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M.B.S COLLEGE OF

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

COURSE SCHEME

FOR M.B.A.

1ST Semester

BABLIANA, P.O. MIRAN SAHIB, JAMMU 181101(J&K) INDIA

Phone: 0191 2262896,2262897 Fax: 0191 - 2262896


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UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU

COURSE SCHEME

Ist SEMESTER

MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMME

IN

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

COURSE NO. TITLE INT. EXT. TOTAL

MBA-101 Management Perspectives 30 70 100

MBA-102 Managerial Economics 30 70 100

MBA-103 Legal Aspects of Business 30 70 100

MBA-104 Organizational Behaviour 30 70 100

MBA-105 Accounting for Managers 30 70 100

MBA-106 Computer Applications in Management 30 70 100

MBA-107 Quantitative Methods 30 70 100

MBA-108 Seminar on Executive Communication 50 -- 50


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DETAILED SYLLABUS

MBA-FIRST SEMESTER

Title:- MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES

Course No.: MBA 101 Max. Marks: 100

Contact Hours: Min. 45 a) Semester Examination: 70

Duration of Exam: 3Hrs b) Internal Assessment: 30

OBJECTIVES:-

To familiarize the participants with the basic concepts processes and current issuesin management and thus to enhance their understanding of how organizations function and the complex

relationship existing within the organization and process of management.

SYLLABUS

UNIT- I: The management process and the nature of managerial work; the evolution of

management; Current and emerging management thought; Approaches to Management;The managers complex environment; Professionalization of Management in India.

UNIT- II: The nature and process of decision making; Decision making models; Groups and decisionmaking; Analytical aids in decision making; Nature, purpose and framework of planning;

Types of Plans; The nature of objectives and MBO; Strategies; Policies and Planning

Premises.

UNIT- III: Nature and purpose of organizing; Determinants of organization structure; Basic

Departmentation; Line and staff concept; New approaches in organization design;Downsizing and its implications; Span of management; Authority relationships;

Delegation and decentralization; creativity and innovation.

UNIT-IV: Direction as a management process; its significance and main elements; Co-ordination its importance and techniques. Nature, scope and concept of management control systems;

Control techniques; Information resource management; Behavioral implications of

management control.

UNIT-V: Knowledge management; Total quality management; Business process Re-engineering,

New people management; Management of productivity; Organizing new ventures;Comparative management in selected countries, International management and MNCs;

Corporate Governance; Theory of constraints, issues.

NOTE FOR PAPER SETTING:

The question paper will contain two questions from each unit (whole ten questions) and the

candidates will be required to answer one question from each unit (whole questions to be attempted willbe five) i.e there will be internal choice within each unit.


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Title: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

Course No. MBA 102 Max. Marks: 100


Duration of Exam: 3 hrs b) Internal Assessment: 30

Syllabus for the examinations to be held in Dec 2002, Dec 2003 and Dec 2004.

OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this Foundation course is to impact basic knowledge of the concepts and tools of

economics analysis of their application to business decisions to acquaint the participation with the main

features of aggregate economic system.

SYLLABUS

UNIT - 1: Nature and scope of Managerial economics; Demand Analysis - distinction anddeterminants, Elasticity and forecasting of demand, Income and Substitution Effect.

UNIT - II: Production and Cost Analysis - cost concepts, short and long-term, cost of multiple

products, Economies of scale.Production function; adding and dropping of products.

UNIT - III: Pricing-Determination of prices under conditions of perfect, imperfect, monopolisticcompetition and monopoly, pricing discrimination, joint product pricing; pricing methods

in practice in Indian Industry.

UNIT - IV: Profit Maximization-policies, planning and control, special reference to break-even

analysis.

UNIT - V: Macroeconomics and Business; Business cycles and business policies; Economic

Indicators; input-output analysis; National Income and social accounting; Consumptionfunction.Monetary and fiscal policy.

A minimum of two cases or articles or reports or projects or a combination of these, in the

concerned subject.


