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International Center for Academics College of Distance Education and Online Studies

Overseas Study Center 9602

Management

Program Guide

Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: 01-4445540, 01-2042289 GPO Box # 8973, NPC 841, Kathmandu, Nepal

www.ica.edu.np

International Center for Academics, College of Distance Education and Online Studies, OSC-9602

Gyaneshwor, Beside German Embassy, Kathmandu. Ph: Tel 4445540 UTL 2042289

Email: [email protected] web site: www.ica.edu.np 2

Program on Offer from School of Management Master of Business Administration (MBA)

MBA (Banking And Finance)

Diploma in Management (DIM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDIM)

Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management

(PGDHRM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (PGDFM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Operations Management

(PGDOM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM)

Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Markets Practice

(PGDFMP)

Learner can choose their specialization to get Post Graduate

Diploma

Master of Business Administration (MBA) The MBA Program consists of 21 courses in all. These

comprise of all the courses in PGDIM (Eleven Courses) i.e.

MS-1 to MS-11

Five courses from any one of the specialization streams.

Compulsory Courses (MS-91, MS-95) and one elective course

(MS-92/93/94/96/97)

Project Course (MS-100) equivalent to 2 courses.

Comprises of four degrees (DIM, PGDIM, Post Graduate

Diploma in specialization and finally an MBA degree.

Learners would be allowed to register maximum four courses in a

semester to enable them to register/re-register proper combination of

21 courses for the award of MBA/MBA(B&F) Degree in five

semesters. However, course(s) once registered must be successfully

completed within four semesters, failing which s/he would need to

revalidate the registration of such course(s) by paying the requisite fee

within the maximum duration of eight years. The validity of a course

registered after 7th year of the initial admission to the Program would




be reduced appropriately, so that the prescribed maximum duration of

eight years would remain unchanged.

The MBA program is divided into semesters as below:

1st Semester

Course Code Course Title

MS-1 Management Functions and Behavior

MS-2 Management of Human Resources

MS-4 Accounting and Finance for Managers

MS-9 Managerial Economics

2nd

Semester


MS-6 Marketing for Managers

MS-7 Information Systems for Managers

MS-8 Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Applications

MS-10 Organizational Design, Development and Change

3rd

Semester


MS-3 Economic and Social Environment

MS-5 Management of Machines and Materials

MS-11 Strategic Management

MS-95 Research Methodology for Management Decisions

4th

Semester


MS-100 Project Work

+ Other from Specialization Area and Integrative Courses

(Depending upon fixed Session)

5th

Semester

Remaining Subjects from Specialization Area and Integrative Courses

(Depending upon fixed Session)




Specialization streams:

P.G. Diploma in Human Resource Management (Any 5)

Offer on Jan Session Offer on July Session

Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-21 Social Processes and

Behavioral Issues MS-25

Managing Change in

Organizations

MS-22 Human Resource

Development MS-26 Organizational Dynamics

MS-23 Human Resource Planning MS-27 Wage and Salary

Administration

MS-24 Employment Relations MS-28 Labor Laws

MS-29

International Human

Resource Management

Academic counseling sessions will be provided only for MS-21, MS-22,

MS-23, MS-25 and MS-26 from HRM.

P.G. Diploma in Financial Management (Any 5)


Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-41 Working Capital

Management MS-44

Security Analysis and

Portfolio Management

MS-42 Capital Investment and

Financing Decisions MS-45

International Financial

management

MS-43 Management Control

Systems MS-46

Management of Financial

Services

Academic counseling sessions will be provided only for MS-42, MS-43,

MS-44, MS-45, and MS- 46 from Financial Management.

P.G. Diploma in Operations Management (Any 5)


Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-51 Operations Research MS-55 Logistics and Supply Chain

Management

MS-52 Project Management MS-56 Materials Management

MS-53 Production/Operational

Management MS-57 Maintenance Management

MS-54 Management of Information

Systems MS-58

Management of R & D and

Innovation

Only consultancy classes will be provided for Operations Management.




P.G. Diploma in Marketing Management (Any 5)


Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-61 Consumer Behavior MS-66 Marketing Research

MS-62 Sales Management MS-68

Marketing Communication

and Advertising

Management

MS-63 Product Management MS-611 Rural Marketing

MS-64 International Marketing MS-612 Retail Management

MS-65 Marketing of Services

Academic counseling sessions will be provided only for MS—61, MS-62,

MS-63, MS-66 and MS-68 from Marketing Management

Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Markets Practice (PGDFMP)

P.G. Diploma in Financial Markets Practice


Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MFP-1 Equity Markets MFP-4 Currency & Debt Markets

MFP-2 Equity Derivatives MFP-5 Professionals in Financial

Markets Practice

MFP-3 Commodity Markets

Integrative Courses

Structure: The Integrative Courses consist of two compulsory and

five elective courses, (out of which the student is required to do one)

and a project, which is equivalent to two courses. This makes a total

of five courses.




