FPM Manual

FELLOW PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT
POLICIES, PROCEDURES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS

(2014-15)

This manual lays out the policies, procedures, rules and regulations governing the
Fellow Programme in Management [FPM] for the academic year 2014-15 at the Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Changes/modifications as may be deemed fit to
improve the program delivery may be made to the manual from time to time and would
be applicable to all students after due notification.

Chairperson
Fellow Programme in
Management

Contents Page No.

1. Programme Design
1.1 Objectives 6
1.2 Stages of the Programme 6
1.3 Title 7
1.4 Duration, Financial Aid and Residency 7
1.5 Academic Facilitation, Awards and Honours 7
1.6 Administration 7

2. Course Work
2.1 Academic Advisor 8
2.2 Course Work, Exemptions and Registration 8
2.3 Transfer from One Area to Another 8
2.4 Academic Standards for First Year 8
2.5 Course Work in Term-3 of First Year 9
2.6 Summer Placement 10
2.7 Courses in the Second Year 10
2.8 Course Selection and Registration 11
2.9 Completion of Course Requirements 11
2.10 Academic Standards for Fourth Term onwards 11
2.11 Crediting FPM courses 12
2.12 Academic Assistance 12

3. Comprehensive Examination
3.1 Objectives 12
3.2 Area Comprehensive Examination 12

4. Thesis
4.1 Objectives 12
4.2 Thesis Advisory Committee 13
4.3 Thesis Proposal Seminar 13
4.4 Timelines for Submission of Thesis Proposal 13
4.5 Thesis Examination Committee 13
4.6 Thesis Seminar 14
4.7 Preparing the Final Draft 14
4.8 Thesis Defence 14
4.9 Final Thesis Submission 14

5. Award of Title 14
6. Duration, Financial Aid and Residency
6.1 Duration 15
6.2 Financial Aid 15
6.3 Paid Work During the FPM Programme 16
6.4 Residency 16
7. Academic Facilitation
7.1 Presentation of Papers at Conferences 16
7.2 Working Papers 17
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7.3 FPM Development Fund 17
7.4 Placement 17

8. Awards and Honours
8 .1 Award for Best Scholastic Performance in the First Year 18
8.2 Awards for Thesis Proposals 18
8.3 Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Thesis Award 18
8.4 ESSEC Scholarship 19
8.5 IITCOE Fellowships 19
8.6 Norms for External Awards 19
8.7 Awards for Publication of Papers 19

9. Administration
9.1 The Faculty Committee for Programmes 20
9.2 FPM Executive Committee 20
9.3 FPM Courses Committee 20
9.4 Academic Advisor 21
9.5 Course Approval Procedure 21
9.6 Registration 21
9.7 Grading System 21
9.8 Review of Performance 23
9.9 Academic Discipline 24
9.10 Plagiarism Policy 24
9.11 Grievance Redressal Policy 25

Appendix 1 : Areas of Specialization
1.1 Agriculture 28
1.2 Business Policy 28
1.3 Computer & Information Systems 28
1.4 Economics 28
1.5 Finance & Accounting 28
1.6 Marketing 29
1.7 Organizational Behaviour 29
1.8 Personnel & Industrial Relations 29
1.9 Production and Quantitative Methods 29
1.10 Public Systems 29

Appendix 2 : First Year Courses - [2013-14] 30
Appendix 3 : First Year Area Specified Courses for Academic Standards 33
Appendix 4 : First & Second Year Non-Area Specific Courses
4.1 Compulsory Courses 35

Appendix 5 : Compulsory and Elective Courses in Each Area
5.1 Agriculture 37
5.4 Economics 40
5.5 Finance and Accounting 41
5.6 Marketing 42
5.8 Personnel and Industrial Relations 44

Appendix 6 : Procedures for Comprehensive Examination in Each Area
6.1 Agriculture 50
6.4 Economics 51
6.5 Finance and Accounting 51
6.6 Marketing 51
6.8 Personnel and Industrial Relations 52

Appendix 7 : Thesis Proposal Guidelines
7.1 Preparation and Submission of Proposals 55
7.2 Thesis Proposal Award 55
7.3 Format for the Title Page of a Thesis Proposal 56

Appendix 8 : Guidelines for Thesis Preparation and Submission
8.1 Number of Copies of Thesis 57
8.2 Components 57
8.3 Title Page 57
8.4 Abstract 57
8.5 Acknowledgments 57
8.6 Table of Contents 57
8.7 Tables, Figures and Illustrations 57
8.8 Source References 57
8.9 Paper and Typing 57
8.10 Illustrations, Tables & Flow Charts 58
8.11 Clarifications 58
8.12 Format for the Title Page of a Thesis 59
8.13 Format for the Abstract Page of a Thesis 60

Appendix 9: Format for Progress Report and Plan of Action 61

Appendix 10: Fees, Fellowship and Contingency, Award Amounts
and other Financial Transactions

10.1 Fees, Fellowship and Contingency 62
10.2 Award Amounts 64
10.3 Other Financial Transactions 65

Appendix 11 : Hostel Rules
11.1 Residential Facilities 66
11.2 Medical Facilities 67
11.3 Sick Diet 68
11.4 Extra Curricular Activities 68
11.5 Hostel Fees 68
11.6 Bank 68
11.7 Storage of Valuables 68
11.8 Post and Telephones 69
11.9 General 69
11.10 Medical Emergency 72
11.11 Railway Concession 72

Appendix 12: Norms for Allotment of Married Students Houses 73

Appendix 13: Academic Calendar for 2013-14
13.1 First Year 74
13.2 Second Year 74
13.3 For Graduating Students 75

Appendix 14 : Grade Conversion Table 76

Thesis Proposal Guidelines ........................... 51
Guidelines for Thesis Preparation and Submission ..... 52
V 58
Name of Contact Person ............................... 66
Name of Contact Person ............................... 66
1. Programme Design

1.1 Objectives

The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is the doctoral program of IIMA. It is
designed to provide both breadth and depth to doctoral students in management.

The Fellow Programme in Management [FPM] aims to build researchers, teachers,
and trainers in the field of management.

The following areas of specialization are available:

1. Agriculture
2. Business Policy
3. Computer and Information System
4. Economics
5. Finance and Accounting
6. Innovation and Management in Education
7. Marketing
8. Organizational Behaviour
9. Personnel and Industrial Relations
10. Production and Quantitative Methods
11. Public Systems

A brief description of the areas of specialization is given in Appendix 1. Each area of
specialization is offered by an area or group or centre of the Institute. [For the purposes
of this manual, the word "area" is used to denote area, group or centre].

1.2 Stages of the Programme

The programme consists of three stages:

1. Course Work [Section 2]
2. Comprehensive Exam [Section 3]
3. Thesis [Section 4]

The course work is spread across a minimum of five terms. . Each academic year begins
in June and ends in March/April and has three terms. All FPM students, irrespective of
their areas of specialization, take a set of compulsory courses in their field of
specialization and other interest areas. All students are also required to take program-
wide compulsory courses specially designed to provide breadth of knowledge in the field
of management and also teaching and research skills. The students are also required to
choose a minimum of six credits from the courses offered in the Post Graduate
Progammes at the Institute (Refer to section ___ for details).

Upon completion of the course work, the students take the area comprehensive
examination. The area comprehensive examination tests whether the student has
obtained a satisfactory level of knowledge in his/her field of specialization and whether
he/she has satisfactorily integrated the various courses taken in the area.

If and only if a student passes the area comprehensive examination, he/she enters the
Thesis stage. The thesis stage consists of first developing a thesis proposal, for which the
student identifies a thesis topic, forms a Thesis Advisory Committee [TAC], presents a
seminar on the thesis proposal to the IIMA academic community, and gets the thesis
proposal approved by the TAC. Then the student works closely with the TAC on his/her
thesis. On completion of the thesis research, the student submits the thesis, gives a
seminar, and defends the same.

1.3 Title

After completion of all requirements of the programme, the student is awarded the title
of the "Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad" during the
convocation at the end of the academic session following the completion [see Section 5].
The Fellow Programme of IIMA has been recognized by the Government of India and
the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to a doctoral programme for all
academic purposes. While the FPM Programme is equivalent to a PhD programme, the
Fellows cannot use the prefix "Dr" against their names [which can be used only by those
who have been awarded a PhD by universities and other statutory bodies].

1.4 Duration, Financial Aid and Residency

FPM is a full time residential programme [see Section 6.4]. The students are expected to
complete the programme in four years, extendable up to five years contingent on the
recommendations of the TAC Chair of the student and approval of the FPM Executive
Committee [FPMEC [see Section 6]]. In exceptional circumstances, the FPMEC may
permit a student to continue beyond five years subject to a maximum of six years. The
student will have to approach the Director for permission to continue beyond six years.

All students admitted to the programme are given a fellowship and contingency
allowance up to five years. The general conditions and the amount for the fellowship and
contingency allowance are included in Appendix 10.1.

1.5 Academic Facilitation, Awards, and Honours

The Institute provides various opportunities in terms of academic facilities and support
systems to enable high quality work and its dissemination. The Institute recognises
excellence in these areas through a number of awards and honours [see Section 8].

1.6 Administration

The academic administration of the programme is governed by various processes to
enable appropriate inputs for a high quality programme [see Section 9]. FPMEC is the
authority in-charge of administration of the programme.

2. Course Work

2.1 Academic Advisor

A member of the faculty from the students area acts as an academic advisor to the FPM
students of the area [see Section 9.4]. The academic advisor mentors the student till the
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TAC is formed. It is recommended that the student meets his/her academic advisor at
regular intervals.

2.2 Course Work, Exemptions and Registration

A student is expected to complete 30 course credits over the two years of the FPM
program. Irrespective of their areas of specialization all FPM students take a
compulsory set of courses in their first and second year worth 10 credits (7.5 in the
first year and 2.5 in the second year) (1 credit = 20 sessions of 75 minutes each)
[Appendix 2].

Each student is expected to take the 1 credit FPM course offered by their
area/centre/group in the 1
st
year. The remaining required course credits may be
fulfilled by taking FPM courses from other areas and/or courses from among those
offered in other post graduate programs. A minimum of 6 credits have to be earned
from taking courses at the post graduate programmes over two years.

The first year course work carries a total minimum credit requirement of 14.5 credits
and a maximum of 18.00 credits.

The second year course work carries a total minimum credit of 15.5 credits and a
maximum of 18.00 credits.

In addition after the completion of the area comprehensive exam it is compulsory to
attend 1 credit course titled Communication for Management Teachers (CMAT).
This course is designed to provide formal inputs on teaching and learning in class
(described in Appendix ____):

For planning purposes a one credit FPM course calls for approximately 100 hours of
work from the student. A minimum proficiency is expected in the courses taken (see
section ___ for details) by each student [Appendix 3]. The evaluation and grading
system for courses is given in Section 9.7.

2.3 Transfer from One Area to Another

After joining the FPM program, a student may apply for a change of the area of
specialization latest by the end of the third week of Term 2 by obtaining consent from
his/her original area of specialization. The area to which the student wants to be
transferred to, then decides within fifteen days (from the date of application) whether to
accept the student or not.

2.4a Academic Standards for First Year

A student is allowed to choose two among the following courses as pass/fail courses:
Microeconomics, Psychology, Mathematics, Socio Political Context of Research.
The student is required to pass both these courses.

In the remaining courses the student must obtain the following minimum academic
standards to qualify for promotion to the second year:

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1. A minimum average grade point of 2.33 (B minus)

1.2.Minimum 1.33 (C minus) in all courses

The performance review of students who have failed to meet the minimum
requirements in first year is taken up by the course instructors, the concerned area/s,
and FPMEC [see Section 9.8].

2.6 Summer Work in 1
st
year

At the end of the first year, FPM students are required to take up summer projects in
consultation with their academic advisor. The summer project may be a research project
or an industry project. The students are expected to plan for their summer projects by
March 15 of the academic year. At the end of the summer project, the student is
required to submit a certificate of satisfactory performance and completion of the project
from the project advisor. A student failing to submit such certificate will not be allowed
to register for further coursework.

2.7 Courses in the Second Year
In the second year a student takes courses worth at least 15.5 credits.
If a student desires to take more than six credits (6.0 credits) in a term, an approval from
the FPM Chairperson is necessary.

Special courses allowed in second year

Subject to all the above requirements, a student is also allowed to take courses of the
following kind:

1. Project course (1.5 credits)
2. Course of Independent Study [CIS] (2.0 credits) [spread over two terms]
3. "Special Topics" course (1.5 credits)

A student cannot take more than one project course or CIS in a term. A student cannot
take more than one "Special Topics" course from one area during the year. All the
above courses can be taken only with the prior permission of the instructor concerned.
All the above courses must be approved by the concerned area each time they are
offered.

While project courses and the CIS involve the instructor as a guide/advisor, the
"Special Topics" course involves the instructor(s) like any other course. The design of
the "Special Topics" course would take into account the student and the faculty
members research interest. It is expected to help the student develop a broad
understanding of a problem area he/she intends to research. All such courses need to
be approved by the area.

2.8 Course Selection and Registration

Instructors will provide a detailed outline for their courses. Outlines describe the
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schedule of sessions and the readings prescribed for each session. Students are required
to fill and submit a registration form in consultation with the Academic Advisor. This
form has to be submitted to the FPM Office 15 days before the beginning of each term
duly signed by both the student and the Academic Advisor.

Registration must be done on the registration day of each term [see Section 9.6].

In case of FPM electives students are expected to make an informed decision of picking
up a course by, inter alia, taking a look at the course coverage, material, and talking to
the faculty offering the course. In case the student feels after the first week of the term
that the course does not meet expectations, the student may drop the course provided
other courses are available for registration. The student takes responsibility for what they
might have missed in the other electives/courses. No change of courses will be permitted
after the end of the first week of the term. All electives will be required to have at least
one session in the first week of the term.

