rahul_parab2006
Rahul Parab
MS1 Management Functions and Behaviour
I ROLE OF A MANAGER
1 Task of a Professional Manager
2 Responsibilities of a Professional Manager
3 Management Systems and Processes
4 Managerial Skills
II DECISION MAKING
5 Organisational Context of Decisions
6 Decision Making Models
7 Decision Making-Techniques and Processes
8 Management by Objectives
III ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND CHANGE
9 Organisational Structure and Managerial Ethos
10 Management of Organisational Conflicts
11 Managing Change
IV ORGANISATION STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES
12 Organisational Structure and Design
13 Managerial Communication Communication
14 Planning Process
15 Controlling
16 Delegation and Interdepartment Coordination
V BEHAVIOURAL DYNAMICS
17 Analysing Interpersonal Relations Leadership
18 Leadership Styles and Influence Process
19 Group Dynamics
MS2 Managing Men
I PLANNING PERSONNEL FUNCTION
1 Human Resource Development Systems
2 Personnel Management Environment in India
3 Functions and Operations of a Personnel Office
4 Manpower Planning
II EMPLOYEE SELECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
5 Recruitment, Selection and Induction
6 Staff Training and Development
7 Career Planning
III MOTIVATION, JOB DESIGN AND APPRAISAL
8 Motivation and Productivity
9 Job Description, Analysis and Evaluation
10 Employee Motivation and Job Enrichment
I1 Performance Monitoring and Appraisal
IV COMPENSATION PLANNING
12 Economic Background and Employee Compensation
13 Law and Rules Governing Employee Benefits and Welfare
14 Compensation and Salary Administration
V MANAGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
15 Regulatory Mechanisms Guiding
Industrial Relations
16 Employee Discipline
17 Suspension, Dismissal and Retrenchment
18 Employee Grievance Handling
VI UNIONS AND MANAGEMENT
19 Trade Unionism
20 Employers’ Association
21 Collective Bargaining
22 Industrial Conflict Resolution
23 Industrial Democracy and Workers Participation
MS3 Economic and Social Environment
I ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
1 Economic Environment of Business
2 Socio-cultural and Politico-legal Environment
3 Changing Role of Government
II STRUCTURE OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY
4 Structural Dimensions of Indian Economy
5 Structure of Indian Industry
6 Public Sector in India
7 Private Sector in India
8 Small Sector in India
9 Sickness in Indian Industry
III PLANNING AND POLICIES
10 Planning Goals and Strategies
11 Evolution of Industrial Policy
12 Regulatory and Promotional Framework
IV EXTERNAL SECTOR
13 India’s Foreign Trade
14 India’s Balance of Payments
15 Export and Import Policy
16 Foreign Capital and Collaborations
17 India’s External Debt
V ECONOMIC REFORMS SINCE 1991
18 Industrial Policy of 1991
19 Economic Reforms: Liberalisation, Globalisation
and Privatisation
20 Financial Sector Reforms
21 Fiscal Sector Reforms
22 Economic Reforms and Social Justice
MS4 Accounting and Finance for Managers
I ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK
1 Accounting and its Functions
2 Accounting Concepts and Standards
3 Accounting Information and its Applications
II UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
4 Construction and Analysis of Balance Sheet
5 Construction and Analysis of Profit and Loss Account
6 Construction and Analysis of Funds Flow and Cash Flow Statement
III COST MANAGEMENT
7 Understanding and Classifying Costs
8 Absorption and Marginal Costing
9 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
10 Variance Analysis
IV FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
11 Financial Management : An Introduction
12 Ratio Analysis
13 Leverage Analysis
14 Budgeting and Budgetary Control
15 Investment Appraisal Methods
V FINANCIAL DECISIONS
16 Management of Working Capital
17 Capital Structure
18 Dividend Decisions
MS5 Management of Machines and Materials
I OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1 Operations Management - An Overview
II FACILITIES PLANNING
2 Product Selection
3 Process Selection
4 Facilities Location
5 Facilities Layout and Materials Handling
6 Capacity Planning
III WORK AND JOB DESIGN
7 Work Design
