Present status

• Medical Technology and its assessment: Innovation, Development and diffusion.

Appropriate use of technologies, Organizing for Technology Assessment, Methods for
assessment Future Considerations

• Health care professionals: Employment trends in the health Care Industry, Supply of
doctors, Nursing Shortages and future Role changes, Future Issues for Health Care
Professionals

• Epidemiology: epidemiological Data-Epidemiological Status of some important and

common diseases -Epidemiology Management-managing Diseases on epidemiological
background

• Refuse disposal Safe collection and hospital waste disposal -dumping- Incineration

References

Annand, KK, hospital Management New Delhi

Stephen, J W and Paul T Introduction to health Services, DelmarSchultz, R J, Management of
hospitals

EMB 668 HOSPITAL PLANNING

• Hospital Planning: Introduction, Role of Hospitals, premises of planning, organizing,

estimates, design considerations
• Medical Specialties: overview of the functions and sphere of each specialty oncology,
general medicine\e, cardio thoracic, gastroenterology, urology, nephrology, radiology,
psychiatry, endocrinology, neurology, and ophthalmology

• Supportive services: general medical services, hospital infection control, special medical
services, technical medical services, patient care services-patient counseling for surgical
procedures, reception, In patient care, Laboratory, Non technical services, admission and
discharge, special procedures, Grief Counseling
 • Hospital administration: Non medical services, equipment planning, staffing, medical
records, mortuary services

• Hospital Ancillary services-Continuing medical education-P.G./Fellowship/resident

programs, Medical seminars and symposia, Library, Pharmacy, emergency, tissue
Bank/Organ Donation, Mortuary and Autopsy

• Nursing administration -Nursing care, Operations theatre, Ward management

In addition students will be required to submit a diisertion/ project report before the third
semester exam. Orientation and familiarization program thru visit of multispeciality Govt/
Private and corporate hospitals on a continuous basis

Reference
Lederer and Sethi, Pitfalls in Planning,
WHO, Hospital Planning
Smalley H & Freemand, J, Hospital Industrial Engineering, NY, Rein Hold 1966

EMB 669 HOSPITALS MANAGEMENT AND LAW

• Type and characteristics of healthy care organizations- govt., s4emi Government,

charitable, Individual and corporate ventures; Formation of health care organizations
and types- clinics, Out patient treatment, nursing homers, multispeciality and
superspeciality hospitals

• Labour management relations in Health care organizations-causes of unrest-Dispute

settlement mechanism, disciplinary action, domestic enquiry, \unfair labor practices,
victimization, Employer and employee unions, service condition, retrial benefits,
social security and insurance schemes

• Physician Patient relations-functions of the hospitals, duties towards patients by

medical and paramedical staff

• Medical negligence and medical malpractices: duty of care and its standard
contractual and tortuous liability, Negligence in diagnosis, Prescription and
Administration of drugs, Anastasia, surgery etc.

• Medico legal problems, Types, procedures to handle medico legal cases, police
investigations, court deliberations

• Legal remedies available to the patients under various laws including consumer
protection act. Damages
• Contractual and Tortuous liability: Justification of liability for negligence of doctors,
vicarious liability of the hospitals, Sale of drugs and application of drug laws
 .
• Medical ethics and Code of conduct: Role of the medical Council Of India,
Disciplinary action by health care organizations

• Laws relating to transplant of Human organs: euthanasia (Mercy Killing)

• Regulation of MCI (Medical Council of India)

References

Consumer protection Act.

Francis, C. Government and Business
Gupta.D and Gupta,S Government and Business
Varma, D.P.S. Monopolies, Trade Regulations and Consumer Protection,

EMB 670 operations and marketing management for health care services

- Materials Management (MM)-An Overview, special features of MM in

Hospitals
- Inventory management-An Overview Different types of Hospital inventories,
categories of materials in Hospitals as Unexpendable and expendable,
classification of Unexpendable items, hospital maintenance items, space parts,
stocking policies for capital items
- Marketing Management: Introduction to services marketing, Products of
Hospital Services, general services, multispeciality, superspeciality and single-
speciality services, Approaches to hospital services marketing: Patient
satisfaction, customer orientation, Servqual.
- Marketing Segmentation of Hospital and Health Services-Users of hospital
services
- Franchise in Hospital Services.