Compulsory Courses: Advanced Strategic Management (MS-91)

Elective Courses (Choose any one):

Elective Courses (Choose any one):

Offer on January Session Offer on July Session

Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-92 Management of Public

Enterprises MS-94 Technology Management

MS-93 Management of New and

Small Enterprises MS-96 Total Quality Management

MS-97 International Business

Management

Academic Counseling Session will be provided only for MS-97 from

Integrative courses.

For Banking & Finance:

The semester breakdown will apply as above to Banking & Finance

learners till 4th Semester and after that following will be applicable to

the learners of Banking & Finance:

Specialization Courses (Any 5)

Offer on January Session Offer on July Session

Course

Code Course Title

Course

Code Course Title

MS-423 Marketing of Financial

Services MS-44

Security Analysis and Portfolio

Management

MS-424 International Banking

Management MS-45

International Financial

Management

MS-425 Electronic Banking and

IT in Banks. MS-46

Management of Financial

Services

MS-422 Bank Financial Management

Academic counseling sessions will be provided only for MS-44, MS-45 &

MS-46 from Banking and Finance. For MS-423 & MS-424 only

Consultancy Class will be provided.

Integrative Courses (All compulsory):

MS-95 Research Methodology

MS-494 Risk Management in Banks (Completed through

Consultancy Class)

MS-495 Ethics and Corporate Government in Banks

(Completed through Consultancy Class)

MS-100 Project Course (equivalent to two courses)




All the above courses are of 6 credits each (except MS-100 which is

of 12 credits). Each credit amounts to 30 hours of study comprising all

learning activities. Thus, a student is expected to put in 180 hours of

study for each of the above courses (360 hours for MS-100).

Grading:

Letter grade system is used for grading continuous and term-end

examination components. These letter grades are awarded as below:

Assignment: Term End Exam:

Point Grade Range Letter grade Point Grade Range Letter grade

1.35 up to 1.5 A 3.15 up to 3.5 A

1.05 – below 1.35 B 2.45 – below 3.15 B

0.75 – below 1.05 C 1.75 – below 2.45 C

0.45 – below 0.75 D 1.05 – below 1.75 D

Below 0.45 E Below 1.05 E

Final Grade Calculation: Summation of Point Grade and then the

total is looked upon the grade range to see the Letter Grade.

S

N

Letter

Grade

Qualitative

Level

Percentage

Equivalent

Point

Grade

Point Grade

Range

1 A Excellent 80% and Above 5 4.5 till 5.0

2 B Very Good 60% to 79.9% 4 3.5 but

below 4.5

3 C Good 50% to 59.9% 3 2.5 but

below 3.5

4 D Satisfactory 40% to 49.9% 2 1.5 but

below 2.5

5 E Unsatisfactory Failing 1 Below 1.5

For successfully qualifying a course, a student will have to obtain at

least ‘D’ Grade in both continuous and term-end examination.

However, the overall average should be at least ‘C’ grade for the

successful completion of a course.

Program Duration

S

N

Program Minimum

Duration(

Years)

Maximum

Duration(

Years)

Number of Courses

1 Diploma In

Management

1 8 5 courses

2 Post Graduate

Diploma in

1 .5 8 11 including 5 courses

from DIM




Management

3 Postgraduate

Diploma in

Specialization

1 8 16 courses including 11

from PGDIM

4 MBA/MBA(B

&F)

2.5 8 21 courses including 16

courses of Post graduate

degree in specialization

Credit System The University follows the ‘Credit System’ for most of its

programmers. Each credit amounts to 30 hours of study comprising all

learning activities. Thus, a six credit course involves 180 hours. All

management courses are six credit courses except the project course

which is equivalent to 12 credits. This helps the student to understand

the academic effort one has to put in, in order to successfully complete

a course. Completion of an academic program (Degree, Diploma or

Certificate) requires successful clearing of both, the assignments and

the term-end examination of each course in a program.

Result Interpretation Minimum of ‘D’ grade needs to be obtained in both TEE and

Assignment and an overall ‘C’ grade is required to pass a

particular course.

Make-up exam in case both assignment and TEE has ‘D’ grades

could be done either by re-submission of assignment or by re

appearing in the TEE to obtain at least an overall of C grade in

the course.

Examination Support The students, who are not satisfied with the marks/grades awarded to

them in the Term-end Examination, may do the following:-

1. Apply for re-evaluation by paying the prescribed fee

2. Apply to obtain the photocopy of answer sheet by paying the

prescribed fee

For any of the above process form should be filled before 31st March

for result of December term-end examination and 30th September for

result of June term-end examination or within one month from the

date of declaration of results by following either of the ways.




Learners can direct an email to [email protected] in case of any

discrepancy or call at office hour.

Program Validity The Program is tailored to meet the demand of working group of

learners with a huge flexibility i.e. course could be completed in

maximum of 8 years.

Course Validity Individual subjects validity is for 2 years i.e. once a subject is

registered in a semester learner is eligible to sit for examination in

four consecutive times and successfully complete the program. If

learner fails to complete the program then course should be

revalidated via re-registration.