2.9 Completion of Course Requirements

Students must finish all requirements of the courses within the term in which the courses
are offered. Failure on the part of the student to finish all requirements within the
planned date for completion of the course is likely to result in an "I" grade in the course.
If the `I grade does not get removed by the student within one month it would
automatically get converted to `F by the FPM office. If a student cannot complete the
requirements within the specified term, he/she must seek approval from the instructor(s)
and the FPM Chairperson for late submission [see Section 9.7].

The performance review of students who have failed to meet the minimum
requirements is taken up by the instructors, the concerned area, FPMEC and the
Faculty Committee for Programmes as per the procedure defined in Section 9.8.

2. 10 Academic Standards for Second Year
Students must obtain the following minimum academic standards during the second
year to qualify for promotion to the third year:

1. Those who have chosen Socio Political Context of Research as a credited
course will continue to credit in the second year.
2. Business History is a pass/fail course. All students are required to pass the
Business History course.
3. An average grade of B (2.33) in all courses credited in the second year.
4. A minimum grade of C-(1.33) in any course credited in the second year.

2.11 Crediting FPM courses

FPM students may credit FPM courses subsequent to completing the course
requirements and area comprehensive examination subject to approval of the TAC and
the concerned faculty. The credits for such courses will be listed in a separate grade
sheet.

2.12 Academic Assistance
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All FPM students after the successful completion of their comprehensive exam must
assist in two courses worth at least 0.75 credit (PGP/FPM). The choice of course and
nature of assistance to be provided is left to the student and the faculty involved in
teaching the course. All students are required to ensure that they meet this requirement
before they graduate and inform the FPM office upon taking up assistance-ship.

Comment [d11]: Will two sections of
the same course qualify as two
course?

3. Comprehensive Examination
.

3.1 Objectives

The area comprehensive examination is conducted after the completion of course work
to test whether the student has obtained a satisfactory level of knowledge in his/her field
of specialization and has satisfactorily integrated the various courses taken in the area.

3.2 Area Comprehensive Examination

The area comprehensive examination is separately administered by each area for their
students. The results of the exam are required to be announced within six months of the
completion of the course work. Ideally, it is suggested that the comprehensive
examination be held within three months of completion of the course work.

The area Chairperson identifies three faculty members from the area to constitute the
area comprehensive examination Committee [AEC] and nominates one of them as the
Chairperson. The Chairperson of the AEC will arrange for administering the
comprehensive examination. The examination requirements which vary from area to
area are given in Appendix 6.

For the student to be passed in the comprehensive exam, at least two of the three
members of the AEC have to vote to pass the student. If a student fails the examination
in the first attempt a second and final chance is given.

The student has 6 months, post the date of completion of the courses, to complete the
comprehensive exam. In case there is a delay beyond six months in completing the
comprehensive exam the student will not be awarded fellowship for the period beyond
six months of course completion and passing of comprehensive exam. In extraordinary
circumstances the area chairperson, the AEC chair will write to the FPMEC for special
consideration.

4 . Thesis
4.1 Objectives

The thesis should be an original scholarly contribution to the body of knowledge in the
students chosen field of specialization.

4.2 Thesis Advisory Committee

After passing the comprehensive examination, the student identifies a topic for research,
and a thesis advisor who will guide him/her as Chairperson of his/her TAC.
The FPM Chairperson in consultation with the TAC Chairperson suggested by the
student approves the TAC. Normally, the committee consists of three members of
which, two members are from the area of specialization. The members are chosen to
contribute to the thesis research in a complementary manner. The TAC Chairperson
need not necessarily be from the area of specialization. An industry expert or an
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that mean FPM Chair can/will never
disapprove the TAC in the first
pass?

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retires or leaves IIMA, he/she
would continue as TAC member.
academic from outside of IIMA can also be a member of the committee, but not be the
Chairperson of the TAC. If a TAC member retires from IIMA or leaves IIMA he/she
may continue to be a TAC member. A TAC Chairperson has to be a full time faculty at
the Institute when he/she is chosen to be a TAC Chairperson.

If the circumstances demand, the FPM Chairperson may, in consultation with the student
and the Chairperson of the TAC, reconstitute the TAC, including a change in the TAC
Chairperson.

4.3 Thesis Proposal Seminar

When the TAC agrees on the adequacy of the research question and design of study, the
student drafts a formal research proposal in the format given in [Appendix 7]. Following
the submission of the proposal, the student gives a public seminar in the Institute.
Following the seminar, the student has one month to submit the suitably modified final
proposal approved by the TAC. The thesis proposal must be adhered to once it is
submitted to the FPM office. A significant change in research design will need to be
proposed again and the reason for this change explained to a committee constituted by
the FPMEC.

4.4 Timelines for Submission of Thesis Proposal

Thesis proposal has to be completed within 9 months of successful completion of
comprehensive exam. In case the student is unable to complete a grace period of 3
months is allowed during which the stipend will be withheld. In case the student does
not present his/her thesis proposal at the end of one year following the completion of
comprehensive exams, then he/she forfeits stipend from the period starting from 9
months of completing the comprehensive exam. In other words, the withheld stipend
will not be paid. In addition, if the student does not submit his/her proposal by the end of
the 4
th
year, the student will be asked to withdraw.

4.5 Thesis Examination Committee

When a student is ready to present a thesis seminar, he/she requests the FPM
Chairperson to appoint the Thesis Examination Committee [TEC]. The FPM
Chairperson appoints the TEC consisting of two members of the TAC and two external
members. [The other two members of the TEC will be constituted after considering the
inputs from the TAC Chairperson who will suggest in the given form (Appendix ___)
four names to be invited to be on the TEC two from the Institute and two external. The
FPM Chairperson will decide the constitution of the membership of the TEC and can go
beyond the TAC Chairs recommendations if needed. The TAC Chairperson is
automatically a part of the TEC.

The TAC members who are not members of the TEC will still be signatories of the final
thesis copy and their attendance at the Thesis Seminar will be as members of the TAC.
Such TAC members, however, will not attend the Thesis Defence examination.

The role of TEC includes the following:

1. Giving written feedback on the draft thesis [see Section 4.7] submitted by the
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either be research question or
research design, not sure what
research question design means.

In many cases only a research
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student spends a long time after
proposal thinking about
designtherefore useful to have
both
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2. Attending the thesis seminar [see section 4.6] to be presented by the student and
providing feedback
3. Conducting an oral thesis defence examination [see Section 4.8]

4.6 Preparing the Final Draft

For details regarding the preparation of the thesis, refer to Appendix 8. The student
submits copies (number of copies should be number of members of the TAC plus two)
of the approved draft thesis duly signed by the TAC members to the FPM Office

4.7 Thesis Seminar

The thesis seminar can be organized only after a draft of the final thesis is submitted to
the FPM Office. All TEC members will be requested to provide written feedback to the
FPM Office on the thesis draft within a month which will be shared with the student and
the TAC Chair by the FPM Office Only after receiving the written feedback from the
TEC and indication from the TAC Chair that the comments received have been
addressed, can the thesis seminar be scheduled.

4.8 Thesis Defence

The thesis defence may be conducted on the same day as the thesis seminar. In case the
TEC feels that the candidate is not ready for the defence they can suggest a later date. It
is possible to have TEC members linking up on any internet based video calling
platform) or through video conferencing.

The TEC conducts an oral examination to evaluate the acceptability of the thesis.
Successful defence requires that the thesis is acceptable to all but one member of the
TEC. In case the student is unsuccessful in defending the thesis, then s/he is given one
more chance to defend the thesis. The second chance is the final chance for the student
to defend her/his thesis.

4.9 Final Thesis Submission

The TEC may suggest modifications to the thesis. After incorporating the suggestions,
the student submits the thesis along with signed approval forms from the TAC to the
FPM Office (one hard copy and a soft copy in pen drive in PDF format) (Appendix
13.3). Detailed guidelines for thesis preparation and submission including formats for
title page and abstract are given in Appendix 8.

5 . Award of Title

The student shall complete the following requirements before qualifying for the award of
the title:

1. Submit one hard copy and a pen drive containing PDF version and editable
version of the abstract as per guidelines in Appendix 8.

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be reframed. First line should
start with the norm (when defence
takes place at a future date) and
not with an exception

This is the norm nowdefence and
seminar on the same day.
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subject to staying within the
maximum allowable duration in the
program? What if a student submits
a substandard version towards the
end of the sixth year, and say
requires six months more work?

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2. Obtain clearance from various functionaries of the Institute as per guidelines
with the FPM Office (Appendix 13.3).

On qualifying for the award of the title, students receive the title of "Fellow of the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad" at the forthcoming annual convocation.
Meanwhile, a provisional certificate can be given upon the student's request.

The students are to receive the title in person. However, the student can also receive the
title in absentia for a fee. A student who decides to receive the title in absentia must
provide the FPM Office with an address at which the certificate is to be mailed.

6 . Duration, Financial Aid and Residency
6.1 Duration
The student is expected to complete the programme in four years, extendable to five
years depending upon progress. If the student fails to complete the programme in five
years from the date of his/her admission, the FPMEC may permit a student to continue
beyond five years on six monthly extensions, but not beyond six years. TAC-approved
six monthly progress reports and plan of action should be submitted by the students to
the FPM office in a standardized format [Appendix 9].

Time spent in repeating the first and/or second years are not included towards the five
year limit, but is included for the six year limit. Time spent in extended medical leave is
not included either for the five year limit or the six year limit. The six year limit is
extendable by the amount of extended medical leave availed but to no more than eight
years. .

6.2 Financial Aid
All students admitted to the programme are given fellowship and contingency
allowance. It is subject to revision each year. The fellowship, contingency amount, and
the general conditions of fellowship and contingency allowance are given in Appendix
10.1. Students repeating the first and/or second years are not provided fellowship and
contingency allowance during the repeat years.

6.3 Merit Award for Performance in the 1
st
year.

To reward students for excellence in first year a merit based award will be given to the
students meeting the below mentioned performance in all courses in first three terms.

1. `Rs3000 per month will be awarded as additional stipend for one year to the
FPM program topper in the first year..
The fellowship may be withdrawn or suspended at any time during the programme if the
student's work is not considered satisfactory by the FPMEC in consultation to TAC.

6.4 Paid work during the FPM Program

No paid work is allowed before the student passes the comprehensive exam. After the
student has submitted his or her proposal the student can take up paid work of not more
than 20 hours per week with approval from the TAC and the FPMEC. After the thesis
defence, if the student takes up full time work, then the stipend is stopped.

Taking up paid work cannot constitute a reason for extending the time limit of the time
taken to complete the programme.

6.5 Residency

FPM is a full-time residential programme during [a] the four [five, if given an extension]
years or until completion of all requirements of the programme, whichever is earlier, and
[b] the years the student may repeat the first and/or the second year without fellowship.
The requirements for the residency are that the student should:

1. live on campus (except when collecting data or under exceptional
circumstances (see below for details)), and
2. not take up any permanent job.

Accommodation to single students is provided in dormitories [Appendix 11]. Limited
housing for married students is available [Appendix 12]. In exceptional circumstances,
on the request of the student, the FPM Chairperson in consultation with the academic
advisor or TAC Chair may give permission to the student to stay off campus. Students
permitted to stay outside the campus must provide their addresses and other contact
information to the FPM Office.

The student is not allowed to take up any permanent placement, including re-joining the
organization from which he/she may be on leave until all requirements of the
programme are completed or during the five years in which the student receives the
fellowship, and the years during which he/she repeats without fellowship. If
circumstances so require the student to do so, permission of the TAC Chair and the FPM
Chair must be obtained before making any such decisions.

If a student plans to be absent for more than three days, he/she, whether staying on or off
the campus, must seek prior permission in writing from the following:

1. Instructors of courses that the student is crediting at that point
2. Academic advisor / TAC Chair of the student at that point

and submit the same to the FPM office. Failure to do so is treated as an act of
indiscipline [see Section 9.9]. Unauthorised absence may lead to non-payment of
fellowship for the period of absence.

7 . Academic Facilitation

7.1 Presentation of Papers at Conferences

FPM students are encouraged to present papers, which have been submitted to and
accepted at professional conferences. Upto an amount of ` 1,75,000/- (upper limit) is
available for students attending domestic/international conferences/workshops/summer
schools during the first five years of their tenure with FPM system or completion of the
programme, whichever is earlier.
Comment [I18]: However, he/she must
obtain prior permission from TAC
Chair and FPM Chair.
Comment [V19]: Point 1 above and
this statement are not consistent.
Comment [I20]: For presenting paper
and attending the conference,
student must obtain prior
permission from FPM Chair.

A student should obtain prior permission from the FPM Chairperson for travel and
submit the paper or poster presented at the conference within 2 weeks of returning from
the conference before seeking full reimbursement.

(i) Domestic Conferences:

For conferences in India, the Institute subsidizes to and fro A/C two-tier rail fare, a daily
allowance and the conference registration fee. Costs will be reimbursed for no more than
four conferences in a students tenure.

(ii) International Conferences

Guidelines to provide the funding for attending international
conference/workshop/summer school:

1. The TAC members have to write in support of the students request for funding
2. The statement prepared by student, acceptance letter from the conference, the
paper to be presented, and the TAC approval should be submitted to the FPM
Office.
3. The FPM Chair will approve attending of the conference in most cases. In cases
where there is doubt the FPMEC will be consulted.
4. In case of workshop/seminar/summer schools, the candidates must present a
report to the TAC Chair with a copy to the FPM Office after attendance.
Similarly if the student went to attend a conference based on his/her abstract the
full paper and presentation must be submitted post attendance of the conference.

7.2 Working Papers

IIMA has a working paper series. Working papers help in receiving inputs from the
research community before sending out papers for publication in journals. FPM students
are encouraged to publish working papers in the IIMA working paper series as single
authors or with faculty or other FPM students or other collaborators as co-authors.