References
 Jha, S.M. Services Marketing, Himalaya Pub, MuEMBai 1994
Koller, P. Marketing of Services, McGraw Hill, New York,1989

OPERATIONS AND MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT

EMB 671 TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

- Introduction: Definition and characteristics of technology; market based views
and resource based views in management; firms as a value chain; forms of
technological change
- Technological Environment: Levels of environment, changes in the
technological environment, major current developments in technological
environment
- Process of technology change: Technology innovations and evolution
characteristics of innovative firms; technology diffusion; factors that drive the
process of diffusion; competitive consequences of technological changes;
process innovation and value chain; modes of value chain configuration
- Technology strategy : Definition and types of technology strategy; technology
intelligence; collaborative mode of technology strategy; appropriation and
deployment of technology, intellectual property strategy

Books
Managing technology and innovation for competitive advantage - V. K. Narayanan
Managing Technology – The strategic view - Lowell W. Stede

EMB 672 QUALITY MANAGEMENT

- Definition of quality and its meaning; the importance of quality in industries;
concept, purpose and scope of Total Quality Management (TQM); relationship
 between quality and reliability; relationship between reliability, maintainability
and availability.
History of quality control and quality assurance; quality costs and economics of
quality
- Quality planning and analysis; systems engineering and management of quality;
pre-production and post-production quality evaluation and planning; quality
service; process quality planning
- Participation approaches to quality management – quality circles; zero defects;
quality of work life; Kaizen approach; total productive maintenance; cause and
effect analysis; quality audit; ISO9000 systems; quality function deployment
Books
Total Quality Management Hand Book
Total Quality Control Essentials - S. S. Soin
TQM field manual - J. H. Tayler
TQM – The key to business - Chris Hakes
Text Books-:
TQM-H.Law-New Age Publisher
TQM-Poornima M.Chanitamanth-pearson publications

EMB 673 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

- Supply chain management: Introduction, Definition, Concepts, and Schools of

Thought- Functional, Logistics, Information, Integration/Process School. Components of
a Supply Chain Management – Customers, Distributors, Manufacturers, Suppliers.
Principles of Supply Chain.

- Supply Chain Design and Strategies: Nature of integration, Drivers of supply chain,
Elements of Supply Chain Strategy – Demand flow strategy, Customer Service Strategy,
Collaboration Strategy, Information Technology Strategy. Framework for Supply Chain
Integration.
- Supply Chain Processes: Management and control of Purchasing Process, Activities of
the Purchasing Department, Managing Suppliers – JIT Purchasing. Importance of
Inventory, Transportation, Warehousing. Participants in Transportation Decisions, Modes
of Transport. Transportation Analysis decisions.

- Coordination in A Supply Chain : Bullwhip Effect, Causes of Bull-whip Effect,

Overcoming the Bullwhip Effect. Value Chain.

- Outsourcing in a Supply Chain : Outsourcing – Reasons, Process, Single vs. Multiple

Outsourcing, Advantages and Disadvantages of Outsourcing. Vendor Managed Inventory,
Third Party Logistics, Fourth Party Logistics Providers.

- Information Technology and Supply Chain Management : Value and Use of

Information in Supply Chain , Changing Role of Information Technology in A Supply
Chain : Internet Technologies, Impact of Internet, E-Business – E-Commerce, E-
Procurement, E-Collaboration.