Procedure to complete the program after expiry of Maximum Period (8 years) Learners who are unable to complete the program within the

maximum period of 08 years, can complete the program by first

seeking fresh admission and once new enrolment number is allotted

by the University, learners may apply for credit transfer of those

courses only, which has been completed in the old enrolment number.

For the incomplete or left over courses learners are required to appear

for TEE and submit assignments as well.

Term End Exam (TEE): TEE is held twice a year in the month of June and December. TEE

comprises of 70% of total grades, with a minimum individual passing

grade of D in TEE. To appear in TEE candidate should ensure course

validity else the result appears as incomplete.

Deadlines for filling TEE are available on the operation calendar

which can be downloaded from ICA website.

http://ica.edu.np/operation-calender.phpalendar.

mailto:[email protected]

http://ica.edu.np/operation-calender.phpalendar




Assignment Assignment comprises of 30% of total grades and has to be submitted

within the deadline provided in the operation calendar. There is a

specified format of assignment that should be followed and responses

of the assignment should not replicate any of the contents directly

copied from course blocks, individual fellow learners. While using

online resource and library resource there should be citations in the

end in a proper citation format giving due credit to the owner of the

resources. Learner need to retain the assignment acknowledgement

slip provided by the library. The issued acknowledgement slip is

mandatory for collecting the evaluated assignments. Learners are

responsible to maintain a copy of assignment for their reference with

themselves when the assignments are sent to the University for

evaluation as in such cases the hard copies of the assignments will not

be returned by the University.

Assignments are uploaded in the website and learners have to submit

the current assignment with question paper attached and follow the

format which is available on the ICA website itself. Assignment can

be accessed from

http://webserver.ignou.ac.in/Assignments/management/mba.htm In some cases where some courses are offered at only certain sessions,

in that case new assignments may not be available hence students are

allowed to do the last available assignment by taking the approval of

Program Coordinator.

Assignment Format can be downloaded from

http://ica.edu.np/formats.php

Students Project Work (MS-100) Learners need to complete MS-100 as per the Guidelines provided by

the University (Collect a copy of Guidelines for Project Course MS-

100 from the Library or download from the website) to finally get

awarded with an MBA degree which is to be completed in two steps:-

Submission and approval of Project Proposal

Submission of Approved Project Report

http://webserver.ignou.ac.in/Assignments/management/mba.htm

http://ica.edu.np/formats.php




In order to get started with the MS-100 Project Work, a learner needs

to obtain a supervisor under whose guidance the project work will be

conducted. A supervisor can be obtained by sending an email to

[email protected] specifying the name of learner, enrollment no and

area of specialization. The appointed supervisor will be valid for

duration of 6 months after which the learners will have to re-validate

the appointment documents with an application and paying applicable

fees. A learner themselves can choose a supervisor for the guide if the

potential supervisor has met the credentials as specified in the MS-100

guideline; however the learner has to take permission of the Program

Coordinator before commencing their project in cases when a learner

chooses their own supervisor.

Project Proposal University Standards Proposal is a brief description of the project being undertaken which

should include a proper standard format proposal with standard format

headings, subheading title and citation. It should include CV duly

signed by the counselor and proforma. Submitted proposal to the

centre is forwarded to the University for Evaluation.

Learners are advised to prepare the final report during the period when

their proposal is under evaluation so that the learners can submit their

report within the deadline as mentioned in the operation calendar.

Learners are requested to follow MS-100 guideline provided to you by

the study centre or the same can be downloaded from the ICA

website.

The guide for the project work can be accessed from:

http://ica.edu.np/download/Guideline%20MS-100.pdf

Project Submission Deadlines There is a flexibility of submission of proposal through-out the year

but to ensure the result to be published on time learners are suggested

to submit project report/project proposal as per the deadline

mentioned in the operation calendar.

Proposal approval from the university takes a minimum of four

months (excluding the vacation period of the faculty) time and learners


http://ica.edu.np/download/Guideline%20MS-100.pdf




are also responsible to maintain a copy of proposal with oneself for

reference.

Project Report Project report should be consistent with the topic chosen and also be

as per the MS-100 guideline. Learners need to submit the project

report within the deadline mentioned in the operation calendar, in case

the deadline is missed out, the evaluation of the report is

automatically transferred to the next semester i.e. the learner has to

wait for the TEE result of the next semester. Learner is eligible to

submit final report only after the approval of the proposal from the

university.

Note: It is advised to learners to choose the research topic based

on the area of specialization.

Whom to Contact

Management Program Coordinator:

For management program including academic counseling related matters.

Email : [email protected]

Skype ID : managementprogramcoordinator

Contact : 4445540, Ext:115

Assistant Center Coordinator:

Email : [email protected] Skype ID : icaaccor

Contact : 4445540, Ext:107

SRSD Coordinator: For logistic and other student support related matters:


Skype ID : srsd.coordinator

Contact : 4445540, Ext: 105

Library Section: Collection of Study Materials, Video Materials, References books, Collection

& Submission of Assignments, Projects, etc:


Skype ID : library255

Contact : 4445540, Ext: 111





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