8 Job Design
IV OPERATIONS PLANNING AND CONTROL
9 Planning and Control for Mass Production
10 Planning and Control for Batch Production
11 Planning and Control for Job Shop Production
12 Planning and Control of Projects
13 Maintenance Management
V VALUE ENGINEERING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
14 Value Engineering
15 Quality Assurance
VI MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
16 Purchase System and Procedure
17 Inventory Management
18 Stores Management
19 Standardisation, Codification and Variety Reduction
20 Waste Management
MS6 Marketing for Managers
I MARKETING AND ITS APPLICATIONS
1 Introduction to Marketing
2 Marketing in a Developing Economy
3 Marketing of Services
II MARKETING PLANNING AND ORGANISATION
4 Planning Marketing Mix
5 Market Segmentation
6 Marketing Organisations
7 Marketing Research and its Applications
III UNDERSTANDING CONSUMERS
8 Determinants of Consumer Behaviour
9 Models of Consumer Behaviour
10 Indian Consumer Environment
IV PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
11 Product Decisions and Strategies
12 Product Life Cycle and New Product Development
13 Branding and Packaging Decisions
V PRICING AND PROMOTION STRATEGY
14 Pricing Policies and Practices
15 Marketing Communications
16 Advertising and Publicity
17 Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
VI DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLIC POLICY
18 Sales Forecasting
19 Distribution Strategy
20 Managing Sales Personnel
21 Marketing and Public Polic
22 Cyber Marketing
MS7 Information Systems for Managers
I INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGERS
1 Information Technology : An Overview
2 Computer Systems
3 Computer Software
4 Networking Technologies
II INFORMATION SYSTEMS - I
5 In MIS Perspectives
6 Information Systems Economics
7 Management Information and Control Systems
8 Information Systems Security
III INFORMATION SYSTEMS - II
9 Information Systems and Functional Area Applications
10 Transaction Processing Systems-I: Human Resource and
Marketing Management
11 Transaction Processing Systems-II: Operations and Financial Management
12 Integrated Applications
IV SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER LANGUAGES
13 Building Information Systems
14 System Analysis and Design
15 Computer Programming and Languages
V SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS
16 Database Resource Management
17 Data Ware Housing and Data Mining
18 Tactical and Strategic Information Management: DSS and ESS
19 Intelligent Support Systems
20 Emerging Trends in IT
MS8 Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications
I BASIC MATHEMATICS FOR MANAGERS
1 Quantitative Decision Making – An Overview
2 Function and Progressions
3 Basic Calculus and Applications
4 Matrix Algebra and Applications
II DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
5 Collection of Data
6 Presentation of Data
7 Measures of Central Tendency
8 Measures of Variation and Skewness
III PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
9 Basic Concepts of Probability
10 Discrete Probability Distribution
11 Continuous Probability Distributions
12 Decision Theory
IV SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS
13 Sampling Methods
l 4 Sampling Distributions
15 Testing of Hypotheses
16 Chi Square Tests
V FORECASTING METHODS
17 Business Forecasting
18 Correlation Applications of
19 Regression
20 Time Series Analysis
MS9 Managerial Economics
I INTRODUCTION TO MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
1 Scope of Managerial Economics
2 The Firm : Stakeholders, Objectives & Decision Issues
3 Basic Techniques
II DEMAND AND REVENUE ANALYSIS
4 Demand Concepts and Analysis
5 Demand Elasticity
6 Demand Estimation and Forecasting
III PRODUCTION AND COST ANALYSIS
7 Production Function
8 Cost Concepts and Analysis I
9 Cost Concepts and Analysis II
10 Estimation of Production and Cost Functions
IV PRICING DECISIONS
11 Market Structure and Barriers to Entry
12 Pricing Under Pure Competition and Pure Monopoly
13 Pricing Under Monopolistic and Oligopolistic Competition
14 Pricing Strategies
V COMPREHENSIVE CASE
Competition in Telecommunication Service Provision
MS10 Organisational Design, Development and Change
I UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS
1 Approaches to Understanding Overview of Organisations Organisational
2 Typology of Organisation Structures Design, Development and Change
II ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN
3 Some Dimensions of Organisational Design
4 Some Basic Organisation Design and Restructuring Strategies
III WORK ORGANISATION
5 Analysing and Organising Work
6 New Forms of Organisation
7 Emerging Issues of Work Organisation and Quality of Working Life
IV ORGANISATIONAL ANALYSIS
8 Organisational Diagnosis-Tools and Techniques
9 Questionnaire as a Diagnostic Tool
10 Interview as a Diagnostic Tool
11 Workshops, Task-forces and Other Methods
V ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
12 Organisation Development
13 Alternative Interventions
14 Change Agents: Skills
I5 Consolidation and Follow-up
16 Institution Building
MS11 Corporate Policies and Practices
I CORPORATE STRATEGY AND PLANNING
1 Concept of Corporate Strategy
2 The 7-S Framework
3 Corporate Policy and Planning in India
II CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
4 Board of Directors: Role and Functions
5 Top Management: Role and Skill
III SWOT ANALYSIS
6 Environmental Analysis
7 Competitive Analysis
8 Internal Corporate Analysis
IV STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
9 Cost Analysis
10 Portfolio Analysis and Display Matrices
11 Operating and Financial Analysis
V STRATEGIC CHOICES
12 Strategic Alternatives
13 Diversification
14 Mergers and Acquisitions
VI IMPLEMENTATION & EVALUATION OF STRATEGY
15 Implementation of Strategy
16 Evaluation and Control of Strategy
17 Turnaround Management
VII CASE STUDIES
1 Nalanda State Small Industries Corporation Ltd.
2 Hindustan Tractors Ltd.
3 Raj Vardhan Enterprises
4 Hindustan Special Tubes Ltd.
5 Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd.
6 Punjab Tractors Ltd.
7 HMT Watch Division
Other Papers of IGNOU MBA Program includes
Five courses from any one of the specialisation streams
Compulsory Courses (MS-91, MS-95) and one elective course (MS-92/93/94/96/97)
Project Course (MS-100) equivalent to 2 courses
I ROLE OF A MANAGER
1 Task of a Professional Manager
2 Responsibilities of a Professional Manager
3 Management Systems and Processes
4 Managerial Skills
II DECISION MAKING
5 Organisational Context of Decisions
6 Decision Making Models
7 Decision Making-Techniques and Processes
8 Management by Objectives
III ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND CHANGE
9 Organisational Structure and Managerial Ethos
10 Management of Organisational Conflicts
11 Managing Change
IV ORGANISATION STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES
12 Organisational Structure and Design
13 Managerial Communication Communication
14 Planning Process
15 Controlling
16 Delegation and Interdepartment Coordination
V BEHAVIOURAL DYNAMICS
17 Analysing Interpersonal Relations Leadership
18 Leadership Styles and Influence Process
19 Group Dynamics
MS2 Managing Men
I PLANNING PERSONNEL FUNCTION
1 Human Resource Development Systems
2 Personnel Management Environment in India
3 Functions and Operations of a Personnel Office
4 Manpower Planning
II EMPLOYEE SELECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
5 Recruitment, Selection and Induction
6 Staff Training and Development
7 Career Planning
III MOTIVATION, JOB DESIGN AND APPRAISAL
8 Motivation and Productivity
9 Job Description, Analysis and Evaluation
10 Employee Motivation and Job Enrichment
I1 Performance Monitoring and Appraisal
IV COMPENSATION PLANNING
12 Economic Background and Employee Compensation
13 Law and Rules Governing Employee Benefits and Welfare
14 Compensation and Salary Administration
V MANAGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
15 Regulatory Mechanisms Guiding
Industrial Relations
16 Employee Discipline
17 Suspension, Dismissal and Retrenchment
18 Employee Grievance Handling
VI UNIONS AND MANAGEMENT
19 Trade Unionism
20 Employers’ Association
21 Collective Bargaining
22 Industrial Conflict Resolution
23 Industrial Democracy and Workers Participation
MS3 Economic and Social Environment
I ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
