Name of the program holder: Faculty of Business Sciences Vision of the Faculty of Business Sciences. However, students must complete the Master of Business Administration within the specified duration.
Admission Process
The final exam will be conducted by the Office of the Superintendent of Examinations for all theoretical courses over a period of 03 weeks. He will not be allowed to appear in the exams of the remaining subjects.
Part-C Description of All the Courses
PLO 2 PLO 3 PLO 4 PLO 5 PLO 6
Inflation and its control: Definition, characteristics and types of inflation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, problems and limitations of monetary policy in underdeveloped country. CLO1 Understand the functioning of economics at the macro level and apply these concepts CLO2 Identify the characteristics and types of inflation.
CLO 4
CLO1 To identify and explain the main events of the History of the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh. Organizational learning and effectiveness: Definition of organizational learning, types of learning, characteristics of organizational effectiveness of the old paradigm, Conflict management in the new paradigm.
Major courses for Accounting and Information Systems (AIS)
This advanced course in financial accounting theory presents an in-depth analysis of the historical development of accounting theory and its application to current and future accounting issues. The course includes a global perspective on the development and analysis of accounting standards. Approaches to accounting theory formulation: Traditional approaches, new approaches, efficient market hypothesis, capital market research and the importance of accounting information.
The Structure of Accounting Theory: Elements of Structures, Postulates of Accounting, Theoretical Concepts of Accounting, Basic Principles of Accounting, Principles of Exclusion or Modification.
Major Courses for Human Resource Management (HRM)
This course introduces students to best practices related to basic and advanced training and development. In addition to the core HR profession, HRM graduates are expected to build a responsible career in the training and development department. Introduction: Importance-stakeholders of training and development-relationship between education-training and development-training and development-management development-goals-importance-dimensions of training and development-management development process and cycle of training-training and development-difference between training and learning.
CLO1 Understand the basic concepts of training and development CLO2 Know how to orient, socialize and train newly hired employees.
Major Courses for Finance
PLO 2 PLO 3 PLO 4 PLO 5 PLO 6 PLO 7
Mapping course learning outcomes with the teaching and learning and assessment strategy CLOs The teaching and learning strategy's assessment strategy.
Major Courses for Marketing
Importance of Business Marketing – How Business Marketing is Unique – Business Markets – The Whole System. Understanding Competitive Pressures – Strategic Implications of the Five Competitive Forces – Organizational Context for Competition – Organizational Learning and Memory. Customer Relationship Management – Customer Relationship Management Process – Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy – Communication Budgeting.
Principles and principles of pricing – Cutting in speed: Factors of price shears – Nature of competitive markets – issues in price management – A pricing system.
Major Courses for Bank Management
CLO1 Analysis of academic texts, cases and examples Test/ Presentation CLO2 Lecture/Exercise / Group work/Individual work Test/Assignment CLO3 Class performance / Lecture/Exercise/ text text Test/Assignment CLO4 Viva-Voce, Analysis of academic texts, and examples Test/Class performance. CLO1 Analysis of academic texts, cases and examples Test/ Presentation CLO2 Lecture/Open discussion / Group work/Individual work Test/Assignment CLO3 Analysis of academic texts and bank examples Test/Classroom performance. CLO3 Analysis of academic texts, and examples of scholarship Test/Class performance Cases CLO4 /Open discussion/Group work Presentation.
CLO1 Analysis of scientific texts, examples and examples Test/ Presentation CLO2 Lecture/ Open discussion/ examples/ Independent work Test/ Assignment CLO3 Analysis of scientific texts and examples of bank operations v.
Part D
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION The Grading System and Grading
Grade Point Average (GPA) is the weighted average of the grades earned for all courses taken/completed by a student in a semester. The number of classroom tests/assignments/presentations of a course is 'n', where 'n' is the number of credits of the course. Evaluation of performance in classroom tests/assignments/presentations will take place on the basis of the best '(n-1)' classroom tests/assignments/presentations.
The manner of continuous assessment for a particular course will be included in the course review plan that will be provided to the students by the course teacher within the first week of the beginning of each term.
Annexure (Course Outline in OBE)
- Course plan specifying content, CLOs, co-curricular activities (if any), teaching learning and assessment strategy mapped with CLOs
- Assessment and Evaluation 1) Assessment Strategy
- Make-up Procedures
- Learning Materials
- Recommended Reading
- Supplementary Reading
Effectiveness of Different Types of Business Organization in Bangladesh, Business Support Promotion Institutions. Class Test Final Exam Participation .. IBM's restructuring strategy, Ford and Honda have achieved becoming a "learning" organizational structure. Missed class exams, assignments, class performance and midterm exam: There will be no make-up exam if someone intentionally misses a class exam or midterm exam without a valid and justified reason.
