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LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY OGBOMOSO‐NIGERIA DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES POSTGRADUATE HANDBOOK MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) COURSE OUTLINE MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) YEAR 1 ‐ FIRST SEMESTER COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDIT UNIT MGS 701 Basic Management Informatics 3 MGS 703 Basic Financial Management 3 MGS 705 Business Statistics 3 MGS 707 Organization Theory & Management 3 MGS 709 Basic Managerial Accounting 3 MGS 711 Research Methodology Total 18 Units CREDIT UNIT 3 YEAR 1 ‐ SECOND SEMESTER COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE MGS 702 Managerial Economics 3 MGS 704 Quantitative Analysis 3 MGS 706 Basic Operations Management 3 MGS 708 Basic Marketing Management 3 MGS 710 Business Policy MGS 716 Business & Company Law 3 Total 18 Units 3 YEAR 2 – FIRST SEMESTER (THIRD SEMESTER) MARKETING MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZATION COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDIT UNIT MGS 721 Advanced Marketing 3 MGS 723 Consumer Behaviour 3 MGS 725 Advertising management (Seminar) 3 MGS 727 Marketing Research 3 MGS 729 Product Planning & Development 3 MGS 731 Industrial Marketing 3 Total 18 Units CREDIT UNIT 3 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZATION COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE MGS 733 Financial Analysis & Theory MGS 735 Financial Management & Policy (Seminar) 3 MGS 737 Corporate Finance MGS 739 Advanced Financial Management MGS 741 Security Pricing & Portfolio Management 3 MGS 743 International Business Finance 3 3 Total 3 18 Units HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZATION COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CREDIT UNIT MGS 745 Advanced Organization Behaviour 3 MGS 747 Compensation: Theory and Administration 3 MGS 749 Personnel Staffing and Evaluation 3 MGS 751 Industrial Relations 3 MGS 753 Organization Change and Development 3 MGS 755 Managerial Problem Solving (Seminar) 3 Total 18 Units YEAR 2 – SECOND SEMESTER (FOURTH SEMESTER) COURSE CODE MGS 700 COURSE TITLE CREDIT UNIT Research Project MGS 724/MGS 732 Corporate Strategy/Managerial Psychology 3 MGS 732 Entrepreneurship Total 6 3 18 Units COURSE CONTENTS MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) MGS 701 BASIC MANAGEMENT INFORMATICS 3 UNITS Concepts of information; computer application to information processing; human as information processor; systems concepts and information systems; decision making concepts for informatics systems; value of information. Application of Information Technology, Information Technology Based Support System and Type Computer Configuration. MGS 702 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS 3 UNITS Consumer behaviour and determinants of demand; factors markets; production decisions; equilibrium of the market under different market structures; basic macro‐economic; concepts and the economic impact of various government policies such as price controls subsides, taxes and tariffs. MGS 703 BASIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Why individuals borrow and lend; creating wealth by investing in productive opportunities; how the investors value the firm; investment and financing decisions; consumption investment problems using expected utility theory; consumer’s port‐folio selection problems; market risk‐return relationships and the valuation of risk assets. MGS 704 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 3 UNITS Linear programming (Simplex method), duality, sensitivity analysis, transportation techniques; assignment problems; decision theory; Markov theory analysis; queuing theory and simulation analysis. Differential Calculus, Limited and Continuity, Maximization and Minimization, Integration, Exponential and Logarithm Function. MGS 705 BUSINESS STATISTICS 3 UNITS Descriptive statistics; probability distributions; estimation problem; regression and correlation analysis; hypothesis testing. Each statistical concept is illustrated by means of a large number of business applications. MGS 706 BASIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Operations functions; design of products and services; forecasting; process design; capacity planning and scheduling; inventory management; work‐force management; and quality control. MGS 707 ORGANIZATION THEORY & MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Introduction to management; Evolution of management thought, planning and decision making; the organizing function; leading; and controlling. MGS 708 BASIC MARKETING MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Concepts of marketing; marketing research; marketing decision in the area of pricing; product policy; promotional policy and distribution; marketing strategy and planning; management of the marketing functions; organization; staffing information and control. MGS 709 BASIC MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 3 UNITS The nature and scope of managerial accounting; analysis of financial requirements of business concerns; evaluation of capital expenditure proposal; control of capital expenditure; break‐even analysis and marginal costing; differential costing; standard costing and variance analysis; method of financial report for management. MGS 710 BUSINESS POLICY 3 UNITS The concept, scope and process of strategic management; product/market port‐folio analysis; operations management and corporate strategy; management of growth in technology, turn around strategies; the role of computer in today’s management; the business‐environment interface; labour, the consumer, government, technology, scarcity of suppliers, mergers and acquisitions. MGS 711 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3 UNITS Introduction to Research Methodology, Research in social sciences, Research in Physical and Natural Sciences, Problems of research in developing countries, Common errors in research, Research in Practice; Problem identification, literature review, materials and methods (Methodology), results (Data Analysis)and discussions, Summary, Conclusions and Recommendation, Report Writing. MGS 716 BUSINESS AND COMPANY LAW 3 UNITS Legal aspects of business – concept of business law, agency, hire purchase, carriage of goods and related laws, the Company Act, Company and Miscellaneous Matters Decree are also examined in depth. MGS 721 ADVANCED MARKETING 3 UNITS The nature and complexity of marketing decisions; structure of marketing problems into analytical models; evaluation of the utility of the existing models, and associated measurements for marketing management. MGS 723 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR 3 UNITS Basic factors influencing consumer behaviour with emphasis on managerial use of consumer decision making models, Buyers behaviour modeling from both