IMT Centre For Distance Learing Ghaziabad

PGDM (EXECUTIVE) – Human Resource

Programme Highlights
  • This programme empowers executives with Analytical Skills and Cross - Functional perspective to gain management expertise across all domains.
  • The curriculum of the programme lays a strong foundation for a leadership mindset
  • This is a career-changing programme to accelerate personal and professional growth of executives

Manpower management today is undergoing a tremendous change. The complexion of personnel management in the Indian context has changed dramatically. Presently, the Indian managers apply a mix of traditional and modern approach. This program is designed to equip personnel practitioners with academic background, occupational knowledge and operational skill required in contemporary personnel management.The opening of Indian economy and globalisation has created a need for trained management leaders who can manage a diverse workforce.

The special focus of the programme is on making the participants aware of Indian labour laws and practices. The programme encourages practical skills and abilities that utilise this knowledge effectively. Participants can move to higher human resource or training roles on completion of the programme. The program aims to facilitate the development of competent and reflective personnel practitioners capable of responding effectively to a range of management issues.

Programme Eligibility

Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from any recognized University or equivalent degree recognized by Association of Indian Universities (AIU) plus full time work experience of minimum Five (5) years after Graduation.

Programme Structure

The PGDM (Executive) programme is covered in Two (2) semesters with an additional 3 months for project work.
The Programme is of total Fifty Six (56) credits. It includes Three (3) non-credit Foundation Courses, Nine (9) Core Courses with a total of Thirty Six (36) credits, Four (4) Elective Courses with a total of Sixteen (16) credits and a Project Work of Four (4) credits.

Specializations is offered in five areas: Finance, Marketing, Operations, Human Resource and Business Analytics.

Curriculum

This programme structure is applicable for students enrolled in the current session.

The Basics of Accounting course aims to provide an essential understanding of financial terminologies and accounting process to management aspirants. The course builds the foundation for pursuing the core finance courses like manage-ment accounting and financial management. After completing this course, the participants will be acquainted with basic financial terminology like assets, liabilities, shares, bonds, etc. Participants will get to know the accounting process, components, and structure of financial statements like Statement of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.

  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Accounting Process
  • Final Accounts

The Basics of Communication course is designed to understand Communication and its significant contribution in em-ployee engagement, employee productivity and relationship building. It also discusses role of communication in mana-gerial effectiveness and functions.

  • What is Communication?
  • Significance of Business Communication
  • Media in Communication
  • Managerial Implications
  • Role of communication in organisations

The Basics of Management course will help to understand the competence of a workplace and the managers, direct/guide the employees, and effectively coordinate, to meet the goals of the team and mission of the organization. This course on management introduces the learner with the role of a manager and the key management functions.

  • Meaning of Management
  • Role of a Manager
  • Management Functions
    Management Theories

This course is designed for students with no statistics background or as a refresher course for students who desire to review statistical methods before the sessions begin in the post graduate programmes. This course will help you in un-derstanding various methods of data collection and presentation. It covers descriptive statistics which is further divided into measures of central tendency and measures of variability (spread).

  • An Introduction to Business Statistics
  • Data Collection , Population vs sample, Variables, Scales of Measurement
  • Data representation techniques- Tabular and Graphical
  • Measures of Central Tendency- Mean, Median and Mode
  • Measures of Dispersion / Variation- Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation and Standard Deviation
  • Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis

The course is designed to provide fundamental knowledge of microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts that are useful to understand economic situations ranging from decisions that individuals make every day to decisions made by firms and governments in complex markets. The course focuses on assessment of the economic behaviour of a firm and household, functioning of markets and implication of major macroeconomic policies.

The course on management accounting provides a basic understanding of financial reporting and short-run decision-making that every management participant should be aware of. The initial units explain various components of financial statements and the evaluation techniques like cash flow and ratio analysis. Subsequent units of the course provide detailed understanding of the cost concepts, elements of costs, absorption, and variable costing. It further delves into cost-volume-profit analysis, short-run decision making like make or buy decision, accepting a special order etc. Partic-ipants are also provided the knowledge of budget and budgetary control techniques and advances in management accounting like carbon accounting and human resource accounting.

The course aims at development of understanding of key marketing concepts and their real-world applications through practical examples and contemporary case studies. This course would help you in formulation of marketing strategy based on the analysis of external and internal factors that influence marketing decisions. It further helps you in analysing and evaluating the best marketing practices and its implementation to enhance business profitability through customer acquisition, engagement, relationship, and loyalty.

