Sambalpur
University MBA Syllabus
MBA SEMESTER
– IV
DEM: 432: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Objectives
To create appreciation among the students for the
different facets of corporate governance.
Course contents
Unit – I: Corporate governance and performance, an overview
of corporate governance, corporate governance system in India, internal control
mechanisms ownership concentration, outside control mechanism, alternative
governance systems.
Unit – II: Takeovers and mergers
in practice, the pace of merger activity, legal and regulatory framework,
regulation of takeover activity, antitrust policies, regulatory bodies,
regulation by publicity.
Unit – III: Mergers and acquisitions
in theory and practice strategic process, theories of mergers and tender
offers, empirical tests of mergers and acquisitions performance.
Unit – IV: Valuation and
restructuring, alternative approaches to valuation, restructuring
organizations, choice of restructuring methods, financial restructuring..
Unit – V: Strategies for creating value, share repurchase,
takeover defenses, use of and major types of share repurchase, strategic
perspectives financial defensive measures, methods of resistance.
Suggested Readings
1. Weston, J. Fred, Siu, Juan A, Johnson, Brian A.
(2002), Takeovers Restructuring and Corporate Governance, Pearson Education,
Asia, Delhi.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 433: ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Objectives:
The objective of this course is to expose the
students to the growth of entrepreneurship in developing countries with special
reference to India.
Course contents:
Unit – I: Entrepreneurial traits, types and significance;
definitions, characteristics of entrepreneurial types, qualities and functions
of entrepreneurs, role and importance of entrepreneur in economic growth.
Unit – II: Competing theories of
entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial development programme in India: history,
support, objectives, stages of performances; planning and EDP – objectives,
target group, selection of center, pre-training work.
Unit – III: Govt. policy towards
SSI’s; entrepreneurial input; entrepreneurial behaviours and entrepreneurial
motivation, N-Achievement and management success.
Unit – IV: Entrepreneurial success
in rural area, innovation and entrepreneur; establishing entrepreneurs system,
search for business idea, sources of ideas, idea processing, input
requirements: sources and criteria of financing, fixed and working capital
assessment; technical assistance, marketing assistance.
Unit – V: Sickness of units and remedial assistance;
preparation of feasibility reports and legal formalities and documentation.
Suggested readings:
1. Cliffton, Davis S and Fyfie, David E. “Project Feasibility Analysis”,
1977, John Wiley, New York.
- Desai, AN. “Entrepreneur and Environment”, 1990, Ashish, New Delhi.
- Drucker, Peter, “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, 1985, Heinemann, London.
- Jain Rajiv, “Planning a Small Scale Industry: A Guide to Entrepreneurs”, 1984, S.S. Books, Delhi.
- Kumar, S.A. “entrepreneurship in Small Industry”, 1990, Discovery, New Delhi.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 434: ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Unit-I Introduction
ERP
Overview
Benefit
of ERP
Related
Technology
BPR
OLAP
Unit-II ERP
Implementation
ERP
implementation life cycle
Methodology
Implementation
– Hidden cost
Organizing
the implement
Project
Management & Monitoring
Maintenance
Contracts
with vendor, consultants and Employee
Unit-III The
Business Modules
Business
Modules in and ERP Package
Finance
Production
HR
Plant
Maintenance
Material
Management
Quality
Management
Sales
and Distribution
Unit-IV The
ERP Market
ERP
Market Plan
SAP
AG
People
Soft
Baan
Company
JD
Edwards World
Oracle
Corporation
QAD
System
Software Association (SSA)
Unit-V ERP
Present and Future
Turbo
Charge
EIA
ERP
and E-Commerce
Future
Direction in ERP
Unit-VI Case
Studies ERP
DEM: 435 DISSERTATION AND VIVA VOCE
At the end of Third semester, all
students have to undergo 200 marks of Dissertation and Viva Voce with in 08-10
weeks with an Industrial, Business, or Service Organization by taking up a
project study.
