National University

MBA in Management

Syllabus for Final-Year Master’s Course

Paper Code	Paper Title	Credits
312601	Management Thought	04
312603	International Business	04
312605	Business Research	04
312607	Strategic Management	04
312609	Management Information System	04
312611	Training and Development	04
312613	Compensation Management	04
312614	Term paper	02
312616	Viva-Voce	02
	Total =	32

 

Detailed Syllabus

Course Code: 312601	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Management Thought

Course contents:

1. Origin and Development of Management – Industrial revolution and management – Management as a profession – Scientific method and management science.

2. Contribution of F.W. Taylor and Henri Fayol to Management Thought – Scientific management – General principles of management.

3. Contribution of Behavioral Scientists – Hawthorne experiment and Elton Mayo – Introduction to the works of Argyris McGregor and Likert.

4. Contribution of Systems Scientists – Business managers and public administrations – Models – Formal and informal organizations.

5. Different Schools of Management Thought – Management theory Jungles – Problems of semantics.

6. Management System in the U.K., the U.S.A., Japan, and India.

7. Management in developing countries with special reference to Bangladesh in the light of the different schools of management thought – Effects of colonialism – Planned economic development and management – Socio-cultural influence – Management development institutions in Bangladesh.

Text Books:

1. Claude S. George: History of Management Thoughts

2. DR. Singh: Management Thought and Thinkers

3. Koontz  and O’Donnell: Principles of Management

4. Ernest Dale : Management: Theory and Practices

5. Elistt Jaques: The Changing Culture of a Factory

6. Gullet. C. Ray and Dale, Earnest: Readings in Management.

7. Davis, R.C.: Comparative Management

8. Hoque, Khondoker Bazlul: Management Systems in Bangladesh and Japan: A Comparative Study.

9. Michael & Brooke:  International Management: A Review of Strategy and Operation.

(Further references may be given by the Paper teacher

 

Course Code: 312603	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	International Business

 

Course contents:

1. Globalization: Introduction to the field of global business, significance, nature and scope of global business, modes of global business, significance, nature and scope of global business, modes of global business-global business environment-social, cultural, economic, political and ecological factors.

2. International Business Environment and Business Opportunities: Economic environmental and cultural environmental environmental environmental environmental opportunities in developed countries opportunities in LDCs.

3. Balance of Payment: Concept, components of BOP, and disequilibrium in causes for disequilibrium and methods to correct the disequilibrium in balance of payment.

4. Foreign Exchange Market: Nature of transactions in the foreign exchange market and types of players, Exchange rate determination, and Convertibility of the rupee-euro currency market.

5. World Trade Organization: Objectives, organization structure and functioning, WTO and India, international liquidity: Problems of liquidity; international financial institutions, IBRD, IFC, ADB- Their role in managing international liquidity problems.

6. Global Business Strategy: Building a global strategy economic and demand assessment political risk and national controls-Organizations of the multinational planning in an International setting.

7. Management in the Future: Management processes in foreign countries- applying American management theories and abroad-Theory The merge of American and Japanese Management.

Text Books:

1. 1. Michael R. Czinkota, Likka A. Ronkainen & MechaelH Moffett.: International Business, Cengage Learning 2008.

2. Bhall, V.K and S. Shivaramu: International Business Environment and Business, New Delhi, Anmol, 2003.

3. Charles W.L Hill: Irwin, International Business 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill,2000

4. Francis Cherunilam: International Business Environment, Himalaya Publishing House, 2008.

5. Anan.T. Negordhi: International Management.

6. Stefan H. Robock and Kenneth Suminouds: International Business and Multinational Enterprise.

7. Arvind V. Phatak: Managing Multinational Corporation.

8. Lewis D. Solomen: Multinational Corporation and the Emerging World Order.

(Further references may be given by the Paper teacher

 

Course Code: 312605	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Business Research

Course contents:

1. Meaning – scope – importance – types and methods.

2. Research Design: The meaning of culture, culture across countries, culture & how to do business, culture & negotiations, the limits to cultural sensitivity.

3. Research Proposal: Object of the study – problems – steps and factors to be considered in preparing a research proposal.

4. Conceptualizing the Problems: Concept development of working hypothesis – approach to the problem – components of the approach – alternative approaches.

5. Methodology: Sources of data – sampling – preparation for collecting data interview schedules – questionnaires and pilot survey – recruitment and training of field investigators – methods of data collection.

6. Planning the Study: Data processing and analysis-tabulation – presentation and interpretation of findings of hypothesis-normal probability distribution-binomial distribution-chi-square distribution – chi-square test, T-test – Z-test – F-test.

7. Report Writing: Documentation – Form of a Research Report – Presentation Process Follow-up.

8. Problems and prospects of business research in Bangladesh.

Recommended Book:

1. Forber and Vendor: Research Methods in Economics and Business.

2. Kothari, C.R.: Research Methodology, Methods and Techniques.

3. Malhotra, N.K.: Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation.

(Further references may be given by the Paper teacher

 

Course Code: 312607	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Strategic Management

Course contents:

1. Strategic Management – Strategy and policy – why strategic management – Difference between operation management & strategic management – Strategic management – Elements – Tasks of strategic management.

2. Framework of Decision Making – Pay-off matrix – Decision making under uncertainties and risk.

3. Strategic Advantage Analysis & Diagnosis – Considering strategic alternatives – Strategic choices.

4. Implementing Strategy – Implementation process – Resource allocation – Organizational implementation – Planning systems to implement strategic management – Functional policy implementation lead – Reship implementation.

5. Evaluation of the Strategy – Control and evaluation process- Motivation to evaluate- Criteria for evaluation – Measuring feedback – Evaluation & corrective action.

