Technological Innovation and Management Entrepreneurship (BEC501)

Technological Innovation and Management Entrepreneurship

Course Code BEC501 
CIE Marks 50
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 03 
SEE Marks 50
Total Number of Lecture Hours 40  
Exam Hours 03
CREDITS-03

MODULE-1

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, Text1).

Planning: Planning-Nature, Importance, Types, Steps and Limitations of Planning; Decision Making – Meaning, Types and Steps in Decision Making

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MODULE-2

Organizing and Staffing: Organization-Meaning, Characteristics, Process of Organizing, Principles of Organizing, Span of Management (meaning and importance only), Departmentalization, Committees–Meaning, Types of Committees; Centralization Vs Decentralization of Authority and Responsibility; Staffing-Need and Importance, Recruitment and Selection Process (Selected topics from Chapters

7, 8 & 11,Text 1).

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; 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

(Selected topics from Chapters 15 to 18 and 9, Text 1).

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MODULE-3

Social Responsibilities of Business: Meaning of Social Responsibility, Social Responsibilities of Business towards Different Groups, Social Audit, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance (Selected topics from Chapter 3, Text 1).

Entrepreneurship: Definition of Entrepreneur, Importance of Entrepreneurship, concepts of Entrepreneurship, Characteristics of successful Entrepreneur, Classification of Entrepreneurs, Myths of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Development models, Entrepreneurial development cycle, Problems faced by Entrepreneurs and capacity building for Entrepreneurship (Selected topics from

Chapter 2, Text 2).

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MODULE-4

Modern Small Business Enterprises: Role of Small Scale Industries, Impact of Globalization and WTO on SSIs, Concepts and definitions of SSI Enterprises, Government policy and development of the Small Scale sector in India, Growth and Performance of Small Scale Industries in India, Sickness in SSI sector, Problems for Small Scale Industries, Ancillary Industry and Tiny Industry (Definition only)

(Selected topics from Chapter1, Text 2).

Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis- Idea Generation; Creativity and Innovation; Identification of Business Opportunities; Market Entry Strategies; Marketing Feasibility; Financial Feasibilities; Political Feasibilities; Economic Feasibility; Social and Legal Feasibilities; Technical Feasibilities; Managerial Feasibility, Location and Other Utilities Feasibilities.(Selected topics from Chapter

6(Page No. 111-117) & Chapter 7(Page No. 140-142), Text 2)

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MODULE-5

Business model – Meaning, designing, analyzing and improvising; Business Plan – Meaning, Scope and Need; Financial, Marketing, Human Resource and Production/Service Plan; Business plan Formats; Project report preparation and presentation; Why some Business Plan fails? (Selected topics from Chapter 8 (Page

No 159-164, Text 2)

Financing and How to start a Business? Financial opportunity identification; Banking sources; Nonbanking Institutions and Agencies; Venture Capital – Meaning L1,L2, and Role in Entrepreneurship; Government Schemes for funding business; Pre launch, L3 Launch and Post launch requirements; Procedure for getting License and Registration; Challenges and Difficulties in Starting an Enterprise (Selected topics from Chapter

7(Page No 147-149), Chapter 5 (Page No 93-99) & Chapter 8(Page No. 166-172) Text 2)

Project Design and Network Analysis: Introduction, Importance of Network Analysis, Origin of PERT and CPM, Network, Network Techniques, Need for Network Techniques, Steps in PERT, CPM, Advantages, Limitations and Differences.(Selected topics from Chapters 20, Text 3).

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Text Books:

1. Principles of Management – P.C Tripathi, P.N Reddy, McGraw Hill Education, 6th Edition,

2017. ISBN-13:978-93-5260-535-4.

2. Entrepreneurship Development Small Business Enterprises- Poornima M Charantimath,

Pearson Education 2008, ISBN 978-81-7758-260-4.

3. Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Development and Management by Vasant Desai. HPH 2007,

ISBN: 978-81-8488-801-2.

4. Robert D. Hisrich, Mathew J. Manimala, Michael P Peters and Dean A. Shepherd,

“Entrepreneurship”, 8th Edition, Tata Mc-graw Hill Publishing Co.ltd.-new Delhi, 2012.

Reference Book:

1. Essentials of Management: An International, Innovation and Leadership perspective by

Harold Koontz, Heinz Weihrich McGraw Hill Education, 10th Edition 2016. ISBN- 978-93-

392-2286-4.