7.3 FPM Development Fund

An FPM Development Fund has been set up to provide funds for the following
purposes:

1. To cover costs due to data collection, intensive research, for disbursement
against expenses beyond what is available in contingency and other external
sources specific to research

2. To help FPM student activities of an academic nature.

FPMEC manages this fund [Appendix 10.3].

7.4 Placement

Students are encouraged to start preparing for placement at least six months prior to the
Comment [I21]: Student, on return
from Conference/Seminar etc must
submit the paper/poster presented
at the conference. The
reimbursement claim along with all
the required documents, must be
submitted within 30 days from
return from Conference.
Comment [V22]: I think we should
make that 2 weeks and not 30 days.
Comment [V23]: I am afraid this
sounds meaningless in a manual.
Either it should describe some
modalities or this statement be
merged somewhere else.

Better now?
targeted date for completing all the requirements of the programme. The TAC helps the
students and the FPM office facilitates placement by providing any needed support.

Normally, students are expected to finish all the programme requirements before taking
up placements. However, if the nature of student work towards the end of the
programme is such that it is appropriate to allow them to take up a placement before they
complete all the requirements [see Section 6.4] the same maybe allowed upon approval
by the FPM Chairperson. Student is then not allowed to draw stipend from the Institute
once the placement is taken up.

8 . Awards and Honours

8.1 Award for Best Scholastic Performance in the First Year

An award for the best scholastic performance in the first year has been instituted from
1993-94 from the fund created in memory of the three FPM Alumni, Late Shri
B.Chaudhary, Late Shri R.Padmanabhan and Late Shri Madan Pant. The award, titled
`Chaudhary-Padmanabahn-Pant Award for Scholastic Performance' carries a cash prize
[Appendix 10.2] and is given to the FPM student who [a] scores the highest GPA in the
first year.

8.2 Awards

The Institute offers the following awards for outstanding dissertations each year
1
:

1. Industrial Finance Corporation of India [IFCI] Award
Two awards are provided by the endowment of the Industrial Finance Corporation of
India. This award is titled Industrial Finance Corporation of India [IFCI] Best
Thesis Award .

2. Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Thesis Award

Two awards are provided by the Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Fund for outstanding
the best thesis. This award is titled, Professor Tirath Gupta Award for the best
thesis.

The FPM students who are in their final stage of the thesis (i.e ready to graduate (or)
convocate in that particular academic year) are eligible to apply for the above
awards. The students competing for this award would be asked to make a presentation
to an award committee set up by the FPMEC. Separate committees will be formed for
thesis in the quantitative and qualitative domains. The committees would include one or
two faculty from within the Institute and one or two experts from outside the Institute.
The faculty who have served as TAC members of the students applying for the award
will not be part of this committee. The FPMEC would decide on the method of judging
and the final number of awards to be given. The decision of the FPMEC will be treated
as final. The award amount is given in Appendix 10.2.

Comment [I24]: An outside expert can
also be included in this committee.
New Awards
From time to time new awards may be added. Details will be communicated on the
electronic notice board as and when such awards get instituted.

8.3 Norms for External Funding for Research

Students are encouraged to apply for external funding for research as per the following
norms. These norms are applicable for research and travel in India and/or abroad,
excluding those in the nature of prizes won for work already done.

1. Applications for awards should be forwarded through the FPM Chairperson, with
the recommendation of the Academic Advisor/TAC. In case there is no application
process, the student must obtain consent of the TAC and FPM Chair before
accepting an award.

2. For acceptance of the awards won by the student, the Academic Advisor/TAC
should recommend to the FPM Chairperson, stating the nature of activity and plan
of work, [as committed to the funding organization and acceptable to the Academic
Advisor/TAC], the timing and required duration, keeping in view the possible
academic quality improvement, integrity with the proposal [if applicable] and
timely completion of the programme.

3. The final decision on acceptance of the award will be by the FPM Chairperson.

4. On completion of the award commitments, a statement to that effect should be sent
to the FPM Office through the Academic Advisor/TAC.

8.4 Awards for Publication of Papers

Awards are given to students for papers published by them in refereed journals. If the
paper is written by n authors, each FPM student is awarded 2/(1+n) of the award
amount. The decisions as to which articles merit these awards are made by the FPMEC.
The award amount is given in Appendix 10.2.

9 . Administration

9.1 The Faculty Committee for Programmes

The Faculty Committee for Programmes consists of all members of the Institutes
faculty, with all members being voting members. The FPM Chairperson chairs the
Faculty Committee for Programmes when an FPM issue is being discussed.
All decisions of the Committee, except in the cases detailed in the following paragraph,
are taken by a simple majority provided that at least one fourth of the total membership
of the Committee is present at the time of the decision.

The following decisions require the support of at least two thirds of the voting members
present provided that at least one third of the total voting members of the above
Committee are present at the time of decision:

1. Amending any provision of this manual that proposes structural changes in the
Comment [V25]: Indentation is
inconsistent throughout the
document. More apparent here. Maybe
DG would be inclined to TeX the
manual?
programme.
2. Awarding the title of Honorary Fellow of the Institute (to a luminary in the field).
3. Not awarding the title of Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad to a student who failed to meet the minimum requirements for the
title.
4. Asking a student to withdraw from the programme on the grounds of his/her not
satisfying the promotion or programme requirements, including grounds of not
adhering to the time limits and of unsatisfactory progress.
5. Expelling a student from or requiring him/her to leave the programme on any
other ground. If in a meeting, decisions given above cannot be taken due to lack of
quorum, the meeting is adjourned and convened again. The members present constitute
the quorum.

9.2 FPM Executive Committee

The primary responsibility for administering the programme, and for initiating changes
rests with the FPMEC appointed every two years. The FPMEC consists of the FPM
Chairperson [who chairs the FPMEC], and up to four other members of the faculty and
one FPM student appointed by the Director after consultation with the FPM
Chairperson. The Warden is an ex-officio member of the FPMEC.

The quorum for the meetings is three faculty members, including the FPM Chairperson.
If the FPMEC fails to decide on any issue, the FPM Chairperson may defer the
discussion to a subsequent meeting or refer the issue to the Faculty Committee for
Programmes.

9.3 FPM Courses Committee

The FPM Courses Committee consists of all the Chairpersons of the areas, and the
Chairpersons of FPM, FDP, PGP, PGP-ABM, PGPX and Research & Publications
Committee. The FPM Chairperson chairs the FPM Courses Committee whose primary
function is given in Section 9.5.

9.4 Academic Advisor

While going through the various stages of the programme, it is intended that the student
has a faculty member to relate to as an advisor. The student may seek guidance from the
academic advisor for any matter connected with the academic programme. The student
must also route all matters requiring administrative action through the academic advisor,
in the spirit of keeping the academic advisor informed.

The academic advisory process operates as follows:

Stage Advisor Nominated by
Until formation of
TAC
Faculty from the area Area Chair
After formation of
TAC
TAC Chairperson None

9.5 Course Approval Procedure

Outlines of new courses, courses with substantial changes in the content and courses
being revived after not being taught for three consecutive years, as prepared by
instructors are reviewed at the area/FPMEC level for course content and relationship to
other FPM and PGP courses given by the area. The FPMEC reviews the courses from
the programme point of view, degree of choice to students, and whether the courses are
relevant to area of specialization other than the one offering the course. The FPM
Courses Committee formally approves the FPM courses.

9.6 Registration

All students must register for courses on the registration day of each term. Only under
special circumstances FPM Chair may permit late registration. The late registration fee is
listed in [Appendix 10.3]. Registration by students beyond their first year will be subject
to their satisfactory completion of the previous year's requirements unless explicitly
allowed to do so by the FPM Chairperson.

If a student is unable to complete the programme in the stipulated time and is permitted
to continue in the programme, he/she must register for each term on the registration day
and deposit sufficient money to cover the registration fees and charges towards the
facilities proposed to be used during the term.

9.7 Grading System

The grades are based on the five point scale listed below:

A Excellent
B Good
C Satisfactory
D Low Pass
F Fail

Besides, plus [+] and minus [-] signs may be added to indicate varying degrees of
performance in various segments of evaluation.

All segments of evaluation will be graded in terms of letter grades only. These letter
grades in individual segments will be converted separately into grade points up to two
decimal points.

The numerical values of letter grades are given below:

A+ = 4.333 B+ = 3.333 C+ = 2.333 D+ = 1.333 F = 0.00
A = 4.000 B = 3.000 C = 2.000 D = 1.000
A- = 3.666 B- = 2.666 C- = 1.666 D- = 0.666

If a student has not satisfied the academic requirements of a course, he/she might be
assigned an I [Incomplete] grade, temporarily. However, if within one month the I is
not removed it will be automatically converted to a `F. First year students must
complete all incomplete course work before they proceed for their summer assignment.
In the case of second year students, incomplete course work of a particular academic
term should be completed within one month. Sixth term courses must be completed
within one month of the completion of the course.

To determine the final grade of a student in a course, the following procedure would be
followed:

a. Corresponding to the letter grades assigned for individual components, the
values [up to two decimal points] given in the conversion table [Appendix 14]
will be assigned.

b. The grade point of a student for a 1 credit course is the sum of the products of
the grade points obtained in each component and the weight of the component.
For courses which are not one credit, the grade point is multiplied by the number
of credits for the course. The total grade points received by a student will
determine his/her final letter grade in the entire course as detailed in the
following table:

Between 3.55 and 4.33 = A
2.55 and 3.54 = B
1.55 and 2.54 = C
0.55 and 1.54 = D
0.00 and 0.54 = F

Each instructor would evolve the criterion for grading individual components for
purposes of evaluation and communicate it to students at the beginning of the course.

In general the evaluation process and weightage attached to various segments of
evaluation in the same course taught by different instructors in different sections (for
PGP courses) of a term would be identical.

Instructors would give students periodical feedback on their performance.

The instructors will communicate to students the grades of quizzes and short tests
normally within ten days after the quiz or test. The instructors will supply grades for the
various segments of evaluation to the student, but the final course grades will be given to
students by the FPM Chairperson.

The FPM office will normally communicate the final letter grades in various courses
with the cumulative total grade points to the students within one month of the end of the
course.

The grades submitted by an instructor to the FPM Office on any segment of evaluation
will be final. The instructor will not be called upon to justify his/her grades. A student
who may need clarification of his/her grades may discuss with the instructor concerned
within a week after receiving the grades. Any grievance regarding grading, if not
resolved through the discussion with the instructor concerned, may be referred only to
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manual printed,
formatting/indentation needs to be
taken care of. Printed manual
should closely conform to the
relevant style guide.
the FPM Chairperson in writing within ten days of his/her receiving the grades.

At the end of first and second years the FPM Chairperson would issue to each student an
official transcript of his/her performance each year. Extra copies of transcript may be
available on payment of a fee [Appendix 10.3]. The grade of a student will not be
communicated to any other person or organization without explicit and written consent
of the student.

9.8 Review of Performance

Cases of students who do not meet the minimum academic requirements in terms of
letter grade/grade points at the end of each term are reviewed by the FPMEC and the
term instructors. Such cases are immediately brought to the attention of the areas and
their grades made available to them.

Cases of students who do not meet the minimum requirements in terms of letter
grade/grade points at the end of the year are reviewed in the following sequence:
1. Firstly, a review of such cases will be done by 1st/2nd-year instructors.
2. The suggestions and recommendations of the 1st/2nd year instructors will be
forwarded by FPM Chairperson to the concerned (area(s) will review the case and
recommend on the student's preparation or ability to pursue the advanced course
work/further work in the area or otherwise and any additional conditions/
requirements to be imposed for such purpose.)].
1.
3. A student who has failed to fulfil the conditions for promotion will have the right
to present his/her case in writing to the FPM Chairperson before the FPMEC takes
a decision.
4. The FPM EC will review and recommend to the student in light of his/her
overall progress in the programme as well as suggestions and recommendations
made by concerned academic areas. .
1.5. The cases where recommendations of the FPMEC involve withdrawal from the
programme will be subject to review by the Faculty Committee for Programmes
(FCP).

In all other cases (where recommendations of the FPMEC involve condoning of any
shortfall, conditional promotion etc.) the FPMECs recommendation is automatically
taken as the final decision, and will not be reviewed by the Faculty Committee for
Programmes.

A student who is declared to have failed to qualify for promotion will be required to
leave the Institute if the FCP so decides.

The Faculty Committee for Programmes may ask a student to withdraw from the
programme at any time if the academic progress of the student is extremely poor or
his/her conduct is detrimental to the educational process of the Institute.

A student who is expelled from or is required to leave the Institute on any ground may
file an appeal to the Director for a reconsideration of his/her case. The decision of the
Director on such an appeal will be final.
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9.9 Academic Discipline

The Institute insists on regular and prompt attendance in classes. Students may obtain
leave of absence under the following rules and procedures:

1. In cases of sickness, leave application must be submitted to the FPM Office as
soon as possible (within the day). Information sent through email or application
sent with another student is acceptable. Leave applications on the ground of
sickness must be accompanied by a medical certificate or note from the
Institute's doctor.
2. For grounds other than sickness, leave will not be generally granted for a period
exceeding three teaching days.
3. The FPM Office or the instructor will not be responsible for the student losing
any segment or evaluation on account of his/her availing of the leave without
permission.
4. In special cases the student may apply for longer leave to the FPM Chairperson.
This application must be accompanied by permission from the instructors
involved and the academic advisor.
Absence without leave will be considered a serious breach of discipline and the Institute
will be free to take appropriate action in such cases.

Penalty for the breach of academic discipline may be expulsion from the Institute.

Issues around sexual harassment and safety of all on campus

Acts of sexual harassment are covered under The Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and Section 354
of Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013. Upon receipt of information on such
instances by anyone to any authority in the Institute, the said authority shall immediately
report the complaint to the Chairperson, Committee for Managing Gender Issues
(CMGI). The Chairperson of CMGI shall arrange for detailed investigation of the case
and submit the report to the Director with proposed course of action against the
offender(s). Appropriate Authority will implement CMGI's proposed course of action in
a timely manner. CMGI's Policy Guidelines are binding on all parties concerned.

