MANAGEMENT – St Thomas College

DEPARTMENT OF

MANAGEMENT STUDIES

OVERVIEW

The Department of Management Studies commenced functioning in the year 1999. The mandate of the department is to create, preserve and disseminate knowledge through conducting classroom lectures, Seminars, Quiz Programmes and weekly Activity Sessions. The idea behind these Activity classes is to motivate every student to think constructive increase their creative idea, improve their personality and move forth in life with their head held high.

Bachelors of Business Administration [BBA] courses offer an opportunity to acquire professional skills in the early stage of their career as a management professional. It offers a deep understanding and development of important business skills such as leadership, communication skills, critical thinking, and decision-making. Candidates with BBA degrees can easily form a part of core business, operations or strategy team and can act as the point of contact between the workforce and senior level management.

MISSION

To empower the students to achieve academic excellence through technical and quality education and to produce gold medalists and University Merit Holders every year in BBA programme.

OBJECTIVES

To think differently, to equip with Leadership skills, Development of Management Skills, to stand out in the crowd, Motivate to become successful entrepreneur

Bachelor of Business Administration

BBA is a six semester course spread over three years. BBA has five papers of 90 marks each in all six semesters except in 4th semester it has an additional 90 marks of Comprehensive Viva. It has Internal marks of 10 marks each paper on all semesters.

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B.B.A. I to VI Semester

Dr. Susan R. Abraham

Assistant Professor & Head of the Department
Ph.D, MBA, M.Com

Mr. Mahendra Ikhar

Assistant Professor
Ph.D, MBA, M.Com

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES / ASSOCIATIONS :

Apart from the regular classroom study the Department organises Saturday Activity Class, The idea behind this activity class is to motivate every management student to think constructive, be constructive and move forth in the life with their head held up high. These activity classed involve Presentations, group Discussions, Extempore Quiz, mind boggling Management Games etc. These add up to improving the personality of the students, increase their creative ideas, spread their knowledge about current topics and boost up their confidence level to the core.
The Department also conducts Guest Lecture, Personality development Workshops, Interdepartmental Seminars on a regular basis.
The Department of Management Studies launched its Management Association Unborn Archons on 27th September 2014. The main objective of forming this association was to explore the world of Management. This Syndicate would help the students to inculcate a habit of healthy competitions among themselves. This association would serve as a platform to develop the students’ Managerial skills, Leadership skills and Organizational skills.
Under the Aegis of Management Association, Unborn Archons, a Yearly Newsletter “Elite” has been launched. Four issues have been released so far.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT:

Every year many merit positions are bagged by our students. A total of 3gold medals and 17 students has been in the University Merit List.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

One of our student has excelled in Fine Arts and received first prize in 8^th International Competition and Festival of Indian Art and Culture 2016 and 2018 held at Bangkok.
A student of BBA Vth Semester was selected as Brand Ambassador of Wipro (Chhattisgarh) in the year 2010.
Our Students also get selected for Campus Placement every year. They are placed in Companies like TCS, HDFC, Vodafone, Unisys, Syntel etc.
BBA Students have enrolled in Certificate Course of National University Students Skill Development [NUSSD] conducted by Tata Institute Of Social Sciences [TISS]. Three batches have been successfully certified so far and one batch is ongoing in Domain course of TISS.

SALIENT FEATURES OF THE DEPARTMENT

Activity Classes are organised on every Saturday, where PPT Presentations and Group Discussion are a must for each and every student of BBA department.
In-house competitions are organised by students under the aegis of Unborn Archons (Management Associations) to inculcate the habit of competition and be updated about recent developments happening in corporate world.
Visit various NGO’s in and around Bhilai under the Community Development Programme. Students spend time with the Inmates and donate voluntarily.
Participate in various Management Fest organised by MBA Colleges of Bhilai and Raipur. Win prizes by competing with MBA Student and excel their Superiority.

Activities

2018-2019

Seminar on LIC as Career options

Date – 27/07/18 Speaker – B.B.Benjamin, Khandelwal

Qualifying round of Rajagiri National Business Quiz
Date- 21/08/18

Seminar on Campus to Corporate
Date – 6/09/18 Speaker – Mr. Ashish Jainani, Motivational Coach, Mumbai
Nilesh Parakh, Director, Avish Educom

Quiz – Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore
Date – 24/09/18 Speaker – Ms. Aastha Vaishnav

Workshop on Career options in RBI
Date – 29/09/18 Speaker – Mr. Sidharth Mehta, Motivational speaker , Career Launcher Bhilai

Multi Commodities Exchange (MCX) as a career option.