1 Economic Environment of Business
2 Socio-cultural and Politico-legal Environment
3 Changing Role of Government
II STRUCTURE OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY
4 Structural Dimensions of Indian Economy
5 Structure of Indian Industry
6 Public Sector in India
7 Private Sector in India
8 Small Sector in India
9 Sickness in Indian Industry
III PLANNING AND POLICIES
10 Planning Goals and Strategies
11 Evolution of Industrial Policy
12 Regulatory and Promotional Framework
IV EXTERNAL SECTOR
13 India’s Foreign Trade
14 India’s Balance of Payments
15 Export and Import Policy
16 Foreign Capital and Collaborations
17 India’s External Debt
V ECONOMIC REFORMS SINCE 1991
18 Industrial Policy of 1991
19 Economic Reforms: Liberalisation, Globalisation
and Privatisation
20 Financial Sector Reforms
21 Fiscal Sector Reforms
22 Economic Reforms and Social Justice
MS4 Accounting and Finance for Managers
I ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK
1 Accounting and its Functions
2 Accounting Concepts and Standards
3 Accounting Information and its Applications
II UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
4 Construction and Analysis of Balance Sheet
5 Construction and Analysis of Profit and Loss Account
6 Construction and Analysis of Funds Flow and Cash Flow Statement
III COST MANAGEMENT
7 Understanding and Classifying Costs
8 Absorption and Marginal Costing
9 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
10 Variance Analysis
IV FINANCIAL AND INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
11 Financial Management : An Introduction
12 Ratio Analysis
13 Leverage Analysis
14 Budgeting and Budgetary Control
15 Investment Appraisal Methods
V FINANCIAL DECISIONS
16 Management of Working Capital
17 Capital Structure
18 Dividend Decisions
MS5 Management of Machines and Materials
I OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
1 Operations Management - An Overview
II FACILITIES PLANNING
2 Product Selection
3 Process Selection
4 Facilities Location
5 Facilities Layout and Materials Handling
6 Capacity Planning
III WORK AND JOB DESIGN
7 Work Design
8 Job Design
IV OPERATIONS PLANNING AND CONTROL
9 Planning and Control for Mass Production
10 Planning and Control for Batch Production
11 Planning and Control for Job Shop Production
12 Planning and Control of Projects
13 Maintenance Management
V VALUE ENGINEERING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
14 Value Engineering
15 Quality Assurance
VI MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
16 Purchase System and Procedure
17 Inventory Management
18 Stores Management
19 Standardisation, Codification and Variety Reduction
20 Waste Management
MS6 Marketing for Managers
I MARKETING AND ITS APPLICATIONS
1 Introduction to Marketing
2 Marketing in a Developing Economy
3 Marketing of Services
II MARKETING PLANNING AND ORGANISATION
4 Planning Marketing Mix
5 Market Segmentation
6 Marketing Organisations
7 Marketing Research and its Applications
III UNDERSTANDING CONSUMERS
8 Determinants of Consumer Behaviour
9 Models of Consumer Behaviour
10 Indian Consumer Environment
IV PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
11 Product Decisions and Strategies
12 Product Life Cycle and New Product Development
13 Branding and Packaging Decisions
V PRICING AND PROMOTION STRATEGY
14 Pricing Policies and Practices
15 Marketing Communications
16 Advertising and Publicity
17 Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
VI DISTRIBUTION AND PUBLIC POLICY
18 Sales Forecasting
19 Distribution Strategy
20 Managing Sales Personnel
21 Marketing and Public Polic
22 Cyber Marketing
MS7 Information Systems for Managers
I INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGERS
1 Information Technology : An Overview
2 Computer Systems
3 Computer Software
4 Networking Technologies
II INFORMATION SYSTEMS - I
5 In MIS Perspectives
6 Information Systems Economics
7 Management Information and Control Systems
8 Information Systems Security
III INFORMATION SYSTEMS - II
9 Information Systems and Functional Area Applications
10 Transaction Processing Systems-I: Human Resource and
Marketing Management
11 Transaction Processing Systems-II: Operations and Financial Management