The course provides a basic understanding of statistics and its applications in data-driven business decision-making. It facilitates familiarisation with the terminology of statistics, defining, collecting, organising, visualising, and summarising the data. It also includes the process of drawing inferences from the sample study.

The course on Managerial Communication will help you to become effective in your verbal and nonverbal communication. It is all comprehensive as it discusses concepts related to role of communication in team building. It will help you in honing your writing skills as well as presentation skills. Job related communication is also a part of this course.

The course introduces the learner with the major concepts and techniques of strategic analysis and strategy formula-tion coupled with selection of strategic actions and strategy implementation. The course emphasis on the creation of a strategy and its implementation and their relevance to build sustainable competitive advantage.

The course on Financial Management provides with multiple facets of the utilization of financial resources, and the application of general principles of management to the financial belongings of an enterprise. The course aims to provide an understanding of mobilisation and utilisation of funds in an organisation. It provides the participants with the knowledge of various sources of funds and the proportion of funds to be used by a firm in view of the cost of funds and business risk faced by the organisation. The course also covers the decision-making process for long-term investments and working capital management.

The course on organisational behaviour defines behaviour of human beings in their workplace/s and/or corporate set-ting/s. It provides the behavioural knowledge of individual and group work within the organization that can help in explaining and predicting behaviour to improve workplace performances and effectiveness. It will help you to under-stand the reason why people behave in a certain way and why one team is more effective than the other; also, to demarcate the process for optimum utilization of resources.

The course provides visualisation of manufacturing and service systems as a transformation process of inputs into value-added outputs. The course emphasises applying analytical and critical thinking skills to operational decisions and integrating supply chains, for the competitive global and dynamic technological environment.

The course on ‘Employee Relations Management’ redefines Industrial Relations (IR) covering all aspects of relation between employees and employers/ management encompassing both unionized and non-unionized contexts. It provides the present and emerging concepts of employee relations. It focuses on the emerging shifts in Industrial Relations in the organization. It also deals with Industrial Relations in emerging/specific industries using knowledge workers.

The course on Performance Management is designed to enable you to learn how an organization aligns its resources to meet strategic goals. It will help in understanding how performance of employees is tracked and gives a window into the requirement of support and training needed to enhance levels of performance. Performance Management works in ways to optimize usage of each unit of every resource. This way it adds value to the organisation as a whole.

The course on Organizational Development and Interventions is designed to appreciate that change is inevitable and indispensable part of any human process. In this ever changing and dynamic business environment, human and social processes require continuous upgradation and development. This course gives an insight into how behavioral science principles and practices can be used to increase individual and organizational effectiveness. OD Interventions help us in bridging the gaps created and makes the transition smooth and easy for the organization.

The course on ‘Strategic Human Resource Management’ deals with 3 aspects including first, the organization and its context and strategy; second incorporating the functional aspects of HR and third the organization culture. Global/ International perspectives of Strategic HRM are also discussed. Contemporary topics like flexible working arrange-ments, Diversity and Inclusion are included. Lastly it also highlights and discuss the future of HR.

The course on Compensation and Reward Management will help managers to rethink how people get compensated in the organization and does it make any difference. This course will help you to understand what you pay for matters and how you pay also matters. Managing compensation means ensuring that the right people get the right pay for achieving objectives in the right way. Major challenges related with Compensation and Reward are discussed in this course and it will help in illustrating new developments as well as established approaches to compensation decisions.

The course on Training and Development explains the complete training and development process while discussing the theories of learning and motivation. The focus of this course is on ISD model of training and development. Ap-preciating the role of Technology in training and development, this course widely explains the different ways in which technology can be used for enhanced learning and knowledge transfer. It also highlights the scope and future of training and development in organizational learning.

Disclaimer - Programme Structure and Curriculum is subject to change at the discretion of IMT CDL and as per the directives issued by regulator.

Curriculum

This programme structure is applicable for students enrolled in the current session.

    Foundation Courses
    S. No.Course NameCredits
    1Basics of AccountingNon Credit
    2Basics of CommunicationNon Credit
    3Basics of ManagementNon Credit
    Semester – I
    S. No.Course NameCredits
    1Principle of Economics4
    2Management Accounting4
    3Marketing Management4
    4Business Statistics4
    5Managerial Communication4
    6Strategic Management4
    Semester – II
    S. No.Course NameCredits
    1Financial Management4
    2Organisational Behaviour4
    3Operations and Supply Chain Management4
    4Elective-I4
    5Elective-II4
    6Elective-III4
    7Elective-IV4
    Project Term – 3 Months
    S. No.Course NameCredits
    1Project4
    Total Programme Credits: 56 Credits.