9.10 Plagiarism Policy

IIMA expects that students, faculty, research staff, all uphold academic integrity and
practice exemplary scholarship. While submitting term papers, assignments,
presentations, proposals, thesis, papers it is expected that the student who is
submitting will ensure that it is his/her own work, they will acknowledge the work of
other sources that they have borrowed from, and make it explicit who they have
consulted in completing their work. Failure to acknowledge consultation, help, or
sources are all treated as plagiarism. Plagiarism is judged by output and not by intent.
Plagiarism includes copying, colluding (working with someone inside or outside the
Institute while the requirement is that you work alone), submitting someone elses
work as yours.

Plagiarism might be in the form of -
1. Copying text, ideas, figures, tables, computer code, mathematical derivations,
and presenting it as yours. Changing it very slightly and not citing the source
from which you took the original idea
2. Paraphrasing by substituting words, by changing the order of words or phrases
and presenting it as your own
3. Paraphrasing by joining two or three short phrases from one or more sources
4. Not putting quotation marks for phrases, sentences, paragraphs cited verbatim
from other sources
5. Making a collage by cutting and pasting from internet and openly available
sources without acknowledging the sources
6. Copying from terms papers, assignments from previous year students
7. Copying from unpublished sources available to a limited audience
8. Presenting an idea that you may have thought of but is also found in another
place as yours and not acknowledging who else and where has a similar idea
been presented
9. Getting someone else (paid or non-paid) to do your work and presenting it as
your work
10. Copying from your own work published or unpublished in the past
without citing or mentioning it explicitly

Use the Chicago Style Guide, or APA Manual (7
th
edition) or any style indicated by
the faculty or the outlet to which you are reporting to cite, acknowledge work cited or
quoted by you. If you have any doubts please ask a colleague, faculty, or the Program
Office for further clarification. You could also refer to http://plagiarism.org/. Learning
to cite and refer appropriately is the writers/authors/individual responsibility.
Ignorance about style, rules is not a sufficient excuse to indulge in intentional or
unintentional plagiarism.
Plagiarism is viewed as a serious offence and it will attract penalties including
possible expulsion from the Institute. Complaints of plagiarism will be first made to
the FPM Chairperson by the faculty and the FPM Chairperson will then initiate an
enquiry and reach a decision. The student will have the right to appeal to the Director
whose decision will be final.
9.11 Grievance Redressal Policy

In the course of their program, it is sometimes possible that the student may face
issues which affect his/her well-being or ability to complete the program. For those
rare but possible cases the FPM office has the following procedure in place for the
student to receive a fair hearing.
Process to be followed by the FPM student and office to resolve program related
issues
For any issue the FPM student faces that he/she needs to be redressed and the
Academic Advsor, Area Chair, or TAC Chair are unable to help the following process
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The student submits a written complaint detailing the issue to the FPM Chair. As a
first step the FPM Chair will meet with the student and ascertain if the issue can be
solved by dialogue and discussion with the student and the concerned party. In case
such intervention does not resolve the issue the FPM Chair will form a sub-committee
of two or three faculty members to address the issue in the fairest possible manner.
Process to be followed in case of grade revision
The faculty decides on the grades given to students based on the components and
criteria given by them in the course outline at the beginning of the course. It is
assumed that the faculty is fair, unbiased, and consistent with the announced criteria.
Students may appeal a final course grade in exceptional cases where they feel the
faculty has been arbitrary or biased. To appeal the following stages may be followed:
Stage 1: Within one week of receiving the grade the student gives a written
application to the concerned faculty explaining why he/she thinks the grade is unfair.
The faculty and the student discuss and may resolve the issue at this stage. If not the
student proceeds to stage 2.

Stage 2: The student and faculty concerned meet the FPM Chairperson. The FPM
chair may request the presence of the academic advisor of the student. The three or
four of them have a dialogue to see if the matter may be resolved. In case the FPM
Chair is the faculty concerned then a member of the FPMEC will chair this meeting.
If the issue does not get resolved then the student proceeds to stage 3.

Stage 3: The FPM Chair forms a subcommittee of three faculty members (at least two
from the area of the student) to examine the written appeal of the student. The
decision reached by the committee will be binding on the Instructor.

The student if still dissatisfied can appeal to the Director who is the highest appellate
authority in the Institute. The Directors decision will be final.
Students are advised to not use the grade revision process just to improve their grade
to meet promotion criteria. It must be an arguable case of biased or mistaken grading
on part of the faculty.
It will be attempted that each step is addressed within 2 weeks.

APPENDICES
Appendix 1
Areas of Specialization

1.1 Agriculture: Students specializing in agriculture work closely with the faculty in
the Center for Management in Agriculture. An interdisciplinary team of faculty
members has been doing policy and problem solving research related to
organizations supplying seeds, fertilizers, protective chemicals, farm machinery
and irrigation, and credit for investment and working capital. It has also studied
organizations procuring, processing, and marketing of cereals, fruit and
vegetable crops, animal products, fish and poultry, and forest produces.
Extensive research has been carried out in development administration and rural
development.

1.2 Business Policy: The major streams of teaching and research in the Business
Policy area are business policy, public enterprise management, international
business, communication, entrepreneurship, and legal aspects of business.
Research interest of the faculty include strategic management, environmental
analysis, corporate planning, international business, technology transfer, legal
aspects of business, and corporate communication. In these topics. a student can
concentrate on any one of the following types of organizations or a combination:
private sector, public sector, government, agriculture and rural sector, small scale
industries, cooperatives, mass communication, and educational/research
scientific institutions.

1.3 Economics: Research interests of the Economics area faculty cover managerial
economics, micro-economics, macroeconomics, applied econometrics, economic
policy, public economics, public finance and fiscal policy, planning and growth,
poverty and unemployment, industrial economics, agricultural economics,
money and banking, international economics, trade policies and their effects,
international finance, economic and business environment and policy,
econometric theory, and industrial development and regulatory policies.

1.4 Finance & Accounting: The Finance and Accounting area has a multi-
disciplinary orientation and looks at issues in financial management and
management planning and control with relevant functional linkages. Research
activities cover share price indices, financial patterns of companies, financial
performance of public enterprises in India, corporate strategy and financial
policy, financial management of financial institutions, stochastic behaviour of
security prices, issues in leasing, efficiency of capital market, and accounting
policy issues.

1.5 Innovation and Management in Education: The Fellow Programme in
Management in Innovation and Management in Education, offered through the
Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, aims at developing
research scholars and teachers who can take up leadership roles in educational
organizations and systems. The focus on innovation and management is
expected to develop in the graduates a unique academic capability that
combines a management perspective with the theme of innovation. This fits in
with the emerging demand for people with fresh perspectives on educational
change from a wide range of academic institutions like schools, colleges and
universities, organizations that provide services and ancillary support to the
regular educational structures, well-established national and international
educational planning organizations and academic institutions, and various
research bodies and social think-tanks.

About the RJMCEI

The Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation (RJMCEI) was
formally set up in 1991, after a group of faculty members had worked for three
years on educational training and research, and institution building in
education. From an initial focus on institution building and higher education,
the mandate of the RJMCEI has gradually expanded to include primary
education, literacy and secondary education. The common thread running
through the Centres various activities is a focus on innovations and innovative
approaches to countering problems in education. The RJMCEI is involved in
applied and policy research in education that is relevant to public education
systems as well as institutions in the non-governmental space. Research
undertaken at the RJMCEI has included innovative responses to the issues of
basic education and literacy, and to management issues in higher education,
including management and technical education. Members of the RJMCEI also
provide consulting services to national and international organizations.

1.6 Information Systems: The Computer and Information Systems Group offers
specialization in information systems. This Group is involved in identifying and
developing computer applications in various sectors of the Indian economy. One
of the areas of research is to develop decision support systems involving
interactive computers in which managers could engage in a dialogue with
mathematical models, explore large database, and bring to bear their judgment
for effective decision making. Such systems have been developed for production
planning, infrastructure planning, transportation planning, and planning of canal
irrigation systems. The Group has worked on expert systems in management and
issues related to software export.

1.7 Marketing: The Marketing area's research relates to marketing, marketing
management and strategy in business and non-business enterprises, and
international marketing. Ongoing research efforts are focused on formulation of
integrated marketing plans for innovative concepts such as utilization of solar
and other renewable forms of energy, advertising research, application of
marketing in public policy formulation in areas such as family welfare, health
and nutrition, and market analysis for formulating and implementing new
projects. Issues of marketing productivity and efficiency in private and public
sector enterprises, private trade systems, consumer protection, public distribution
systems, and marketing in the societal context are also amongst current research
interests. Marketing problems of cottage and handloom industries and the small
scale sector leading to the development of overall management perspective are
receiving substantial attention.

1.8 Organizational Behaviour: The Organizational Behaviour area is
interdisciplinary with members having academic background in psychology,
sociology, and organizational and administrative sciences. The area offers
courses which deal with management of change, organizational design and
development, organizational theory, interpersonal relations, group dynamics,
entrepreneurial motivation, creative problem solving, role effectiveness, stress
management and ethics in management. Current research by the area members
is on a variety of topics, such as leadership, ethics, managerial and organizational
cognition, indigenous styles of management and stress management.

1.9 Personnel & Industrial Relations: The Personnel and Industrial Relations area
is composed of faculty with a wide variety of interests and training in areas such
as personnel management, industrial relations, labour economics, industrial
sociology. Current research interests of the faculty include industrial relations,
trade unionism, labour law, wages and salary administration, HR strategy, HR
systems and design and implementation issues in the context of changing
environment.

1.10 Production and Quantitative Methods: The Production and Quantitative
Methods Area is engaged in research in the areas of operations research and
statistics, industrial engineering and manufacturing management. The area offers
doctoral level courses covering topics in mathematical programming, statistics,
stochastic processes, operations management and contemporary manufacturing
methods and techniques. Current research includes applications in
manufacturing, finance, marketing and supply chain management.

1.11 Public Systems: The Public Systems Group consist of inter disciplinary faculty
working on management problems of public systems , which are predominantly
state control or involve significant public interest concern, and whose prime
beneficiary is the general public.
The group has focus its efforts on energy, environment, health and population,
transportation, urban development and voluntary sectors. Recent work of the
group has covered energy environment modelling and policy analysis,
strengthening primary health care, privatization strategies for transport
infrastructure; management of road transport undertakings; railways; ports and
shipping; role of voluntary organizations and community participation in water
supply and sanitation projects; and judicial administration.
Appendix 2
First Year Courses (FPM/PGP) - [Year 2014-15]

1. FPM compulsory courses in the first year

Term wise distribution of FPM compulsory courses in 1
st
year

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3
Mathematics (1 credit)

Statistical (contd)
(1 credit)

Socio-Political Contexts for
Research in Management (1
credit)
Statistics (1
credit)
Micro-economics (1.5 credit) Research Methods (1 credit)
Psychology (1 credit)

Area FPM Courses for 1
st
year
Term wise distribution of Area FPM course

Strategic Management I
(BP)

Basics of Micro OB (OB)

Foundation Course in
HRM (P&IR)
Agri Food Value Chain
Management and
Development (AGRI)

Introduction to Mathematical
Programming (P&QM)

Data Structures and
Programming (IS)

Marketing Strategy (MKTG)

Economics (ECO)

Asset Pricing (F&A)

Education: Theory, Policy,
Practice (IME)

Public Policy 1 (PSG)

Term wise distribution of 2
nd
year FPM compulsory courses

Term 1 Term 2
Research methods (.5
credit)
Business History (1 credit)

Socio-Political
Contexts for
Research in

Management (1
credit)

3. PGP core courses from which FPM students can choose

Term wise distribution of PGP Courses that can be taken for FPM first year credit

Financial Reporting &
Analysis (1.5)
Business Taxation (0.5) Corp Fin (1.25)
FM (0.5) MCCS (1) DM 2 (0.5)
Marketing 1 (0.5) LAB (1) EEP (0.75)
Macroeconomics (1) ISB (1)
Marketing - I (0.5; continued
from Term 1)
Marketing II (1)
OM 1(1) OM - 2 (1.25)
OD (0.75) PCCBS (1)
DM 1 (0.5) SM (1.25)
FM (0.5; continued from
Term 1)

In addition, students can also choose PGP, PGP-ABM, PGPX core or elective courses
in consultation with their academic advisor.

Communication for Management Teachers
:
[1.0 credits, compulsory course for post
comprehensive exam]

The objective of the Fellow Programme in Management [FPM] is to develop teachers, in
their field of specialization. The participants in the FPM program are therefore required
to acquire proficiency in oral and written communication for effective dissemination of
information and knowledge, through lectures, case discussions, games, role plays and
use of audio/video cassettes. This course is designed to help the participants acquire such
pedagogical skills. In addition to providing live opportunities for teaching and
presentation, the course covers the necessary conceptual framework, through relevant
readings and classroom discussions, needed for effective communication.

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Appendix 5

Sample Courses in Each Area (the offering for each area is different every year
and will be shared with the student in the middle of the third term)

5.1 Agriculture

Agricultural Management I
The objective of this course is to introduce advanced concepts of consumer behaviour
and demand, agricultural marketing, agricultural finance, and systems analysis in
the context of real life problems.

Agricultural Management II*
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with concepts in the theory of
the firm, risk analysis, transaction costs, natural resource economics, management of
technical change, and water management.

Agricultural Development Policy*
The objective of this course is to develop a conceptual understanding and factual
perspective of major problem areas in development of agriculture and rural sector in
India. In accomplishing this objective a range of past, current and emerging agri-food
policy issues and instruments, besides policy formulation process and the institutions
or groups involved in this process, are considered. The course provides participants
with a comprehensive exposure to the national and international dimensions of the
agricultural economy using a business perspective. Additional emphasis is provided
on the role of agriculture in economic development and international trade issues.
The course analyzes implications of farm sector reforms and trade policies for
business, farmers, consumers and economy.