RIB (Referral, Improvement and Support) examinations will be conducted according to BAUST's Undergraduate Programs Examination Policy.
MBA 5102, Principles of Accounting
Learning Materials 1) Recommended Readings
Supplementary Readings
MBA 5103, Principles of Management
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) and Mapping of CLOs with Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Performance appraisal: Introduction, Meaning of performance appraisal, purpose and criteria of performance appraisal and its different methods. Organizational conflict: Levels of organizational conflict, Stages of conflict, Causes of conflict, its prevention and resolution.
Marks distribution
MBA 5104, Principles of Marketing
Definition of marketing, the marketing process, understanding the market and customer needs, designing a customer-driven marketing strategy. Pricing strategies: new product pricing strategies, product mix pricing strategies, price adjustment strategies, price changes, public policy and marketing. Absence from the exams will be considered absent and zero (0) points will be applied.
RIB (Referred, Improvement and Backlog) examinations will be conducted in accordance with BAUST's undergraduate examination policy.. Principles of Marketing-Philip Kotler & Gary Armstrong, Prentice-Hall Publications 2) Supplementary Reading:.
MBA 5105, Principles of Finance
Cost of Capital: Meaning of cost of capital, calculation of cost of equity capital, preference shares, bonds and retained earnings and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Evaluation of preferred stock as a source of fund, IPO and the investment banking process in Bangladesh. Traditional debt instruments, evaluation of long-term debt as a source of fund, equity vs.
Factors affecting the need for working capital, managing working capital, financing working capital, approaches to financing working capital.
MBA 5106, Fundamentals of MIS
CLO2 Enable students to understand the use of information systems to gain a competitive advantage by managing information as an organizational resource. How Information Systems Are Transforming Business, What's New in Management Information Systems, The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization: A Flattened World, The Evolving Digital Firm, Strategic Business Objectives of Information Systems,. Technology improves business processes, types of information systems, systems for different management groups, systems for connecting enterprises, e-business, e-commerce and e-government.
Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications: Enterprise System, What are Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Software, Business Value of Enterprise Systems, Supply Chain Management Systems Supply Chain, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management,.
MBA 5107, Computer Application in Business
Learning Materials
Recommended Readings
MBA 5108, Microeconomics
Assessment and Evaluation 1) Assessment Strategy
Notification of the instructor before the exam is mandatory if the student misses any exam for reasons beyond his control. In extreme cases, if the student cannot report earlier, he must notify the instructor within three (3) days after the exam.
MBA 5109, Business Communication
CLO1 Understand basic communication concepts and help them transform their communication skills. CLO2 Acquire the necessary business etiquette skills for handling day-to-day managerial responsibilities and appreciate the facilitators of business communication. CLO4 Analyze forms of Communication and enable students to understand verbal and non-verbal communication and produce impressive documents.
Mass Communication – Importance, Mass Communication Media, Mass Communication in Business Enterprise of Bangladesh.
MBA 5110, Business Mathematics
Academic Session : Summer 2022
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) and Mapping of CLOs with Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
PLO1 PLO2 PLO3 PLO4 PLO5 PLO6
Course plan specifying content, CLOs, co-curricular activities (if any), teaching learning and assessment strategy mapped with CLOs
CLO1
CLO2
CLO3
CLO4
CLO5 14 Review Class
Zamiruddin & Khanna : Business Mathematics 2) Supplementary Readings
Bowen: Mathematics: With Application in Management and Economics
MBA 5111, Bangladesh Studies
CLO3 Acquire knowledge regarding constitution, business laws and policies identified by the government of Bangladesh. Introduction to Bangladesh Economy: Economic activities, The economic activities of the people of Bangladesh, Different economic system. First five year plan, two year plan, second five year plan, third five year plan.
Population policy, Population of Bangladesh, causes of high population growth in Bangladesh, Population density.
MBA 5112, Business Statistics
Measures of Central Tendency: Introduction- Arithmetic Mean- Geometric Mean- Harmonic Mean- Weighted Arithmetic Mean- Mode- Median- Quartiles- Deciles- Percentiles- Properties of a good average- Empirical ratio of the average. Measures of Dispersion- Range- Inter- Quartil Range and quartile Deviation- Mean Deviation- Standard Deviation- Coefficient of variations and their applications. Moments From Arbitrary Value- Moments from mean- Relation between Moments- Measures of Skewness and its uses- Measures of Kurtosis and its uses.
Moments of the mean - Relationship between moments - Measures of skewness and their use - Measures of Kurtosis and their use.