    List of Electives

    Area of Specialization – Human Resource Management
    S. No.Elective CoursesCredits
    1Employees Relation Management4
    2Performance Management4
    3Organisational Development & Intervention4
    4Strategic Human Resource Management4
    5Compensation & Reward Management4
    6Training & Development4
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    Disclaimer – Programme Structure and Curriculum is subject to change at the discretion of IMT CDL and as per the directives issued by regulator.

    FEE STRUCTURE

    PGDM (Executive) ProgrammeSemester-1Semester-2
    Tuition Fee39,50039,500
    Alumni Fee1000
    Total Fee40,50039,500

    Payment Schedule

    The fee for all the programmes is payable at the beginning of every semester. Study material would be sent only after the fee is received by IMT CDL. Failure to deposit the fee would debar the candidate from attending Online/Offline Learning Sessions (OLS) and continued failure would result in getting debarred from the programmes. The students are required to ensure timely payment of the fee.

    Note:

    • Every student is expected to pay semester-wise fee in January and July every year for the entire programme duration. If a student does not pay the fee payable in the concerned semester by the prescribed date the student will have to pay the fee along with a fine of Rs. 2500.
    • There is an additional Exam Fee for International Location. If a student is appearing for exam at an International location, then a fee of Rs. 2500 per exam has to be paid for each exam.

    Mode of Payments

    Payment through Demand Draft

    Payments are accepted through Demand Draft, in favour of IMT CDL, payable at Delhi. The draft may be couriered to IMT CDL Ghaziabad, Head Office.

    Online Payment

    Students can deposit all types of fees through online mode also.

    Scholarship

    • Scholarship shall be given to serving/retired defense personnel (Army, Air Force and Navy personnel only), SC/ST, War Widows and Handicapped Candidates in the case of the PGDM and PGCM only.
    • Category for scholarship once indicated in the admission form shall not be allowed to be changed

    Application Forms, duly completed, may also be sent to:

    Coordinator – Admissions
    IMT-Centre for Distance Learning,
    A-16, Site-3, UPSIDC Industrial Area, Meerut Road, Ghaziabad – 201 003

    Note:

    Students are advised not to submit any fee payment through cash.

    General Information

    • All policies, rules, regulations, fee structure, syllabus, facilities, etc. are subject to review and change from time to time as per requirement. The changed policies, rules, etc. shall be binding on all the students.
    • Any dispute is subject to the jurisdiction of Ghaziabad court only.
    • IMT CDL reserves the right to change fee structure from time to time. The revised fee would be applicable to all the students.

    ASSESSMENT

    Evaluation

    IMT CDL evaluation system has two components: Assignment (30 marks) and End Term Examination (70 marks). The student has to submit the assignments during the semester while examinations will be held at the end of semester. The examination will be held at designated centres.

    Examinations

    The End-Term Examination (ETE) is held at the end of every semester.

    Components of ETE:

    The following components will comprise the ETE for each course:

    – Analytical and conceptual comprehension through multiple choice questions.

    – Case or problem-solving exercises.

    Assignments

    Assignments are a very important aspect of the assessment system and an excellent tool for continuous evaluation. Two Assignments are conducted during the semester for each course. The assignments get activated in the student information system during the semester as per announced timelines. Students have to mandatorily submit their assignments before the commencement of the End-Term Examination.

    Weightage: Assignment (30 marks) and End Term Examination (70 marks)

    Passing criteria:

    • To be declared as ‘Pass’ in a course a student should secure 40% marks in aggregate (Assignments and ETE combined) with minimum 25 marks in ETE.
    • Student has to attempt two assignments of 15 marks each for each course. No minimum marks are to be secured in assignment to be declared as ‘Pass’ in a course.
    • Project is to be submitted by the student in final semester in Two Year PGDM and 15 months PGDM (Executive) programme. The student should secure minimum 40% marks in Project Work in order to be declared as ‘Pass’.
    • In PGCM programme, student has to appear for comprehensive Viva Voce in the final semester. The student should secure minimum 40% marks in Viva Voce in order to be declared as ‘Pass’.

    Scholastic achievement

    • Pass with Distinction: Students with an aggregate percentage of 75% marks or above
    • Pass with 1st Division: Students with an aggregate percentage of 60% marks
    • Pass: Students with an aggregate percentage of below 60% marks and up to 40% marks
    • Students aggregating less than 40% marks are not eligible for award of Diploma/Certificate.