Management

Paper I

1.Organisational Design: Khandwala; Madhukar Shukla (both)

2.Organisational Behaviour: Luthans and Robbins- for some portions Blanchart is also good.

3.Strategic Cost Management: Business Today supplements

4.Economics: Any good economics book

5.Management: Terry and Franklin; Koontz and Donnel ; Koontz and weihrich (any one)

6.Strategic Management: Michael Porter

Paper II

1.Marketing: Kotler and any one Indian author book(Saxena/Ramaswami etc.)

2.Financial: Pandey/Chandra/Khan & Jain/Bearley - Any two

3.Information Technology: Any good book which gives holistic view covering all the topics along with Internet based notes.

4.International: Business Media and Government Rules on export procedures, transfer pricing etc.

5.Operations: Adams/Taha

6.HRD: Mammoria/Monappa/Prasad/Flippo - Any two.

Suggested Strategy for Management

•Its better to cover the full syllabus.

•Prepare short notes on each topic

•Write crisply and focus on the operational part of the question

•Do gives examples as and when required

•Maintain a list of cases related to each topic

•Theoretical reference should be given in a pointed and directed manner.

•Prepare with special focus: Organization Design and chapter one topics: key areas like nature and functions of management, organizational goals and newer organizational formats in 21st century.

•Attempt finance question only if conceptually very clear about that question.

•If possible, write at least one question from international trade.