Second Semester Syllabus on the M.Tech Course on Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship
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Development Communication
Managerial and Political Economics
Project & Financial Management
ERP Solutions and Knowledge Management
Appropriate Technologies
Resource Management
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ATEP 908
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DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION
INTRODUCTION
1. Concept and relevance of Development Communication
2. The Nature and Component of Development Process
DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION IN
1. Industry
2. Agriculture
3. Health and Sanitation
4. Environment Protection and
5. Socioeconomic Development
THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION
1. Dominant Theory
2. Self Reliance Theory
3. Diffusion Theory
4. Dependent and Inter-dependence theory
BACKGROUND OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
1. Social Development
2. Economic Development
3. Political Development
4. Cultural Development
5. Good Governance
ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN COMMUNICATION
1. Planning Development Communication Campaign by Government, NGO and UN Agencies
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Mode of Teaching:
Seminar Style of Discussion, Lecture, Assignment and Examination
Reading Lists:
Books:
1. Murthy, D.V.R. Development of Journalism, Dominant Publishers, 2001
2. Naarula, Uma. Development Communication Theory and Practice, Har-Anand Publication Ltd.
New Delhi; 1990.
3. Sharma, Suresh Chandra, Media Communication and Development, Rawat Publication, 1987.
UNESCO, ‘Different Theories and Practice’, 1982
Journals:
1. Development Communication
2. Communication for Development
3. Communication for Development and Change
4. International Journal of Information Communication and Technologies
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ATEP 909
Second Semester Syllabus on
3 Credits
Managerial and Political Economics
INTRODUCTION:
1. Definition, nature and Scope of Managerial Economics
2. Managerial Economics and Micro-Economics
3. Application of Economics in Managerial decision making
4. Politics of Economic Crisis
TYPES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIRFUTURE GOALS
1. Proprietary Firms
2. Partnership Firms
3. Joint Stock Companies
4. Public Sector Undertakings
5. Cooperative Societies
6. Non-Profit Organization
7. Organizational Goals
8. Profit Maximization
DEMAND ANALYSIS
1. Determinant of Market Demand
2. Law of Demand
3. Elasticity of Demand
4. Measurement of Demands and its use
5. The Techniques of Demand Forecasting
6. Political and Market Solutions to Collective Problems
PRODUCTION AND COSTS
1. Meaning of Production Function
2. Law of Variable Productions
3. Law of Supply and Elasticity of Supply
4. Cost and Cost Functions
5. Short term Cost and their use in Decision Making
6. Determinants of Costs
7. Monetary and Fiscal Policy
8. Breakeven Analysis
9. Cost Forecasting
PRICING AND OUTPUT DETERMINATION
1. Pricing Decision under different Market forms like, perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly
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2. Pricing Methods
3. Pricing in public Sector undertakings and Cooperative Societies
COST BENEFT ANALYSIS
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Private vs Public Goods
Govt. investment
Overall Resource Allocation
Steps in Cost benefit analysis
Justification of cost benefit analysis
GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
1. Need for Govt. intervention in the Market
2. Price Control
3. Support prices and Administered Prices
4. Prevention and Control of Monopoly
5. Protection of Consumers’ interest
6. Economic Liberalization
7. Globalization, the Financial Crisis and the Recession
8. Process of Disinvestments
9. Need and Methods
10. Policy Planning as a guide to overall Business Development
Reading Lists:
Books:
1. Andrew Gillespie, Business Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013
2. Damodaran, Managerial Economics,2nd ed. Oxford University Press.2013
3. Dominick Salvatore, Managerial Economics, 7th ed. Oxford university Press. 2013
4. Keat, Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today’s Decision Makers. 6th ed.Pearson, 2012
5. Mark Hirschey, Managerial Economics, 10th ed. Thomson: South Western College Publishing,
2003
6. Petersen/Jain, Managerial Economics, Pearson, 2012.
7. James P. , Caporaso and Devid P.Levine, Theories of Political Economy, New York, Cambridge
University Press, 1992
8. Peter, A. Gouravich, Politics in Hard Times, Cornell University Press, 1988.
Journals:
1. Journal on Managerial Economics
2. Journal of Managerial Issues
3. Managerial and Decision Economics
4. Cambridge Journal of Economics
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ATEP 910
Second Semester Syllabus on
4 Credits
PROJECT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
Purpose, life cycle and Uniqueness
PROJECT SELECTION
Profitability, Competitive Necessity and Operating Necessity
PROJECT PLANNING
1. Overview: Goals, Scope and the schedule to be followed
2. Background: The reasons for the project and gives some identification of main reasons for
initiating the project.
