IIM Nagpur Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management - Batch 05

This program by IIM Nagpur is designed to provide professionals with a broad understanding of general management principles and practices. The program covers topics such as financial management, marketing, operations, and strategy and is aimed at helping participants develop the skills and knowledge necessary to take on leadership roles within their organisations.

Programme Start Date: 04th       February , 2024
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Class Timings: Sunday : 12.15 p.m. to 3.15 p.m.

Overview

The Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management (PGCPGM) equips you with suitable managerial and leadership skills to help you endeavour towards progressive job roles in your career. More importantly, you gain the ability to respond and act swiftly to evolving business developments and challenges. ... Read More

Content

Here is the curriculum structure of the IIM Nagpur General Management programme.

1. Managing Oneself and People

  • Perception: Understanding Different Perspectives
  • Understanding Self and Others
  • Understanding and Managing Emotions
  • Effective Decision-making

2. Statistics for Managerial Decision-making

  • Business Statistics for Quantitative Data Analysis
  • Statistical Methods for Forecasting and Planning

3. Managerial Economics

  • Economics for Everyday Decision-making
  • Macro-economic Systems and Globalisation

4. Management Accounting

  • Analysing Financial Statements
  • Managerial Decisions Using Financial Ratios
  • Cost and Profitability Management: Cost Accounting Basics

5. Emerging Trends in Marketing

  • Value Creation for Customers and STP
  • Analysing Markets and Assessing Demand
  • Digital Marketing and Leveraging Social Media
  • Services Marketing and Managing Service Personnel

6. Effective Interpersonal Communication

  • Managing Difficult People
  • Reading Body Language and Non-verbal Cues
  • Developing Listening Skills
  • Communication in High Diversity Workforce

7. Data Analytics and Digital Transformation

  • Data Visualisation and Storytelling
  • Modern Data Management and Cloud Technologies
  • Analytics Consulting and Industry Overview
  • Planning and Executing Digital Initiatives for Competitive Advantage

3. Managerial Economics

  • Economics for Everyday Decision-making
  • Macro-economic Systems and Globalisation

8. Strategic Organisational Design

  • External Environment and Organisation Structure
  • Managing Organisational Culture and Change
  • Learning Organisations: Creating and Managing Knowledge
  • Emerging Organisational Forms

9. Financial Management

  • Fundamental Valuation Concepts
  • Working Capital Management
  • Project Appraisal
  • Financial Risk Management

10. Supply Chain Management and Operational Excellence

  • Operations as a Source of Competitive Advantage
  • Process Analysis, Concept of Bottleneck, Cycle Time, Resource Interference
  • Factors Affecting Operations Performance
  • Supply Chain Management

11. Strategy Formulation for Profitable Growth

  • Vision, Mission, and Organisational Objectives
  • Understanding External Environment and Organisational Resources/Capabilities
  • Strategic Decision-making and Strategy Formulation
  • Strategy Implementation and Organisational Transformation

12. Ethics, CSR, and Sustainable Development

  • Business Ethics for Managers
  • Introduction to CSR and Sustainability
  • Formulating Strategies for Sustainable Development and CSR

13. Design Thinking and Innovation-driven Value Creation

  • Understanding and Mapping the Customer Journey
  • Experiencing the Design Thinking Process
  • Managing Innovation and Value Creation
  • Organisational Agility and Dynamic Capabilities

14. Strategy Implementation and Organisational Change

  • Balanced Scorecard for Holistic Performance Management
  • McKinsey 7S Framework
  • Leading Strategic Organisational Change Initiatives

15. Real-life Problem-solving: Group Project

  • The participants would be expected to work in groups to take up and solve real-life organisational problems in various management domains
  • All groups would be guided and mentored by IIM Nagpur faculty
  • The project task includes problem identification, scope definition, primary and secondary data collection, data analysis, recommendations, creating and presentation of a report on the findings, and implementation planning
  • Participants would integrate learnings from all courses in the group project.