The question paper will contain two questions from each unit (total ten questions) and the

candidates will be required to answer on question from each unit (total questions to be attempted will be

five) i.e there will be internal choice within each unit.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. W.J. Banmol : Economic Theory and Operation Analysis.

2. Mote, Paul & Gupta : Managerial Economics.

3. D.C. Hague : Managerial Economics.

4. Handerson and Quandt : Microeconomics Theory.5. Cohen KJ Cyert R.M. : Theory of Firm.

6. Demberg & McDongall : Macro-Economic.

7. Aekley : Macro-Economic Theory.

8. Bailey : National Income and Price level.

9. Dean Joel : Managerial Economics.


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Title : LEGAL ASPECTS OF BUSINESS

Course No: MBA-103 Max. Marks: 100



Syllabus for the examination to be held in Dec.2002, Dec. 2003 and Dec. 2004.

OBECTIVES:

To develop an awareness of the legal framework within which business operates in India and to

give to the participants the basic understanding (not the detailed knowledge of the provisions of law) ofsome of the important legal aspects of business.

SYLLABUS

UNIT - 1: The legal framework of business activity in India; The concept of company; kinds of

companies; Doctrine of lifting the corporate veil and the stages in the formation of

company.

UNIT - II: The Memorandum and Articles of Association and their alteration; Doctrine of Ultra-vires;

Doctrine of Indoor management; Doctrine of constructive notices; prospectus thescanning; contents and liabilities for false statement.

UNIT - III: Nature and Kinds of shares and debentures and procedure for their allotment, transfer,

transmissions, calls and forfeiture- Appointment, statue, powers, duties, liabilities andremuneration of directors; Nature and purposes of meetings of shareholders and the

procedure for holding annual general meeting.

UNIT IV: Formation of contract; kinds of contracts on the basis of enforceability, essentials of valid

consideration and exceptions; Nature of contract of indemnity and guarantee, creation and

termination of agency; Essentials of a contract of sale; Differences between sale andagreement to sell; conditions and warranties; Doctrine of Caveat emptor.

UNIT - V: Essentials of partnership; Kinds of partners; position of a minor partner; Effect of non-

registration of a firm and rules governing mutual relations between partners; kinds ofnegotiable Instruments; Essentials of Bills of exchange; Promising note & cheques,

Endorsement and crossing of cheques, Consumer Protection Act and Cyber Laws.

A minimum of two cases or articles or reports or projects or a combination of these, in the

concerned subject.



candidates will be required to answer one question from each unit (total questions to be attempted, will be

five) i.e. there will be internal choice within each unit.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Avtar Singh : Indian Company Law.

2. Shukla,M.C.& : Company Law.

3. Gulshan, S.S.

4. Kulshreshtha : Business Law.

5. Kapoor, N.D. : Company Law.

6. Shukle, M.C. : Mercentile Law.


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Title: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR




Syllabus for the examination to be held in Dec. 2002, Dec. 2003 and Dec. 2004.

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the course the participants should be able to :

- develop an understanding of the dynamics of individual behaviour at individual, interpersonal,group and organizational levels.

- acquire and sharpen such behavioural skills and attitudes as are desirable for improving personal

and managerial effectiveness.- diagnose and make appropriate interventions in directing employees behaviour towards achieving

organizational purposes.

SYLLABUS

UNIT 1: Conceptual framework for understanding human behaviour in organizations and the major

variables influencing it; Historical development of organizational Behaviour,Contemporary challenges and opportunities in Organization Behaviour, International

dimensions of Organizational behaviour, managing across cultures.

UNIT II: Understanding and managing individual behaviour individual differences and workbehaviour; Personality, Perception, Attitudes and Learning; Self growth and interpersonnel

effectiveness; The Johari Window Model, Transactional analysis; Ego states, Life

positions, Transactions.

UNIT III: Group process and behaviour, Individual and the group, Teams: nature and effectiveness;Team building; Group conflict and resolution strategies.