A candidate has to select a supervisor
who shall be an officer in the rank of manager and above of Public and Private
Sector Organization or a Teacher with PG Teaching Experience in Management/Economics/Commerce/Engineering/Sociology/Psychology
and Law.
The student has to submit the title of
the Project Report and the name and designation of the Supervisor along with
His/Her consent for approval of DDCE.
Each student will be required to submit
a project report to the DDCE/Faculty for the work under taken during this
period within three weeks of the commencement of the third semester for the
purpose of evaluation in the third semester.
DEM: 436(FINANCE): INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Objectives
To acquaint the students with the concept of
international finance and financing system.
Course Contents
Unit – I: International finance – concepts and importance,
international flow of fund – balance of payments (BOP), accounting principles
in BOP, components of BOP, deficit and surplus in BOP, the international
monetary system, exchange rate regimes, the international monetary fund, the
European monetary system, economic and monetary union.
Unit – II: Foreign exchange
exposure and risk, transaction exposure, translation exposure and operating exposure,
exchange rates, interest rates, inflation rates and exposure, hedging of
transaction and operating exposure, managing translation exposure.
Unit – III: Markets for foreign
exchange and derivatives, spot market and forward market of foreign exchange,
currency futures and currency forward contracts, hedging in currency futures
markets, currency options and hedging with it.
Unit – IV: Exchange rate
determination and forecasting, purchasing power parity and real exchange rates,
interest rate parity and exchange rates, theories of exchange rate
determination.
Suggested Readings
- Abdullah, F.A. Financial Management for the Multinational Firm, Englewood Cliffs, new Jersey, Prentice hall Inc., 1987.
- Bhalla, V.K. International Financial Management, 2nd ed., New Delhi, Anmol, 2001.
- Buckley, Adrian, Multinational Finance, New York, Prentice Hall Inc., 1996.
- Kim, Suk and Kim, Seung. Global Corporate Finance: Text and cases, 2nd ed. Miami Florida, Kolb, 1993.
- Shapiro, Alan C. Multinational Financial Management, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 437(FINANCE): INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
Objectives
The objective of this course is to acquaint the
students with the accounting needs of international financial markets and to
analyze the accounting measurement and reporting issues unique to multinational
business transactions.
Course Contents
Unit – I: International dimensions of accounting – conceptual
development and comparative development patterns.
Unit – II: Currency transactions;
managing international information systems.
Unit – III: International
perspective on inflation accounting; financial reporting and disclosure.
Unit – IV: Analyzing foreign
financial statement; financial management of multinational entities.
Unit – V: Transfer pricing and international accounting –
international standards and multinational corporations.
Suggested Readings
- Arpon, Jeffrey S and Radebaugh, Lee H. International Accounting and Multinational Enterprises, New York, John Wiley, 1985.
- Choi, Frederick DS and Mueller Gerhard G. International Accounting, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1984.
- Evans, Thomas G. International Accounting & Reporting, London, MacMillian, 1985.
- Gray, SJ. International Accounting and Transnational Decisions, London, Butterworth, 1983.
- Holzer, H Peter, International Accounting, New York, Harper & Row, 1984.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 436(MARKETING): INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Objectives
The basic objective of this course is to acquaint the
students with environmental, procedural, institutional and decisional aspects
of international marketing.
Course contents
Unit – I: Introduction to international marketing,
international marketing and its growing importance, MNC’s entry strategies.
Unit – II: Environmental factors,
economic, social and cultural, political, legal and regulatory environment.
Unit – III: Identification of
markets, global customer, global marketing information and international market
research, global segmentation, targeting and positioning.
Unit – IV: Production decision,
pricing decision, international channel of distribution, international
advertising, international promotion: public relation, personal selling, sales
promotion, direct marketing, trade share, global E-marketing.
Suggested Readings
- Bhattacharya, B. Export Marketing: Strategies for Success, New Delhi, Global Business Press, 1991.
- Johri, Lalit M. International Marketing: Strategies for Success, University of Delhi, Faculty of Management Studies, 1980.
