Saturday, 20 July 2013

Strategic Management [FT 402C] MBA - IV Sem. Syllabus for DAVV Indore Affiliated Institutions

DEVI AHILYA VISHWAVIDYALAYA, INDORE
MBA (Full-Time) Fourh-4th-IV Semester Curriculum/ Syllabus
Strategic Management Syllabus

[FT 402CStrategic Management

Course Contents  

1.  Meaning,  Need  and  Process  of  Strategic  Management;  Business  Policy,  Corporate Planning  and  Strategic Management;  Single  and  Multiple  SBU organizations; Strategic  Decision–Making  Processes    Rational–Analytical,  Intuitive-Emotional, Political – Behavioral; Universality of Strategic Management; Strategists at Corporate Level  and  at  SBU  Level;  Interpersonal,  Informational  and  Decision  Roles  of  a Manager.

2.  Mission,  Business Definition  and  Objectives;  Need,  Formulation  and  changes; Hierarchy of objectives, Specificity of Mission and Objectives.

3.  SWOT Analysis, General, Industry and International Environmental  Factors; Analysis of  Environment,  Diagnosis of  Environment    factors influencing  it;  Environmental Threat and Opportunity Profile (ETOP); Internal Strengths and Weaknesses; Factors affecting;  Techniques  of  Internal Analysis;  Diagnosis of  Strengths and  Weaknesses; Strategic Advantage Profile (SAP).

4.  Strategy Alternatives, Grand Strategies and their sub strategies; Stability, Expansion, Retrenchment  and  Combination;  Internal  and  External  Alternatives;  Related  and Unrelated  Alternatives,  Horizontal  and  Vertical  Alternatives;  Active  and  Passive Alternatives; International Strategy Variations. 

5.  Strategic  Choice  and  Analysis;  Managerial  Choice  Factors,  Choice  Processes – Strategic Gap  Analysis,  ETOP-SAP  Matching,  BCG  Product    Portfolio  Matrix,  G.E.Nine Cell Planning Grid; Contingency Strategies; Prescriptions for choice of Business Strategy; Choosing International Strategies. 

6.  Strategy Implementation,  Concept,  Barriers,  Implementation  Process;  Project  & Procedural Implementation, Resource Allocation; Structural Implementation; Plan and Policy Implementation;  Leadership   Implementation;  Behavioral  Implementation, Implementing Strategy in International Setting.

7.  Strategy  Evaluations and  Control,  Control  and  Evaluation  Process;  Motivation  to Evaluate;  Criteria for Evaluation; Measuring and Feedback; Evaluation and Corrective Action. 

Text books
  • Kazmi, Ajhar  Strategic Management and Business Policy, 3e, 2009Tata McGraw Hill 
  • Lomash & P.K. Mishra Business Policy & Strategic Management Vikas Publication
  • Alpana Trehan Strategic Management 1st edn 2010 Dreamtech, Wiley 
  • A. Nag Strategic Management.Analysis.Implementation.Control. 2011, Vikas Publication 
  • Parthasarthy, Fundamentals of Strategic Management, 2008, Wiley India 
Reference Books 
  • Pankaj Ghemawat-Strategy and the Business Landscape, 2/e.Pearson
  • Strickland, Crafting & Executing Strategy (SIE), 16e2011Tata McGraw Hill 
  • Haberberg  Strategic Management,2010 Oxford Press
  • Tushman Managing Strategic Innovation& Change,2010, Oxford Press
  • Wheelen/Rangarajan,Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy, 9/e Pearson 
Objective This is a top-level management course, and the objective of teaching this course is to enablestudents to  integrate  knowledge  of  various functional  areas  and  other  aspects of management, required for perceiving opportunities and threats for an organization in the long- run  and  second  generation  planning  and   implementation  of  suitable  contingency strategies for seizing / facing these opportunities & threats. 

Examination Scheme: Students shall be evaluated on two components, internal and end semester examination. Internal component shall be of 20 marks based on continuous evaluation .The Semester Examination will be worth 80 marks, it will have two Section, A and B. Section A, worth 60 marks will comprise of seven theory questions out of which a student will be required to attempt any four questions. Section B worth 20 marks will contain Cases. 

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