3. Objectives: Detailed statement of the general goals mentioned in the background.
4. Approach: Broadly points at the way in which the project aims to accomplish its objectives
5. Schedule: Various tasks for the preparation of cost effective master schedule.
6. Resources: The task wise budget and aggregated to form the project budget. Other resources,
like capital equipment and rented machines are also budgeted and scheduled.
7. Staffing: List of the Personnel requirements (specialized skills/any training to be imparted.
8. Monitoring: Control, Procedures. Various techniques of collecting and evaluating information on
project performances including finance.
9. Risk: Plan for unforeseen problems for unanticipated crisis, including anticipated disasters.
ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGERS
1. Responsibility
2. Acquiring Resources
3. Staffing Project
4. Dealing with Obstacles
5. Communication
6. Negotiations
7. Scheduling
8. Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
9. Networking Techniques
PROBLEMS
1. Human and Mechanical Problems
2. Budgeting
3. Labour unrest etc.
4. PROJECT CONTROL ON
1. Performance, Cost and Time
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2. Post Performance Control: after completion of the Project
3. Recording of Good and Bad Practices from scheduling to budgeting to control.
Reading lists:
Books:
1. Archibald, R.D, Managing High Technology Programmes, New York: John Wiley, 1992
2. Bierman, H. The Capital Budgeting Decision: Economic Analysis of Investment Projects ( 7th
ed.)New York: Macmillan, 1988
3. Kerzner, H. Project Management: A System Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
(9th ed.) . New York: John Wiley, 2005.
4. Meredith, J.R. and S.J.Mantel, Project Management: A Managerial Approach (6th ed). New York:
John Wiley, 2005
Journals:
1. Beale, P. and M.Freeman, ‘Successful Project Execution: A Model’, Project Management Journal,
December, 1991.
2. Cookie-Davis, T. ‘Return of the Project Manager’, Management Today, May 1990
3. Takeuchi, and I.Nonaka, ’The New Product Development Game,’ Harvard Business Review,
January-February, 1986.
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ATEP 911
Second Semester Syllabus on
3 Credits
ERP Solutions and Knowledge Management
INTRODUCTION:
1. ERP Solution and Its Utility
2. Usability
3. Security
MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF ERP:
1. Team Structure: Centralized, Decentralized and Tree Structure
2. Domain Specialized
ERP SOLUTION AND Its UTILITY:
1. ERP Solution in Practice
2. User’s suggestions from Manual to ERP Transformation
IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP:
1. Fragmentation of ERP
2. Types of User with their data accessibility
3. Proposal for more user friendly interface and abilities
4. Configuration
5. Customization
6. Extension
7. Data flow diagram process for different segments
PURPOSES:
1. Advantages & Purposes
2. Disadvantages
3. Benefits
FUTURE PROSPECT OF ERP:
1. Obstacles of ERP
2. Testing and Maintenance of ERP
Reading Lists:
Books:
1. Sheilds, Mureell G., E-Business and ERP, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2001
2. Sheilds, Mureell G., E-Business and ERP: Rapid Implementation and Project Planning. John Wiley
and Sons, Inc., 2001
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3. Monk, Ellen and Wagner, Brett. Concept s in Enterprise Resource Planning. (3rd ed.) Boston,
Massachusetts: Technology Cengage Learning. 2009
4. O’Brien, James. Management Information System (MIS). New York: McGraw Hill, Irwin, 2011.
5. Chang, SI; Guy Gable; Errol Smythe; Greg Timbrell. Thin Enterprise Resource Planning(2nd
ed.)Boston: Thomson Course Technology. 2006
Journals:
1. Shaul, L. and Tauber, D. ‘CSFs along ERP life-cycle in SMEs: a field Study. Industrial Management
& Data
Systems, 112(3), 2012.
2. __________________. ‘Critical Success Factors in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Review
of the
Last Decade’, ACM Computing Surveys, 45(4), 2013.
3. Gill, R. ‘The Rise of two-tier ERP’, Strategic Finance, 93(5), 35-40, 2011
4. Brown, C. and I.Vessey, ‘Managing the Next Wave Enterprise System: Leveraging Lessons from
ERP,’MIS Quarterly Executive, (2), 2003
5. King, W. ‘Ensuring ERP Implementation Success’, Information Systems Management, Summer,
2005
6. Thomson H. Davenport, ‘Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System’, Harvard Business
Review, July – August, 1998.
