MBA 2nd Sem Syllabus of Punjabi University

My brother just passed first semester of MBA Program of Punjabi University. Now he is in 2nd Semester, so he needs syllabus. So give link from where he will download detailed syllabus of MBA 2nd Semester Course of Punjabi University?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

As you are looking for detailed syllabus of 2nd Semester of MBA Program of Punjabi University, so here is syllabus:

Punjabi University MBA 2nd Semester Syllabus
201 Management Information Systems & Decision Support Systems
Group I:
MIS need and concepts, characteristics, Typology of MIS, Structure of MIS. Planning for MIS, System Development Methodologies, Concep¬tual and detailed designs of MIS, System Implementation strate¬gies and process, System Evaluation and Maintenance. Advanced Concepts in Information Systems: Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Data, Warehousing and Data Mining.

Group II:
Introduction to Decision Support Systems. Characteristics and Objectives, Role of Decision Support Systems and its applications, Components of Decision support Systems : Data Subsystem, Model Subsystem, and User-interface, Group decision support systems (GDSS), Expert systems, Executive Information. Systems and its integration with DSS, Decision-making: Concept, Process, Simon’s model, Information System support for Decision Making Phases, Deci¬sion making under assumed certainty, risk and uncertainty.

Group III: Database Management with MS Access: Introduction to Database and MS Access Creating database, adding, editing and moving Records. Querying: Creating, Saving and Editing, Creating and using forms Creating and printing Reports and Labels. Building real life DSS practical through Excel.

202 Business Statistics & Research Methodology
Group I:
Research Methodology: Objectives, Role & Scope in Management Research, Process of Research; Research Designs: Exploratory, Descriptive & Experimental Research Designs and their Applications; Sampling Design: Concepts, types and their applicability; Scaling Techniques including Likert, Thurston, Semantic Differential Scaling techniques, etc. Tools & Techniques of Data Collection: Primary & Secondary; Classification & Tabulation of Data.

Group II:
Introduction to Statistics, Statistics & Business Research, Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode; Measures of Dispersion, Coefficient of Variance; Skewness & Kurtosis: Concept and Measures; Correlation Analysis: Simple, Partial & Multiple (Elementary); Regression Analysis: Concept & Measures, Linear Regression. Probability Concepts: Permutations and Combinations. Elementary Probability Theory: Concepts, Definitions and Problems.

Group III:
Probability Distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal Distributions; Testing of Hypothesis: Concepts like types of hypothesis, significance level, degrees of freedom, Errors in hypothesis testing, Procedure of testing hypothesis etc.; Statistical Tests: Chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA – 1 way and 2 way; SPSS and Report Presentation: Use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences, Report Writing - Mechanics of Report Writing, Preliminary pages, Main body and Appendices including Bibliography, Diagrammatic and Graphical presentation of Data.

203 Financial Management
Group I:
Financial Management: An Overview, Goals and Functions of Finance, Financial System: Assets, Markets, Intermediaries and Regulatory Framework. Capital Market and Money Market, Concepts in Valuation: Time value of money, Present Values, IRR, Bond returns, Return from Stock Market Investments.

Group II:
Capital Investment Decision making: Principles of Cash Flows, Discounted and Non-Discounted Cash Flow Techniques for appraising capital investments, Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting. Working Capital Management: An Overview, Determinants, Working Capital Cycle, Management of Cash, Receivables and Inventories. Financing Working Capital needs.

Group III:
Leverage: Operating Leverage and Financial Leverage. Cost of Capital. Capital Structure and firm’s value: Theories, MM Hypothesis, Optimization of Capital Structure, Capital Structure Planning. Dividend Policy and firm’s value, Dividend Policy in practice. Corporate Restructuring: Mergers and Acquisitions, motives, considerations and regulations.

204 Management of Human Resources
Group I:
Concept, scope, functions, importance of Personnel Management, environment scanning, building up skills for effective HR manager. Global HRM. Organization of personnel department and its relationships with other departments. HR in: information technology firms, mergers and acquisitions. Integrating HR strategy with Business Strategy, Personnel Policies, Manpower Planning, Analyzing Work and Designing Jobs, Managing Separations and Rightsizing. Methods of Manpower Search and Selection of Human Resources. Induction, Placement, Socializing, Promotion and Succession.

Group II:
Executive Development and Training Manpower, Retention of Talent. Performance Appraisal and Potential Evaluation. Managing Basic Remuneration. Job Evaluation. Motivation in Action: Empowerment, Quality of Work Life, Problem Employees. Incentives, Sharing Productivity Gains and Profits, Employee Stock Option Plans.

Group III:
Grievance Handling, Disciplining and Counseling of employees. Concept and Present State of Industrial Relations. A brief idea of Trade Unionism. Industrial Unrest and Remedial Measures