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Syllabus For MBA Course

First Year course:

MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN BUSINESS
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
LEGAL SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION
APPLIED OPERATIONS RESEARCH
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Second Year :

PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
COMPUTER LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND EDP
INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
ELECTIVE SUBJECTS
PROJECT WORK

Specialization or electives:
MARKETING
SYSTEMS
FINANCE
HUMAN RESOURCE

MBA syllabus Madras University
FIRST YEAR
PAPER 1 - MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
Management defined – Basic Principles and process of Management. The evolution of
Management. The evolution of Management Science.
Planning : Planning as the first step in the process of Management cycle – Basic techniques
of Planning – Basic factors involved in planning – Key planning points – Psychological
hazards to rational planning – Strategic consideration in planning.
Policy Making: Policy making as a guide to action in the organization – General policies and
specific policies in an organization – Basic areas of policy making.
Need for organization – Organizational hierarchy in large concerns – Top Management
organization – Staff units and Committee – Factors to be considered in the establishment of
an organization.
Basic division of Functional activities – Methods of grouping activities – Typical patterns
used – Use of organizational charts and manuals.
Authority, relationship – Line function and staff – Basics of delegation of responsibility and
authority. Centralization and decentralization of authority and the pros and cons of each.
Span of control – Pros and cons of narrow and wide spans of control – Optimum span.
Communication - Traits of good communications - Formal and informal channel - Follow up
- Standard indoctrination - Explaining why consultative direction links in the chain of
command, MIS - Basic.
Co-ordination - Need for co-ordination - techniques of securing co-ordinations. Concept of
control - Application of the process of control at different levels of management (top, middle
and first line). Performance standards - Measurements of performance - Remedial action. An
integrated control system in an organization.
Motivation - determination of behaviour - Employee as a “Total Person” - Primary
incentives.
Management by objectives - Management by exception - Decision making theory in
management.
PAPER 2 - QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN BUSINESS
UNIT - I
Probability: Rules of probability, Binomial, Poisson and Normal distribution – their
applications in Business and Industrial problems – Baye’s Theorem and its business
applications. Risk and uncertainty in decision making – minimax, maximini and regret
criteria – Hurwitz and Laplace criteria in business decision making – Decision tree.
UNIT - II
Elementary idea of different sampling techniques – Hypothesis testing – chi-Square test –
Correlation and regression analysis – Single and two factor analysis of variance.
UNIT - III
Elementary Concepts of factor analysis, Multiple regression analysis, discriminate analysis,
Cluster analysis and Co-joint analysis in marketing problems.
UNIT – IV
Application of Differentiation and Integration: Maxima, minima, average cost, total cost,
marginal revenue, average revenue, total revenue – Consumer surplus and producer surplus.
UNIT – V
Research in business – Conducting investigation – Report writing – Academic and Business
Research Reports – Research format.
8. Akar and Day, Marketing Research, Wiley and Sons 1998.
PAPER 3 - ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. Introduction of Organisational Behaviour: Foundations of Individual Behaviour -
Personality, Perception, Learning, Values and Attitudes.
2. Motivation -Early theories, Contemporary theories, Motivation at work -Designing
Motivating Jobs
3. Group Dynamics -Group Behaviour, Communication and Group Decision making,
Intergroup relations.
4. Leadership – trait, Behavioural and contingency theories; Power and Politics; Trait,
Behavioural Analysis (T.A.); Work stress.
5. Organisational structure and Design; Organisational change and development;
Organisational Culture and climate.
6. Organisational conflict; causes, types of conflict, Management conflict.
PAPER 4 - MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Management Accounting – Meaning and purpose Financial Accounting – Preparation of
Income statement and Balance Sheet – Interpretation and use of these statements by
management.
1. Ratio Analysis and Funds Statement.
2. Capital Expenditure Evaluation – Capital budgetary concept – Methods – Limitations
– Capital Expenditure control.
3. Budgetary Control – Nature and Objective of budgetary control – Limitations.
4. Cost Accounting – Elements of cost – Cost of goods manufactured – Pricing of
elements – Basis of allocation – Standard costing and variance analysis – Job and
process costing.
5. Marginal Costing – Cost volume – Profit relationship – Break – Even Analysis –
Direct costing vs Absorption costing.
6. Reporting to management – Uses of Accounting information in Managerial decisionmaking.
Agra, India.
PAPER 5 - MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
The Scope and Methods of Managerial Economics, Risk, Uncertainty and Probability
Analysis. Optimization techniques: Total, Average and Marginal Relationships, Optimization
Analysis. Multivariate Optimization – Partial Derivatives; Constrained Optimization – by
substitution, by Lagrangion Multiplier Method.
Approach to Managerial Decision Making and the theory of firm.
Demand Analysis, Basic Concepts, and tools of analysis for demand forecasting. Use of
business indicators; Demand forecasting for consumer, Consumer Durable and Capital
Goods. Concepts in resource allocation, cost analysis; break even analysis, short run and long
run cost functions; production functions; cost-price output relations – Capital Investment
Analysis. Economics of size and capacity utilization; Input-Output Analysis. Market
Structure, Pricing and output; General Equilibrium. Pricing – Objectives – Pricing Methods
and Approaches Product Line Pricing – Differential Pricing.
Capital Budgeting – Capital Management and Financial Policy – Monopoly Policy –
Restrictive Agreements – Price Discrimination – Measurement of Economic Concentration –
Policy against Monopoly and Restrictive Trade Practices.
Advertising – Contribution of Economic Theory, Methods of Determining Total Advertising
Budget, Cyclical Fluctuations of Advertising, Measuring the Economic Effects of
Advertising.
National Income and Product; Saving, Consumption, Investment, the theory of income
determination.
PAPER 6 - LEGAL SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS
MERCANTILE LAW
Contracts – Nature & Classification of contracts – consideration, capacity, performance &
discharge of contracts. (Only General Contracts)
SALE OF GOODS ACT
Negotiable Instruments Act – Nature & requisites of negotiable instruments – Transfer of
Negotiable Instruments – Holder in due course special rules for Cheques and Banks –
Discharge of Negotiable Instruments.
COMPANY LAW
Types of companies – Memorandum & Articles of Association – Prospectus – Powers, Duties
& Liabilities of Directors Meetings, Resolutions – Winding up.
INDUSTRIAL LAW
Factories Act, Minimum Wages Act, Industrial Disputes Act, Workmen’s Compensation Act,
Payment of Bonus Act.
ESI Act, CPF ACT 1952, Employees Family Pension Scheme, 1971, Payment of Gratuity
Act 1972.
REFERENCES
1. N.D. Kapoor – Elements of Mercantile Law – Sultan Chand & Co., New Delhi 2001.
2. Avtar Singh – Company Law
3. Banking Law & Practice – Varshney
4. Banking Law & Practice – Tanner
5. Industrial Law – N.D. Kapoor

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