CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) MBA Program COURSE CURRICULUM Requirements for the MBA Major in Human Resources Management Program a) In the School of Business graduate courses are grouped into groups. Following is the distribution of courses under these groups: 1. Foundation Courses 24 Credits 2. Integration Courses 24 Credits. Focus/ Major Courses 12 Credits Total requirement for degree 60 Credits b) Duration of the MBA Program is 2 years c) Admission requirements: As per UGC direction d) Degree requirements include: i) Completion of 60 credits ii) A minimum CGPA of 2.75 e) Course Waiver: Waiver may be allowed for courses completed in other university. However waiver will be allowed only for foundation courses of the MBA Program to a maximum of 24 credit hours (8 courses) subject to the following: i) The courses taken elsewhere were of undergraduate or graduate level ii) The grades earned in those courses were at least B-(minus) or equivalent iii) The MBA Director s Office/equivalent committee, which may or may not ask the applicant to take a written or oral test, considers the application for waiver satisfactory. f) Proposed Evaluation system includes: i) Final Examination 40 ii) Mid Term Examination 20 iii) Class Attendance 10 iv) Class Test(s) 20 v) Assuagements/ Case Analysis 10 Total= 100 CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) 1
Foundation Courses 24 Credits MBA 501 Principles of Management & Organizational Behavior MBA 502 Business Mathematics MBA 50 Financial Accounting MBA 504 Business Research Methods MBA 505 Managerial Economics MBA 506 Marketing Management MBA 507 Business Communication MBA 508 Management Information Systems Integration Courses MBA 509 Human Resources Management MBA 510 Macro Economics MBA 511 Financial Management MBA 512 Operations Management MBA 51 Management Accounting MBA 514 International Business MBA 515 Legal & Ethical Issues in Business MBA 550 Strategic Management Focus/ Major Courses 24 Credits 12 Credits The course requirements for MBA students intending to Major in different areas of specialization offered by the School of Business are as follows: Focus Area (Concentration in HRM) Total 12 Credit Hours Any four courses from the following: HRM 541 Manpower Planning & Personnel Policy HRM 542 Labor & Industrial Law HRM 54 Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining in a Global Economy HRM 544 Leadership & Conflict Management HRM 545 Personnel Training & Development HRM 546 Strategic Human Resources Management HRM 547 Human Resources Management System HRM 548 Human Resources Accounting CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) 2
Course Descriptions: Foundation Courses (24 Credit Hours) MBA 501: Principles of Management & Organizational Behavior ( credits) This course introduces students to the principles and practices of management through a combination of theoretical and applied analysis. Includes a study of the development of management thought and an analysis of managerial functions for the purpose of understanding the nature of organizations and the way in which they function and provides analysis of work behavior from viewpoint of both behavioral research and managerial practice. It enables students to understand basic issues such as motivation, individual differences and leadership. Students also gain adequate knowledge on how to perform better, improve quality, and operate efficiently. MBA 502: Business Mathematics ( credits) The course includes elements of algebra, number fields, linear and non-linear inequalities, functions set analytical geometry, logarithm limit, differential and integral calculus, matrix and linear programming. The purpose of the course is to help the students learn mathematical tools, which are used in management studies. MBA 50: Financial Accounting ( credits) An accelerated introduction to the basic concepts and techniques that underlie the collection, processing, and reporting of financial information in organizations. Emphasis is placed on financial and managerial accounting with the goal of enabling the student to understand and use corporate financial statements and internal financial data as a basis for decision making. MBA 504: Business Research Methods ( credits) The course is designed to equip the students with Business research methods and statistical tools and concepts to be used in the business research process. Methods of descriptive and Inferential statistics are covered that include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, hypothesis testing and their application in the management decision process, using SPSS and other relevant software packages testing hypothesis, correlation and regression analysis. MBA 505: Managerial Economics ( credits) A microeconomic course combining theory and quantitative methods as a tool for managerial decisions. The application of concepts and techniques to practical management problems is stressed. Topics covered include the analysis of consumer demand (forecasting), production and costs, prices, profit maximizing, resource use and allocation, and investments. MBA 506: Marketing Management ( credits) Focuses on the role of marketing in today's organizations: strategic marketing planning, concepts, and tools; the marketing environment; characteristics of consumer and institutional markets; market segmentation, targeting and product positioning; product decisions, pricing, placing, sales management, advertising, new product development, and marketing budgets; product life-cycle strategies; new product planning and market research. MBA 507: Business Communication ( credits) Students will become acquainted with both micro and macro views of organizational communications. Students will gain experience in professional speaking, listening, business writing, nonverbal communication, situation/case analyses, and field research. Course assignments will include both individual and collaborative tasks. At the conclusion of the course, CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU)