Date: – 7th February 2019

Awareness of careers in MA (Public Policy), MA (Law, Business and Governance)

Date: – 13th February 2019

2017-2018

Aptitude Wizard – 1st Event under the aegis of Unborn Archons

Orientation – “Bringing Corporates to Class Room”

Workshop – “Soft skills for Corporate Orientation”

Dr. Susan R. Abraham

Assistant Professor & Head of the Department
Ph.D, MBA, M.Com

Area of Specialisation : Human Resources, Finance

Teaching Experience :19 years

Research Paper Details of SRA

Paper titled “A Study on Attitude of Youth Towards Start ups in Tier II & Tier III cities” has been published in the International Journal of Management and Social Science Research Review, Vol 1 (1), January 2016. [ ISSN 2349 – 6738 ]. { Impact factor 3.029}
Paper titled “A study on Employability Crisis in Non-Metros: Are the Graduates Job –Ready” has been published in the Kegees Journal of Social Science, Vol 7 (2), July, 2015. [ ISSN 0975 – 3621 ].
Paper titled “An Empirical Study on Young Professionals Preference to do job in Non-Metros” has been published in the Asian Journal Of Management, Vol 5 (2). April – June 2014. [ ISSN 0976-495X ].
Paper titled “A study on Assessment of Teamwork Practices in Public Sector Units of Chhattisgarh” has been published in the ISBN Book, “Shaastrarth”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, February 2013. [ ISBN 978-81-265-4073-0 ].
Paper titled “A study on Implementation of Training and Development Programmes in Bhilai Steel Plant and its Effectiveness” has been published in the Kegees Journal of Social Science, Vol 5 (1), January 2013. [ ISSN 0975 – 3621 ].
Paper Titled “ Emerging Trends in Customer Relationship Management in Indian Banking Sector – Public Bank Vs Private Bank”, has been published in the ISBN Book, “Changing Scenario of Business & E-commerce”, Prashant Publishers, November 2012. [ ISBN 978-93-81546-92-5].
Paper Titled “Importance of Marketing Communication for Marketers in India”, has been published in Lab to Land, Vol 4 (15), July – September 2012. [ ISSN 0975 – 282X ]
Paper titled “Buying behaviour of Rural consumers Migrated to Urban Areas: An Empirical study of Chhattisgarh” has been published in the ISBN Book, “Emerging Trends & Challenges in Management”, Excel India Publishers, March 2012. [ ISBN 978-93-82062-09-7 ].

Mr. Mahendra Ikhar

Assistant Professor
Ph.D, MBA, M.Com

RESEARCH DETAILS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Presented a research paper in international Conference on A study on the impact of Physical performance of Khadi and Village industries on economic development of Chhattisgarh State at Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, (SSIPMT), Raipur on 25^th – 26^th March 2017.
Presented a research paper in international Conference on Foreign Direct Investment a Mile Stone for Developing Economy in ICFAI Business School Hyderabad on 6^th -7^th January, 2012.
Presented a research paper in international Conference on investigating the role of prior investment and gender on the investment decision of a casual investor in Indian Education Society’s Management College and Research center Mumbai on 10^th January 2011.

NATIONAL SEMINARS/CONFERENCES

Presented a research paper in National Conference on A study on challenges facing young graduates due to changing corporate expectations with special reference to Chhattisgarh at Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg on 15^th February 2018.
Presented a research paper in National Conference on Role of Ethics and Governance in Accounting Practices: a Case Study on Satyam Scam at Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg on 28^th March 2017.
Presented a research paper in National Conference on A study on factors affecting Solid Waste Management in Chhattisgarh with special reference to Durg/Bhilai City on 20^th February 2015.
Presented a research paper in National Conference on Investor’s Attitude towards the selection of investment option with special reference to derivative investments on 25^th February 2014.
Presented a research paper in National Conference on Impact of India’s accession to WTO on its economy in Laxmi Narayan College of Technology – Management – Education & Research, Indore on 20^th November, 2010.
Presented a research paper in National Seminar on Social Security Schemes in India Present Status and Future Challenges with respect to Indian Context in Navyug Arts and Commerce College Jabalpur (M. P.) on 16^th-17^th January 2010.
Participated in National Seminar on Entrepreneurship an Economic Agent for Regional Growth and Sustenance in Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering and Technology Bhilai (C. G.) on 16^th January 2009.

MANAGEMENT STUDIES

OVERVIEW

MISSION

OBJECTIVES

Bachelor of Business Administration

Dr. Susan R. Abraham

Mr. Mahendra Ikhar

Activities

Dr. Susan R. Abraham

Mr. Mahendra Ikhar

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