Advanced Course on Strategic Management of Intellectual Property Rights
(SMIPR)
This course exposes students to basic concepts of IPRs, their coverage and scope, and
provides some insights into the strategic role of IPRs in the Indian context. It enables
the participants to appreciate the role of policy in the strategic management of IPRs
and equip them with some practical aspects of patent drafting and reading, if
necessary, through interactions with external experts.

Agro-Food Value Chain Management and Development
Major objectives of the course are to familiarize the participants with the concept and
the theory behind value chain framework and its relevance for agribusiness; to expose
participants to specific applications of this framework in the subsectors of
agribusiness like garments, horticulture, food service and the like; to help participants
to apply global and Indian learning in this field to understand and tackle issues of
management and development in such chains.

Institution Building
The course provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics of institution building as
a process of political economy, ethical and value dilemmas, and generating durable
but systematic responses to various stimuli in the environment.
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Rural Banking and Financial Inclusion
The course is intended to give an exposure to the theoretical underpinnings of how
rural financial markets operate; the role of institutions; the policy framework and how
these markets have evolved in the Indian context. The course in the process will also
examine different institutional forms commercial banks, regional rural banks, co-
operatives and non-bank financial institutions.

5.2 Business Policy

Advanced Seminar on Action Research Methodologies*
This specialized course in hermeneutic research methodologies using action research
context focuses on inquiry frames to understand dynamics of management processes.
This is particularly useful where the lived reality is to be phenomenologically
experienced and interpreted especially where controlled experimentations are
impossible.

The specific learning aims of this seminar are:
1. to understand the systemic underpinnings of different action research
approaches and how they impact systems, structures and processes
2. to review the scope and application of action research methodologies in a
variety of contexts and inquiries
3. to become familiar with the pitfalls of attributing motivations in management
research and to distinguish between conscious and unconscious feedback loops
4. to develop research design strategies for using action research methodologies
and hermeneutically resolving the constraints of transference and subjectivity
to gain some first-hand experience of action research methodologies

Entrepreneurship
The objectives of this course are to provide a comprehensive understanding of the
basic concepts of entrepreneurship, to review and understand the important streams of
research in entrepreneurship, and to familiarize students with research methodologies.

International Strategic Management*
This course aims to deepen understanding of management challenges associated with
discovering and inventing international business strategies for managing cross-border
value chains. The course exposes students to complexities of strategy and develops
conceptual foundations by introducing them to prevailing terms and concepts and
emerging praxis around complex activities of global, international and multi-domestic
product-services linkages of business organizations with due regard to developments
at plurilateral and multilateral fora such as the UN system and WTO, GATS, TRIPS,
EU etc.

Strategic Management I and II*
The objectives of these courses are to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of
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students, and expose them to the extensive research carried out both in the domain of
strategy formulation and implementation.

Strategy and Innovation*
The course provides a series of strategic frameworks for managing innovation in high-
technology businesses. It emphasizes development and application of concepts that
highlight interactions between competition, technological and market change, and
the structure and development of internal capabilities.

Economics Of Strategy
[jointly offered with Economics Area]
The course exposes the participants to various neoclassical and non-neoclassical
theories of the firms along with concepts and tools of industrial organization that may
help them understand firm strategy.

5.3 Computer and Information Systems

Algorithms and Data Structures*
This course introduces concepts and techniques in the design and analysis of
algorithms and data structures. The emphasis would be on the fact that, while several
alternative algorithms exist for a problem, they can be implemented with different
data structures, and that there could be significant differences in performance of these
alternatives.

Computer Architecture and Systems Software*
The objectives of this course is to expose students to the technical foundations of
computing technology so that they can make decisions on choice of computing
technology, participate in the design of computing configurations, and suggest
hardware and software platforms for implementation of business applications.

Database Management and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)*
The objective of this course is to understand concepts, acquire technical skills in the
area of database management systems, and design and implementation of OLTP
systems. The course also focuses on emerging research issues in the field.

Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
The course of data mining and business intelligence will equip the students with the
concepts and techniques of data mining and how to use these various data mining
techniques to fine tune business goals and enhance decision making with informed
choices. The course will also update the students about how these techniques are
being extensively used in real-life for better decision making.

Distributed Computing Systems
Much of the computing taking place today is distributed. Web services, cloud
computing, virtualization, peer-to-peer and Internet computing all have distributed
systems concepts at their foundation. In this course we study the basic concepts of
distributed systems as well as the current technologies that are built on these
distributed system concepts like peer-to-peer computing and web-services.

Information Systems Frameworks*
This course discusses frameworks and methodologies for planning, analysis, design,
and implementation of management support systems and frameworks for identifying
information technology applications which can provide a competitive advantage.

Programming I
The objective of this course is to familiarize participants of the basics of programming
using languages such as C, C++ and Java. The course will be structured as an intense
assignment oriented course.

Systems Analysis and Design*
This course exposes students to issues in the analysis and design of systems through
formal methods. It deals with both structured and object oriented approaches to
development of solutions in the emerging environments and addresses process
management, quality, and productivity issues.

5.4 Economics

Advanced Macroeconomics*
The objectives of this course are to understand how macro aggregates such as national
income, price level and employment are determined in an economy and how they are
affected by government policy and shocks to the economy.

Advanced Microeconomics*
This course is concerned with the exposition of the behaviour of individual decision makers
at a point and over a period of time. It focuses on the problems of resources allocation in
static and dynamic senses.

Econometrics*
This course intends to expose students to various research problems that have been tackled
so far in the field of econometrics with special emphasis on applications.

Public Finance
(jointly offered with Public Systems Group)

This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles and concepts of
public finance. It examines the economic rationale for government activity and fiscal
structures of different levels of government, and some major policy issues arising out of the
process of macro economic reforms.

Economic Development and Growth
(jointly offered with Public Systems Group)
The course aims at providing the context and understanding of the issues involved in the
process of economic growth and development. It is expected to provide a historical
perspective to the questions of growth and development, review theoretical developments in
the field of economic growth, and debate on various aspects of growth and development of
the Indian economy.

Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour
(jointly offered with Marketing)
This course discusses basic and advanced tools of game theory and their applications in the
field of industrial organization and strategic decisions by firms.

Time Series Methods for Macroeconomics and Finance
(jointly offered with Finance Area)
This course introduces the theory and methods of time series analysis for research in
economics and finance. The objective of the course is two-fold. First is to give
participants enough technical background to enable them to read research papers in
applied time series analysis. The second is to introduce select advanced topics useful
for analysis of macroeconomic and financial time series.

5.5 Finance and Accounting

Theory of Finance I*
The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the eld of asset pricing.
The first part of the course covers the theoretical foundations of modern asset pricing
theory. The second covers select papers on the empirical aspects of the asset pricing
models.

Theory of Finance II*
This course is a continuation of Theory of Finance I and covers important
econometric methods of financial markets. It exposes the students to the empirical
testing of various theoretical models.

Seminar Course on Corporate Finance*
This course covers selected theoretical and empirical work in the area of corporate
finance. The emphasis is on recent developments in Corporate Finance based on
information asymmetry and conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders
and between insiders and outsiders.

Seminar Course on Accounting Research
The course brings together the current issues in accounting, particularly the global
accounting standards, challenges in alignment with IFRS and issues pertaining to
accounting policy.

Seminar Course on Privatization
The course focuses on issues pertaining to privatization using international and Indian
examples. It discusses challenges and opportunities in the private sector, identify
roadblocks and bring out effective ways of dealing with the issues pertaining to
privatization.

Mathematical Finance
This course helps to prepare for the rigors of analysis by imparting the skills of
analytical tools. The course would help in identifying the right tool to apply in diverse
situations, interpretation of the results and the theoretical underpinnings of how
mathematics can be effectively used in complex financial functions.

Time Series Methods for Macroeconomics and Finance
(jointly offered with Economics Area)
This course introduces the theory and methods of time series analysis for
macroeconomics and nance. The objective of the course is two-fold. First is to give
participants enough technical background to enable them to read research papers in
applied macroeconomics and nance. The second is to introduce select advanced
topics useful for analysis of macroeconomic and nancial time series.

5.6 Marketing

Behavioural Science Applications in Marketing*
The objectives of this course are to expose students to the diverse approaches and sub-
fields of behavioural science relevant for an understanding of consumer behaviour,
enable students to identify research issues, and develop the ability to conduct
consumer research relevant to Indian conditions.

Game Theory and Strategic Behaviour (jointly offered with Economics area)
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts, scope,
and methodology of game theory to analyse strategic behaviour of/among agents
such as firms, consumers, competitors, regulators, policy makers etc. This course
examines the applications of game theory in various academic disciplines, especially
in marketing, applied micro-economics and oligopoly theory and strategy.
Experimental methods in game theory are also covered in this course with a view to
equip doctoral candidates with an important analytical methodology for their
dissertation research.

Marketing Theory and Contemporary Issues*
The objectives of this course are to review and evaluate major literature on the
foundation of marketing, to provide an in depth understanding of the theory of
marketing and their conceptual basis, provide an insight into selected contemporary
issues in marketing, and initiate discussion regarding the potential application of
marketing knowledge to address these issues.

Quantitative Models in Marketing*
The objectives of this course are to expose students to diverse model building
approaches like deterministic, stochastic, and simulation models for decision making
in marketing, study the state of art in marketing model building in selected sub-areas
of marketing decision making, and provide an experience in model building.

Reading Seminar in Marketing Management*
The main objective of this course is to make students go through selected readings
and research materials on various aspects of marketing management, selected from
major works (articles, literature and research experience) on current marketing
management problems. Seminal research on the major domains of marketing science
is highlighted in this course with a view to motivate students to identifying their own
line of future research.

International Marketing Research and Teaching
The major purpose of this course is to introduce FPM students to conducting research
and teaching in the international marketing management area and develop skills
related to the design and execution of research projects and related methodology as
well as design and development of courses in the area of international marketing
management and strategy.

5.7 Organizational Behaviour (under review)

Advanced Micro OB*
The course focuses on important theories which have made contributions to
understanding of the different content areas of OB. OB for the purpose of this course
refers to the individual and small - group level analyses. It is, therefore, concerned with
a part of the overall field of organizational study. This part has come to be called
organizational behaviour [Micro level analysis]. The areas and theoretical constructions
include motivation, learning, perception, involvement and alienation, small group
behaviour, leadership, cultural processes, and change processes.

Advanced Research Methods*
The objective of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the theoretical and
methodological issues involved in conducting systematic inquiry in the field of
management. The course helps participants acquire the skills necessary in undertaking
dissertation related research.

Applied Behavioural Science I*
The course deals mainly with theories and concepts relating to issues of learning,
training, OD, application of BS models to analyze understanding of organizations, etc.
The main purpose is to acquaint students with tools and techniques available in OB
which facilitate not only theorizing but also developing methods to study and analyze
organizations. In the subsequent course the learning of concepts, techniques, and
issues is extended and applied to real life organizational situations.

Applied Behavioural Science II*
The objectives of this course are to build on the literature studied in Applied
Behavioural Science I by studying the actual practice or participating in a change effort
to develop awareness of the students' consulting/inquiry approach, its strengths and
weaknesses, to practice inquiry/facilitation of change, and develop a personally useful
model of the process of inquiry/consultancy.

Organizational Theory and Its Social Context*
This course is designed to acquaint students with the evolution and theories of
organizations. The primary objective is to help the students examine the basic question
"Why do organizations behave the way they do?" Alternative ways of answering this
question from diverse theoretical bases are explored. Sociological roots of organization
theory and the impact of the specific social context on organization theory is also
discussed.

Crafting and Publishing of Research
Although this course is designed for doctoral students from OB, BP and P&IR
disciplines, it will also help doctoral students from other disciplines. In the beginning,
the course follows on Research Methodology courses to the extent it discusses
research paradigm, process of theorization and evaluating research qualitya sense
of what is good research and how it develops. This part, thus, will enable you to
produce high quality research and sensitize yourself towards publishing it.

In the second part (which consumes more sessions), the course leverages this
sensitization to help participants draft high quality working papers and aims to
develop some basic skills for a successful academic career. We will therefore cover at
length topics such as managing the review process including ethical issues, presenting
at academic conferences, working with faculty advisors and preparing for the
academic job market. We will have guest speakers for some of these sessions. We
will also use the editorial and referee responses to accepted as well as rejected
manuscripts that were submitted for publication in A category and B category
journals across the academic disciplines mentioned earlier.

The class is appropriate for doctoral students who plan to have high quality working
papers within a year and wish to move them forward. The course format will be a mix
of lectures, class discussions (predominant) and interaction with guest speakers.
Course participants should think through the readings provided, and come prepared to
present their viewpoints and analysis during the session.

5.8 Personnel and Industrial Relations

Foundations of Research in HRM I*
This course revolves around research issues related to human resource planning,
acquisition, performance management, competence development, career planning, and
development issues.

Foundations of Research in HRM II
The anchoring topics in this course are compensation dynamics, the empowerment
discourse, labour rationalization dynamics, human resource strategies in the context of
mergers and acquisitions, sick unit turnarounds, corporate restructuring, and
internationalization processes.

Foundations of Research in ERM I*
Issues dealt with in this course revolve around the economic, political, social, legal,
and collective trade union action determinants of employee relations.

Foundations of Research in ERM II
This course focuses on technological determinants of employee relations, employee
grievance and discipline management, employee involvement initiatives, the social
clause- trade regime debate in the employee relations context, and employee relations
dynamics in the mergers / acquisitions and turnaround contexts.

International Human Resource Management
This course focuses on logic and process of internationalization, theoretical
foundations of international strategic management, issues and challenges in
managing MNC, headquarter-subsidiary relationship, the culture factors in
international HRM policies, management of expatriates, issues and practices in HRM
at the parent company and the subsidiary, and cross-national differences in HRM
practices.

