Organisation : Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission
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Designation : Assistant Professor Exam

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Assistant Professor Syllabus :
Management :
I. Managerial Function :
Concept and Foundations of Management, Evolution of Management Thoughts; Managerial Functions – Planning, Organizing, Controlling; Decision making; Role of Manager, Managerial skills; Communication, its role and process, barriers and effective communication Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial competencies Entrepreneurial process, Entrepreneur, Ownership structures;

Management of innovation ; Managing in a global environment, Flexible Systems Management; Social responsibility and managerial ethics. Corporate governance and the ethical value system, culture and individual ethics, environmental protection and fair trade practice, transparency, disclosures and corporate social responsibility; Process and customer orientation; Managerial processes on direct and indirect value chain.

II. Organisational Behaviour and Design :
Conceptual model of organization behaviour; The individual processes – personality, values and attitude, perception and formation, motivation, learning and reinforcement. Theories of motivation, work stress and stress management; The dynamics of organization behaviour – power and politics, conflict and negotiation, leadership process and styles, communication;

The Organizational Processes - decision making, job design; Classical, Neoclassical and Contingency approaches to organizational design; Organizational theory and design - organizational culture, managing cultural diversity, learning organization; organizational change and development ; Knowledge Based Enterprise – systems and processes; Networked and virtual organizations.

III. Business Economics :
Conceptual nature and scope of managerial economics, Theory of Demand and elasticity, forecasting and measurement of demand, production and cost function, theory of firm and types of competition, Macroeconomics aggregates and concepts- GNP, GDP. Capital formation and inflation, Determination of National Income. Employment, Balance of Payment, Fiscal impact and investment, Business fluctuation and trade cycle. Economic decisions of 21st century.

IV. Human Resource Management :
HR challenges; HRM functions; The future challenges of HRM; Strategic Management of human resources; Human resource planning; Job analysis; Job evaluation; Recruitment and selection; Training and development; Promotion and transfer; Performance management; Performance Appraisal System methods; Compensation management and benefits; Employee morale and productivity; Management of organizational climate and Industrial relations; Human resources accounting and audit; Human resource information system; International human resource management; Industrial Relations; Grievance mechanism system; Workers participation in management.

V. Accounting for Managers Financial accounting :
concept, importance and scope, generally accepted accounting principles, preparation of financial statements with special reference to analysis of a balance sheet and measurement of business income, inventory valuation and depreciation, financial statement analysis, ratio analysis and fund flow analysis, the statement of cash flows;

Management accounting – concept, need, importance and scope; Cost accounting – records and processes, cost ledger and control accounts, reconciliation and integration between financial and cost accounts; Breakeven point; profit analysis, responsibility accounting and centres.

Overhead cost and control, Job and process costing, Budget and budgetary control, Performance budgeting, Zero-base budgeting, relevant costing and costing for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis, marginal costing and absorption costing. Causes and disposition of variance, Inflation accounting; techniques, Human resource accounting and concepts.

VI. Financial Management Goals of finance function :
Concepts of value and return; Valuation of bonds and shares; Management of working capital : Estimation and financing; Management of cash, receivables, inventory and current liabilities; Cost of capital; Capital budgeting; methods, Internal Rate of Return and introduction of Risk in capital budgeting; Financial and operating leverage; Design of capital structure: theories and practices;

Shareholder value creation: dividend policy, dividend decision and value of firm; and relevant theories; corporate financial policy and strategy, management of corporate distress and restructuring strategy; Capital and money markets : institutions and instruments; Leasing, hire purchase and venture capital; Regulation of capital market; Risk and return: portfolio theory; CAPM; APT; Financial derivatives: option, futures, swap; Recent reforms in financial sector.

VII. Marketing Management :
Concept, evolution and scope; Marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing plan; Segmenting and targeting the market; Positioning and differentiating the market offering; Analyzing competition; Analyzing consumer markets; Consumer Behavior, Brand building, dealing with competition, Brand equity, Product and packaging management, Product Life Cycle and New Product Development, Industrial buyer behaviour; Market research; Product strategy; Pricing strategies;

Designing and managing Marketing channels, channel conflict management; Integrated marketing communications; Building customer satisfaction, Value and retention; Services and non-profit marketing; Ethics in marketing; Consumer protection; Internet marketing; Retail management Strategic Decisions in Retail management, Value chain and inventory management; Customer relationship management; Concept of holistic marketing. Advertising and Personal selling, Direct marketing and Internet marketing, Socially responsible marketing.

VIII. Quantitative Techniques in Decision Making :
Functions and their managerial applications, Concept of derivatives of functions and finding maxima and minima, Descriptive statistics – tabular, graphical and numerical methods, introduction to probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics, sampling distributions, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions, inference about population variances, Chi-square and ANOVA, simple correlation and regression, time series and forecasting, decision theory, index numbers; Linear programming – problem formulation, simplex method and graphical solution, sensitivity analysis. Transportation and Assignment problems, PERT and CPM and managerial applications

XI. Production and Operations Management :
Fundamentals of operations management; Organizing for production; Aggregate production planning, capacity planning, plant design : process planning, plant size and scale of operations, Management of facilities; Line balancing;Equipment replacement and maintenance; Production control; Supply chain management - vendor evaluation and audit;

Quality management; Statistical process control, Six Sigma; Flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems; World class manufacturing; Project management concepts, R&D management, Management of service operations; Role and importance of materials management, value analysis, make or buy decision; Inventory control, MRP; Waste management.