Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship (BEE501)

Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship

Course Code: BEE501
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P: S): 3:0:0:0
Total Hours of Pedagogy: 40 hours
Credits: 3
CIE Marks: 50
SEE Marks: 50
Total Marks: 100
Exam Hours: 3
Examination Nature (SEE): Theory

Module 1

Management and Planning

Management: Nature and Functions of Management - Importance, Definition, Management Functions, Levels of Management, Roles of Manager, Managerial Skills, Management & Administration, Management as a Science, Art & Profession (Selected topics of Chapter 1, Text 1).

Planning: Planning-Nature, Importance, Types, Steps and Limitations of Planning; Decision Making Meaning, Types and Steps in Decision Making(Text 1).

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Module 2

Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling

Organizing: Organization-Meaning, Characteristics, Process of Organizing, Principles of Organizing, Span of Management (meaning and importance only), Departmentalization-Process Departmentalization, Purpose Departmentalization, Committees- Meaning, Types of Committees.

Staffing: Need and Importance, Recruitment and Selection Process.

Directing and Controlling: Meaning and Requirements of Effective Direction, Giving Orders.

Motivation: Nature of Motivation, Motivation Theories (Maslow's Need-Hierarchy Theory and Herzberg's Two Factor Theory).

Communication: Meaning, Importance and Purposes of Communication (Text 1).

  

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Module 3

Leadership, Coordination, and Social Responsibility

Leadership: Meaning, Characteristics, Behavioural Approach of Leadership.

Coordination: Meaning, Types, Techniques of Coordination.

Controlling: Meaning, Need for Control System, Benefits of Control, Essentials of Effective Control System, Steps in Control Process (Text 1).

Social Responsibilities of Business: Meaning of Social Responsibility, Social Responsibilities of Business towards Different Groups, Social Audit, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance (Text 1).

  

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Module 4 

Entrepreneurship and Opportunity Identification

Entrepreneurship: Introduction, Evolution of the concept of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship today, Types of Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial competencies, Capacity Building for Entrepreneurs.

Identification of Business Opportunities: Introduction, Mobility of Entrepreneurs, Business opportunities in India, Models for opportunity Evaluation.

  

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Module 5

Business Plans and Supporting Institutions

Business plans: Introduction, purpose of a Business plan, contents of a Business plan, presenting a Business plan, why do some Business plan fail? Procedure for setting up an Enterprise.

Institutions supporting Business opportunities: Central level institutions- National Board for micro, small & medium Enterprises (NBMSME), MSME-DO, National Small Industries Corporation.

State level institutions: state Directorate Industries and commerce, District Industries Centres, state financial Corporations, State Industrial Development Corporation (SIDC), State Industrial Area Development Board (SIADB).

Other Institutions: NABARD, Technical consultancy organisation (TCO), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Export Promotion Councils, Non governmental Organisations.

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