16. Capstone Business Simulation (CBS)

CBS is a multi-round business simulation that requires participants to work in groups and lead their business organisation in a competitive industry. In each round, participants decide the company’s product portfolio, pricing, promotions, R&D, operations, financial management, HRM, TQM, and other managerial decisions to optimise business performance. The simulation would help participants to:

  • Practice organisational leadership roles in group work
  • Integrate and align multiple functional areas to create and implement an organisational strategy
  • Competitive benchmarking and stakeholder management
  • Analysis of external environment
  • Competitive strategies
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, JV & Diversification
  • Globalising the business models
  • Understanding disruptive Innovations
  • Marketing fundamentals
  • Marketing strategy
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Marketing adaptation
  • Global product strategies
  • Global Pricing & Distribution Strategies
  • Financial statements analysis
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Capital structure
  • International financial markets
  • Managing financial risks
  • Cross-cultural Communication
  • Exploring Cultural Dimensions
  • Major elements of the international trade management
  • Role of governments in international trade and tools at their disposal
  • Influential factors in international trade
  • Aspects of international trade
  • Geopolitical analysis of business opportunities
  • Dispute settlement
  • Foreign investment
  • Contracts & Intellectual Property protection
  • Product liability
  • Supply chain strategy
  • Performance and structure of supply chains
  • Inventory control
  • International freight management
  • Distribution network planning
  • Material handling & warehousing
  • Sourcing and managing suppliers
  • Global logistics management
  • Management Dynamics in the Internet Era
  • Product and Business as a Platform
  • Digitalisation and AI for Competitive Advantage
  • Nature of Industrial Revolution and Implication for Firms
  • Automation and Cyber-Physical System Managing Competition and Competitors
  • Developing Interactive Thinking
  • Cross-functional Managerial Decision and Actions
  • Managing Competition and Competitors
  • Managing Through Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard

Highlights

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Contextually designed 12 months programme for early-mid career executives

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Campus immersion module of three days

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Focus on business use cases and simulations

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Chamber consulting by the expert faculty members

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IIM Nagpur Alumni status

Details

Pedagogy

This post graduate programme in general management is delivered through blended learning mode. The in-class component will involve a variety of pedagogical techniques like lectures, case discussions, simulation games, role-plays, group projects, and other experiential exercises. The online component, delivered through a state-of-the-art Interactive Learning platform, will facilitate learning in synchronous mode using multimedia components involving case discussion, audio, and video for enhanced engagement and experience.

Key Learning Outcomes

The IIM Nagpur General Management programme will help learners to:

  • Understand the purpose, nature, and functions of the organisation
  • Understand various functional dimensions of the organisation
  • Explore and learn various concepts, tools, frameworks, and techniques related to management
  • Gain exposure to a wide range of cutting-edge management trends and topics

Programme Delivery

  • Sessions of this PG certificate in executive general management will be conducted via a state-of-the-art Interactive Learning (IL) platform and delivered in Direct-to-Device (D2D) mode that can be accessed by learners on their Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, or Smartphone.
  • Chamber Consulting will be provided by every faculty member teaching a course in the programme (once a week in the timeframe when a particular course’s sessions are scheduled).

Who Should Attend?

  • Early-career working executives who are willing to take up middle management or leadership roles in the organisation and/or industry
  • The IIM Nagpur Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management is also targeted at professionals working in MNCs, private corporates, PSUs, government departments, and family businesses

Eligibility Criteria

  • Diploma (10+2+3) or Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (10+2+3 or 10+2+4) or 2-year Master’s Degree or equivalent from a recognised university (UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU/State Government) in any discipline.
  • Minimum 2 years of work experience* after completion of qualifying education.
  • Participants who fulfil the above criteria and are not working are also eligible to apply for the IIM Nagpur General Management programme.
  • Final selection will be done by IIM Nagpur

*Internships and training experiences will not be considered as full-time work experiences.

Admission Process

The selection to this IIM Nagpur General Management programme will be based on the candidate’s profile evaluation, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Programme Director

Dr. Happy Paul

Prof. A.K.Singh holds a FPM degree (Fellow in Management) in Operations management and quantitative techniques area from Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He is a Mechanical Engineer from College of Technology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. He has worked with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), for 8.5 years and has around 8 years of academic experience. Prof Singh was actively involved in academic, MDP’s and administrative activities.