Books
Supply Chain Management in the 21st Century – B.S.Sahay
Textbook of Logistics and Supply Chain Management –D.K.Agrawal
Supply Chain Management, Strategy, Planning and Operation – Chopra Sunil and Pete Meindl.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management – Raghuram G. and N.Rangraj

EMB 674 MANUFACTURING PLANNING & CONTROL SYSTEMS

- Manufacturing systems design

The organisation of manufacturing operations – job, batch and flow production
methods. Group technology, Group technology and Just-in-Time
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS)
- Manufacturing planning
Manufacturing to stock versus manufacture to order.
Manufacturing against customers’ orders
- Manufacturing planning and control systems
Manufacturing resources planning (MRP II), Just-in-Time (JIT), objectives,
implementation. Optimised production technology (OPT), A comparison :
MRP II, Kanban, OPT
- Computer Integrated Manufacture (CIM)
A comparison of manufacturing and service processes. Manufacturing tasks
and choices, issues affecting manufacturing strategy.
Books
- Modern Production Management – by Buffer Elwood S.
- Production Management- y Brrom H.N.
- Analysis for Production and Operations research- by Bawman, Edward and
Falter
- Industrial Engineering and Management by O.P. Khanna

AGRO-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
EMB 675 COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
- Introduction to co-operative management – origin and growth of co-operatives,
evolution of co-operative in India, institutionalisation of co-operative.
- Structure and classification of co-operatives, marketing co-operatives, dairy
cooperatives, fishers co-operative, labour co-operative, irrigation co-operatives,
industrial co-operatives and processing co-operatives.
- Need for co-operative form of organisation and role in management of co-
operative enterprise.
- Professional management of co-operative, policy making, leadership, planning
& organising functions in co-operatives, project planning & implementation of
co-operative
- Financial management issues in co-operative management, concept micro
financing and micro credit
- Marketing management issues in cooperative management
- Procurement and distribution management in co-operatives
- Co-operative laws, rules and by laws
Books
Co-operative Management - Pawan Kr. Kamra
Co-operative management & administration - B B Goel
Professional Management for the Co-operatives - K. Sah
Laws for the co-operative - R. D. Bedi
Management of Co-operative Enterprises ; Principles & Practices - S. K. Sinha & Sahaya

EMB 676 ECONOMICS for RURAL Managers

- Introduction
Importance, object, scope, interdependence of agriculture and industry
- Agriculture and Rural
Drought–prone programmes, irrigation and modern agricultural technology, agricultural
prices, marketing of farm products, problem of agricultural marketing, government measures,
green revolution, utilization of land and cropping pattern.
- Forest resources and forestry development
Destruction of forests, classification of forests, regional distribution of forests, importance of
forests in national economy, low productivity of forests and its causes, national forest policy,
forest development programmes, social forestry.
- Animal husbandry; dairying and fisheries
Importance of cattle, intensive cattle development project, poultry development, dairy
industry, problems of dairy industry, operation of food project, cattle insurance, fisheries,
fisheries development programmes.
- Agriculture and rural development, rural industrialization program
- Rural development programmes
- Rural credit, cooperative credit societies and institution
- Cottage and small scale industries]
Books
C.B. Mamoria- Agricultural problems of India
Sadhu & Singh – Fundamentals of Agricultural Economics
S.N.Bhattacharya- Indian Rural Economics

EMB 677 AGRO-PRODUCTS MARKETING

- Concept of Rural Marketing, unique features of Indian rural markets, size and
the importance of rural market, factors affecting marketable surplus.
- Classification of agricultural products with particular reference to seasonality
and perishability
- Price quotations, evolution of agricultural price policy, regulatory measures by
the Government Market Reports classification and grading, quality control and
standardization, storage and warehousing, government policy on storage and
warehousing.
- Price policies – individual and collective bargaining, domestic price policies,
transportation and ownership, domestic trade in agricultural products
- Cooperative marketing structure, need for development of cooperative
marketing, growth and development, functions of national agricultural
cooperative marketing federation of India (NAFED), regulated markets, chief
features of regulated markets, role of warehousing
Books
Marketing Agricultural Products - R. K. Kolis
Agricultural marketing - F. L. Thosan
New Dimensions of Cooperative Management - G S Kamat
Managing Cooperative marketing - G S Kamat
Marketing Efficiency in Agricultural Products - Prabhakar Rao