MBA 5113, Legal Environment of Business
Essential elements of partnership, . definition of partner, who can be a partner, who cannot be a partner, co-owner, partnership and co-ownership,. Negotiable instruments, essential features of negotiable .. promissory notes, essential ingredients of a bill of exchange, bill of exchange, essential ingredients of a bill of exchange,. Mate's receipt, clean bill of lading, thorough bill of lading, deviation, perils at sea, barratry, discharge, salvage, lay charge.
Definition of Bankruptcy, bankruptcy legislation and its objectives, . when one can be declared insolvent, insolvent in accounting and law Industrial Law, Objective, Need for an Industrial Legislation, Classification of Industrial Law of Bangladesh,.
MBA 5114, Labor Law
Introducing students to the importance of employment law and introducing them to the different concepts of organizational structures. Course plan specifying the content, CLOs, co-curricular activities (if any), teaching-learning and assessment strategy mapped with CLOs. assessment strategy mapped out with CLOs. Working conditions, classification of employees and probation period, last appointment and identity card, service record, procedure for leave, payment of wages for unopened leave.
Injuries leading to disability, injuries resulting in disability, home and attendant care services.
MBA 5115, Organizational Behavior Part A
Learning Materials
Newstrom (2011), Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work, 13. udgave, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited. Griffin og Gregory Moorhead (2014), Managing Organizational Behavior, 11. udgave, South-Western/ Cengage Learning India Private Limited.
MBA 5201, Auditing and Taxation
Learning Materials 1) Recommended Reading
MBA 5202, Macroeconomics
CLO4 Analyze the role of the state in different economic systems and distinguish between structural policy and trade policy. Money: meaning, the role and functions of money, types of money, characteristics of good money, monetary standard, value of money. Determinants of the value of money, quantity theory of money, Keynesian versus classical approach, money market and capital market.
Policy environment: role of the state in different economic systems, theory of economic policy, monetary policy, objectives and instruments.
MBA 5203, Entrepreneurship Development & SME Management Part A
Learning Material
MBA 5204, Strategic Management
Assessment and Evaluation 1. Assessment Strategy
MBA 5205, Banking and Bank Management
- Understand the Origin and the growth of the Banking System in Bangladesh
- Remember broad functions of banks, banking services and functions of the regulatory authority
- Analyze the functions of e-service of commercial banks in Modern Banking
- Classify the different types of Bank Accounts
- Understand the concept of loan management and foreign currency PLO 1 PLO 2 PLO 3 PLO 4 PLO 5 PLO 6
- Course plan specifying content, CLOs, co-curricular activities (if any), teaching learning and assessment strategy mapped with CLOs
- Assessment and Evaluation 1) Assessment Strategy
CLO1 Analysis of academic texts, cases and examples Test/ Presentation CLO2 Analysis of academic texts/Lecture Test/Assignment.
MBA 5206, History of the Emergence of Bangladesh
CLO 2
A course plan specifying the content, CLO, co-curricular activities (if any), teaching learning and assessment strategy mapped to the CLO.
MBA 5208, Conflict Management
CLO3 Knowledge of conflict resolution processes and coping styles of intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup conflicts. Conflicts in organizations: nature of conflicts, levels of conflicts, sources of conflicts, classification of conflicts, effects of conflicts and detection of conflicts of interest. Disciplinary measures: Basic elements of the disciplinary procedure, Penalties of disciplinary measures, Fours of disciplinary measures.
Conflict Management Design: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Conflicts, Intragroup and Intergroup Conflicts.
Marks distribution
Make-up Procedures
MBA 5209, Management of Innovation and Change
Innovation and Change: An Introduction: Meaning of Organization, Nature of Organization, Meaning of Organizational Change, Components of Organizational Design &. Organizational innovation management: restructuring and transformation, implementing change, communicating change, sustaining change, stimulating change, the strategy and of change. Leadership for change: Human Resource Management for change, new organizational forms, power and resistance to change.
Resistance to change: Types of resistance to change and ways to overcome resistance to change.
MBA 5210, Digital Marketing
Make-up Procedures
MBA 5211, Tourism and Hospitality Management
National organizations, regional organizations, state and community organizations, effects of tourism on individual, family, society and state mass versus moral tourism. Passenger transport: Different modes of transport, supply components of a tourist area- Measurement and forecasting of tourist demand- Planning process for tourism. CLO2 Lecture, Group work, Case solving Test/Class participation CLO3 Lecture, Viva-Voce, examples Test/Assignment CLO4 Lecture, Consultations, examples Test.
MBA 5212, Forensic Accounting
Fraud in society: types of fraud, other forms of financial fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley, categories of business fraud, drawing conclusions. The role of the accountant and forensic accounting investigator: The importance of accounting professionals in the investigation. Prevention and Detection of Corruption and Procurement Fraud: Risk Assessment Factors, Risk Assessment Best Practices, Risk Management Checklists and Documentation.