12 Integrated Applications
IV SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER LANGUAGES
13 Building Information Systems
14 System Analysis and Design
15 Computer Programming and Languages
V SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS
16 Database Resource Management
17 Data Ware Housing and Data Mining
18 Tactical and Strategic Information Management: DSS and ESS
19 Intelligent Support Systems
20 Emerging Trends in IT
MS8 Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications
I BASIC MATHEMATICS FOR MANAGERS
1 Quantitative Decision Making – An Overview
2 Function and Progressions
3 Basic Calculus and Applications
4 Matrix Algebra and Applications
II DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
5 Collection of Data
6 Presentation of Data
7 Measures of Central Tendency
8 Measures of Variation and Skewness
III PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
9 Basic Concepts of Probability
10 Discrete Probability Distribution
11 Continuous Probability Distributions
12 Decision Theory
IV SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS
13 Sampling Methods
l 4 Sampling Distributions
15 Testing of Hypotheses
16 Chi Square Tests
V FORECASTING METHODS
17 Business Forecasting
18 Correlation Applications of
19 Regression
20 Time Series Analysis
MS9 Managerial Economics
I INTRODUCTION TO MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
1 Scope of Managerial Economics
2 The Firm : Stakeholders, Objectives & Decision Issues
3 Basic Techniques
II DEMAND AND REVENUE ANALYSIS
4 Demand Concepts and Analysis
5 Demand Elasticity
6 Demand Estimation and Forecasting
III PRODUCTION AND COST ANALYSIS
7 Production Function
8 Cost Concepts and Analysis I
9 Cost Concepts and Analysis II
10 Estimation of Production and Cost Functions
IV PRICING DECISIONS
11 Market Structure and Barriers to Entry
12 Pricing Under Pure Competition and Pure Monopoly
13 Pricing Under Monopolistic and Oligopolistic Competition
14 Pricing Strategies
V COMPREHENSIVE CASE
Competition in Telecommunication Service Provision
MS10 Organisational Design, Development and Change
I UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS
1 Approaches to Understanding Overview of Organisations Organisational
2 Typology of Organisation Structures Design, Development and Change
II ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN
3 Some Dimensions of Organisational Design
4 Some Basic Organisation Design and Restructuring Strategies
III WORK ORGANISATION
5 Analysing and Organising Work
6 New Forms of Organisation
7 Emerging Issues of Work Organisation and Quality of Working Life
IV ORGANISATIONAL ANALYSIS
8 Organisational Diagnosis-Tools and Techniques
9 Questionnaire as a Diagnostic Tool
10 Interview as a Diagnostic Tool
11 Workshops, Task-forces and Other Methods
V ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
12 Organisation Development
13 Alternative Interventions
14 Change Agents: Skills
I5 Consolidation and Follow-up
16 Institution Building
MS11 Corporate Policies and Practices
I CORPORATE STRATEGY AND PLANNING
1 Concept of Corporate Strategy
2 The 7-S Framework
3 Corporate Policy and Planning in India
II CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
4 Board of Directors: Role and Functions
5 Top Management: Role and Skill
III SWOT ANALYSIS
6 Environmental Analysis
7 Competitive Analysis
8 Internal Corporate Analysis
IV STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
9 Cost Analysis
10 Portfolio Analysis and Display Matrices
11 Operating and Financial Analysis
V STRATEGIC CHOICES
12 Strategic Alternatives
13 Diversification
14 Mergers and Acquisitions
VI IMPLEMENTATION & EVALUATION OF STRATEGY
15 Implementation of Strategy
16 Evaluation and Control of Strategy
17 Turnaround Management
VII CASE STUDIES
1 Nalanda State Small Industries Corporation Ltd.
2 Hindustan Tractors Ltd.
3 Raj Vardhan Enterprises
4 Hindustan Special Tubes Ltd.
5 Indian Petro-Chemicals Corporation Ltd.
6 Punjab Tractors Ltd.
7 HMT Watch Division
Other Papers of IGNOU MBA Program includes
Five courses from any one of the specialisation streams
Compulsory Courses (MS-91, MS-95) and one elective course (MS-92/93/94/96/97)
Project Course (MS-100) equivalent to 2 courses