XLRI, Xavier Labour Relations Institute located in Jamshedpur is one of the top most institutions in India providing good quality education in the field of business management. Following are the details regarding the Post Graduate Diploma course in Business Management offered in the institute which is of 2 years duration.

Structure of PGDBM in XLRI

The details regarding the core courses as well as electives included in this course are as follows.

Economics

Core Courses

• Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
• Managerial Economics

Electives

• Basic Econometrics
• Demand and Business Forecasting
• Development Economics
• Economics of Human Resources
• Economics of Information and Network Industries
• Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
• Firms, Markets and Global Dynamics
• Industrial Economics and Competitive Strategies
• International Business Economics
• Managing Private-Public Partnerships
• Money Banking and Finance
• Social Banking and Microfinance
• Strategic Game Theory for Managers
• Time Series Analysis

Finance

Core Courses

• Financial Management-I
• Financial Management-II
• Management Accounting-I
• Management Accounting-II

Electives

• Behavioral Finance
• Business Analysis and Valuation
• Capital Expenditure Planning and Control
• Commercial Banking
• Commodities Derivatives Market
• Corporate Taxation
• Financial Decision Making under Information Asymmetries
• Financial Markets
• Financial Analysis, Planning and Control
• Financial Modeling Using Excel
• Financial Risk Management
• Financial Technical Analysis and Introduction to
• Inter market Analysis
• Fixed Income Securities
• International Business Economics
• International Financial Management
• Issues in Empirical Finance
• Mergers, Acquisition and Corporate Restructuring
• Options and Futures
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
• Structured Finance

General Management

Core Courses

• Business Law
• Business Research Methods
• Managerial Communication
• Managerial Ethics

Electives

• Analysis for Managerial Decision Making
• Corporate Image Building
• Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness
• Marketing Law

Information Systems

Core Courses

• Management Information Systems

Electives

• Business and Data Communications Networks
• Business Intelligence and Data Mining
• Business Modeling Through System Dynamics
• Cyber Law
• Data Structures
• DBMS with Oracle
• Decision Support Systems
• E-Business
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• I S Strategy
• Information Security and Risk Management
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Managing Business Process Outsourcing
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Software Project Management

Marketing

Core Courses

• Marketing Management-I
• Marketing Management-II

Electives

• Advertising and Sales Promotion
• Business-to-Business Marketing
• Competition and Globalization
• Consumer Behaviour
• International Marketing
• Internet Marketing
• Marketing Decision Models
• Marketing Fair
• Marketing in Practice
• Marketing Law
• Marketing Research
• Pricing Management
• Product and Brand Management
• Retail Management
• Rural Marketing
• Sales and Distribution Management
• Services Marketing
• Strategic Marketing

Organizational Behaviour

Core Courses

• Individual and Group Behaviour in Organization
• Organizational Structure, Design & Change

Electives

• Assertiveness Training
• Balanced Score Card
• Building Learning Organizations
• Consulting to Management
• Corporate Governance
• Cross-Cultural Management
• Designing Organizations for Uncertain Environment
• Indian Philosophy and Leadership Excellence
• Leadership, Influence and Power
• Management of Creativity
• Management of Relationships
• Personal Effectiveness and Self-Leadership
• Personal Growth Lab
• Political Behavior & Impression Management in Organizations
• Stress Management
• Transactional Analysis
• Zen and the Executive Mind

Human Resource Management

Core Course

• Human Resource Management

Production and Operations Management

Core Courses

• Operations Management - I
• Operations Management - II
• Operations Research
• Quantitative Techniques - I
• Quantitative Techniques - II

Electives

• Advanced Inventory Control
• Advanced Operations Research
• Demand and Business Forecasting
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Production Planning and Control
• Materials Management
• Project Management
• Supply Chain Analytics
• Service Operations Management
• Technology Management
• Theory of Constraints
• Total Quality Management

Strategic Management

Core Course

• Introduction to Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability
• Strategic Management

Electives

• Advanced Environmental Management and Green Marketing
• Applied Quantum Innovations
• Balanced Score Card
• Building Learning Organizations
• Business Networking
• Competition and Globalization
• Contemporary Business Practices
• Designing Organizations for Uncertain Environment
• Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
• Entrepreneurship Planning and Development: with special reference to Tech-
• Entrepreneurs and Professionals
• International Management
• I S Strategy
• International Relations and Management
• Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
• Managing Private-Public Partnerships
• Mergers, Acquisition and Corporate Restructuring
• Resource Based Strategy
• Strategic Game Theory for Managers
• Strategic Marketing
• Strategies of Co-operation
• Technology Management
• Transformation for Sustainable Superior Performance

Admission Procedure

The students are admitted into this course on the basis of their performance in the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) organized by the institution. A student may apply for a maximum of 3 programmes offered there.