BM301.

1: ORGANIZATION ATTACHMENT PROGRAMME

(OAP) (PRACTICAL)
YEAR 3, SEMESTER 5
I. Number of Credits : 6

II. Course Objectives

The primary objective of the course is to enable the students to comprehend all the
learning of the past two years (four semesters) so as to develop an in-depth
understanding of all general and functional areas of management / organizations. The
students are also required to investigate in a topic relating to one of their areas of
interest / streams of specialisation, and in the process, develop a comprehensive
understanding of the same.

III. Pedagogy

For this course, each student will be placed in an organization where a faculty guide
(internal) and an organizational guide (external), if any, will provide guidance and
supervision and work on various issues jointly. The students will work on
their projects individually and not in pairs or teams. As a rule, the number of students,
organization and faculty member / guides will be allotted based on certain criteria and
as per the situation. A faculty co-guide may also be appointed for every/any
student.

The investigation will be in the nature of preparation of a project and research

through:

i. Study of secondary data from books, journal and magazine

articles, newspaper articles, websites, electronic and physical databases, etc.;
ii. Primary data collection through interviews, discussions, and other research
instruments. Students are encouraged to pursue research in the organisation
where they have undergone their summer internship.

The outcome of the research will beOrganization Attachment Programme – Project

Report
which would contain, among others, the following:

Part-I – Organizational Profile

 Introduction
 The Company / Organisation
 Functional Areas
 Decision-making
 Financial Analysis
 My learning from the study of the organisation
Part-II – Project Study

 Area of research chosen, with reason

 Literature Review
 Problem Definition
 Research Method
 Data Collection and Analysis
 Conclusions and Recommendations, if any.
 Limitations of the study and leads for further work

The detailed format of the report will be circulated to the students at the beginning of
the end of the second semester.

IV. Internal Evaluation

The students‟ performance in the course will be evaluated on a continuous

basis through the faculty guide on the basis of the regularity and quality of work done
by the student under his/her guidance. The internal evaluation will be for 30% of the
course.

V. External Evaluation

The university examination will be based on oral presentation, review of students‟

reports and a viva-voce and will carry 70% marks for the course evaluation.

VI. Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students should have developed a comprehensive
understanding of the functioning of the organization, process of undertaking /
conducting systematic inquiry into a phenomenon, and integrating fundamental and
functional areas of management for effective strategic decision making.