Post Graduate Programme in Executive Leadership - (2010 - 11)

Specialisations / Electives:
• Marketing & Sales

• Finance & Financial Services
• Human Resource

• Manufacturing & Operations
• Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Building

Pre-Joining Studies and Assignments (April - May 2010),

Course Structure & subjects : During 1st April2010 to 30th May 2010, those who are admitted, are to do a series of assignments being at home town. They are also to get trained themselves in MS word, Excel, Access and Power Point. These will not be taught at SCMLD as it would waste valuable time.

Also the above period is to be utilized for reading the following being at home, additional to the above computer skills, viz.• Basic Applied Mathematics • Basic Micro & Macro Economics • Consumer Behaviour • English Grammar & Communication • One Biography and reading Mr. Ramchandra Guha’s ‘India After Gandhi’ and Lord Meghnad Desai’s "The Re-discovery of India". Bridge programme students will do this in April 2010.

Syllabi, reference books and assignment details will be on our website and also e-mailed to those admitted. All these are credit courses and examinations / tests / viva - voce will be held for all these, during June 2010.
Admitted students may also undergo Art of Living, Vipassana and Yoga & Pranayama training during this period, on their own. This will give them added advantage. Students of ‘Bridge Programme’ will have to do this during April 2010.

Trimester-I

Induction 2nd & 3rd June 2010 along with parents

4th June - 30th June 2010 : daily drills for alignment to SCMLD ways of campus life and the learning processes.
Sessions on : Unblocking inhibitions, removing fear and anxieties, public speaking, basic business maths, basics of statistics, basics of accounting & financial reporting, business plan essentials, essentials of communication, holistic health, life, time & stress management, learning to learn and kaizen practice in hostels, assignments of meeting first generation entrepreneurs etc. will be covered. This will be followed by the following. Hence this trimester is of four months. Rest will be of three months.

1st July - 30th September 2010 regular sessions

Common Courses :
• Fundamentals of Business & Entrepreneurship

• Market Research & Business Plan Development

• Data Collection & Analysis - Basics Statistics

• Kaizen

• Basics of excel

• Microeconomics

• Basics of Marketing

• Production and Operations

• Thinking Quality - Systems Thinking - I

• Current Affairs

• Own Choice Activity

IGNOU courses :

• Accounting & Finance for Managers (MS-4)
• Management Functions & Behaviour (MS-1)

• Management of Human Resources (MS-2)

• Research Methodology for Management Decisions (MS-95)

Regular Workshops :

• Vedanta for Life & Personal leadership

• Knowledge Research

• Self Development Portfolios

• Communication Skills

• Leadership - Leading the Self: concepts, techniques & practice

• CDP - I (Career Development Programme)

• CFP /CPIM coaching

• NEN activity
Vipassana camp: 12 days during September 2010 (Tentative)

Tests / Viva- Voce - Computer Skills & Pre - joining Assignments and home study subjects: 28-30 June 2010.

Trimester-II
(1st October 2010 - 31st December 2010)

Common Courses :
• Fundamentals of Business & Entrepreneurship II

• Human Psychology

• Organisational Behaviour

• Production & Operations II

• Applied Statistics & SPSS

• Marketing for managers

• Own choice activity
• Advanced Research Methods

• Thinking Quality - Systems Thinking-II
• Current Affairs

• Team Leadership

• Household / other surveys (during diwali).

IGNOU courses :

• Accounting & Finance for Managers (MS-4)
• Management Functions & Behaviour (MS-1)

• Management of Human Resources (MS-2)

• Research Methodology for Management Decisions (MS-95)

• Economic & Social Environment (MS-3)
• Information Systems for Managers (MS-7)

Workshops :

• Negotiation & Winning Skills

• Transactional Analysis

• Art of Living

• Advanced Excel - Practice

• CFP \ CPIM coaching

• Customer & Customer Relations

• CDP-II

• Vedanta for Life & Personal leadership

• Business plan Essentials

• NEN activity

Self Planned & Operationalised Out Of the Box activity : Any business, to earn a profit targeted in advance and approved by the institute (From concept to execution in teams of three). Minimum profit to be earned will be prescribed.

Trimester-III
(1st January 2010 - 15th April 2010)

Common Courses :

• Supply Chain System

• Project Planning & Execution

• Commercial Legal System

• Organisational & Execution Leadership

• Mini Internship with Retailers

• Specialisation Specific Employer Surveys
• Thinking Quality - Systems Thinking-III

• Fundamentals of Business & Entrepreneurship III

• Own Choice Activity

• Current affairs

• DBMS
• Customer connect Assignments.