Qualitative Research Methods in HRM
The learning objectives of this course will be

a. To enhance appreciation for the potency and relevance of qualitative research
methodology
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b. To develop insights into the logic of qualitative research enquiry
c. To gain understanding of some major qualitative research approaches like the
ethnographic method, ethnomethodology and phenomenology

d. To get exposure to significant qualitative research tools and techniques
e. To develop hands on experience in analytical, interpretative and writing skills
in the employment of qualitative research approaches.

Quantitative Techniques in HRM
This course provides doctoral students with the opportunity to apply the tools and
methodologies learnt in the core curriculum to their research in the field of HRM.
This course also exposes the students to latest development in the quantitative
techniques in HRM. The focus of this course is to study various quantitative
techniques used in processes related to employees in an organization. Apart from the
organizational context, the course also looks into quantitative approaches used in the
analysis of labor markets.

5.9 Production and Quantitative Methods

Advanced Probability in Management*
The objective of this course is to provide the theoretical foundations of probability
theory, which finds extensive applications in the resolution of several managerial
problems. Topics in this course may include discrete and continuous random variables
and their distributions, moments and moment generating functions, joint distributions,
functions and transformations of random variables, law of large numbers and the
central limit theorem, point estimation sufficiency, maximum likelihood, minimum
variance, confidence intervals, probability inequalities, and measure theory.

Mathematical Programming and Discrete Optimization*
These courses provide the fundamentals of mathematical programming and their
application in management. The areas that are covered include linear algebra,
convexity analysis, linear programming, integer programming, graph theory and
networks, combinatorial optimization and computational complexity.

Seminar in Operations Management I and II*
These courses deal with selected models and analytical approaches for decision
making in operations management. Topics will include inventory theory, lot sizing,
scheduling theory, aggregate production planning, location and design, logistics,
supply chain coordination, quality, queuing and contemporary topics in operations
management (new models of production, technology, economics of production,
manufacturing marketing interface, e-Commerce, etc.)

Systems Analysis and Simulation*
In this course, students are exposed to the methodology of developing simulation
models. Various approaches to constructing simulation models will be discussed.
Simulation languages are introduced to provide a framework for developing complex
simulation programmes.
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Applied Multivariate Analysis
This course gives a balanced emphasis on theory and applications. It covers the
following broad areas: Multivariate Normal Distribution and Related Inference
Problems, Assessing Normality, Outlier Detection, Multiple Linear Regression
Analysis, Variable Selection Problems, Multicollinearlity, Heteroscedasticity,
Regression Plots, Regression Diagnostics, Model Specification Tests, Auto correlated
and Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Applied Multivariate Analysis for Qualitative Dependent Variable
This is a course on Discrete Multivariate Analysis with an emphasis on understanding
the theoretical underpinning of different methodologies along with its applications.
The course covers the following broad areas: Models for dichotomous and
polychotomous variables (probit, logit, multinomial logit, multivariate probit are
special cases), Related Inference Problems, Qualitative panel data analysis, Tobit
models, Truncated latent variable models defined by a system of simultaneous
equations and Bayesian analysis of binary & polychotomous data.

Modelling for Management Decision Making
This course is an attempt to bridge the gap between the theory of mathematical
modelling (operations research) and its application in industry. Students who want to
use mathematical modelling for competitive advantage are encouraged to take this
course.

Non-linear Programming
This course provides the fundamentals of non-linear and dynamic programming.

Real Analysis
The course analyses basic concepts in certain areas of mathematics and prepares
students to take advanced courses.

Stochastic Processes
The objective of this course is to provide the theoretical foundation for modelling and
analysis of variety of processes in service and manufacturing environments that are
characterized by uncertainty. Topics include birth and death processes, Markov
chains, Markov processes, renewal theory, martingales and optimal stopping,
processes with independent increments (e.g. Poisson, Wiener processes), Brownian
motion and the theory of weak convergence, application of stochastic processes in
logistics, inventory, manufacturing, marketing, and finance.

Graph Theory
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the theory of graphs, particularly
algorithmic graph theory. The student will learn a number of standard and powerful
algorithms, as well as demonstrating methodologies in graph techniques. In addition
the student will be introduced to the use of graphs in the solution of complex
problems. Graph theory has become one of the major tools for the design and analysis
of algorithms, as well as the focus of much interest in theoretical computer science.

Network Optimization
The aim of the course is to study the theory and practice of network flows and its
extensions. Network flow problems form a subclass of linear programming problems
with applications to transportation, logistics, manufacturing, computer science,
project management, and finance, as well as a number of other domains. This subject
will survey some of the applications of network flows and focus on key special cases
of network flow problems including the following: the shortest path problem, the
maximum flow problem, the minimum cost flow problem, and the multi-commodity
flow problem. We will also consider other extensions of network flow problems.

Stochastic Optimization
This is an introductory course to stochastic programming. The aim of the course is to
introduce students to optimal decision-making problems with data uncertainty. The
field of stochastic programming is currently developing rapidly with contributions
from many disciplines such as operations research, mathematics, and probability.
Stochastic programming has a wide range of applications especially in science and
engineering such as manufacturing, transportation, telecommunications, electricity
power generation, health care, agriculture/forestry, finance, etc. The course will cover
a broad overview of the applications, basic theory, and decomposition methods of this
vibrant field.

Large-scale Optimization
Implementation of the revised simplex method; interior point methods for linear,
quadratic and nonlinear optimization; sparse matrix techniques in optimization;
decomposition methods: Benders and Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions; Newton
method, self-concordant barriers, semidefinite programming; Applications of
mathematical programming in finance, telecommunications, energy sector.

5.10 Public Systems

Economic Development and Growth
The course reviews the basic concepts in economic development and their
measurements along with data sources particularly in India. It also reviews various
theories and models of economic growth and development including social sectors,
technical progress, input-output tables and regional dimension.

Electric Power Economics and Policy
This course outlines the economic and policy issues in the power sector, analyze
them through models and policy frameworks, and provide insights for the
problem in the power sector.

Energy and Environment Policy
The objective of the course is to provide theoretical understanding of policy issues
concerning energy and the environment, and the learning of analytical tools such as
energy environment policy models and their applications.

Public Policy Instruments for Environmental Management
This course is a survey of the policy instruments used in environmental management
across the world with special emphasis on India. The course draws primarily on the
environmental economics literature while bringing perspectives from other disciplines
wherever possible.

Health Policy and Planning
The course addresses two broad characteristics of health policies: use of evidence and
integrated approaches. The course also emphasizes strategic and operational planning
for implementing health policies.

Healthcare Financing and Health Insurance
The course focuses on public financing of public health programmes, private out-of-
pocket expenditures on health, insurance, user fee policy, and demand side financing
mechanisms. It covers the concepts of universal health insurance, social insurance,
and micro insurance concepts, and examines various risks in managing these schemes.

Infrastructure Policy
(jointly offered with Economics area)
This course is designed for research students to not only provide them an exposure to
theoretical and applied perspective on issues related to infrastructure development,
regulation, and financing, but also as a base to pursue further work in this area.

Public Finance*
This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles and
concepts of public finance. It examines the economic rationale for government
activity and fiscal policies of different levels of government, and some major policy
issues arising out of the process of macroeconomic reforms.

Public Management*
This course presents a broad overview of the problem of organizing governmental
processes and institutions to adopt and implement public policy. It will discuss
specific operations tools for directing large public systems.

Public Policy*
This course provides an advanced level introduction to different theories and methods
of the policy sciences, as well as training in the methodological tools and research
processes enabling application to concrete policy issues. Reinforcing the
interdisciplinary character of public policy research, this course draws on a vast
international and Indian social science, humanities and philosophy literature to aid
critical policy analysis.

Seminar on Transportation Policy
The course examines the policies that have been formulated in the transportation
sector till date, their stated objectives, and an assessment of the success and failure of
these policies.

Statistical Methods in Public Health
This is an intermediate-to-advanced level course covering commonly used methods
for analyzing public health data. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to,
models based on maximum likelihood theory, analysis of incomplete multivariate
data, and survival analysis.

Urban Economy and Business Environment
The course provides macroeconomics frameworks for urban economic analysis. It
examines various urban development policies for improving the economic
competitiveness of cities.

Interpretive Research Methods
This is an advanced seminar on interpretive research methods. These methods are
explicitly concerned with meaning making in social science research. Interpretive
methods draw instead on the philosophical orientations of hermeneutics and
phenomenology. They are widely practiced in and relevant to the areas of public
policy, organizational studies and management, political science, sociology and other
inter-disciplinary fields.

Appendix -6
Procedures for Comprehensive Examination in Each Area

6.1 Agriculture

The comprehensive examination in the Center for Management in Agriculture is to
ensure student's knowledge and understanding of the agriculture and rural sector and
application of conceptual knowledge of the student in all the courses of the CMA opted
by the student.

The examination consists of two papers of three-hour duration each. The papers will
include questions from the courses studied by the student. The student must get
satisfactory report from each member of the comprehensive examination committee.

6.2 Business Policy

Students specializing in Business Policy are required to take a special field and a sub-
field examination. The special-field examination has to be taken before the student starts
his dissertation work, while the sub-field examination can be taken by him any time
before the completion of the dissertation.

The special field examination will consist of a written and an oral examination. The
written part will test the student's ability and understanding in the theory and concepts of
general management. A take-home examination is given. The student's answer paper is
read by three faculty members in the area. These members will then take an oral
examination to test the student's depth of understanding, how he related these to practical
situations, and to other areas of study. The student has to get at least a satisfactory grade
from each one of the members who take his examination.

The sub-field examination consists of a paper prepared by the student usually in the area
in which he is doing his dissertation. The members of the student's thesis committee and
another member from the area will take an oral examination of the student and certify
that the student has obtained at least a satisfactory grade in the sub-field examination.

6.3 Computer and Information Systems

In the Computer & Information Systems group, the comprehensive examination tests the
student's broad knowledge of the field and in depth knowledge of the course work
undertaken in the second year. The student is tested both on the technical and managerial
components. The focus is on assessing the integrative capability of the student in these
areas.

The comprehensive examination is given in two parts. The first part is an in class
examination lasting for approximately four hours. The second part is a take home
examination of two week duration. Both these examinations cover the following
courses: 1] CISG courses offered to first year FPMs and 2] all second year FPM courses
taken by the student, excluding FPM non-area compulsory courses.

6.4 Economics

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The comprehensive examination in the Economics area is to ensure the student's
knowledge and understanding of the basic courses in Economics their inter-
relationships, and varied applications of economic tools and techniques for managerial
use.

The comprehensive written examination is given in five courses: micro-economics,
macro-economics, industrial structure and policy, planning and growth, and
econometrics. This examination is administered through two papers, one of three hours
duration and the other of four hours duration. Each course carries approximately the
same weightage. A student must get a satisfactory report from each member of his
comprehensive examination committee.

6.5 Finance and Accounting

The comprehensive examination in the Finance and Accounting area is given in two
papers of four hours duration. The first is theoretical to cover concepts covered in the
area courses. The second one is a case analysis. The examination is conducted by a
committee of faculty members appointed by the area and requirement for passing is
satisfactory report from such a committee.

6.6 Innovation and Management in Education

The student is required to meet two conditions:
Submit a portfolio
Undergo a take-home examination.

Portfolio: A portfolio is a physical record of the reports, research papers, term papers and
literature reviews that the student may have prepared during the course work of his or her
second year of the programme, with the addition of two important components: (a) an
introduction which organizes all the documents thematically, introduces the themes to the
reader and contains a reflective account of the learning from the course work; (b) a trial
thesis proposal, containing a researchable topic that is of interest to the student. This trial
proposal should reflect the students integration of the course work with the area of his/her
interest, and should demonstrate the students ability to identify a topic and formulate
research questions, and his or her readiness to do independent research. The trial thesis
proposal may or may not contribute to the actual thesis proposal which will be prepared later.

The portfolio will be submitted to the Chairperson of the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for
Educational Innovation, and will be evaluated by an Examination Committee of three faculty
members. The Examination Committee will have to grade the portfolio satisfactory for the
student to qualify.

Take-home examination: Along with the portfolio, the student has to submit TEN questions
on which he or she wishes to be examined. These questions will have to cover both
educational innovation research and management of educational innovation. Preferably, the
questions should cover as many sectors of education as possible. The examination
committee will then formulate three questions, which are usually selected from the list
submitted by the student, and give the student is three weeks to write papers on the
questions. This may be followed by an oral presentation. The Examination Committee will
have to grade the papers and the oral presentation satisfactory for the student to qualify.
Thus, the student will have to be graded satisfactory in both the portfolio and take-home
examination in order to qualify.

6.7 Marketing

The comprehensive examination in the marketing area consists of two parts.

Part-I tests the candidate's ability to demonstrate (1) understanding of learning from
marketing courses and (2) applicability of (1) in real life managerial context. This part
would be a written examination.

Part-II tests the candidate's analytical ability and skills to develop newer
insights/learning in the field of marketing science/practices with a focus on managerial
relevance. This would provide a first time exposure towards the discipline of academic
enquiry that would ideally be a stepping stone toward the FPM dissertation.

1. Writing a comprehensive case and analyzing and defending its analysis for
improved management performance.

2. Writing and defending a paper which could describe and explain marketing
phenomenon and/or could propose models to improve existing marketing practices.

In either case, the emphasis of evaluation would be on academic contribution and/or
originality of research and its relevance to marketing practices.

