This document provides an overview of the courses offered as part of the two-year Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations at XLRI for the 2005-07 batch. The programme includes 41 courses (23 core and 18 electives) across various functional areas as well as a compulsory summer project. The core courses are common in the first year, while electives allow students to specialize in the second year, with at least 6 electives required to be from the Personnel Management and Industrial Relations area.

1. (For Private circulation only)
Courses of Postgraduate Programme
in
Personnel Management & Industrial Relations
2005-07 Batch
Office of the Dean (Academics)
XLRI Jamshedpur
June 2005

2. PREFACE
This file contains the broad objectives,
structure, and list of courses of our two-year
Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Personnel
Management and Industrial Relations (PM & IR).
The syllabus is directional in scope and permit
the much desirable flexibility to keep pace with
the ever-growing body of knowledge, experiments
and explorations in management education with
special emphasis towards the human side of
enterprise.
The Association of Indian Universities, All
India Council for Technical Education, and the
Government of India recognised the two - year
Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management
and Industrial Relations awarded by XLRI as
equivalent to the 2-year Master's Degree awarded
by the Indian Universities/Institutes.
June 2005
XLRI Jamshedpur.

3. PROGRAMME DESIGN AND REQUIREMENTS :
PMIR 2005-07 BATCH
The two-year Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Personnel
Management and Industrial Relations prepares a student for a career in
industry and services. The programme facilitates learning in modern
concepts, techniques and practices in the management of human resources
and exposes the student to different functional areas of management to
enhance the effectiveness.
The courses are designed to develop - (i) the analytical, problem-solving
and decision-making abilities, (ii) the awareness of the socio-economic
environment, and (iii) the personality with socially desirable values and
attitudes. Towards these objectives and to suit the contents of each course, a
variety of teaching methodologies, such as case studies, role-play, problem
solving exercises, group discussion, computer simulation games, audio
visuals are used in the programme.
The programme requirements include 41 full-credit courses (23 core
courses and 18 elective courses) and a Summer Project. Summer Project is a
non-credit course and is compulsory. A student is required to do a summer
project on any aspect of Personnel Management & Industrial Relations in the
industry for eight to ten weeks at the end of the first year (April - June).
A student can opt for a dissertation in lieu of one full-credit elective
course in Term V. However, only those students who secure a minimum CQPI
of 6.00 upto Term II (i.e. in the courses of Term I & II) will be eligible to opt
for dissertation on a topic of their choice in a related field of Personnel
Management & Industrial Relations (for further details, refer Student Manual).
All the core courses are of full-credit courses. Most of the electives are
also offered as full-credit courses. There are some electives which are offered
as half-credit courses. Students who would be opting for half-credit elective
courses should take them in pairs (except in case of audit courses) so that
they complete the required number of credits. Half credit courses can be
taken in different terms.

4. Each full-credit course implies a total of 30 contact hours, and is
organised during a Term of 10 to 12 weeks. The courses are offered in the
following areas :
1. Economics
2. Finance
3. General Management
4. Information Systems
5. Marketing
6. Production & Operations Management
7. Organizational Behaviour
8. Personnel Management and Industrial Relations
9. Strategic Management
First year consisting of 21 core courses would be common for all
students. The Term-wise distribution of courses in the first year shall be
7-7-7. The remaining two core courses shall be scheduled in the second
year. During the second year, in addition to the two core courses, a student
is required to do 18 (eighteen) elective courses. The total workload for a
student in any Term should not exceed 8 courses.
Since the PMIR programme is itself a specialised programme, there are
no separate Areas for Concentration. Students are required to choose 18
electives from the courses offered to them. Out of these, a minimum of 6 (six)
electives should be from those listed under the head ìPMIR Areaî in the
Syllabus Booklet. A PMIR student may, if s/he so desires, opt for a maximum
of 4 (four) electives each from Information Systems and/or Strategic
Management Areas.
The elective courses listed in this booklet is the total list of approved
electives for the Programme. The list of electives to be offered in a particular
term would be decided by the respective areas and communicated from time
to time.

