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Paper - I
Section - I > Managerial Function
- Concept and Foundations of Management
- Planning
- Organizing
- Controlling
- Decision Making
- Role of Manager
- Managerial Skills
- Entrepreneurship
- Management of Innovation
- Managing in a Global Environment
- Evolution of Management Thoughts
- Flexible Systems Management
- Process and customer orientation
- Social responsibility and managerial ethics
Section - II > Organisational Behaviour and Design
- Work Stress and Stress Management
- Networked and virtual organizations
- Conceptual model of organization behaviour
- Organizational theory and design - organizational culture
- Organizational theory and design: Learning organization
- Learning and reinforcement
- Organizational Processes - decision making
- Leadership Process and Styles
- The Individual Process Personality
- The individual processes - Perception
- The individual processes Motivation
- The dynamics of organization behaviour: Job design
- The dynamics of organization behavior: Communication
- Organisational Behaviour and Design: conflict and negotiation
- Organizational theory and design: Managing cultural diversity
- Organizational theory and design: organizational change and development
- The individual processes: Values and attitude
- Classical, Neoclassical and Contingency approaches to organizational design
- The individual processes: Power and politics
Section - III > Human Resource Management
- The future challenges of HRM
- Job Analysis
- Human Resource Planning
- Job Evaluation
- Recruitment and Selection
- Training
- Promotion and Transfer
- HR Challenges
- Performance Management
- Employee Morale and Productivity
- Compensation Management and Benefits
- Human Resources Accounting and Audit
- International Human Resource Management
- Human resource information system
- Management of organizational climate and Industrial relations
- HRM Function
Section - IV > Accounting for Managers
- Zero-Base Budgeting
- Performance budgeting
- Fund flow analysis
- Management accounting: concept, need, importance and scope
- The statement of cash flows
- Job and process costing
- Standard costing and variance analysis
- Financial statement analysis
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Relevant costing and costing for decision-making
- Reconciliation and Integration between financial and cost accounts
- Overhead cost and control
- Cost accounting - cost ledger and control accounts
- Inventory valuation and depreciation
- Preparing the Financial Statements
- Budget and budgetary control
- Marginal costing and absorption costing
- Cost Accounting
- Financial Accounting
Section - V > Financial Management
- Capital budgeting
- Financial and operating leverage
- Management of cash, receivables, inventory and current liabilities
- Cost of capital
- Working Capital Management
- Recent reforms in financial sector
- Shareholder value creation
- Design of capital structure: theories and practices
- Regulation of capital market
- Capital and money markets
- Dividend policy
- Financial derivatives: option, futures, swap
- Leasing, hire purchase and venture capital
- Management of corporate distress and restructuring strategy
- Valuation of bonds and shares
- Corporate Financial policies and Strategy
Section - VI > Marketing Management
- Product Strategy
- Ethics in Marketing
- Integrated Marketing Communications
- Retail Management
- Concept of Holistic Marketing
- Internet marketing
- Positioning and Differentiating the Market offering
- Pricing strategies
- Segmenting and Targeting the Market
- Concept, evolution and scope of Marketing Management
- Market Research
- Marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing plan
- Building customer satisfaction
- Designing and managing Marketing channels
- Services and non-profit marketing
- Industrial buyer behaviour
- Analysing consumer markets
- Value and retention
- Analysing Your Competition
Paper - II
Section - I > Quantitative Techniques in Decision Making
- Descriptive statistics- tabular, graphical and numerical methods
- Inferential statistics
- Chi-square and ANOVA
- Introduction to probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions
- Index numbers
- Simple correlation and regression
- Central limit theorem
- Sampling distributions
- Decision theory
- Linear programming – problem formulation, simplex method and graphical solution, sensitivity analysis
- Time series and forecasting
- Hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions
Section - II > Production and Operations Management
- Fundamentals of Operations Management
- Materials Management
- Capacity Planning
- Aggregate Production Planning
- Statistical Process Control
- Inventory control
- World class manufacturing
- E-Governance
- Line Balancing
- Value analysis
- Six Sigma
- Quality management
- Management of facilities
- R&D management
- Process planning
- Material Requirement Planning
- Production control
- Make or buy decision
- Waste Management
- Project management concepts
- Supply chain management
- Flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems
- Management of service operations
- Equipment replacement and maintenance
- Vendor evaluation and audit
Section - III > Management Information System
- E-business Architecture
- Information systems planning
- Information resource management
- DSS and RDBMS
- Types of information system
- Evaluation of information systems
- Expert systems
- Conceptual Foundations of Information Systems
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Information theory
- Systems development - Overview of systems and design, System development management life-cycle
- User involvement
- Trends in Information Technology
- Flexibility in information systems
- Designing for online and distributed environments
Section - IV > Government Business Interface
- Consumer Protection
- Cyber Laws
- Public Distribution System
- Government Policies for Development and Promotion of Small-Scale Industries in India
- New Industrial Policy of the Government: liberalization, deregulation and privatisation
- Government control over price and distribution
- Corporate governance
Section - V > Strategic Management
- Process of strategic planning and implementation
- SWOT Analysis
- Strategic Management: Business policy as a field of study
- Nature and scope of strategic management
- Concept of value chain
- BCG matrix
- Tools and techniques for strategic analysis: The experience curve
- Tools and techniques for strategic analysis: GEC mode
- Tools and techniques for strategic analysis: Impact matrix
- Concept of core competence
- Growth strategies – expansion, integration and diversification
- Generic competitive strategies
- Strategic flexibility
- Management of strategic change
- Environmental analysis and internal analysis
- Industry analysis
- Strategic profile of a firm
- Competitive advantage of a firm
- Strategic Alliance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Turnaround management
Section - VI > International Business
- International Business Environment
- India's Foreign Trade: Policy and Trends
- International Taxation
- Export Management
- Internationalization of Service Firms
- Global e-Business
- Global business strategy
- Global marketing strategies
- Regional Economic Cooperation
- Multicultural management
- Joint Ventures
- External Debt Management
- Foreign Investment: Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment
- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
- Country Risk Analysis
- Financing of International trade
- Foreign Exchange Risk Exposure Management
- FTAs
- Export- Import procedures
- World Financial Markets and International Banking
- International production
- Operation Management in International companies
- Global competitiveness and technological developments
- Design of Organization Structure and Control