Participants Identification of
organization and
planning for
field work
Data collection
and writing
Finalisation Examination
with experience Ist year Summer Term 1 and 2 of
II year
Term 3 of II
Year
Within 3
months of part
I (Area Com.)
without
experience
Term 3 of II year Term 3 of II year
and later
Within 2
months of
clearing area
part I (Area
com.)
Same as
above

6.8 Organizational Behaviour

Based on extensive readings in leading Indian and foreign OB Journals, OB classics etc.,
the student formulates around nine questions in the micro, macro, and applied areas of
OB. His/her examination committee formulates around three questions, usually out of
the list submitted by the student, and the student is given two to three weeks to write
papers relevant to the questions. This may be followed by an oral presentation/
examination. The student has to satisfy his/her examiners that not only he/she has a
reasonable familiarity with the basics and frontiers of OB, but also a capacity for good
analytical and integrative work in relatively under-explored areas.

6.9 Personnel and Industrial Relations

The comprehensive examination in the Personnel and Industrial Relations area consists
of a written examination and a take home assignment. The objective of this examination
is to test the student's substantive learning theoretical constructs and their application to
managerial situations. A student has to obtain a satisfactory report from the examiners
on both written examinations before he can qualify.

The Area Comprehensive Exam will have two components:

1. Written take home assignment to be completed within 7 days on a subject of
interest to the participant leading to the thesis proposal. The subject for the
assignment will be chosen from 3 topics to be submitted by the participants to the
Area Chair on conclusion of the second year course requirements. The assignment
will be evaluated by Area member/s and will be cleared or not cleared for the next
stage of Presentation cum Viva. If not cleared at this stage, the participant will
resubmit the assignment within 7 days. If the candidate does not clear by the second
attempt, he/she will withdraw from the programme.

1. The second stage will be a Presentation on the chosen subject to the Area
Comprehensive Committee followed by a Viva Voce to assess understanding of
human resource management and employee relations and to integration of the
above understanding with other functions and strategic considerations from a
scholarly perspective.
3. The Area Comprehensive Committee will consist of one member of the Area who
will act as the Chairperson of the Committee and two other members with
specialization in areas relevant and related to the assignment themes.

4. Based on the inputs from the above exercise, the participant will be declared to have
(1) cleared (2) not cleared.

5. If cleared, the participant will go on to working on the thesis proposal.

6. If not cleared, the participant will be given one more chance within a 15 days period
to repeat the presentation. If the participant does not clear the Area Comprehensive
by the second attempt, he/she will withdraw from the programme.

6.10 Production and Quantitative Methods

The objective of the examination is to test the grasp of the student of basic subject matter
covered both in the first year and second year of FPM. The topics are those covered in
the course offered by the Production and Quantitative Methods area in the first year
programme and those covered in the core courses offered in the second year.

The test is designed to evaluate the student's grasp on theoretical aspects of the courses
as well as his/her ability to apply them in complex situations. To test his/her
understanding of the theory and his/her ability to apply it to complex problems, the
examination is divided into two parts. The first part is in the class and the second part is
given outside the class where the student will have more time to think about the
problems posed. In the first part, the problems given will be relatively small ones since
the examination is to be answered within a time period of three to four hours. In the
second part, complex problems both theoretical and applied in nature are given to the
student and he/she is required to submit a written answer within three days to a week.
The examination committee consisting of faculty members from the area has to give a
satisfactory report before a student qualifies in the written examination.

6.11 Public Systems

The PSG consisting of diverse fields adopts the concept of a "portfolio" during the
course work in the second year. The portfolio is a collection of works [reports, research
papers, term papers, bibliography etc. and a preliminary thesis proposal] in the area of
interest to the student and should have an introduction which introduces the collection
and classifies it thematically and summarises the learning. The portfolio should also
contain a preliminary thesis proposal which the student should start working on his/her
area of interest for the dissertation by the end of the second year. It may be noted that
this is only a preliminary thesis proposal whose objective is to assess the student's
integration of the course work with the area of interest and formulate research questions.
It is merely a write up to test the student's assimilation, integration and readiness to do
independent research and need not necessarily lead to the actual thesis proposal.

The student then submits his/her portfolio to the Area Chairman, along with about 10
questions from which the student may wish to be examined on in the take home part of
the qualifying examination. The qualifying examination will consist of:

1] evaluation of the portfolio to assess the quality of work done in the course work,
the integration achieved and the ability to raise research questions,

2] a take-home examination to evaluate the depth of knowledge and integrative
ability of the student. This will consist of questions both from the field of PSG as
a whole and from the chosen area of interest. The questions could be, but not
necessarily will be, from the questions developed earlier by the student and
submitted along with the portfolio.
Appendix 7
Thesis Proposal Guidelines

7.1 Preparation and Submission of Proposals

1. The proposal should contain a survey of literature and context description on the
subject. Students should clearly state their research objectives, relate these to the
research in the area and problems in this context, develop a model or a set of
hypotheses, provide clear definitions, describe and defend the proposed research
methodology and highlight the potential contribution of the proposed study to
theory, practice, and research in the relevant area of management.

2. Please follow the guidelines given in Chicago Manual of Style (or) APA Manual of
Style

3. A copy of the proposal, including an abstract (no longer than 300 words) and a
time and cost budget for the research, duly approved by the Thesis Advisory
Committee should be submitted to the FPM Office, within 9 months of
declaration of comprehensive results.

7.3 Format for the Title Page of a Thesis Proposal

THESIS TITLE

A Thesis Proposal

by

Name of student

Submitted on

------------------

Approved by Thesis Advisory Committee

------------------------------------- [CHAIRPERSON]
[Name of TAC Chair]

--------------------------------------- [MEMBER]
[Name of TAC Member]

------------------------------------- ----- [MEMBER]

Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad
Appendix 8
Guidelines for Thesis Preparation and Submission

8.1 Number of Copies of Thesis: The Thesis must be submitted in triplicate (one
hard copy duly signed by TAC and two CDs containing PDF version and editable
version of the thesis). It is also customary to give copies to the chairman and
other members of the Thesis Advisory Committee. Those students who are
recipients of the IFCI/ FAIR/NIESBUD Awards should submit one more copy to
be forwarded to the concerned organization.

8.2 Components: The components of the thesis should appear in the following
order:

Page 1 : Title Page
Page 2 : Abstract
Page 3 : Acknowledgment [if any] [Max.1 page]
Starting Page : Table of Contents

8.3 Title Page: The title page must conform to the sample shown in Appendix 8.12.

8.4 Abstract: Each thesis must include an abstract of a maximum of 300 words.
Please refer Appendix 8.13.

Three additional copies of the abstract [for Library, Alumnus and office use]
must be submitted to the FPM Office, when the thesis is submitted.

8.5 Acknowledgments: List of people, departments, organizations that students
want to acknowledge for their support and help.

8.6 Table of Contents: Every thesis must contain a table of contents which provides
a view of the organization of the thesis material.

8.7 Tables, Figures and Illustrations: If the thesis contains tables, flow charts,
figures and illustrations, they should also be listed immediately following the
table of contents.

8.8 Source References: Use the Chicago Manual (or) APA Manual for reference
style.

If the thesis contains material such as a case, written by the student or someone
else, or any copyright material, the fact should be properly sourced. The thesis is
a public document Therefore, if a thesis contains data or information for which
company releases are necessary or copyright permissions are required, the
student should submit to the FPM Chairperson letters of release indicating that
the appropriate sources have verified the material and authorized the use in the
thesis.

8.9 Paper and Typing: All copies must be clean, complete and legible. They must
be typeset, can be printed on both sides, and one and a half -spaced. To the
extent possible use only good quality 8.5"x 11" size paper.

Margin : Every page of the thesis must have a margin of not less than 1"
on the left side and 1" at the top, bottom, and on the right sides.
Page : Every page of the thesis must be assigned an arabic number.
Numbering: Pages are to be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title
page [page 1] and including the abstract; acknowledgments [if
any]; table of contents; lists of tables, figures, illustrations; all
text, bibliography; and appendices [if any].
8.10 Illustrations, Tables & Flow Charts:
: Avoid running an illustration, table, flow chart, or diagram beyond a page. If a
table or flow chart requires more than a page find a good logical break.

8.11 Clarifications : If any of these instructions are not clear please consult the FPM
Office. Please note that these guidelines will be enforced. To avoid delay in final
submission of your thesis, it is better to plan ahead.

8.12 Format for the Title Page of a Thesis

TITLE OF THESIS

A THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE FELLOW PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
AHMEDABAD

BY

[NAME OF STUDENT]

DATE: ---------------------

THESIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

------------------------------------- [CHAIRPERSON]
[Name of TAC Chair]

--------------------------------------- [MEMBER]

------------------------------------- ----- [MEMBER]
8.13 Format for the Abstract Page of a Thesis

The abstract concisely describes the problem, the rationale for studying it, the
methodology used in the research [indicating the number of organizations, types, etc.,
covered or studied], findings, and the implications of the findings to managers, teachers,
and researchers.

TITLE OF THESIS

By

[Name of Student]

Abstract
(no longer than 300 words)

Appendix 9
Format for Progress Report and Plan of Action

Name: Area: Date:

I. Current status of work:

Item Planned Actual

II. a. Reasons for delay [please be specific]:

b. How could the delay have been avoided?
OR
b. How the delay could have been avoided:

III. Time required for remaining work [please also give explanation]

Data collection :

Analysis & interpretation :

Draft thesis writing :

Total time required :

Likely thesis seminar date :

IV. Scope for expediting remaining work without affecting quality [please give
possible actions]

[Student's Signature]

TAC Members: Signature

1. Prof.
2. Prof.
3. Prof.
Appendix 10
Fees, Fellowship and Contingency, Award Amounts and
Other Financial Transactions

Fees, Fellowship and Contingency

FELLOW PROGRAMME IN MANAGEMENT
FELLOWSHIP FOR 2014-15

(w.e.f 1 7- 2013)
change
[in `]
Year

Tuition Fees
[ % of
PGP]
Pl. check
Library
Fees
Computer
Fees
Others
[Students'
Welfare +
Mediclaim]
Total
Academic
Expenses
(6= 2+3+4+5)
Stay Hostel
+
Electri-
City#
Reimburse-
ment For
Computer
Purchase
Subsistence
Allowance*

Fellowship
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
I

2,95,000
50% PGP I
50,000

60,000 4,500+2,500 4,12,000 35,000+13,000 50,000@
3,00,000 8,10,000
II

2,92,500
50% PGP II
40,000

50,000 4,500+2,500+
1,000
3,90,500 30,000+12,000 -
3,00,000 7,32,500
III

2,34,000
40% PGP II
40,000

50,000 4,500+2,500+
54,000 (A)
3,85,000 30,000+12,000 -
3,24,000 7,51,000
IV

1,17,000
20% PGP II
40,000

50,000 4,500+2,500 2,14,000 30,000+12,000 -
3,60,000

6,16,000
V

1,17,000
20% PGP II
40,000

50,000 4,500+2,500 2,14,000 30,000+12,000 -
3,60,000

6,16,000
Beyon
d five
Years
Regn Fees
Rs. 20,000/term
Nil B B - B - - -
A Alumni & Placement fee, applicable in the 3rd year.
B Expenses as per facilities used.
Vikalpa Subscription Fee
# Electricity charges allowance based on estimates

@ Maximum eligible amount applicable for 2013-14 entering batch.
*a) Subsistence allowance total is inclusive of food allowance with effect from July 1, 2013.

The detail of subsistence allowance is as follows:

a.1. First and Second year students: ` 25,000/- per month
b.2. After successful completion of Comprehensive Exam: ` 27,000/- per month
c.3. After submitting the TAC approved thesis proposal : ` 30,000/- per month

In addition to the above, a contingency grant of ` 25,000 in each of the first, second, third, fourth
and fifth year will be available to the students for academic expenses like case material, books,
travel, data collection expenses, thesis expenses etc. Students will be permitted to carry over
surpluses to the following years.

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Fellowship Administration

1. Fellowship and contingency grant will be extended into the 5th year for six
months only if TAC recommends with a detailed progress report and plan for
completion, by 25th June ending 4th year.

2. Fellowship and contingency grant will be extended into a 2nd six month period
of the 5th year after review with the student by the FPMEC based on a TAC
approved progress report submitted, by 15th December of the 5th year, against
the plan for completion submitted earlier.

3. The fellowship may be withdrawn if the work is not considered satisfactory.

4. If a student wishes to relinquish the fellowship during the tenure, it should be
done with the prior approval of the FPMEC. He/She should also obtain prior
permission of the FPMEC for appearing in any examination conducted by any
Institution, University or Public body.

5. Students granted exemption from the course work of the first two terms of the
first year or for a whole term will not be eligible for fellowship for the concerned
period.

6. The student is entitled only for casual leave in addition to general holidays but is
not entitled to vacations [except during term breaks in the first and second years].
The women students would be eligible for maternity leave at full fellowship rates
for a period not exceeding three months once during the tenure of their study.

7. No DA, HRA/CCA etc. will be paid to the students.

8. The contingency grant sanctioned will be treated as a limit and the student will
be reimbursed the actual expenditure incurred by him/her on the admissible
items within the limit. The grant is not to be paid as an outright payment.

9. The contingency grant of ` 25,000 in each of the first, second, third, fourth and
fifth year may be disbursed to students based on statement of accounts received
from the FPM Office and supported by necessary vouchers for the following
expenses.

[a] Outstation tour/field work to collect data for thesis.
[b] Data processing for thesis work.
[c] Photocopying of thesis related material.
[d] Purchase of books for thesis work.
[e] Fees for membership in Professional Societies/libraries.
[f] Subscription to academic journals.
[g] Binding thesis copies.
[h] Any other item [excluding newspapers and other personal expenses]
related to the course of study, with the permission of FPM Chairperson.

First and Second year FPM students are advised to use Contingency allowance to
the minimum so that it could be effectively used from the third year onwards for
data collection, etc.

Fellowship Determination:

* The amount in each column will be as determined by the respective
administering system.

* The FPMEC will review each year the following amounts:
a. Subsistence allowance.
b. Registration fees.
c. Contingency grant

10.2 Award Amounts

1. First Year Scholastic Performance Award [See Section 8.1]

Chaudhary-Padmanabhan-Pant Award for Scholastic Performance in the
First Year.
Value : ` 10,000. No. of awards - one.

