{"id":97187,"date":"2021-03-22T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=97187"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:07:25","slug":"management-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-syllabus\/management-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Management Optional UPSC Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Management Optional-Syllabus<\/strong><\/p>\n

MANAGEMENT<\/strong>
\nThe candidate should make a study of the concept of development of Management as science and
\nart drawing upon the contributions of leading thinkers of management and apply the concepts to the
\nreal life of government and business decision-making keeping in view the changes in the strategic and
\noperative environment.<\/p>\n

PAPER-I<\/h5>\n

1. Managerial Function and Process : <\/strong>
\nConcept and foundations of management, Evolution of Management Thoughts; Managerial
\nFunctions\u2014Planning, Organizing, Controlling; Decision-making; Role of Manager, Managerial skills;
\nEntrepreneurship; Management of innovation; Managing in a global environment, Flexible Systems
\nManagement; Social responsibility and managerial ethics; Process and customer orientation;
\nManagerial processes on direct and indirect value chain.<\/p>\n

2. Organisational Behaviour and Design :<\/strong>
\nConceptual model of organization behaviour; The individual processes\u2014personality, values
\nand attitude, perception, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work stress and stress
\nmanagement; The dynamics of Organization behaviour\u2014power and politics, conflict and
\nnegotiation, leadership process and styles, communication; The Organizational
\nProcesses\u2014decision-making, job design; Classical, Neoclassical and Contingency approaches to
\norganizational design; Organizational theory and design\u2014Organizational culture, managing
\ncultural diversity, learning Organization; Organizational change and development; Knowledge
\nBased Enterprise\u2014systems and processes; Networked and virtual organizations.<\/p>\n

3. Human Resource Management :<\/strong>
\nHR challenges; HRM functions; The future challenges of HRM; Strategic Management of
\nhuman resources; Human resource planning; Job analysis; Job evaluation, Recruitment and
\nselection; Training and development; Promotion and transfer; Performance management;
\nCompensation management and bnenefits; Employee morale and productivity; Management of
\nOrganizational climate and Industrial relations; Human resources accounting and audit; Human
\nresource information system; International human resource management.<\/p>\n

4. Accounting for Managers :<\/strong>
\nFinancial accounting\u2014concept, importance and scope, generally accepted accounting
\nprinciples, preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a balance sheet
\nand measurment of business income, inventory valuation and depreciation, financial statement
\nanalysis, fund flow analysis, the statement of cash flows; Management accounting concept, need,
\nimporance and scope; Cost accounting\u2014records and processes, cost ledger and control accounts,
\nreconciliation and integration bwtween financial and cost accounts; Overhead cost and control, Job
\nand process costing, Budget and budgetary control, Performance budgeting, Zero-base budgeting,
\nrelevant costing and costing for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis, marginal
\ncosting and absorption costing.<\/p>\n

5. Financial Management :<\/strong>
\nGoal of Finance Function. Concepts of value and return. Valuation of bonds and Shares;
\nManagement of working capital : Estimation and Financing; Management of cash, receivables,
\ninventory and current liabilities; Cost of capital ; Capital budgeting; Financial and operating
\nleverage; Design of capital structure: theories and practices; Shareholder value creation: dividend
\npolicy, corporate financial policy and strategy, management of corporate distress and restructuring
\nstrategy; Capital and money markets: institutions and instruments; Leasing hire purchase and
\nventure capital; Regulation of capital market; Risk and return: portfolio theory; CAPM; APT;
\nFinancial derivatives: option, futures, swap; Recent reforms in financial sector.<\/p>\n

6. Marketing Management : <\/strong>
\nConcept, evolution and scope; Marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing
\nplan; Segmenting and targeting the market; Positioning and differentiating the market offering;
\nAnalyzing competition; Analyzing consumer markets; Industrial buyer behaviour; Market research;
\nProduct strategy; Pricing strategies; Designing and managing Marketing channels; Integrated
\nmarketing communications; Building customer staisfaction, Value and retention; Services and
\nnon-profit marketing; Ethics in marketing; Consumer protection; Internet marketing; Retail
\nmanagement; Customer relationship management; Concept of holistic marketing.<\/p>\n