- Keegan, Warren, Global Marketing Management, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1995.
- Onkvisit, Sak and Shaw, JJ, International Marketing: Analysis and Strategy, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
- Pripalomi, V.H.: International Marketing, Prentice Hall.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 437(MARKETING): STRATEGIC MARKETING
Objectives
The basic objective of this course is to develop
skills for analyzing market competition and design appropriate competitive
marketing strategies for higher market share.
Course Contents
Unit – I: Market situation analysis; analysis of competitor’s
strategies and estimating their reaction pattern and competitive position.
Unit – II: Market leader
strategies – expanding the total market, protecting market share, expanding
market share; market challenger strategies – choosing and attack strategy
market follower strategies; market Nicher strategies.
Unit – III: Competitive market
customer and competitor orientations, industry segmentation and competitive
advantage.
Unit – IV: Product differentiation
and brand positioning, competitive pricing.
Unit – V: Competitive advertising, role of sales promotion in
competitive marketing.
Suggested Readings
- Cravens, D.W. Strategic Marketing, Homewood Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, 1987.
- Kaynak, E and Savitt, R. Comparative Marketing Systems, New York, Praegar, 1984.
- Kotler, Philip. Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, 1997.
- Porter, M.E. Competitive Advantage: Creating, Sustaining Superior Performance, New York, Free Press, 1985.
- Porter, M.E. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries Competitors, New York, Free Press, 1980.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 436(HRM): LEGAL FRAMEWORK GOVERNING HUMAN
RELATIONS
Objectives
Understanding of the legal framework is important
for the efficient decision making relation to man management and industrial
relations. The course aims to provide an
understanding, application and interpretation of the various labour laws and
their implications for industrial relations and labour issues.
Course Contents
Unit – I: Emergence and objectives of labour laws and their
socio-economic environment; industrial relations laws – laws relating to
industrial disputes, trade unions, and standing orders.
Unit – II: Laws relating to
discharge, misconduct, domestic enquiry, disciplinary action.
Unit – III: Social security laws –
laws relating to workmen’s compensation, employees’ state insurance, provident
fund, gratuity and maternity relief.
Unit – IV: Wages and bonus laws –
the law of minimum wages, payment of wages, payment of bonus.
Unit – V: Law relating to working conditions – the laws
relating to factories, establishment, and contract labour; interpretations of
labour laws, their working, and implications for management, union, workmen;
the economy and the industry.
Suggested Readings
- Ghaiye, BR. Law and Procedure of Departmental Enquiry in Private and Public Sector, Lucknow, Eastern Law Company, 1994.
- Malhotra, O.P. The law of Industrial Disputes, Vol. I and II, Bombay, N.M. Tripathi, 1985.
- Malik, PL. Handbook of Industrial Law, Lucknow, Eastern Book, 1995.
- Saini, Debi S. Labour judiciary, Adjudication and Industrial Justice, New Delhi, Oxford, 1995.
- Saini, Debi S. Redressal of Labour Grievances, Claims and Disputes, New Delhi, Oxford & IBH, 1994.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 437(HRM): HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Course contents:
Unit – I: Macro level scenario of human resource
planning, concepts and process of human resource planning, methods and
techniques – demand forecasting, methods and techniques – supply forecasting.
Unit – II: Job evaluation: concepts, scope and
limitations, job analysis and job descriptions, job evaluation methods
Unit – III: Selection and recruitment, induction
and placement, performance and potential appraisal, transfer, promotion and
Reward policies, training and retraining.
Unit – IV: Human resource information system, human
resource audit, human resource accounting.
DEM: 436(PRODUCTION): SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Course contents:
Unit – I: Introduction to SCM, Supply Chain Component,
Bullwhip effect, Relationship in SCM, Performance Management.
Unit – II: Logistics Management – Introduction, 3rd
Party Logistics, 4th Party Logistics, IT in Logistics, Components,
Functions.
Unit – III: Elements of SCM: ITin CM, Customer
Service, Warehousing, Vendor Management.