UNIT IV: The Organization in relation to its environment; Powers and Politics; meaning, bases of

power, power tactics, political strategies for attaining power in organizations,Organization culture; creating and maintaining a culture, work stress: causes and coping

strategies.

UNIT V: Work motivation; leadership Approaches and styles, leader effectiveness; Organization

change, effectiveness and development.

Reading

Robbins, Stephen P, ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR prentice Hall of India.

Luthans, Fred, ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, Tata me Graw Hill, New Delhi.

Kast and Rosenzweing, ORGANISATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT A SYSTEM AND CONTINGENCY APPROACH.

Hearsey and Blanchar, MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR: UTILISING HUMAN RESOURCES,

Prentice Hall of India : New Delhi.

Ivancevich and Matteson, ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT, Business Publication

Newstrom and Keita Davis, ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR-HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AT WORK, Tata Me Graw Hill :

New Delhi.Edgar Schein, ORGANISATION PSYCHOLOGY.

Tyagi, Archana, ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR, Excel Books Indian.

Aswathappa K, ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR ,TEXT, CASES, GAMES, Himalaya Publishing Herse: Mumbai.


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TITLE: ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS

Course No:- 105 Max. Marks : 100

Contact Hours: Min 45 a) Semester Exam:70

Duration of Exam: 3 hrs b) Internal Assessment:30

Objectives:-

The basic objective of this course is to develop an insight into postulates and technique ofaccounting and utilization of financial and accounting information for planning, decision making andcontrol.

Course Contents:

UNIT - 1: Financial Accounting Concept, importance and scope, generally accepted accounting

conventions, concepts and principles; Management Accounting Concept, need,importance and scope.

Preparation of Journal, ledger and Trial balance.

UNIT - II: Asset Valuation and Depreciation Concept and Methods, Methods of presentation offinancial statements (Trading, P&L, A/C & B/S) and adjustments therein with rational

behind adjustments .

Preparation of Final Accounts with requisite adjustments.

UNIT - III: Nature, attributes and usefulness of financial statements, Fund flow and Cash flow

concept, distinction, utility and methods of preparations; Ratio Analysis concept,importance and limitations.

Determining different types of ratios ( Liquidity, leverage, activity and profitability ) and

Du- pout Analysis.

UNIT - IV: Cost Accounting concept, scope and importance; Important cost concepts andclassification, concept of Budget and Budgetary Control, Performance Budgeting or Zero

Based Budgeting.Preparation of cost sheets to understand various elements of cost and distribution of over

heads.

UNIT - V: Concept of standard costing and introduction to variance analysis. Concept of Marginal

Costing, Distinction between marginal costing and absorption costing.

Using marginal costing and CVP Analysis in business decisions making.

Suggested Readings:-

1. Management Accounting - Hingorani NL & Ramauathan A.R.2. Principles of financial and Management Accounting - Horangreen Charles.3. Accounting for Management,Test and Cases - Bhattacharya S.K. & Dearden J.

4. Theory and Problems of Management and Cost Accounting - Khan M.Y. & Jain P.K.

5. Management Accounting - Khan M.Y. & Jain P.K.6. Cost Analysis and control - Ghosh P.K. and Gupta G.S.

7. Cost Accounting - Prasad N.K.


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Title:- COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN MANAGEMENT




OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this course includes developing an appreciation of different hardware andsoftware aspects among the participants and build up the experience of computer usage in business

organizations with specific reference to data processing systems.

SYLLABUS

UNIT -1: Computers An introduction- computers in business; elements of computer system set up,

Indian computing environment; Generations of computer and computer languages;components of computer system; Personnel computers in business; Operating Systems-

Introduction to DOS & Windows, Emerging trends in IT.

UNIT II: PC- Software packages An introduction to spreadsheet software, creation of spread sheet

Applications, range, formulae, functions, Graphics on spreadsheet, Database functions,

MSACCESS, text processing software, Creation of presentation on PC using Powerpoint

Computer Viruses- detection and prevention.

