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Course No. MGT511 Course Title: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT L: 3 T: 1 P: 0 Cr: 4

Course Planner :- 13646 :: Manish Rajput

TextBook

1. Saleem Sheikh, Business Environment, Pearson Education,New Delhi 2009, 2nd Edition

Other Specific Books

2. Paul Justin, Business Environment: Text and Cases 2e, TMH New Delhi 2008, 1st Edition
3. Cherunilam Francis, Business Environment: Text and Cases, Himalayan Publishing House, New Delhi 2008, 18th Edition.

Other Readings

Sr. No. Jouranls atricles as compulsary readings (specific articles, Complete reference)

4 "Teaching the world by storm" by T.V. Mohandas Pai , India Today, Volume XXXIV No.50, Dec 8-14, 2009

5 "Bitter taste, Sugar price need to be depoliticized, from farm to mill and beyond" by Rakesh Joshi and Davendra Mohan, Business India, Edition: December
13,2009
6 " How long can you go?" by Bhakti Chuganee Business India, Edition: December 13,2009

7 "When you shouldn't go global" by Marcus Alexander and Harry Kornie, HBR, Dec.2008

8 "Tomorrow's global gaint Not the usual suspects” by Pankaj Ghemawat and Thomas Hout,HBR Nov.2008

9 "Tough is what tough does" by Lancet Joseph Business India, Edition: December 13,2009

10 "A partnership with Poland", Business India, Edition: December 13,2009

11 "Slight hope, Many of India’s exports have been buffeted by the global downturn” by Anupam Goswami, Business India, Edition: December 13,2009.

12 “The world Becomes flat” by Naina Lal Kidwai, India Today, Volume XXXIV No.50, Dec 8-14, 2009.

13 "Global Warming" by Carl Pope, India Today, Volume XXXIV No.50, Dec 8-14, 2009.

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 14 "collateral damage" by Noriel Roubini and Arpitha Bykree India Today, Volume XXXIV No.50, Dec 8-14, 2009

15 "Employment intensity of Government Expenditure", Journal of Indian Economy, July - September2009. Vol. XXXXXVII, No.2, Pg.63

16 " Corporate sector, Industrialization and Economic Development in India", Journal of Indian Economy, July - September2009. Vol. XXXXXVII, No.2, Pg.157

17 Stock Market Behavior: Evidences from Indian Market", Vision- July to September2009, Vol. XIII, No.3, Pg.19-30

18 "Indian Investment Bank Prestige and IPO underpricing: An empirical Study" IIMB management review, September 2009, Vol XXI, No.3, Pg.189 to 221

19 "Fighting Poverty through water harvesting" Yojana July2010, Volume XXXXXIV, Pg. 45-47

20 "Efficient Water Management: Challenges and initiatives" Yojana July2010, Volume XXXXXIV, Pg. 5-8

21 "Think,Plan and Act locally: Support Nationally" Yojana July 2010, Volume XXXXXIV, Pg. 48-50

Relevant Websites

Sr. No. Web adress (only if relevant to the courses) Salient Features

22 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1907183241& Economic Growth and FDI inflows

SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=6&Vinst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT
=309&VName=PQD&TS=1262947027&clientId=129893
23 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=26&did=1905028261 India: New Direct Tax code.
&SrchMode=1&sid=12&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD
&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1262948396&clientId=129893
24 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=10&did=1927013251& On a vital quest for India
SrchMode=1&sid=12&Fmt=6&Vinst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT
=309&VName=PQD&TS=1262948375&clientId=129
25 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=26 & New Frontiers in Globalization, Asian Emerging Countries and Governance
did=1905028261&SrchMode=1&sid=12&Fmt=6&Vinst Issues in the 21st Century
=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS= 1262948396&clientId
=129893
26 http://www.apec.org.au/docs/oxley2002.pdf Site for WTO and Doha rounds.

27 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrw6ih8Gto Video showing discussions in Copenhagen.

28 http://stdwww.iimahd.ernet.in/~sandeepk/CSR.pdf Site to get detailed information about Corporate Social Responsibility.

29 http://www.naasindia.org/Policy%20Papers/policy%2038.pdf WTO and Indian agriculture

30 www.rti.gov.in/ About RTI Act and other related information

31 www.rbi.org.in Economic indicators/ Financial Market Watch

32 www.imf.org/external/np/exr/st/eng/index.htm About IMF: Study material for students

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 33 www.wto.org/english/forums_e/students_e.htm About WTO: Study Material for Students

34 www.finmin.nic.in Financial Sector Information

35 www.business-standard.com/inida/ Current business news

36 http://www.samachar.com/ One stop shop for news from all good newspapers and channels in India.