EMB 678 FARM MANAGEMENT

- Meaning and role of farm management with its salient features
- Students relating to size of farm and productivity, marketable surplus and
marketed surplus, extent of commercialisation of the Indian agricultural sectors
- Managerial function and purpose of planning in farm activities – basic
principles and concepts of farm planning
- Production economics
- Farm overheads on fixed costs
- Capital in farm business
- Crop and live stock enterprise studies
- Farm budgeting – complete, partial and break even budget

SAFETY MANAGEMENT
EMB 679 SAFETY ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
- An overview of safety
Need for safety, safety and productivity, factors impeding safety, attitude
towards safety.
- Safety organization
The size, types, advantages and limitations of safety organization, safety policy,
role of management, supervisors, workers, trade unions and bipartite committee
in safety, the qualification and role of safety professionals. The function and
structure of safety departments and committees.
- Safety promotion and awareness
Safety training programmes, personalized vs mass safety programmes, safety
awareness meetings, contests and competitions, posters, displays and exhibits,
public relations, suggestion schemes, publicity tools and kits.
- Safety management techniques
Safety inspirations, procedures, periodicity, checklists and report forms, safety
planning, safety sampling, safety audit, safety survey, incident recall technique
and job safety analysis.
Books
1. Techniques of Safety Management - Dan Peterson
2. Industrial Safety - Blake Roland
3. Personnel Management - C. B. Mamoria

EMB 680 ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND SAFETY ACTS

- Definition of accident, injury, unsafe act, unsafe condition, dangerous

recurrence, reportable accidents, hazards, risks.
- Factors leading to accident - situational and environmental factors.
Theories of accident causation - Heinrich theory, Hapbura theory, Franklird’s
theory and James Tye multiple causation.
- Accident investigation, Analysis and classification of accidents, identification
of key factors, corrective actions, compilation of accident statistics.
- Types and uses of personal protective equipments.
- An overview of the following acts , The Factories act, workman compensation
act, the Indian electricity act, Mines safety act and environmental protection act.

Books
1. Industrial Accident Prevention - H.W. Heinrich, Dan Peterson, Nester Roos
2. Techniques of safety management - Dan Peterson
3. Safety at work - John Ridley
EMB 681 SAFETY PRACTICES
- Human Safety in the use of Electricity – Joints and connections, insulations, continuity tests,
voltage classifications, system of equipment grounding, over circuit and short circuit current,
heating effects of current, fuses, circuit breakers and overload relays.
- Fire Prevention and Control – Dynamics of fire behaviour, fire properties of solid, liquid and
gas, fire spread, toxicity of products of coEMBustion.
- Fire protection systems – Fire resistance materials, sprinklers, hydrants, stand pipe, deluge,
emulsifier, CO2 system, foam system, DCP system, Alarm and detection system.
- An overview of the safety aspects of the following
(a) Material handling
(b) Building and plant
(c) Design and use of machines
(d) Construction and maintenance

Books
1. Accident Preventive Manual for industrial operation - NSC Chicago
2. A handbook of fire Technology - R S Gupta
3. Material handling equipments: N. Rudenko

EMB 682 SAFETY SYSTEMS

- Analyzing safety systems, Safety systems, three level approach, safety control
systems.
- Safety information system, Concepts, information sources, coding, source
documentation, processing of information, safety budget allocation, cost/benefit
analysis.
- Analysis of hazards, General hazard analysis. Detailed hazard analysis, cost
effectiveness in hazard elimination.
- Principles of ergonomics, Definition, application of ergonomics in a work
system, physical loads, perpetual loads, Mental loads, principle of motion
economy, effects of environment
Books
1. System analysis and design for safety - D. B. Brown
2. Ergonomics - Pennathur Krishna Moorthy

HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
 EMB 683 HOTEL MANAGEMENT

- History and development of Hotel Industry, Types of hotels, Classification of hotels.