2. Industrial Finance Corporation of India(IFCI) Thesis Awards
Value : 1,00,000. No.of Awards two.

3. Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Thesis Award [See Section 8.3]

Value : ` 1,00,000. No. of awards - two.

4. Paper Publication Awards [See Section 8.4]

Publication awards in Category A or B journals : []: ` 50,000; For any other peer
reviewed journal: ` 25,000
If co-authored, amount is divided equally among the authors.

10.3 Other Financial Transactions

1. The FPM Development Fund [See Section 7.3]

Towards data collection, [to neutralize data collection intensive research], publication
awards and other common academic related expenses. This fund will be available only
after contingency amount is exhausted and with prior permission from the FPM
chairperson

2. Other Fees

Other fees charged by Institute are given below:

Appendix 11

Hostel Rules

Every participant who has been allotted hostel accommodation at IIMA is
deemed to have read and understood hostel rules and he/she shall abide by the
rules.

1.11.1 Residential facilities

1.a. The Institute hostels are primarily meant for accommodating its participants.

2.b.For effective utilization of hostel facilities, students may be required to change
their rooms at any time during the academic year.

3.c. Every student is responsible for the care of the hostel property. Participants
shall be charged individually or collectively for damages to the hostel
properties, including furniture, cupboards, etc. provided in the room. Personal
belongings of the participants are not covered under the Institutes insurance
scheme.

4.d.Participants shall allow the Institute's Estate Department's Staff/workers and
authorized contractors access to their rooms at all reasonable hours to inspect
the buildings, water supply, sanitary or electrical installations, fixtures and
furniture, etc. and to carry out repairs.

5.e. Participants are requested to see that water is not wasted because of leakage in
water supply fittings or through careless or extravagant use. They should
report to the Programmes Officer, Students' Activities Office (PO-SAO) any
damage or defect in the building, fixtures and fittings, electrical installations,
fencing and gates for necessary action.

*
` 15,000/- will be refunded after successful completion of First year and ` 5,000/- after successful
completion of the FPM programme.
i] Fee to be paid along with completed FPM application
form
` 500
ii] Fee to be paid along with the acceptance of admission
offer
` 50,000
*

iii] Fee for late registration [without any reason/prior
permission] [See Section 9.6]
` 750
iv] To receive Title in absentia [to cover handling and
mailing charges] [See Section 5]
` 500
v] To receive duplicate degree certificate - Within India
- Outside India
`1000
` 2000
vi] For issue of duplicate transcript [See Section 9.7] ` 100
Comment [I33]: 50,000 for new batch
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6.f. All complaints should to be lodged using any one of the following methods (a)
DBabble notice board, or (2) by email to SAO.

7.g.Participants are requested not to write or paste any material on the walls and
doors.

8.h.When participants go out of their rooms, they are required to switch off the
lights and fans and bolt/lock the ventilators and rear/front doors properly to
avoid pilferage/theft. The Institute will not be responsible for the loss of the
participants' belongings. Also the Institute will not be responsible for
participants involvement in any incidences within or outside the campus
having legal implications.

9.i. Participants are expected not to play musical instruments/devices too loudly or
cause any disturbance to others.

10.j. Participants are expected to treat the campus and hostels with a sense
of community ownership. They are urged to avoid littering and help the
maintenance staff to keep the hostel and the campus clean and beautiful.

11.k. Participants are encouraged to send to PO-SAO suggestions for
improvement in residential facilities.

12.l. Participants are required to inform PO- SAO, in writing of any change
in their emergency contact personal and telephone numbers. In cases of
emergency, including sickness, hospitalization, accidents, etc. The SAO,
Warden or other authorized Institute personnel may contact person whose
details have been provided.

13.m. Participants are strictly not allowed to keep any pets or encourage
domestication of stray animals.

2.11.2 Medical Facilities

a. All participants must submit a certificate of medical fitness from a qualified
medical practitioner. All participants must take Hepatitis-A vaccination shot
before arriving on campus and produce a full course of certificate to that
effect. Unless the above certificate is produced, dormitory room will not be
allotted.

b. Participants may avail the services of the Institute's doctors who are available
in the Institute's dispensary as per specified times. In an emergency,
participants may contact the resident doctor, PO-SAO or Warden. The doctor
may refer the participants, if necessary, to an outside specialist or hospital.

c. If a participant is sick continuously for three days, he/she should keep the PO-
SAO informed of his/her condition.

1.d. All the participants are covered by a group Medical Insurance Policy starting
from 01/06/2013 to 31/05/2014. Therefore, reimbursement of hospitalization
at: 0.5"
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expenses is possible to the extent of the claim allowed by the insurance
company. Special room and private nursing home charges for hospitalization
are not reimbursable. However OPD charges are reimbursable up to `2,500
only at one time, on submitting doctors prescription, consultation report with
original medical bills. The sum insured for participants under the Group
Medical Insurance Policy is
` 100,000 for each participant.

2.e. Medical expenses incurred during vacation and outside Ahmedabad may also
be reimbursed by the Insurance Company if necessary documents are
produced to their satisfaction.

3.f. Participants will bear all travel expenses for treatment outside the campus
except in case of emergency.

4.g. Any incidence of infectious disease (e.g. chicken pox, jaundice) must be
reported immediately to the PO-SAO and all precautions should be taken to
prevent the infection from spreading.

5.11.3 Sick Diet

a. Sick diet is provided for a maximum of three days if a written request is made
in the sick diet pro-forma available at the mess. The advice of the Institute's
doctor or PO-SAO is necessary for further continuation. Sick diet is served in
the room only if the participant is unable to move out. Crockery and cutlery
used for serving sick diet would be collected by the mess personnel after two
hours from delivery in the participants room.

b. An advance notice of at least three hours is necessary to enable the mess to
provide sick diet.

c. Usual sick diet is as follows:

Breakfast : Toast/Bread, Butter, Cornflakes,
Coffee/Tea/Milk
Lunch/Dinner : Bread, Butter, Boiled Vegetables, Soup,
Coffee/Tea/Milk

6.11.4 Extra-curricular Activities

a. The Institute encourages participants participation in extra-curricular
activities without disturbing academic work.

b. The Students Affairs Council makes arrangements and draws up schedules for
extra-curricular activities.

7.11.5 Hostel Fees

1.a. Participants must pay their room rent, electricity charges, and other charges
during the academic year according to the schedule of payment and terms and
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at: 1", Tab stops: Not at 1"
Formatted: Indent: Hanging: 0.75",
Numbered + Level: 1 + Numbering Style: a, b,
c, + Start at: 1 + Alignment: Left + Aligned
at: 0.5" + Tab after: 1" + Indent at: 1", Tab
stops: Not at 1"
conditions laid down by the program Chairperson. The meal charges would be
paid directly to the caterer by the participant.

2.b.No refund is allowed on room rent paid for the set of two slots for which the
participant is registered.

11.6 Bank

A branch of the State Bank of India operates from Dorm 16. Participants may
use the same, usual banking rules will apply. There are two SBI and one Axis
Bank ATM on campus.

11.7 Storage of Valuables

Participants are advised not to keep large amounts of cash in their rooms.
Participants are advised to keep their valuables in the cupboard provided in
their rooms and lock it when they go out.

11.8 Post and Telephones

a. A Post Office operates from Dorm 13.

b. The dormitory rooms are provided with telephone connections with Direct
Inward Dialing facility. For outward dialing, participants are expected to make
their own arrangements through pre-paid cards.

11.9 General

a. No participant is permitted to engage any person for service of any kind,
personal or otherwise, without the prior approval of the PO-SAO.

11.2b. Participants are not permitted to install private air conditioners,
refrigerators, etc. in the dorms or rooms without prior approval of PO-SAO.
Also participants are required to declare in writing to the PO-SAO any
electrical gadgets, they will be using.

11.3c. No cooking is allowed in the dormitories/pantries and on the dorm
terraces. No pet animals/birds are allowed in the rooms/pantries.

11.4d. Participants are not permitted to have guests in their rooms. Any guest
of participants will have to stay in guest rooms only. Accommodation will be
provided to guests depending upon availability of rooms and payment of
charges. Written requests for accommodation should be made by participants
to the PO-SAO. Accommodation will be provided for short periods only not
exceeding three days. Violation of this rule will be taken up seriously.

11.5e. Alumni and other guests of the participants are charged `100/- per day
per room for maximum of three days and first year participants are charged
`75/- per day per room only during summer internship for a maximum of 60
days. Alumni, guest or student interns staying in the hostel beyond the
Formatted: Indent: Hanging: 0.75",
Numbered + Level: 1 + Numbering Style: a, b,
c, + Start at: 1 + Alignment: Left + Aligned
at: 0.5" + Tab after: 1" + Indent at: 1", Tab
stops: Not at 1"
Indent at: 1"
at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
stipulated maximum period will be charged at the rate of ` 500/- per day per
room. The rates are subject to change without prior notice.

11.6f. Participants leaving the campus for more than 24 hours are required to
intimate the PO-SAO and provide their contact address and telephone number.
They are also advised to keep the dorm representative informed. If a
participant has to leave the campus on an emergency after office hours, he/she
must contact the PO-SAO or Warden and obtain permission. An email giving
all relevant details of the emergency must be sent to Warden. Leaving the
campus without prior intimation will be treated as serious act of indiscipline.

11.7g. A participant vacating hostel accommodation shall pay all dues and get
a clearance certificate from the PO-SAO before leaving the hostel.

11.8h. The Institute requires participants to maintain the highest standards of
personal integrity and honesty, and observe the laws applicable to the local
citizens. Any participant found engaged in unlawful activities of any type of
socially undesirable activities shall be dealt with severely.

at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
11.9i. The Institute has a strict zero-tolerance policy towards Ragging
and Sexual Harassment. Any formal complaint can be lodged with the
Warden through email or signed letter. In addition participants can
contact chairpersons of empowered committee/s as well as Dean/Director.

11.10j. Violation of any of the rules above may lead to strict action
including expulsion from the Institute.

11.10 Medical Emergency:

In case of a medical emergency after dispensary hours, the doctors/other
officials can be contacted at the following numbers:

Sr. No.

Name of Contact Person Residence No. Mobile
1. Dr. Kiran Desai 5314 98250 22796
2. Dr. R R Joshi 26920652 9426274005
3. Dr. Pushpa Bhatt 26742709
4. Warden (Prof. Asha Kaul) 5434
5. Mr. Pravin Christian
PO, SAO
- 9879106221
6. Mr. A N Gor
(for transport)
5202 9227407203
7. Mr. H.J. Vadher
Group Head (Engineering
Services & Estate)
5033 9727714113
8. Prof. Manjari Singh
Chairperson, CMGI

5316 Office: 4914

For other emergencies after office hours, the following persons can be contacted:

Sr. No.

Name of Contact Person House No. Telephone No
9. Electrical Work
Babubhai Gohil
1. Contract Electrician
(24 x 7)

4565

11.11 Railway Concession

FPM students can obtain rail travel concession for traveling to and from their homes,
for data collection work and for attending approved seminars/conferences within
India. Necessary formalities should be dealt with through the FPM Office.

at: 0.5"
at: 0.5"
Appendix 12
Norms for Allotment of Married Students Houses

The main rules for allotment of FPM Houses to FPM students are reproduced below. For
more information contact the Married Students Accommodation Committee.

1. FPM houses are meant primarily for married FPM students that are still
receiving the FPM fellowship, and whose dependents are regularly staying with
them.

2. If both spouses are FPM students, they are entitled to only one set of housing
facilities.

3. Allotment of houses will be made based on a priority list. This list will be
updated twice a year in the first week of June and just before the end of FPM-I
second term based on new applications received till then.

4. New applications, except those with any special considerations, will always go to
the bottom of the existing priority list.

5. The rent for the house is ` 2000/- per month in Old Campus and ` 4000/- per
month for MSH & ` 3000/- p.m for FSA in New Campus [subject to
revision] plus electricity charges.
Appendix 13
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Fellow Programme in Management
13.1 First Year Academic Calendar 2014-2015
Tentative

13.2 Second Year
Term Details Dates
Term IV Registration June 11, 2014
Term IV Classes Begin June 12, 2014
Term IV Mid-Term Examinations July 17 19, 2014
Term IV Term-End Examinations August 25 30, 2014
Term IV Term Ends August 30, 2014
Term V Registration September 8, 2014
Term V Classes Begin September 9, 2014
Term V Mid-Term Examinations October 20 22, 2014
Term V Term-End Examinations December 5 10, 2014
Term V Term Ends December 10, 2014
Term VI Registration December 22, 2014
Term VI Classes Begin December 23, 2014
Term VI Mid-Term Examinations January 30 February 1, 2015
Term VI Term-End Examinations March 4 11, 2015
Term VI Term Ends March 31, 2015
Vacation/Break
August 31 September 7, 2014
October 23 26, 2014 (Diwali,
New Year)
December 11 21, 2014

Term Details Dates
Registration & Orientation June 16-20, 2014
Term I Classes Begin June 23, 2014
Term I Mid Term Examination July 30 August 1, 2014
Term I Term-End Examination September 12 16, 2014
Term II Registration September 18, 2014
Term II Classes Begin September 19, 2014
Term II Mid Term Examination November 5 8, 2014
Term II Term-End Examination December 18 20, 2014
Term III Registration December 29, 2014
Term III Classes Begin December 30, 2014
Term III Mid Term Examination February 12 14, 2015
Term III Term-End Examination March 25 27, 2015
Holidays
Vacation
October 2-3 & 23-24
December 21 28, 2014

13.3 For Graduating Students

Last date for submission of copies of the draft thesis for thesis defence 31
st
January of the
year of graduation
Last date for submission of three copies of the final thesis ( one hard copy duly
signed by TAC and two CDs with one copy in PDF format and one in editable
format)
Ten days before
the convocation
Last date for submitting the final clearance form

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