37 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ Site of Business Line - Business Daily from THE HINDU group of
publications

Detailed Plan For Lectures

Pedagogical tool
Chapters/Sections of
Homework to be Demonstration/case
Week No. Lecture No. Topic Textbook/other
Assigned to students study/images/anmation
reference
ctc. planned

Part 1
Week 1 Lecture 1 Business Environment: Overview Internal and External Environment Book :1,Ch1/Page no.2-13/1 Case
study:1-Opportunities
and threats for Mahindra
and Mahindra .pg.19/1
Lecture 2 Recent developments in political, economic and financial environment. Book :1,Ch1/ Page no.14-19/1 SWOT analysis of Indian
Economy Page no.
49-50/2 Other reading 4
Lecture 3 Techniques of Environmental analysis, scanning and monitoring Book :3,Ch3/Page No.61-73/3

Week 2 Lecture 4 Planning in India with special focus on 11th 5 yr plan Book :1,Ch2/Page no.23-28
61-73/1
Lecture 5 Industrial Policies Book :1,Ch3/Page no.79-106/1 HomeWork 1 Allocation Case study 2: Pg.106/1
Other Reading 5

Lecture 6 Industrial Licensing Book :1,Ch4/ Page Other Reading 6

no.109-125/1

Week 3 Lecture 7 Stock exchanges in India Book :1,Ch7/ Page HomeWork 4 Allocation
no.180-199/1
Lecture 8 Liberalization Book :1,Ch22/ Page Case study 3(pg.564/1)
no.537-565/1 Ch23/ Page
no.567-582/1
Lecture 9 Privatization & Globalization Book :1,Ch24/ Page Term Paper 1 Allocation Case Study-4(582/1)
no.585-607/1

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Part 1
Week 4 Lecture 10 Economic Trends Book :1,Ch6/ Page no. Other Reading 7
161-180/1
Part 2
Week 4 Lecture 11 National Income Book :1,Ch8/ Page no. Case Study 5 (Handout)
201-231/1
Lecture 12 Industrialization Book :1,Ch9/ Page HomeWork 1
no.233-255/1 Submission

Week 5 Lecture 13 Economic Development Book :1,Ch9/ Page

no.233-255/1
Lecture 14 Inflation Book :1,Ch13/Page HomeWork 2 Allocation Case Study 6(calculating
no.303-331/1 inflation in Indian,
pg330/1) Web
Reference15
Lecture 15 Problems of Growth Book :1,Ch16/ Page
no.376-390/1

Week 6 Lecture 16 India's Monetary policy Book :1,Ch5/Page no.133- Other Reading 8
159/1
Lecture 17 India's Fiscal Policy Book :1,Ch5/Page no.133- HomeWork 2
159/1 Submission

Lecture 18 Foreign Trade Policy Book :1,Ch10/ Page Quiz 1

no.257-269/1

Week 7 Lecture 19 Balance of Payment Book :1,Ch10/ Page

no.257-269/1
Lecture 20 Direct & Indirect Taxes Book :1,Ch17/ Page Other Reading 9
no.393-450/1
Lecture 21 Revision Book :1,

MID-TERM
Part 3
Week 8 Lecture 22 Poverty in India Book :1,Ch11/ Page no.
271-285/1
Lecture 23 Unemployment in India Book :1,Ch12/ Page no. Other Reading 10
287-300/1
Lecture 24 Human Development Book :1,Ch14/ Page Case Study7: Iceland and
no.333-356/1 India(pg. no.354/1)

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Part 3
Week 9 Lecture 25 Rural Development Book :1,Ch15/ Page HomeWork 3 Allocation
no.357-374/1
Lecture 26 Business Ethics Book :1,Ch19 /Page Case Study 8(Pg.492/1)
no.479-493 /1
Lecture 27 Corporate Governance Book :1,Ch 20/ Page no. Case Study 9(Reliance
495-516/1 Industries pg.516/1)

Week 10 Lecture 28 Corporate Social Responsibility Book :1,Ch 21/ Page Video 3: Web reference 21
no.520-533/1 Case Study 10(pg.533/1)

Lecture 29 MRTP Act, FERA, FEMA Book :1,Ch 18/Page

no.453-475
Part 4
Week 10 Lecture 30 IPR Book :2,Ch 5/Page No.
63-82/2

Week 11 Lecture 31 RTI Book :23,About RTI Act and HomeWork 3 Other Reading 11
other related information Submission

Lecture 32 Foreign investment Book :1,Ch 25 /Page Case Study 11 Pg.409/1)

no.609-648/1
Lecture 33 MNCs Book :1,Ch 26 /Page Other Reading 12 (case
no.651-665/1 study 12, Pg.425/1)

Week 12 Lecture 34 EXIM Policy Book :1,Ch 27/ Page Term Paper 1 Web reference 17
no.668-693/1 Submission

Lecture 35 SEZ Policy Book :1,Ch28/ Page no. Quiz 2

697-712/1
Lecture 36 International Organizations Book :1,Ch29/ Page no. HomeWork 4
715-728/1 Submission

Week 13 Lecture 37 WTO Book :1,Ch 30/ Page no.