- Development of Hotel industry in India- Industry defined
- Characteristics of Hotels, Activities of Hotels
- Accommodation Management - Front office - House keeping
- Introduction to Food and beverage Operations, Types of catering Establishments.
- Support services – Hotel Engineering, Hotel Accounts and Finance, Hotel Human
Resources, Marketing, Stores and Purchase, security & Vigilance.
- Marketing Function in hotel industry – Functions & levels of distribution channels, Travel
Agents, tour Operators, Consortia and reservation system, Global Distribution System
(GDS)
- Hotel Safety & Security – Keys Control, ELS, Safe deposit boxes
- Hotel licenses – permission from statutory authorities
- Problems and prospects of Hotel industry.

Books:

Hotels for Tourism Development, J.M.S. Negi

Dynamics of Tourism, R. N. Kaul.
International Tourism, A K Bhatia
Hotel front office Management, james A. Bardi
Marketing Management, Philip Kotler
Marketing Leadership in Hospitality, Robert Lewis & Richard ChaEMBers
Tourism and Hotel management in India – Anand, MM
Approach to Hotel Planning – Doswell, Roger
The British Hotel and Catering Industry, S Medlik
The Hotel Receptionist – Paige G
Financial management in hotel and catering Operations- Donanld F. Sutton.

EMB 684 TOURISM MANAGEMENT

- Tourism phenomenon - Concept, Definition of Tourism, The Birth, growth and
development of Tourism, Factors Influencing growth of Tourism.
- Impacts of Tourism
- Tourism in India and Abroad
- Tourism Industry – major and minor components
- Tourism marketing – Concepts and Importance, marketing Functions in Tourism, Tourism
marketing mix, Tourism pricing, Tourism promotion, Tourism Advertising
 - Travel Agencies – History and development of travel agencies, role and function of Indian
and International travel agencies
- Types of tours – Importance of tour operations, Major national and international tour
operators, Importance and role of tourist guides
- Tourism organization and associations – Role and function of a) World tourism
organization, b) ASTA, PATA, IATA, TAAI, FHRAI etc.
- Tourism and Government administrative systems: Dot, ITDC

Books
Profile of Indian Tourism – Shalini Singh
Tourism Today – Ratandeep Singh
Dynamics of Tourism – Pushpinder singh gill
Introduction to tourism – Seth. P. N.
Tourism, past, present and future – Bukhart
Tourism principles and policies – A K Bhatia
Travel Agents and Tourism – Merrison James
Tourism and Cultural heritage of iindia – Acharya Ram
International Tourism – Francois Vellas & Lionel Bickerel, Macmillan Business
Tourism – The state of the art-Edited by Seaton, wood Etc.
Tourism – Routeldge, elliot, James
Tourism and Economic Development – Hall, Derak R
International City Tourism – mazanec, Josef
Tourism and Development in the third World – Routedge Lea J
Tourism ans Sustainability – Routledge Mowforth, Martin and Ian Munt

EMB 685 ACCOMMODATION OPERATIONS

- Introduction to accommodation Operations

- Hotels, rooms- Types, Upkeep, Amenities
- Public Areas – Applications & Upkeep
- Interiors – Colour Schemes, furniture, Upholstery, Linen
- Accomodation management – manpower Planning, frequencyschedules, S.O.P.’s
- Dealing with Emergencies- fire, theft &others
- Communication
Books
Hotel Housekeeping - Sudhir Andrews
The Professional Housekeeper – Tucker Schneider, VNR
Professional Management of Housekeeping Operations – Martin jones
Housekeeping management for Hotels – Rosemary Hurst
Hotel, hostel 7 hospital House keeping – Joan C. Branson & Margaret Lennox
Accomodation & Cleaning services, Vol I & II – david Allen
Managing housekeeping Operations – Margaret Kappa & Aleta Nitschke