students will be able to create a coordinated and coherent corporate communication system that allows the organization to face the new century with effective communication strategies and tools MBA 508: Management Information Systems ( credits) This course will provide a managerial prospective on the use, design, and evaluation of information systems. It presents an organizational view of how to use information technology to support planning and decision-making. Topics include hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, systems, the strategic use of information systems, the development of information systems, and social and ethical issues involved with information systems. Course Descriptions: Integration Courses (24 Credits) MBA 509: Human Resources Management ( credits) Studies the general and special functions of a professional in personnel, including human resource planning, recruiting, selecting, training, placing, appraising, compensating, discharging, or laying- off, and controlling the work environment: recognizing legal requirements and the interests and rights of employees and the firm. MBA 510: Macro Economics ( credits) The main focus of this course is to relate macro-economic theories to business decision making. The course starts with concepts of national income accounting, investigates economic aggregates and leads to development of forecasts for business condition analysis. MBA 511: Financial Management ( credits) An overview of current theory and practice of financial administration with emphasis on the development of decision making criteria. Major topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, time value of money, cost of capital, security valuation, risk and return, capital budgeting decisions, and the cost of capital. MBA 512: Operations Management ( credits) This course provides introduction to philosophy and techniques of production and operations Management. Topics include project planning, risk evaluation, and decisions with regard to resource allocation, materials and inventory, service, scheduling, distribution and facilities. MBA 51: Management Accounting ( credits) This course is designed for management personnel who are not accountants but need to understand and use accounting information in their decision making. Examines the framework underlying management accounting and describes how accounting information should be used to fulfill planning, control, and performance evaluation functions. Topics include job and process costing, standards, budgets, estimates; the interpretation and utilization of accounting reports and statements to control current operations and formulate policies for the future. MBA 514: International Business ( credits) The main focus for this course is on the analysis of the major business management functions of international business environment, organizational policies and strategies of multi-national companies, industrial relations and control policies. Topics include Trade and Investment theories, various environment of international business, Foreign Exchange, Finance and CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) 4
Accounting, Operations Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management and Information Technology in the context of international business. MBA 515: Legal & Ethical Issues in Business ( credits) The course is designed to help the students in learning the application of law to business transactions and their legal responsibility as managers. The course includes those aspects of law as related to business e.g., contract, agency sale of goods, negotiable instruments, insolvency, partnership and labor. Beginning with the nature and sources of business law the students will be required to conceptualize the legal system and relationship in the context of Bangladesh. The course is also designed to help future managers understand the importance of ethics in business as an element extremely important for operating in the global market. The course will include all the aspects of business ethics centering on both the local as well as international perspective. MBA 550: Strategic Management ( credits) A capstone seminar in the formulation and administration of organizational planning and policy. The student is given the opportunity to utilize, integrate, and apply the theories, concepts, principles, and techniques acquired in his/her other MBA coursework (i.e., marketing, management, accounting, finance, statistics) to empirical business problems and situations, Use of case studies, course projects, library research, field research, group decision making, role playing, simulations, and other strategic planning exercises. Focus/Major Courses Descriptions: Major in Human Resources Management (12 Credits) HRM 541: Manpower Planning & Personnel Policy ( credits) This course is designed to equip the students with the techniques of developing personnel policy and implementation. It includes a detailed study of environmental trend analysis, manpower planning models, manpower needs and personnel information system to forecast manpower needs and considerations of some indicators of manpower effectiveness. Policy issues considered include work force composition, wage and salary administration in the context of developing countries. HRM 542: Labor & Industrial Law ( credits) This course is a walk in the legal corporate park of Bangladesh. Labor & Industrial Law deals with the basic principles of corporate law in the classroom, which takes a look at the market and brings the real issues to the forefront. This course covers foreign investment, industrial restructuring, privatization, joint ventures, stock exchanges, taxation, globalization, environmental policy, labor issues and e-commerce. HRM 54: Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining in a Global Economy ( credits) Familiarizes students with the practice of labor-management relations in Bangladesh. The nature of labor-management conflict, the development of the Bangladesh labor movement, and a comparison to other Western labor movements provides the theoretical and historical framework needed to assess the effectiveness of current practice and trends in the development of new practices and institutions. The major areas of study are the tactics and strategies of management and union representatives and the legal and economic constraints on CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) 5
their behavior in the organization of unions, contract negotiation, and contract administration and interpretation. HRM 544: Leadership & Conflict Management ( credits) This course deals with theoretical and practical concepts of leadership and conflict management. It examines the complementary qualities of leadership and management factors and their impact on organizational effectiveness and corporate success. Conflict is inherent in organizations. Conflict arises whenever independent parties-individuals, departments, organizations-must secure an agreement. This course presents a variety of frameworks for analyzing conflicts and techniques for resolving conflicts. Many dimensions of conflict are discussed, including relevant psychological, interpersonal, organizational, and cultural dynamics. This course reviews strategy and tactics in various conflict resolution procedures, including bargaining, distributive and integrative negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. A conceptual understanding is of little use, however, without an understanding of how to put strategy and tactics into practice. To this end, considerable emphasis will be placed on exercises and role-play simulations of conflicts designed to develop students' negotiation skills. Case studies are extensively used as instruction materials. HRM 545: Personnel Training & Development ( credits) This course covers human resource management issues related to training and development. It includes methods for identifying training needs, developing training content, conducting training sessions, and evaluating the effectiveness of training according to organizational and individual objectives. It also covers special training topics such as developing management careers, identifying and developing management talent, using performance appraisal for coaching and development, and training for contemporary issues such as customer service orientation, diversity, sexual harassment, and stress management. Concentration: Required course for Human Resource Management concentration and elective course for Management concentration. HRM 546: Strategic Human Resources Management ( credits) The basis of any success of an organization depends on the corporate outlook and the long term human resource planning. This course is exclusively designed to address the issues related to strategic decisions in human resource planning. HRM 547: Human Resources Management System ( credits) With the growth in the information technology the dependence on information technology in all sphere of management including human resources has increased substantially. This course aims at modernizing and increasing the efficiency of human resources managers through proper use of computer based information. HRM 548 Human Resources Accounting ( credits) The purpose of this course is to focus on different aspects of Human Resources Accounting (HRA), which is in fact inextricably linked up with Human Resources Management (HRM). To fulfill the requirement of this course, emphasis may be laid on the topics including Human Resources Accounting: its meaning, objectives and historical development, HRA and conventional accounting theory, moving frontiers of personnel management: HRM and HRA, impact of HRA information on personnel management decisions, applicability of HRA to external financial reporting, measurement of Human Resources Value (HRV) and different models related thereto, methodology of accounting for human resources, should HRV be put on the position statement? HRA-incorporated external financial reports vis-à-vis decisions regarding selection of an organization for share investment purposes, HRA: professional stance in Bangladesh and the like. CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU) 6