Unit – IV: Purchasing and Sourcing Management:
Inventory, Transportation, Packaging, Order Processing, Material Handling,
Cross Docking
Unit – V: Case discussion on ITeSCM, Logistics
Management, Inventory Management, e-procurement.
Suggested readings:
1. Textbook of Logistics and SCM, DK Agrawal, McMillion.
- Supply Chain Management, by Peter Chopra and Mendil.
- Supply Chain Management by SG Deskok, R P Mohanty.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 437(PRODUCTION): GOAL PROGRAMMING IN
MANAGEMENT
Objectives
The objective of this course is to acquaint the
students with the concepts, solution methods and applications of goal
programming to real-world problems.
Course Contents
Unit – I: Goal programming – basic concept model formulation,
graphical and simplex method.
Unit – II: Integer goal
programming, Post-optimal sensitivity analysis.
Unit – III: Parametric goal
programming; goal programming under uncertainty.
Unit – IV: Application of goal
programming in functional areas of management; implementation of goal
programming.
Unit – V: Introduction to some application software such as –
QSB, micro manager and LIGO.
Suggested Readings
- Cook, Thomas M and Russell, Robert A. Introduction to Management Science, 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1985.
- Eppen, GD. Etc. Quantitative Concepts for Management, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 1994
- Ignizio, JP. Goal Programming and Extensions, Lexington, Lexington Books, 1976.
- Ijier Y. Management Goals and Accounting for Control, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1965.
- Lee SM. Goal Programming for Decision Analysis, Philadelphia, Auerbach, 1971.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 436(IT): E-Business
Objectives
The objective of the course is to acquaint the
students with the use of E-Commerce in competing markets.
Course Contents
Unit-I: Introduction: internet enable business,
E-commerce, B 2 C, B 2 B, C 2 C, e-Business.
Unit-II: E-business: structural transformation, business
design, challenges, community.
Unit-III: E-business trend, speed of service, empowerment of
custom, integrated solution, easy of WE, outsourcing, process visibility,
employee return.
Unit-IV: E-business designing of construction: E-business
design, constructing an e-business design, case study, challenges of e-business
strategy, road map to move
Unit-V: E-business sub-system: E-CRM, E-SCM, ERP,
E-procurement, knowledge, MIS, DSS.
Suggested Readings
- Cady, G.H. and Part McGregar, “The Internet”, BPB Pub., Delhi, 1999.
- Carpenter, Phil e Brands, HBS Press, Boston, 2000.
- Keen, Peter and Mark McDonald the e-Process Edge, Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill, 2000.
- Mann, Catherine, L. Global Electronic Commerce, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 2000.
- Oberoi, Sundeep e-Security and You, Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
DEM: 437(IT): BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING
Objectives
This course has been designed to develop an
appreciation of process view of business and redesign thereof. The participants would be able to develop an
understanding of the use of information technology for process redesign.
Course Contents
Unit – I: Reengineering: introduction, process, implication,
need for BPR, restructuring Vs reengineering, bench marking.
Unit – II: Implementing change:
implementation, research on implementation, implementation strategy, implementing
IT-based transformation.
Unit – III: Supporting knowledge
worker, range of user activities, policy issues for management, benefit.
Unit – IV: Case studies related to
BPR and restructuring, BPR in Indian industries.
Unit – V: Role of IT in BPR
Suggested Readings
- Carr, DK and Johansson, HJ. Best Practices in Re-engineering, New York, McGraw Hill, 1995.
- Champy, James, Re-engineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership, London, Harper Collins, 1995.
- Coulson-Thomas, C. Business Process Re-engineering: Myth & Reality, London, Kogan Page, 1994.
- Davenport, T.H. Process Innovation: Re-engineering Work through Information Technology, Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- Hammer, Michael, Re-engineering the Corporation: a Manifesto for Business Revolution, London, Nicholas, Brealey, 1993.
The list of cases and specific references including
recent articles will be announced in the class at the time of launching of the
course.