5. LIST OF COURSES
I. ECONOMICS
CORE COURSES
1. Macroeconomic Policy and Analysis
2. Managerial Economics
ELECTIVES
3. Economic Indicators : Database & Estimation
4. Economics of Human Resources
5. Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
6. Industrial Economics & Competitive Strategies
7. International Business Economics
8. Managing Private - Public Partnerships
9. Money Banking and Finance
II. FINANCE
CORE COURSES
1. Accounting for Management
2. Basic Financial Management
III. GENERAL MANAGEMENT
CORE COURSES
1. Managerial Communication
2. Managerial Ethics
3. Social Research Methods
ELECTIVES
4. Art of Public Speaking
5. Corporate Image Building
6. Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness
7. Neuro Linguistic Programming
8. Social Legislation for Indian Managers
Offered as an elective in PM&IR area also.
Offered as an elective in Strategic Management area also.

6. IV. INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CORE COURSE
1. Business Computing
ELECTIVES
2. Business and Data Communications Networks
3. Business Modeling Through System Dynamics
4. Cyber Law & I P R
5. Data Structures
6. Data Warehousing and Data Mining
7. DBMS with Oracle
8. Decision Support Systems
9. e-Business
10. Enterprise Resource Planning
11. Human Resource Information Systems
12. Information Security and Risk Management
13. I. S. Strategy
14. Object-Oriented Programming
15. Software Project Management
V. MARKETING
CORE COURSE
1. Marketing
VI. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
CORE COURSES
1. OB-I : Individual Behaviour in Organization
2. OB-II : Group Behaviour in Organization
3. OB-III : Organizational Structure, Design & Change
ELECTIVES
4. Assertiveness Training
5. Building Learning Organizations
6. Consulting to Management
7. Cross-Cultural Management
8. Designing Organizations for Uncertain Environment
9. Impression Management
Offered as an elective in Production and Operations Management area also.
Offered as an elective in PM&IR area also.
Offered as an elective in Strategic Management area also.

7. 10. Indian Philosophy for Leadership Excellence
11. Leadership, Influence and Power
12. Management of Creativity
13. Management of Relationships
14. Managerial Competencies and Career Development
15. Managerial Counselling
16. Organizational Change and Development
17. Personal Effectiveness and Leadership
18. Personal Growth Lab
19. Occupational Testing
20. Strategic Human Resource Management
21. Stress Management
22. Transactional Analysis
VII. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
CORE COURSES
1. Employment Relations Laws - I
2. Employment Relations Laws - II
3. Human Resource Planning
4. Introduction to Industrial Relations
5. Introduction to Labour Laws
6. Introduction to Personnel Management
7. Performance Management and Appraisal
8. Wage Determination and Administration
ELECTIVES
9. Advanced Manpower Planning
10. Collective Bargaining and Negotiation Process
11. Economics of Human Resources
12. Executive Compensation
13. Grievance Resolution (Half-Credit Course)
14. Human Resource Information Systems
15. Industrial Jurisprudence
16. International Human Resource Management
17. Labour Law Applications
Offered as an elective in PM&IR area also.
Offered as an elective in Economics area also.
Offered as an elective in Information Systems area also.

8. 18. Managerial Competencies and Career Development
19. Managerial Counselling
20. Managing Redundancy
21. Measuring HR (Half-Credit Course)
22. Occupational Testing
23. Operations Research for HRM
24. Organizational Change and Development
25. Participative Management (Half-Credit Course)
26. Selection (Half-Credit Course)
27. Strategic Human Resource Management
28. Training and Development
VIII. PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
CORE COURSES
1. Production Management
2. Quantitative Techniques for Human Resources Management
ELECTIVES
3. e-Business
4. Enterprise Resource Planning
5. Operations Research for HRM
6. Total Quality Management
IX. STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Core Course
1. Strategic Management
ELECTIVES
2. Building Learning Organizations
3. Competition and Globalization
4. Designing Organizations for Uncertain Environment
5. Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
6. International Management
7. Managing Private - Public Partnerships
8. Resource Based Strategy
9. Strategies for Managing International Health Systems
10. Strategies of Co-operation
Offered as an elective in Organizational Behaviour area also.
Offered as an elective in Production and Operations Management area also.
Offered as an elective in Information Systems area also.
Offered as an elective in PM&IR area also.
Offered as an elective in Economics area also.