EMB 686 FRONT OFFICE OPERATIONS

- Front Office Operations, Organisation Chart, job specifications & Job descriptions of FO
personnel
- Types of room rates, basis for changing room rates, Metal plans, types of guests
- Reservation, importance of reservation, reservation terminology, Modes & soueces of
reservation
- Pre- registration activities, Registration activity, Registeration of Foreigner, Mode of
payment
- Guest relations – Rokle of lobby managers, Role of Guest Relation Executive , telephone
manners
- Function of bell desk, car valet operations
- Report and Statistics – Occupancy and revenue reports
- Computerized room management system – Property management system
- Role of the Front desk cashier, credit cards, Foreign Currency, Night auditing

Books
Front Office operations - Colin Dix & chris Baird
Hotel front office management – James Bardi
Managing Front Office operations – Kasavana &Brooks
Front Office Training manual – Sudhir Andrews
Managerial accounting and hospitality accounting - Raymond S Schmidgall
Managing Computers in Hospitality industry – Michael kasavana and Cahell
Effective Front Office Operation – Michael Kasavana
A manual of Hotal Reception – JRS Beavis & S Medlik
Accomodation Operation Front Office – Colin Dix
Principles of Hotel Front Office Operations – Sue baker & Jeremy Huyton
Front Office Procedures, Social Skills and Management – Peter Abott & Sue Lewry

INSURANCE and BANK MANAGEMENT

EMB 687 BANK MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION OF BANKING:
Meaning and Definition of Banking; Features of Banking; Classification of Banks; Indian
Financial Market and Commercial Banks; Banking Regulation Act.

MANAGEMENT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS:

The Board of Director; Organisational set up of Commercial Banks in India; Role of Commercial
Banks; Profitability of Commercial Banks; Performance evaluation of Commercial Banks-RBI
guidelines

CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM:

Definition of Central Bank; Management & Organisation of RBI; Functions of RBI,supervisory
norms for Banks

BANKING OPERATIONS:
Banker & Customer relationship; The role of Paying Banker & Collecting Banker in relationship
building; Important provisions of Negotiable Instrument Act.

BANKING BUSINESS:
Employment of Bank Funds: Fund base business: Meaning and Concept of Loans and
Advances; Types of Loans: Cash Credit, Overdraft, Term Loan; Mechanism of operation of Loan
Accounts; Management of Loans and Advances; Legal aspects of Loans and Advances; Non-
Fund base Business: Bank Guarantee; Letter of Credit.

MERCHANT BANKING
Introduction; Concept; Merchant Banking operations in brief.
SECURITIES:
Primary and collateral securities; Mode of creation of Charges: Meaning and Concept of
Hypothecation, Pledge, Mortgage, Lien and Assignment.

NPA MANAGEMENT:
Prudential Norms: Capital Adequacy, Income Recognition and Assets Classification (IRAC);
NPA: Concept and Definition, Remedial and Corrective measures in managing NPAs.
RECENT TRENDS IN BANKING: Concept of modern banking: Net banking; Phone banking;
ATM; Bank Net; Venture Capital Funding; Factoring services; Bancassurance.

BOOKS:
Banking Law and Practice – P.N.Varshney
Indian Banking – R. Parameswaran and S.Natarajan
Money, Banking and International Trade – M.C. Vaish
Management of Indian Financial Institutions – R.M.Srivastava