economic and Behavioural sciences, consumer information processing, stochastic brand device models, Risk taking and market segmentation. MGS 724 CORPORATE STRATEY 3 UNITS Conceptual frameworks and models for the analysis of competitive situations and strategic dilemmas, Insight into strategic management, Analyses of external competitive environment, Industry structure, Value chain dynamics etc. MGS 725 ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT (SEMINAR) 3 UNITS Models of how advertising affect sales from the viewpoint of both economics and Behavioural sciences, how these models can be used by the advertising manager to make decisions regarding advertising budgets, copy design, and media selection. MGS 727 MARKETING RESEARCH 3 UNITS The role of marketing information in decision making; cost and value of gathering information; design of measuring instruments; types of marketing research problems; data analysis of both a univariate and multivariate nature (hypothesis testing, cross classifications, regression analysis) MGS 729 PRODUCT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 3 UNITS Issues involves in the development and introduction of new products and the management of existing products; positioning; screening; concept testing and development of new products; simulations; pre‐test market models; product rollout; diffusions of innovations’ product life cycle and branding strategies. MGS 731 INDUSTRIAL MARKETING 3 UNITS Marketing problems unique to industrial marketing; Management of the sales force and optimal allocation across product lines, customers and sales territories; industrial consumer; pricing advertising in an industrial setting. MGS 732 ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3 UNITS Concept and objectives of entrepreneurship; Personal characteristics of entrepreneurs; identification of ideals and venture capital opportunities; Sources and availability of resources; finance, technology, manpower and government regulations. Marketing plan, policy and strategy. Accounting and Book‐
keeping, financial statement and ratios. Feasibility studies and project evaluations. MGS 733 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS & THEORY 3 UNITS Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model; market efficiency; capital budgeting and optimal financial structure; leasing; option pricing theory and implications for corporate finance; dividend policy; asymmetric information and signaling, mergers and take‐over bids valuation and cash management.. MGS 735 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & POLICY (SEMINAR) 3 UNITS Seminar presentation on contemporary and topical issues of national economic importance. Candidates are expected to hold individual or group seminars preferably on management of financial institutions and macro‐economic policies. MGS 737 CORPORATE FINANCE 3 UNITS The principles and procedures underlying financial statements; financial transactions; alternative accounting statements; tools or analysis of ratios and other quantitative measures; accounting information in decision situation. Project Appraisal analysis of investment projects, the impact of risk, tax and inflation, the term structure of interest rates, the cost of capital and target rates of return; capital markets – its efficiency, the role of intermediaries, sources of finance, the borrowing decision and company valuation and optima portfolio allocation; capital structure – optical capital structure of firms, mergers and acquisitions and the market for corporate control, market efficiency, the principles of capital structure, gearing and the basics of hedging and international finance. MGS 739 ADVANCED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Asset Pricing and Management, Financial and Capital structure theories, Cost of Capital, Dividend Policy, Advanced Capital Budgeting, Mergers and Acquisition, Financial Planning and Strategy, Sources of Finance, Leasing, Venture Capital, Working Capital Management, Financial Performance Measurement. MGS 741 SECURITY PRICING & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT 3 UNITS Extensions of the capital assets pricing model; empirical tests of equilibrium pricing models; market efficiency‐theory and evidence; option pricing‐theory and evidences, application of option theory to valuation of warrant and convertibles, right issues, subordinated debt; bond pricing duration; commodity markets and futures contracts; arbitrage pricing theory MGS 743 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS FINANCE 3 UNITS Foreign exchange uncertainties and ways to offset or minimize them; financial management within multinational companies, the constraints and the opportunities arising from multi‐nationality; the EEC financial market – EEC currency and bond market ECOWAS financial market – ECOWAS currency and bond, development finance. MGS 745 ADVANCED ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR 3 UNITS Individuals and group behaviour in organizations, motivations, organization theory, work design and control. Leadership style, group decision making, organizational socialization, power and influence, group dynamics, communication and conflict management. MGS 747 COMPENSATION THEORY AND ADMINISTRATION 3 UNITS Examination of the determinants of wage levels, wages structures and individual wages; analysis of the impact of wages on work attitude and performance in organization. MGS 749 PERSONNEL STAFFING AND EVALUATION 3 UNITS Element of manpower planning and internal labour markets; validation procedures for determining the potential of effectiveness and individuals, description and validity of selection instruments such as tests, interviews and biographical data, measuring performance, turnover and absenteeism and the process of performance appraisal. MGS 751 INDUSTRIAL; RELATIONS 3 UNITS Theories of industrial relations and the industrial; relation system. Trade union and employers association. Labour management relation at the organizational and industry level. The role of government in industrial relation. Strikes and trade dispute settlement procedures and collective bargaining in the public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy. The Nigeria Labour Law. MGS 753 ORGANIZATION CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT 3 UNITS Basic steps or stages involved in the process of organizational diagnosis and change, the development of strategies necessary for gaining entry to an organization, collecting data, and feeding back data to the client organization. Several specific strategies and technologies for changing organization are presented and the relative strengths and weakness of the strategies are examined. MGS 755 MANAGERIAL PROBLEM AND SOLVING (SEMINAR) 3 UNITS The practical study of managerial work; Examines communication skills and offers the opportunity for assessment and feedback, organizational building and case work.