MBA PROGRAM

MODIFIED CURRICULUM (2012-2014)

SEMESTER-I
Course No. Course Title

Credit

MBA-101

Principles & Practices of Management

3.5

MBA-103

Organizational Behavior

3.5

MBA-105

Managerial Economics

3.5

MBA-107

Management Accounting

3.5

MBA-109

Marketing Management

3.5

MBA-111

Business Communication

3.5

MBA-113

Business Statistics

2.5

MBA-115

Computer Applications in Management

3.0

Credits: 26.5
SEMESTER-II
Course No. Course Title

Credit

MBA-102

Financial Management

3.5

MBA-104

Human Resource Management

3.5

MBA-106

Production & Operations Management

3.5

MBA-108

Management Information System

3.5

MBA-110

Quality Management

3.5

MBA-112

Business Environment and Ethics

3.5

MBA-114

Research Methodology

2.5

MBA-116

Business Application Software

2.0

Credits: 25.5
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MBA-102 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
INTRODUCTION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:
Meaning, Scope, and goals of Financial Management; Financial functions; Investment
Decisions: nature, importance, evaluation criteria and risk analysis.
FINANCING DECISIONS:
Cost of Capital; Leverage; operating, financial and combined leverages, EBIT-EPS analysis;
Capital structure: Theories and determinants of capital structure, Financial indifference point.
DIVIDEND DECISIONS:
Models and determinants of dividend decisions.
WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT:
Theory and determinants: Forecasting and financing of working capital, Management of
cash, marketable securities and receivables, Credit rating and factoring in India.
RELEVANT ISSUES:
Corporate Restructuring: Acquisitions, change in ownership, Lease financing and Venture
capital financing in India.
References:
1. Khan, M .Y .: Financial Management, Tata McGraw Hill, Delhi.
2. Hampton: Financial Decision Making, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
3. Van, Horne: Financial Management and Policy, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
4. Pandey, I..M. : Financial Management.
5. Bose, Chandra, Fundamentals of Financial Management, PHI.

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MBA-104 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
INTRODUCTION
Concept, Scope and Importance of Personnel Functions and Management of
Human Resources, Personnel Policies, Man power planning, Job Analysis, Job Description
and Job Specification, Personnel Organization.
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION
Identification of sources of Manpower supply, Recruitment and Selection, Sources of
recruitment, Selection Tests and Interviews, Induction and Placement.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Identifying Training Needs, Methods of Training and Development, Evaluation of Training
Programmes, Performance Appraisal, Obstacles in Systematic Performance Appraisal,
Effective Performance Appraisal, Promotion, Transfer, Separation.
WAGES AND SALARY
Policies and Administration of Wages and Salary, Job Evaluation, Incentive Schemes Profit
Sharing, Bonus, Other Employee Benefits.
EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE
Discipline Maintenance and Employee Counseling, Labour Participation in Management,
Collective Bargaining, Employees safety and health, Trade Union, Grievance handling,
Employee empowerment, Industrial relation and industrial conflict
References:
1. Dessler, Garry, Human Resource Management , Pearson Education
2. Pattanayak, B., Human Resource Management
3. Chhabbra, T. N. Human Resource Management
4. Mamoria C. B, Gankar S. V, Personnel Management, Himalaya Publications.
5. Aswathappa, Human Resource and Personnel Management
6. Rao ,V .S .P., Human Resource Management
7. Armstrong, Human Resource Management

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MBA-106 PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT:
Objectives of Production/Operations Management, Nature and Types of Production/
Operation, Production Capacity Planning and Control, Plant Location, Layout Forecasting
Work Design and Measurement, Maintenance and Material Handling Methods.
INVENTORY CONTROL:
Deterministic and Probabilistic models.
NETWORKING TECHNIQUES :
Production Scheduling Johnsons Rule Sequencing, Queuing Theory, PERT CPM.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH :
L P formulation Graphical solution, Basic feasible solution, Simplex(Big M method),
Two phase method, duality, Sensitivity analysis, Transportation Problem, Assignment
Problem, Crew Assignment, Traveling Salesman Problem ( T.S.P.), Game Theory.
References:
1. Panneerselvam, R.: Operations Research, PHI, New Delhi.
2. Kapoor, V. K.: Operations Research, Sultan Chand & Sons , New Delhi.
3. Taha, Hamdy A. : Operations Research, Prentice Hall, New Delhi.
4. Chary, S. N.: Production and Operations Management, Tata McGraw
Hill, New Delhi
5. Buffa, Sarin,: Modern Production / Operations management
6. Sharma, J.K.: Operations Research, Macmillan, New Delhi.

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MBA 108 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
INFORMATION SYSTEM CONCEPTS:
Definition and Importance of Information, Types of Information: Strategic and tactical
Information, Operational Information, Economic Quality, Dimensions of Information:
Economic Dimensions, Business Dimensions, Technical Dimensions.
INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE:
Strategic role of information system, breaking business barriers, business reengineering process,
improving business qualities.
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT:
Information system SDLC, Structured Methodologies, Designing Computer based methods,
procedures, control, Designing structured programs.
INFORMATION SYSTEM: BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Computer Based Information System (CBIS), MIS as a part of CBIS, IT & MIS, IT
Infrastructure, MIS characteristics, MIS Function, MIS along with TPS, OAS and DSS:
Overview, components and classification, steps in constructing a DSS, role in business, group
decision support system. The organization as a system and Role of CBIS in an Organization,
MIS Models, Functional application of MIS (viz. Marketing IS, Manufacturing IS,
Accounting IS, Financial IS, Personal IS, Production IS), Management Dimension of MIS,
MIS support to Each Level of Management (viz. Top Level Management, Middle Level
Management, First- Line Or Supervisory management), Business value of Information Systems
and Managing Change, Managing Global Information System.
IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROL
Control- Testing Security, coding techniques, detecting error, Validation, Cost- Benefit
Analysis: Assessing the value and risk of the information system.
References:
1. Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon, Management Information System, Pearson
Education.
2. Brien, James A.O, Management Information System, Tata McGraw Hill, N.
Delhi.
3. Ralph M. Stair, George W. Reynolds, Principles of Information Systems,
Thomsons Learning.
4. Waman S. Jawadekar, Management Information Systems, Tata McGraw Hill.