7. Vilpola, Inka Heidi. ‘A Method for Improving ERP implementation success by the principles and
process o f user – centred design’. Enterprise Information System, 2(1), 2008.
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ATEP 912
Second Semester Syllabus on
3 Credits
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES
INTRODUCTION
1. Concepts, Background and meaning
2. Movement of Appropriate Technology
3. Practical Implications and Theoretical issues
APPLICATION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES
1. Alternate energy sources:
a. Solar energy
b. Wind energy
c. Bio-fuels
d. Bio-gas
e. Tidal energy
f. Stem energy
2. Disaster Mitigation:
a. Earthquake/ Cyclone Resistant housing design with appropriate Materials
b. Landslide
c. Flood Resistant Habitation
d. Fire resistant Houses
3. Water and Sanitation:
a. Rain Water Harvesting , Designing Dams and Pipelines
b. Appropriate Technique for construction and design of Sanitation
c. Sewerage
d. Water Recycling
e. Solid and Liquid Waste Management
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES TOWARDS RECYCLING OF WASTE MATERIALS
a. Glass
b. Paper
c. Tin
d. Wood wastes
e. Recycling Units
DOCUMENTATION ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
1. Regional Specific Technologies and Knowledge
2. Preparation of Human and Material Resources
3. Transfer and Exchange of Appropriate Technologies
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THE PRODUCTS OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES
1. Demonstration and sale of the Products
2. Development of Appropriate Technology Park
3. Role of Entrepreneurs towards Promotion of Such Products
R & D ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND INDEGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
1. Stimulating R&D activities in small organization for rapid dissemination of Technological
advances
2. Small Business Innovation Research Programme
3. Small Business Technology Transfer Programme
4. Subsidies for up gradation of small venture
5. Business Incubation
Reading Lists:
Books:
1. Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull, Appropriate Technology: Tools Choices and Implications
2. Richard Heeks, Technology and Developing Countries: Practical Applications Theoretical Issues
3. John Pickford, The Worth of Water Technical Briefs on Health, Water and Sanitation,
Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998
4. Stevenson, L and A.Lundstrom. Patterns and Trends in Entrepreneurship: SME Policy and Practice
in Ten Economies, Orebro, Sweden:The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research
5. Storey, D.J. Understanding the Small Business. London and New York:Routledge, 1994
6. _________, Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Enterprises and Public Policies, Hand Book of
Entrepreneurship Research, New York: Springer, 2005
Journals:
1. Knopp, L. ‘State of the Business Incubation’, NBIA, Review, August 2007, 24(4)
2. Duff, A.. ‘ Best Practice in Business Incubator Management’, AUSTEP Strategic Partnering Pty
Ltd, 2004
3. Lichtenstein, G.A. ‘The Significance of Relationship in Entrepreneurship in Two Business
Incubator.’ Ohio: NBIA Publication., 1992.
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Second Semester Syllabus on
ATEP 913
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
4 Credits
INTRODUCTION:
Definition and the meaning of Resource Management
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Types of Resources
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Information Resource
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Functions of Information Resource
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Importance of Information Resource
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Human Resource
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Natural Resource
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Land Resources
RESOURCE INVENTORY:
The Preparation of Resource Inventory would be through Participation of the Stakeholders.
RESOURCE TYPING:
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Purpose of Resource Typing
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Maintenance of Inventory – State/ Local Government level
RESOURCE MAPING:
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Tools, techniques and Methodology
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Application of Geographical Information System (GIS), Remote-sensing, Global positing System
(GPS), and ICT for mapping of Natural Resources.
Reading Lists:
Books:
1. Michael, J. Conroy, James T. Peterson. Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: A
Structured, Adaptive Approach, Wiley Publication
2. Kohl, Michael, Magnussen. Steen S. Marchetti, Marco. Sampling Methods, Remote Sensing and
GIS Multi-resource Forest Inventory, Springer Publication.
3. Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Good Child, David J. Maguire and David W.Rhind, Geographic
Information Systems and Science, Wiley Publication
4. Stan Morain. GIS Solutions in Natural Resource Management
Journals:
1. Resource Conservation and Recycling Journal
2. Information Resources Management
3. Resource Management Materials
4. Annual Review of Environment and Resource
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