KL University Management PHD Syllabus

K L University
K L University, 29-36-38, Museum Road, Governorpet

VIJAYAWADA - 500 002,
Phone Number 08662577715, http:// www.kluniversity.in
Syllabus for Entrance Test for PhD Admissions

Department of Management
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
Fayol’s Principles of Management; Functions of Management; Skills of a Manager;

Social Responsibility; Planning types and process; Management by Objectives;
Decision-making tools; Formal and informal organizing; Process of Organising;
Departmentation; Span of Control; Line and Staff concepts; Delegation of
Authority; Decentralisation; Staffing; Assumptions of Human Behaviour; Theories
of Motivation; Leadership Styles; Controlling process; Control techniques;
Understanding work teams; Managing Innovation; Managerial Values; Technology
and Management; Culture and Management.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Importance and Functions, Scope of HRM; Human Resource Management in
a changing environment; Manpower Planning: Manpower planning process, Job
Description and Job specification, Job analysis and Job design; Techniques of Job
design; Employee Selection and Development - Recruitment, Selection and
Induction, Training and Development, Performance Appraisal; Compensation
Planning- Employee Compensation, Job evaluation, Employee Benefits and
Welfare, Compensation and Salary Administration; Integration and Separation-
Employee Discipline, Suspension, Dismissal and Retrenchment. Employee Grievance
Handling, Trade Unionism, Collective Bargaining, Industrial Democracy.
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Need, Want and Demand; Marketing; Marketing Orientations; Marketing
Environment; Buyer Behaviour; Marketing Planning Process; Consumer value and
satisfaction; Identification and Analysis of Competitors; Market Segmentation,
Targeting and Positioning strategies; Marketing Mix; The product; New Product
Development; Product Life Cycle; Product Mix decisions; Branding; Packaging and
Labeling; Pricing Decisions; Factors influencing Price – five “C”s; Pricing Strategies;
Distribution Decisions; Managing promotion Mix; Advertising, Personal selling, Sales
Promotion and publicity, Integrated Marketing Communication; Marketing Control
techniques; Social Marketing; Green Marketing; Web Marketing
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Nature and Scope of Financial Management- Goals & objectives of financial

management, Role of Financial Manager -Concept of time value of money; Sources
of long term and short term financing, Overview of Indian Stock Markets; Capital
Budgeting decisions: NPV- IRR - Risk analysis in capital budgeting. RADR, certainty
equivalent, decision tree analysis; Capital structure decisions: capital structure
theories -EBIT &EPS analysis – financial Leverage-Operating leverage - Cost of
capital and WACC; Dividend decisions: dividend models - dividend theories -
Working capital - cash Management - Inventory Management – Receivables
management.
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior – Emergence of OB as a discipline: Contributing Disciplines
to the OB field; Nature and Scope of OB; Significance of OB; Challenges and
Opportunities for OB; Foundations of Individual Behavior: Personality- Personality
determinants; Personality traits: The Big Five Model; Theories of personality;
Learning- Theories of learning; Principles of learning; Attitudes – Source of
attitudes; Types of Attitudes; Perception- Perceptual process; Factors influencing
Perception; perceptual distortion; Foundations of Group Behavior: Groups Types of
groups; Stages of Group Development; Group Decision-Making; Leadership –
Nature; Theories of leadership; Conflict Management; Organizational Culture and
Change Managemen.
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Functions of operations manager; Types of production processes and their

suitability; Just-in-time production; manufacturing operations versus service
operations; Steps/levels in production planning and control; Strategic planning,
aggregate planning, shop-floor planning; Planning devices – Gantt Chart, Master
production schedule, PERT/CPM; Factors influencing facility location decision;
Location modeling; Factors influencing layout decision; Facility layout modeling;
types of material handling equipment and their purposes; Factors affecting
productivity; Job design; Work study; Work measurement; Ergonomics; Kaisen;
Costs associated with inventory; Economic order quantity; Acceptance sampling;
Control charts; Six sigma; TQM.
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Basic Concepts of Strategic Management; Basic model and the process of strategic
management; Business Vision, Mission and Objectives; Contents and characteristics
of corporate Mission Statements; Environment and Resources Analysis:
Environmental analysis, Industry and Competitive Analysis, Porter’s Five Forces
Model, Internal Analyiss, SWOT Analysis, Value Chain Analysis; Strategy
Formulation; Types of strategies; Michael Porter’s Generic Business strategies,
Ansoff’s Product-Market Matrix; Strategic Choice: Strategic Analysis and Choice;
Portfolio analysis and its limitation; BCG matrix and GE nine-cell matrix; Strategic
Implementation and Control: Issues in implementation;
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Economics and managerial decision making; Managerial Economics, Nature and

scope of Managerial Economics; Tools of Managerial Economics; The firm and its
goals; The Nature of profits; Role of a Managerial Economist; Demand and Supply
Analysis: Concept of demand, Determinants of demand, Law of Demand; Law of
supply; Elasticity of demand, Types of Elasticity of demand, Demand estimation and
demand forecasting; Production and Cost Analysis: Production functions; Optimum
input combination; Cost concepts, Cost curves, Economies of Scale; Markets, Kinds
of Competition; Features of different types of market structures, Price & Output
determination under Perfect competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic competition,
Oligopoly; Macroeconomic concepts: National Income, Measurement of National
Income; Business Cycles, Stages of business cycles; Inflation, Types of Inflation;
Measures to overcome Inflation

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K L University, 29-36-38, Museum Road, Governorpet

Syllabus for Entrance Test for PhD Admissions

Fayol’s Principles of Management; Functions of Management; Skills of a Manager;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Nature and Scope of Financial Management- Goals & objectives of financial

Functions of operations manager; Types of production processes and their

Economics and managerial decision making; Managerial Economics, Nature and

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