745-778/1
Lecture 38 Latest Changes in BE Book :1,Web ->Reference 18

Lecture 39 Revision Book :1,

Spill Over
Week 14 Lecture 40 Impacts of Recession in India

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Week 14 Lecture 41 Global warming Reference 13

Lecture 42 Corporate Social Responsibility as a determinant of market success Reference 21

Week 15 Lecture 43 WTO and Indian Agriculture Reference 22

Details of homework and case studies plan

Nature of homework
Homework No. Topic of the Homework (group/individuals/field work

Homework 1 All the students will be required to maintain a Business News File where they will mention the 5 Individual
important business news DAILY; specifying the brief facts of the news and implication of the
news item for business / industry.

Homework 2 Students will be given issues from the current Business Environment. They need to research, Group
obtain and read articles on
the same subject in local or national newspapers. Then they have to do the following: Create ads:
create a message to explain the given issue (or to support one side of the issue). This could be a
poster. Postcard radio or TV public service announcement, slogan etc.
Write a letter: React to an article from your local paper/ national news paper/ magazine/ journal by
contacting its editor.

Homework 3 The group of students will be given a State/Industry/Company. With the help of PESTLE they Group
need to analyse the opportunities which a company can encash in a particular busines
environment. If the threats over weigh the opportunities available in the state then which industry
can be best suited for the state.

Homework 4 Case Based Presentations: Students will be given cases to analyse and present in the class. Group

*Normally all the homeworks shall be submitted online but in special courses where homeworks cannot be submited online , the insructor can edit the mode of submission while
entering the IP Details

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 Scheme for CA:out of 100*
Component Frequency Out of (If any) Marks for each Total Marks

Homework 3 4 15 45

Term Paper 1 25 25

Quiz 2 15 30

Total :- 100

* In ENG courses wherever the total exceeds 100, consider x best out of y components of CA, as explained in teacher's guide available on the UMS

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 List of suggested topics for term paper[at least 15] (Student to spend about 15 hrs on any one specified term paper)
Sr. No. Topic
1 Water harvesting: Visit a nearby village and identify the irrigation sources used by them. You have to create
the awareness about water harvesting techniques by seminars, demonstrations, etc.
2 Construction sites: Visit the construction sites of LPU and try to find out the problem of health, sanitization,
child education, etc. faced by the construction workers and devise some innovative ways and solutions for
solving these problems
3 Global warming: Critically analyze the level of awareness of your society about global warming and pollution
and analyze how they are contributing to it. Suggest some useful ways to combat global warming and
reducing pollution in Jalandhar
4 NGO: You have to visit any NGO and find out the contribution done by them to the society and associate your
group with them and help them in their activities and prepare a report of your contribution.
5 Traffic problem: visit a nearby city. Study infrastructure available for commuting purpose. You have to find out
the traffic problems being faced by the citizens. You have to consult government officials like DTO, RTO in
order to identify the various steps taken by them to solve the problems.
6 Child labor: Analyze about the child labor situation in sports industry in Jalandhar. Examine the initiatives
taken to overcome this problem. Also analyze the present situation of Sports industry as well as level of Child
labor employment. Suggest some innovative ways to overcome the ptoblem
7 India vs. China: The pros and cons of doing business there.
8 Subprime crisis and its impact on a particular given sector
9 Visit the following website: http://www.india.gov.in/sector.php. Read and analyse thoroughly the content
provide on the given sector. Prepare a report on impact of Liberalization, Privatization and globalization on the
given sector
10 Discuss the limitations of trade policies in India.
11 Prepare a detailed report about the mergers and acquisitions made in India for past five years
12 Analyze the rationale for encouraging Foreign Direct Investment
13 Examples of Corporate failure because of ignoring Business environment
14 Suggest some innovative strategies to beat recession
15 Satyam changed the rules of the game
16 Opportunities and Threats for Education sector in India
17 PESTLE Analysis Industry wise
18 Country wise analysis of business environment from investor's point of view.( S.W.O.T)
19 Foreign investment in Indian economy a necessity?
20 Corporate Governance has become an important buzzword. Analyze and give reasons
21 Agriculture : The deadlock of Doha
22 Report on corporate frauds
23 The emerging business of business education: A critical report on mushrooming of B- school in India.
24 ITC e-choupal - Strategic advantage of CSR
25 Google Chrome- Can it shake the dominant position of Microsoft in the web browser industry
26 Project Shakti-Strategic advantage of CSR

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 Plan for Tutorial: (Please do not use these time slots for syllabus coverage)

Tutorial No. Topic Type of pedagogical tool(s) planned

(case analysis,problem solving test,role play,business game etc)

Tutorial 1 Group Formation Dividing the class into small groups

Tutorial 2 Different for Gamble (Page no. 754/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 3 Remains of a dream (Page no. 743/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 4 Human Rights Protection (Page no. 759/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 5 Cost of delay(Page no. 746/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 6 Discussion on Term Paper

Tutorial 7 Doubt Clearing session

After Mid-Term
Tutorial 8 Natural Thrust (Page no. 748/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 9 Mickensey's agenda for India's economic reforms. (Page no.734/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 10 South east Asian Economic Crisis (Page no. 739/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 11 Term paper review

Tutorial 12 The Environmental services Business(Page no. 767/3) Case analysis

Tutorial 13 Doubt Clearing session

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