EMB 688 INSURANCE MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION:
Definition of Insurance; Nature of Insurance; Purpose and need of Insurance; Mechanism of
Insurance; Concept of Insurance; Double Insurance and Reinsurance; Insurance as a Social
security tool; Role of Insurance in economic development of a country.
Role of modern Insurance manager in sunrise sector; Prospect of Indian Insurance industry.
PRINCIPLES OF INSURANCE:
Contract of Insurance; Distinguishing features of Insurance contract; Principle of Indemnity;
Principle of Utmost Good Faith; Principle of Insurable interest; Requisites of Insurable risks;
Principle of Subrogation; Principle of Contribution.
INSURANCE LAWS:
Insurance Act 1938; Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act 1999 (IRDA);
Consumer Protection Act 1986 (COPRA).
TYPES OF INSURANCE:
Life and Non life Insurance: Introduction and concept; Important activities of Life Insurance
Cos., Principles of Life Insurance; Fire Insurance: Introduction and Concept; Marine Insurance:
Cargo Insurance and Hull Insurance, Types of Marine Insurance contract; Motor Insurance:
Meaning, Categories, and Certificate of Insurance; Health Insurance: Meaning and Concept;
Liability Insurance: Meaning and Concept.
CLAIMS:
Introduction; Legal aspects; Preliminary procedures; Investigation and Assessment; Surveyors
and Loss Assessors; Claim documents; Arbitration; Limitation; Settlement; Post settlement
action; Loss minimization; Salvage; Recoveries.
FUNCTIONS AND ORGANISATION OF INSURER:
Functions of Insurer: Production (Sales), Underwriting, Rate making, Managing claims and
losses, Investing and Financing, Accounting and other record keeping, Providing other services
like, Legal advices, Marketing research, Engineering, Personnel management etc;
INSURANCE MANAGER:
Development of Insurance manager: Product knowledge, Customer orientation, Business target,
Records and Review, Trustworthiness, Target market, Long-term relationship; Behavioral aspects
of Insurance manager: Motivation, Morale, Communication skills, Persuasive skills and
Analytical ability.
INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT:
Definition of Risk; Concept of Risk; Concept of Pure Risk in Insurance; Insurance as a Risk
Transfer tool; Risk manager vs. Insurance manager.
INDIAN INSURANCE INDUSTRY:
BOOKS
Principles of Insurance – Insurance Institute of India, MuEMBai
Practice of Insurance - Insurance Institute of India, MuEMBai.

EMB 689 RISK MANAGEMENT

Definition of Risk; Classification of Risk; Risk and Return trade off, Exchange Risk, settlement
risk (Re-settlement & settlement risk)

Risk in Foreign Exchange Operations: Foreign exchange markets, Exchange rate mechanism,
dealing, position, accounting &Reporting. Foreign exchange market in India.

Foreign Exchange exposure: Concept Types; Transaction exposure, Translation exposure,

economic exposure, Hedging of exchange risk-concepts and methods

Measurement of Risk, management of risk and trading with derivatives;

Management of Interest Rate exposure, Concepts of interest rate risk, managing interest rate risk.

RBI/FEDAI Guidelines

Books

International Financial management – Vyuptakesh Sharan

Foreign Exchange and Risk Management – C. Jeevanandan
Financial Management – M Y Khan
EMB 690 INTERNATIONAL BANKING

INTERNATIONALISATION - Process of Internationalisation; Financial intermediation

function; direction and purpose of international bank lending; lending risk; credit creation
functions of international banks; control of international banks-Basel II norms

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER - World Trade and its trends; world monetary trends;
role of GATT; role of WTO.

ROLE OF BANKS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Functions of foreign exchange

department of bank; correspondent relationship between banks; foreign currency accounts;
balance of payments, off-shore banking.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKET - International Flow of Funds; the changing

structure; selection of sources and forms of funds; international equities; international bonds;
euro currency market.

EXCHANGE CONTROL - Objects of exchange control; methods of exchange control; import

control; foreign exchange regulation act; administration of foreign exchange.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS OF BANKS - Purchase and Sale Transactions of foreign

exchange; spot and forward transactions; ready exchange rate; cross rates; inter bank deals; euro
credit; euro bond; euro issues.

FOREIGN TRADE AND DOCUMENTS - INCOTERM: Modes of payment of international

trade; EXIM Bank of India; Letter of Credit (L/C) – Types and Operation; Transport documents.

Reference:
1. Foreign exchange and risk management By C. Jeevanandam
2. Money, banking and international trade by M. C. Vaish

Project I-:

Comprise of 2 Projects
1) Project on functional specialization (50 marks)
2) Summer project (50 marks)

Project II-: Project in the area of Sectoral Specialisation