NIILM's full-time PGDM program offering specializations in the areas of International
Business, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources Management and Information Technology
& Systems Management, is administered within the framework of a strong training
system. Equipped with the fully functional mechanisms of feedback and control, this
training system helps the NIILM-CMS PGDM curriculum in: * Developing in the graduating
students an optimal pattern of interpersonal and behavioral responses to stress
situations, generally experienced in organizations. * Developing skills in the latest
comprehension, analysis and problem solving tools, techniques and models and imbuing
them with a holistic management perspective. * Training them in the skills generally
required at the management trainee level in organizations. The four-semester, two-year,
full-time PGDM program is split into four phases: Basic, Consolidation, Advanced
and Concentration. Each phase is of one semester and closes with an end-term examination.
The Basic phase begins with a management perspective from ground-up by exposing
students to the various dimensions of business & organizational environments
and enables them get a feel of the various functional areas of management. This
is also a phase in which conventional bugbears relating to statistics and mathematics
are carefully removed. The Consolidation phase categorically aims at training students
in the skills of using various tools, techniques and case studies that are required
to solve general problems encountered in various functional areas of management.
By the end of this phase, a student should be able to appreciate the general dynamics
of problems and situations in differing environmental and organizational settings
and develop an approach towards prognosis and problem- shooting. This phase culminates
with an eight-week summer-internship in any large organization of repute. The Advanced
phase in the third semester concentrates on developing special, function specific
competencies in areas of Marketing, International Business, Human Resources Management,
Finance and Information Technology. Simultaneously, papers like Management Information
Systems and TQM are taught to students irrespective of their area of specialization.
By the end of the advanced phase, a student is almost ready for an entry-level position
with any large organization. Graduating students spend the final six months of the
program in the Concentration phase, learning about the most advanced and complex
aspects of their respective functional areas. Besides case studies and class assignments,
each of these four phases is generously interspersed with live-projects from industries
and businesses in varied sectors. The objective is to reduce the induction time
and costs for companies by providing them management graduates who are not only
technically and psychologically ready for entry-level responsibilities, but also
alert and spruced up for embracing the challenges of the future. |