IGNOU courses:

• Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications (MS-8)

• Organisational Design, Development and Change (MS-10)

• Strategic Management (MS-11)

• Economic & Social Environment (MS-3)

• Information Systems for Managers (MS-7)

Specialisations:
For any specialisation to be offered, a minimum of 25 students should sign up.

Marketing & Sales

• Consumer Behaviour

• Marketing Research

• Sales & Salesmanship

• Industrial & Institutional Sales

• Emerging Trends in Marketing (E-Marketing, Tele - Marketing, Multi Level Marketing, Viral & Buzz Marketing)

• Strategic Marketing (Cases)

Finance & Financial Services

• Corporate Finance (Commercial)

• Merchant and financial institutions

• Banking and financial institutions

• Security analysis and Portfolio Management

• Fixed income securities

• CFP Coursework

Human Resource

• Creating Competent Employees

• Appraisals & Performance Improvement Systems

• HR Economics & Productivity
• Establishment Administration & Compliances

• Compensation and Rewards

• Labour Laws I

• Plant Establishment ,administration and compliance

Manufacturing & Operations

• Production Planning & Control
• Enterprise Resource Planning I

• World Class Manufacturing

• Plant Administration & Compliances

• CPIM Coursework

• Technology Management

Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Building

• Consumer Behaviour Studies

• Commercial Banking & Financial Institutions

• Establishment Administration & Compliances

• Corporate Finance (Commercial)

Workshops on

• Team working

• Interpersonal skills

• Career Planing
• Six Sigma, ISO and TQM

• Gita on Action Leadership

• CDP III

• Vedanta for Life & Personal leadership

Common to Trimesters -I, II & III (all specialisations)

Credit courses / Assignments :

• Library work

• Yoga, pranayama, workout, meditation & relaxation practice

• Out bound trips

• Out of the box sales work

• Event organisation (by team of five)

• CEOs & Mini Seminars
• Current Affairs Test - every week

• Hostel inspection & grading every week

• Group community / Kaizen work & Evaluation

• Earning while Learning work

• Distributed Team Learning & Extempore Presentations, Group Discussions & Rapid Fire viva-voce
Industry / Business Internship (Being at home / in home towns or staying in hostel)

Common to all specialisations : 1st May - 30th June 2010: Industry / Sector / Student Specific.
The academics and grooming come to an end by 15th April 2010. However revision workshops as follows will be provided to volunteer students at no extra cost during internship period if they are in Pune. Internship Report is a 10 credit course. Minimum 500 hrs. of actual field work is envisaged. One can submit report latest by 30th June 2010.

The revision workshops / classes will be held in the evenings or during weekends for the subjects specified below :
• SPSS : Theory & Practicals (Software Package for Social Science data analysis)

• Business Strategy

• Advanced Statistics

• Advanced Excel
• Analytics & Report Writing

• Presentations & Shared Learning

• GD / Interview Skill Training, Discover the Self process in batches of 50 - 55 students on Outbound camp for those who will be doing internship in Pune industries
• Quality system & techniques, SAS / Oracle, Cross cultural aspects or any other subject - sector / industry / company specific provided 25 or more students request for it. It is flexible as per requirement of the students and the business world dynamics. Those who volunteer for this (May - June) coaching and pass, will get special certificates to that effect or extra credits. All these are to make students confident, competent and industry / business ready.

Students can stay in hostels if internships are in Pune companies. Mess will be available for breakfast & dinner. It should be paid for separately.

Internship is to understand business processes across all functions viz. Marketing, Finance, HR, IT and Manufacturing. Any Executive, to be successful in his/her specialized roles, has to be a businessperson first and then a functional expert. Corporates now look for people who are versatile and multi skilled. Stipend may or may not be available depending on companies.

SCMLD strives to provide maximum. Students should stretch enough to take maximum. Hard work with tenacity is essential. You can take as much as you want from SCMLD. All programmes at SCMLD are evaluated and GPA / CGPA is awarded.

Convocation : 14th July 2011 with a 2 day Pre-Convocation Foundation Day Seminar.

Successful in PGPEL, interested students can seek admission to Advanced Programme in Executive Leadership (APEL - 2010-11) without any entrance test or Bridge / Orientation Programme.