6. Case methods of teaching and analysis of business problems through cases.

 

Textbooks:

1. W.F. Glueck and L.R. Jauch: Business Policy and Strategic Management

2. William H. Newman: Business Policies and Management

3. W.T. Greenwood: Business Policy: Management Audit Approach.

4. David W. Miller, & Martin K. Start: Executive Decisions and Operations Research

5. Raymond: Problems in Business Administration

6. Thomas Cichino: Analysis by the Case Method

7. A. A. Thomson and A. J. Strick land: Strategic Management, Boston: Irwin and McGraw-Hill.

(Further references may be given by the Paper teacher

 

 

Course Code: 312609	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Management Information System

Course contents:

1. Foundation Concepts: Basic information systems concepts and the operations, decision–making, and strategic roles of information systems. Other behavioral, managerial, and technical concepts are presented where appropriate in other chapters.

2. Technology: Major concepts, developments, and managerial implications involved in computer hardware, software, database management, and telecommunications technologies. Other technologies used in computer-based information systems are discussed where appropriate in selected chapters.

3. Applications: How information technology is used in modern information systems to support end-use collaboration, enterprise operations, managerial decision–making, strategic advantage, and artificial intelligence and expert systems.

4. Development: Developing information system solutions to business problems using a systems approach to problem solving and application development.

5. Management: The challenges and methods of managing information systems technologies, activities, and resources, including information resource management, global IT management, issues in planning and implementing change with IT, and security and ethical challenges.

 

Text Books:

1. James A.O’. Brien: Management Information Systems – Managing IT in the Internet Worked enterprise, Fourth-edition, McGraw-Hill.

2. 2. Kenneth C Laudon and Jane P Laudon: Essentials of Management Information Systems, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall.

(Further references may be given by the Paper teacher

Second Semester

Course Code: 312611	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Training and Development

Course contents:

1. Introduction: Meaning-Stakeholders of training and development-Relation between education, training and development-training and development-Management development-Objectives-Importance-Dimensions of training and developmentManagement development process and training-Training and development cycleDifference between training and learning.
2. Management Development: Meaning-Management development process-Net Management Requirements-Need Assessment methods-difference between training and management development.
3. Orientation: Definition-Objectives-Importance-Classification of orientation-Possible topics of organizational orientation-Possible topics of departmental and job orientation– orientation kit-Responsibility for orientation-Length and time-Follow up and Evaluation.
4. Employee Training: Definition-Objectives-reasons for training-General benefitsTypical topics of employee training-Forces Influencing the workplace and training skills needed to manage a diverse workforce of training Practice-Training investment leaders-roles, competencies, and positions of training professionals-Types of training, learning and motivation-Why training fails.
5. Problem Identification and Training Needs Assessment: Needs assessmentImportance-Participants in needs assessment of needs assessment analysis process General concept and dimension for needs assessment and techniques for needs assessment.
6. Training Program Designing: Definition-Major phases- Main elements analysis objectives designing training curriculum of training and development methods and media-Evaluation of program designProgramme logistics.
7. Methods and Techniques of Training: Different types of training Methods- Advantages and disadvantages of on-the-job and off the job training-Steps for effective on the job training-different techniques of on the job training Different techniques of off the job training-Difference between on job and off-job training.
8. Implementation and Monitoring: Planning program Implementation -Preparing and organizing program activities-Executing the program.
9. Training Evaluation and Follow-up: Meaning-Reasons for evaluation of trainingEvaluation process-Outcomes used in the evaluation of training programs-Evaluation design-Types of evaluation design-Influencing factors of evaluation design.
10. Transfer of Training: Definition-Importance-Types-Model and various theories-Self Management-sample content of self-management-Obstacles faced in the work environment-work environment characteristics-Positive climate for transfer of training-Levels of management support-Learning organization and its key features.
11. Training and Development in Bangladesh: Evolution of training and development in Bangladesh-Importance of Training of Industrial Employees in BangladeshTraining and Development policy of Bangladesh-Training and Development institutes in Bangladesh & its Performance evaluation process-Problems of training and development-solution of the problems.

Text Books: 

1. Joseph Prokapenko: Management Development: A Guide for the Profession.

2. Raymond A Noe: Employee Training and Development

3. Steve Truelove: Training & Development: Theory & Practice

4. Rolf P Lynton and: Training for Development Udai Pareek 

 

Course Code: 312613	Credits: 04	Class Hours: 120
Course Title:	Compensation Management

 

Course contents:

1. Introduction to Compensation Management: Concepts, the reward systems, the world of pay and compensation, organizational structure – strategic and tactical compensation issues, legislations and compensation.

2. Microeconomic Compensation Concepts: Job analysis, job description, job evaluation, surveying market pay and compensation practices, designing base pay structure, team-based pay on a knowledge-based world.

3. Macroeconomic Compensation Concepts: Measuring and paying for performance, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and wealth building, executive and international compensation, benefits, and services, and pay delivery administration.

4. Compensation System Development: Components of the Compensation System, Employee satisfaction and motivation issues in Compensation design, Internal equity, External equity, and Individual equity, Admistering Compensation System.

5. Incentive Compensation and Benefits: Linking pay to performance, Individual incentives, Group incentives, Executive Compensation, Role of benefits in reward systems, Types of benefits, and Indirect Compensation.

Text Books:

1. Richard I. Henderson: Compensation Management in a Knowledge-based World. NJ: Prentice-Hall.

2. Fisher, Schoenfeldt and Shaw: Human Resource Management, Houghton Mifflin Co. USA.

 

Course Code: 312614	Credits: 02	Class Hours:
Course Title:	Term paper

 

Course Code:  312616	Credits: 02	Class Hours:
Course Title:	Viva-voce