UNIT III: Application Portfolio development, Program development cycle, Database management

systems and Integration of applications, Data communications, Networking- LANs andWANs. Management of Data Processing Systems in Organisations.

UNIT IV: Object Orientation- class, objects, concept of inheritance and encapsulation, operatoroverloading, Dynamic binding, Basic program construction using C++ - main and

functions, program statements, class declaration, comments, variables and constants; Datatypes; arrays and strings, user defined data types, Operators- Arithmetic, relational, local,manipulators, type conversion and type cast operators, input/output functions.

Control statements if, if-else, else-if, switch, loops, for, while-do, break, continue, go to.

UNIT V: Concept of functions, Classes and objects in C++ - definition, declaration of member,objects as data types constructors, destructors, objects as function arguments, Array of

objects, returning objects from function, structures and classes, concept of operator

overloading; concept of derived class and inheritance; elementary programme exercises.

NOTE FOR PAPER SETTING:-


candidates will be required to answer on question from each unit (total questions to be attempted in five)

i.e. there will be internal choice with each unit.

List of cases and references including articles will be announced in the class

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Object Oriented Programming in Turbo C++ Robert Lafore

2. Object Oriented Programming in C++ Balaguruswamy

3. Information Systems: Theory and Practice Burch Johnand Grundnitski

4. Automating Managers: The implication of John, Moss Jones


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TITLE: QUANTITATIVE METHODS




OBJECTIVES:

The objective of this course is to make the students familiar with some basic statistical techniques.The main focus however is in their applications in business decision making.

SYLLABUS

UNIT -1: Measure of central tendency- Mean, Median, Quartiles, Deciles, Percentiles, Mode,Combined Mean, Geometrical Mean.

Measure of Dispersion- Meaning and Significance, Range, Coefficient of Range, Quartile

deviation and Coefficient of Q.D, Mean Deviation and its Coefficient, Standard Deviation,Coefficient of Variation and its significance.

Skew ness Karl Pearsons Coefficient of Skew ness, Bow leys Coefficient of Skew

ness. Moments about mean and moments about origin- Kurtosis.

UNIT -II: Correlation and Regression Analysis: Correlation - meaning and significance - Karl

Pearsons Coefficient of Correlation, Probable error, Coefficient of determination, Rank

Correlation, Concurrent deviation method.

Regression- meaning and significance, Difference between Regression and Correlation,

Regression equation of Y on X and X on Y, Regression coefficients.

UNIT -III: Index numbers: meaning and significance, Laspeyres method, Paasches method,

Fishers index, Time reversal test, Factor reversal test, Base shifting, Chain base index,

Fixed based index, Splicing, Splicing with old base and splicing with new base, ConsumerPrice index - Family budget method and Aggregate expenditure methods.

UNIT -IV: Time Series Analysis meaning and importance, Components of time series-meaning of

trend, Least Square Method. (When time period is odd & even) Moving average method.Measurement of seasonal variation.

Method of simple averages.

Ratio of trend method.Ratio of moving average method.

Measurement of cyclical variation by Residual method. Use of time series analysis in

forecasting.

UNIT -V: Probability meaning, Additive and Multiplicative law (two events only), Probability

distribution, Binominal distribution Its Probability distribution functions. Poisson

distribution and its Probability distribution function. Normal distribution.


Total five Questions are to be set, with internal choice, selecting two Questions

from each unit with internal choice.

Suggested Reading:Gupta, S.P. Statistical Methods, Sultan Chand & Sons.

Gupta, S.P. & Gupta, M.P. Business Statistics, New Delhi, Sultan Chand

Gupta, S.C. Fundamentals of Statistics, Himalayan Publishers.Evin Richard L & Rubin David S Statistics for Management, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc.

Terry, Sineich Business Static, by Example, London, Collier Mac Millan, Pub.

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