PAPER-II<\/h5>\n

1. Quantitative Techniques in Decision-making : <\/strong>
\nDescriptive statistics\u2014tabular, graphical and numerical methods, introduction to probability,
\ndiscrete and continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics-sampling distributions,
\ncentral limit theorem, hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions,
\ninference about population variances, Chisquare and ANOVA, simple correlation and regression,
\ntime series and forecasting, decision theory, index numbers; Linear programming\u2014problem
\nformulation, simplex method and graphical solution, sensitivity analysis.<\/p>\n

2. Production and Operations Management :<\/strong>
\nFundamentals of operations management; Organizing for production; Aggregate production
\nplanning, capacity planning, plant design: process planning, plant size and scale of operations,
\nManagement of facilities; Line balancing; Equipment replacement and maintenance; Production
\ncontrol; Supply, chain management\u2014vendor evaluation and audit; Quality management; Statistical
\nprocess control, Six Sigma; Flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems; World class
\nmanufaturing; Project management concepts, R&D management, Management of service
\noperations; Role and importance of materials management, value analysis, make or buy decision;
\nInventory control, MRP; Waste management.<\/p>\n

3. Management Information System :<\/strong>
\nConceptual foundations of information systems; Information theory; Information resource
\nmanagement; Types of information Systems; Systems Development\u2014Overview of Systems and
\nDesign; System Development management life-cycle, Designing online and distributed
\nenvironments; Implementation and control of project; Trends in information technology;
\nManaging data resources\u2014Organising data. DSS and RDBMS; Enterprise Resource Planning
\n(ERP), Expert systems, e-Business architecture, e-Governance; Information systems planning,
\nFlexibility in information systems; User involvement; Evaluation of information systems.<\/p>\n

4. Government Business Interface :<\/strong>
\nState participation in business, Interaction between Government, Business and different
\nChambers of Commerce and Industry in India; Government\u2019s ploicy with regard to Small Scale
\nIndustries; Government clearances for establishing a new enterprise; Public Distribution System;
\nGovernment control over price and distribution; Consumer Protection Act (CPA) and The Role of
\nVoluntary Organizations in protecting consumers\u2019 rights; New Industrial Policy of the Government :
\nliberalization, deregulation and privatisation; Indian planning system; Government policy
\nconcerning development of Backward areas\/regions; The Responsibilities of the business as well
\nas the Government to protect the environment; Corporate Governance; Cyber Laws.<\/p>\n

5. Strategic Cost Management :<\/strong>
\nBusiness policy as a field of study; Nature and scope of strategic management, Strategic intent,
\nvision, objectives and policies; Process of strategic planning and implementa-tion; Environmental
\nanalysis and internal analysis; SWOT analysis; Tools and techniques for strategic analysis\u2014Impact
\nmatrix: The experience curve, BCG matrix, GEC mode, Industry analysis, Concept of value chain;
\nStrategic profile of a firm; Framework for analysing competition; Competitive advantage of a firm;
\nGeneric competitive strategies; Growth strategies\u2014expansion, integration and diversification;
\nConcept of core competence, Strategic flexibility; Reinventing strategy; Strategy and structure;
\nchief Executive and Board; turnaround management; Management of strategic change; Strategic
\nalliances, Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy and corporate evolution in the Indian context.<\/p>\n

6. International Business :<\/strong>
\nInternational Business Environment : Changing composition of trade in goods and services;
\nIndia\u2019s Foreign Trade: Policy and trends; Financing of International trade; Regional Economic
\nCooperation; FTAs; Internationalisation of service firms; International production; Operation
\nManagement in International companies; International Taxation; Global competitiveness and
\ntechnological developments; Global E-Business; Designing global organisational structure and
\ncontrol; Multicultural management; Global business strategy; Global marketing strategies; Export
\nManagement; Export-Import procedures; Joint Ventures; Foreign Investment: Foreign direct
\ninvestment and foreign portfolio investment; Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign
\nExchange Risk Exposure Management; World Financial Markets and International Banking;
\nExternal Debt Management; Country Risk Analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Management Optional-Syllabus MANAGEMENT The candidate should make a study of the concept of development of Management as science and art drawing upon the contributions of leading thinkers of management and apply the concepts to the real life of government and business decision-making keeping in view the changes in the strategic and operative environment. PAPER-I 1.… Continue reading Management Optional UPSC Syllabus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":50153,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97187\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}