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MBA-110 QUALITY MANAGEMENT

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
INTRODUCTION TO TQM
What is TQM? Under standing concepts of quality, scope of TQM,
TQM: the guiding principle, customer orientation, productivity improvement through quality.
QUALITY PHILOSOPHIE
Deming Juran, Philip, Genichi, Taguchi, TQM Model.
BASIC STATISTICAL TOOLS
Introduction, elements of risk, total process risk, step-by-step problem solving process, pareto
analysis, concentration diagrams, activity sampling, data handling and displaying P-FMEA.
PROBLEMS SOLVING AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Introduction, implementation of six sigma, Kaizen kanban and JIT, 5-S, quality circles and
zero defects
.
RELEVANT ISSUES:
Cost of quality, bench-marking, Re-engineering and TQM, HRM and TQM, ISO-9000 series,
quality awards.
References:
1. Shailendra Nigam, Total Quality Management an integrated approach, Excel
Books.
2. Bester field, Dole, H. Michel, Carol Bester field, Bester-field, Total Quality
Management, Pearson Education.
3. Bharat Wakhlu, Total Quality Excellence Through Organization Wide
transformation, Wheeler Publishing.
4. Samuel Kho, TQM Integrated Approach, Kogan Page Limited, London.
5. Evans James R. and Dean, James W: Total Quality Management, Organization
and Strategy, Thomson Asian Pvt. Ltd.

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MBA-112 BUSINESS ENVIRNOMENT AND ETHICS

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT:
Nature, Components and Determinants of Business Environment, Dynamics of Business
Environment, Key indicators; Risk in Business Environment, Assessing Business Environment
Country Risk and Political Risk, Environmental Analysis and Forecasting.
CURRENT SCENARIO OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN INDIA:
Economic Reforms Liberalization, Privatization, Globalization, Industrial Policy and
Industrialization Trends, Public Enterprise Reforms and Disinvestment Programmes, Monetary
& Fiscal Policy.
LIBERALIZATION, PRIVATIZATION, GLOBALIZATION:
Globalization Trend, Impact of Liberalization and Privatization on Indian Economy, FDI Policy,
Indias Share in World Economy, Economic Planning in India.
GLOBAL TRADE:
Nature & Operations of Multilateral Economic Institutions World Bank, WTO & IMF and
their impact on Indian Business Environment, Factors of Global Competitiveness.
ETHICAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS:
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Business Ethics, Ethical Principles, Ethics and Market Practices,
Ethics and Government, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics and
Social Environment, Indian Management Thoughts, Freedom of Conscience, Work Life Balance.
References:
1. Frances Cherunilam, Business Environment, Himalaya Publishing House.
2. K. Aswathapa, Business Environment, Tata Mcgraw Hill.
3. Manuel G. Velasquez, Business Ethics, Pearson Education.
4. Biswanath Ghosh, Ethics in Management and Indian Ethos, Vikas Publication.
5. Sheikh Saleem, Business Environment, Pearson Education.

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MBA-114 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

(3.5 Credits, 3-1-0)
Introduction to research in business, Research Process, Research Proposal, Research Design:
Classifications of Research Designs, Exploratory Research Design, Descriptive Research Design,
Causal Research Design.
Types of Data, observation studies, surveys, measurement, measurement scales, designing
questionnaires and schedules.
Sampling and Non-sampling Errors, hypothesis testing including one sample tests and twoIndependent sample tests, report writing .
Techniques of multivariate analysis, Analysis of Variance, Discriminate Analysis (direct method
only), Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Conjoint Analysis.
References:
1. Cooper, D.R. and Schindler, P.S., Business Research Methods, Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Co.
2. Malhotra, N. and Dash, S., Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation, Pearson
Education.
3. Sekaran, U., Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach, John Wiley and
Sons., Inc.
4. Rao, S., Handbook for Writers and Editors, Ahmadabad Academic Book Centre.

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MBA 116 BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARE

(2.0 Credits, 0-0-4)
BUSINESS APPLICATION SOFTWARES:
MS Office Components Accounting Packages Tally, Ex, SAPM, Metastock
etc., Marketing packages TSP etc., Production Management Packages
ORSTAT and an introduction to latest packages.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT PACKAGES:
Dbase, FoxPro, FoxBASE, Visual Fox Pro, Visual Fox base, Ingress, Sybase, Oracle,
Power builder, Developer 2000, Designer 2000.
In-house Development of a package.
References:
1. Namrata Agarwal, Financial Accounting using Tally 6.3, Dreamtech Press, New
Delhi, 2002.
2. Alexis leon, Introduction to computers with MS Office 2000, Tata- McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi, 2001.
3. Complete Reference of MS Office, Microsoft.
4. Ivan Bayross, PL/SQL, BPB Publication.

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