He has published papers in reputed journals and has attended several conferences in India and abroad. His teaching and research interests span across the domain of Operations Management, Project Management, Supply chain management and Quantitative Techniques.
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Dr. Prashant Salwan

Professor – Strategy & International Business Indian Institute of Management Indore

Certificate and Assessment

Assessment and Evaluation

  • The evaluationon methodology is at the discretion of the faculty. The methodology includes online exams, written tests, assignments, projects, quizzes, examinations, and any other component as decided by the IIM Nagpur faculty and administered by the ELP.
  • The programme may require participants to work on individual/group assignments and/or projects. The main objective of such assignments/projects will be to help the participants apply their conceptual learning in the programme to actual organisational decision scenarios.
  • Giving feedback is an integral part of the completion requirements of the programme.

Attendance Criteria

  • A minimum of 75% attendance is a prerequisite for the successful completion of the IIM Nagpur General Management programme.

Campus Immersion

  • There will be 3 days of campus immersion at IIM Nagpur, between the middle and the end of the programme.
  • The in-campus modules are subject to the conditions that prevail at that point of time. These conditions pertain to the pandemic or other unavoidable reasons. In case the on-campus module is not confirmed due to the COVID-19 situation, the same will be included in the total number of online sessions.

Certification

  • Participants who successfully meet the evaluation criteria and satisfy the requisite attendance criteria will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Completion’.
  • Participants who are unable to clear the evaluation criteria but have the requisite attendance will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Participation’.
  • Successful participants will also be accorded IIM Nagpur Alumni status.

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How It Works

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Select the course of your interest and register
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Receive Counselling from our Programme Advisors
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Pay the Preliminary Course Fee
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Get your documents verified & appear for Interview if applicable
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Obtain the Offer Letter and Give your Acceptance
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Complete Onboarding and commence Course

Date & Fees

Programme Fees

  • Collection of all fees will be done by IIM Nagpur. From Application page, participants will be redirected to the IIMN payment portal.
  • *GST as the per prevailing rate is applicable & will be collected additionally from the candidate/participant. Current GST rate is 18%.
  • **Processing Fee is ₹15,000 which includes ₹2,500 towards Application Fee and ₹12,500 towards Tuition Fee. In case a participant profile is rejected by IIM Nagpur, Tuition Fee of ₹12,500 will be refunded to the participant.
  • During campus visit, participants who want to stay extra nights at the IIM Nagpur campus will have to pay additional charges directly to IIM Nagpur. This shall be subject to accommodation availability at the campus for extra nights.
  • This is with reference to the refund of the Processing Fees, please note that the Processing Fee shall not be refunded in the following circumstances:
  • In case the candidate rejects the offer issued by the Institute; and
  • In case the application is rejected due to submission of incomplete documents and/or providing incomplete information and/or eligibility criteria not fulfilled

Instalment Schedule

GST will be additional as applicable.

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FAQs

The IIM Nagpur Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management has been designed to provide professionals with a broad understanding of general management principles and practices. It covers financial management, marketing, operations, and strategy topics. The course prepares participants for higher organisational roles by enhancing their managerial and leadership abilities. It also helps participants explore and become aware of the latest management trends.

IIM Nagpur’s Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management (PGCPGMP) is a 12-month programme that has been designed to prepare working executives with the opportunity to improve their management knowledge and skills.

The selection process for this post graduate certificate in general management by IIM Nagpur will be based on the candidate’s profile evaluation, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Any applicant who has completed the bachelor's degree and has a minimum of 2 years of work experience after completing qualifying education is eligible to apply. It is to be noted that internships and training experiences will not be considered as full-time work experiences.

All participants who successfully meet the evaluation criteria and satisfy the requisite attendance criteria will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Completion’ and those who cannot clear the evaluation criteria but have the requisite attendance will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Participation.

The curriculum structure of the IIM Kashipur Business Management programme includes topics like Managerial Economics, Business Communication, Operations Management, Financial and Management Accounting, Organisational Behaviour, Statistics for Management, Building Blocks of Leadership, Marketing Management, Human Resources Management, Business Environment and Indian Economy, Corporate Finance, Marketing Research, Innovation Management, Organisational Design in the Contemporary Era, Logistics Network Design, Transportation and Distribution Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Risk Modelling and Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, B2B and Digital Marketing, Digital Transformation, Business Laws, Startups, Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Finance.

No, it is not mandatory to pay the full program fees in advance. You can pay a certain amount at the time of application, and the rest of the IIM Kashipur Business Management programme fees can be paid with easy instalments.

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