The Kurukshetra University often carries out entrance test for admission to Ph.D in Management. Topics like Organizational Behavior, Managerial Economics, Accounting for Management, Human Resource Management, Production and Operations Management, and Business Legislation are covered under the syllabus of the entrance test. Aspirants should refer books such as Organizational Behavior by Robbins, S.P., Judge, T.A., Sanghi, Managerial Economics by Petersen, H. C, Cris, L W and Jain, Business Communication for Managers by Penrose, Marketing Management by Saxena, Rajan, Operations Management by Stevenson, and Entrepreneurship Management by Kaulgud, Aruna  for studies.

Books for Management Process and Organizational Behavior

• Behavior in Organization by Green Berg, J. and Baron, R.A
• Management and Organizational Behavior by Pierce, J.L. & Gardner, D.G
• Management by Stoner, R. James A.F., Edward Freeman Daniel R Gilbert Jr
• Organizational Behavior by Mcshane, S.L., Von Glinow, M.A., Sharma, R.R
• Organizational Behavior by Robbins, S.P., Judge, T.A., Sanghi, S
• Organizational Behavior by Schermerhorn, J
• Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior by George, J. M. & Jones, G.R

Books for Business Statistics

• Statistics for Management by Richard Levin and DS Rubin
• Business Statistics by Gupta, S.P. & Gupta M.P
• Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making for Ken Black
• Quantitative Analysis for Management by Barry Render, RM Stair, ME Hanna and TN Badri
• Statistics for Business by Robert Stine and D Foster

Books for Managerial Economics

• Fundamentals of Managerial Economics by Hirschey, Mark
• Managerial Economics by Atmanand
• Managerial Economics by Christopher R Thomas & S Charles Maurice
• Managerial Economics by Petersen, H. C., Cris, L W and Jain, S.K
• Managerial Economics in a Global Economy by Salvatore
• Managerial Economics: Analysis, Problems, Cases by Truett Lila J., Truett, Dale B. and Truett J. Lila

Books for Business Environment

• Business Environment by Saleem, Shaikh
• Business Environment Text & Cases by Paul J
• Economic Environment of Business by Pailwar, V K
• International Business: Environment and Operations by Daniels, John D. and Radebaugh, Lee H. and Prashant Salwan
• International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace by Charles, W. L. Hill

Books for Business Communication

• Business Communication for Managers by Penrose
• Business Communication Today by Boove, C.L., Thill, J.V. & Chaturvedi,
• Business Communication: Making Connections in a Digital World by Lesikar
• Contemporary Business Communication by Scot
• Effective Business Communication by Krizan
• Intercultural Business Communication by Chaney & Martin

Books for Accounting for Management

• Accounting for Management by Maheshwari, S.N
• Accounting Theory and Practice by Glautier, M.W.E and Underdown B
• Cost Accounting- A Managerial Emphasis by Horngren, Datar, Foster, Rajan, Iitner
• Cost Accounting by Arora, M. N
• Management Accounting by M.Y.Khan and P.K.Jain
• Management and Cost Accounting by Duray

Books for Computer Applications in Management

• Introduction to Information Technology by Turban, Rainer and Potter
• Information Technology for Management by Turban Efraim, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe

Books for Marketing Management

• Marketing Management by Etzel, M., Walker, B., Stanton, W. and Pandit
• Marketing Management by Saxena, Rajan
• Marketing Management: A South Asian Perspective by Kotler,P., Keller, K.L. Koshy, A. and Jha, M
• Marketing Management: Global Perspective by Ramaswamy, V.S and Namakumari
• Marketing Planning, Implementation and Control by Pride, William, M., and O.C. Ferrell
• Principles of Marketing by Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz

Books for Human Resource Management

• Human Resource Management by Snell
• Human Resource Management by Dessler
• Human Resource Management by Lepak, D. & Gowan M
• Human Resource Management by Ivancevich
• HRM an Introduction by Denisi, A S, Griffin, R W

Books for Financial Management

• Financial Management – Principles & Practice by Maheshwari
• Financial Management by Khan, M. Y. and Jain P. K
• Financial Management by Sheeba Kapil
• Financial Management: Theory and Practice by Prasanna, Chandra
• Principles of Financial Management by Van Horne, James

Books for Business Research Methodology

• Business Research Methods by Donald Cooper and PS Schindler
• Marketing Research by Naresh Malhotra and S Dash
• Research Methodology by Ranjit Kumar
• Research Methods for Business by Uma Sekaran

Books for Production and Operations Management

• Operations Management by Stevenson W. J
• Operations Management by Gaither Norman and Frazier G
• Production and Operations Management by Chary, S.N and Paneerselvam R

Books for E – Commerce

• E-Business and E-Commerce Management- Strategy, Implementation and
• Practice by Dave Chaffey
• Electronic Commerce- Framework, Technologies and Applications by Bharat Bhaskar

Books for Business Policy and Strategic Management

• Strategic Management and Business Policy by Thomas L. Wheelen, J. David Hunger
• Strategic Management – Concept and Cases by Arthur, A, Thomson and Strickland, A. J
• Competing with the Best: Strategic Management of Indian Companies in a Globalizing
• Arena by Kark Rajneesh

Books for Business Legislation

• Business Laws by Tulsian, P C
• A Manual of Business Laws by Maheshwari, S.N. and Maheshwari, S.K

Books for Entrepreneurship Development

• Entrepreneurship Development: Small Business Enterprises by Charantimath
• Small-Scale Industries and Entrepreneurship by Desai, Vasant
• Entrepreneurship Management by Kaulgud, Aruna
• Entrepreneurship Development: An Analytical Study by Balaraju, Theduri

Books prescribed under MBA degree can be used for studies. Study materials and previous year question papers can be collected from web. Practicing previous year question papers will be effective in time management.