DU MBA Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of MBA to Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Development) subject of DU (Delhi University) as I want to check it before taking admission in it?

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The syllabus of MBA to Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Development) subject of DU (Delhi University) is as follows:

Semester I

Course 111: GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Marks: 100 (Theory = 70, Internal Assessment = 30)

Contents:
Unit I- Introduction: Concept, Nature, Process and Significance of Management; Managerial Roles (Mintzberg); An Overview of Functional areas of Management- Marketing, Finance, Production, HRM, IT, R&D; Development of Management Thought- Classical, Neo -classical, System and Contingency Approaches.

Unit II -Planning and Control: Concept, Process and Types; Decision -making concept and process; Bounded rationality; Management by objectives; Corporate Planning- Environment analysis and Diagnosis, Strategy Formulations; Managerial Control- Concept and process; Designing an Effective Control System; Techniques - Traditional and Modern (PERT and CPM).

Unit III-Organising: Concept, nature, process and significance; Authority and Responsibility relationships Delegation, Decentralisation; Departmentation basis and formats (Project and Matrix); Formal and Informal Organisation; Changing patterns in Organisation structures in the Knowledge economy.

Unit IV-Directing: Motivating and Leading People at work- basic concepts; Communication- nature, process, networks and barriers; Effective Communication.

Unit V-International Management Practices: A comparative study of management practices in India, Japan, USA and China with particular reference to Planning, Organising, Directing, Staffing and Controlling; Recent developments in the field of Management in a global perspective.