Bahria University Karachi Campus, Management Sciences

Course Information:

Course Title Personal and Professional Development

Course Code PPD 480
Session BBA 8 E and BBA 8G
Semester Spring 2019
Course Prerequisite Career Management
Course Started: 8 E February 04, 2019 Monday, 11:30 to 02:30
8 G February 07, 2019 Thursday, 11:30 to 02:30

Instructor Information:

Name Murtaza Y. Rizvi

Cell Phone 0320 822 5672
Email Address rizvimurtazay@gmail.com
Consultation Timing 10:30 to 11:15 am
Class Representative Daudpota Rabeal

Course Description:

 Corporate skills comprise of a wide range of skills ranging from Business Culture to
Business Email etiquettes to negotiation and team development.
 Regarded as significant as educational qualifications and experience, these skills help
graduates to adapt to the organizational culture and work in sync with people from
different backgrounds.
 Corporate skills are not industry specific and are integral to the professional success of
every individual irrespective of his/her field of work.
 Corporate Skills also include:
o Soft skills that are integral to the professional success of individuals
o Life skills that help people learn how to bring in harmony within one’s own self
and move, work, and manage people with different backgrounds

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Course Objective:

1. Corporate Skill Development aims at preparing fresh graduates for Job Interviews,
Entrance tests, CV preparation.

2. Corporate Skill Development Program (CSDP) imparts one with the required skills to
gain a competitive edge in any job market plus the ability to familiarize oneself with a
holistic view of the business environment at the startup of one’s career.
CSDP focusses on the overall corporate development of the participant and seeks to
provide a deeper understanding of various aspects of functional and foundation skills,
while learning to negotiate and manage conflicts while at the same time encouraging
independent thinking and decision making.

Learning Outcomes:

After having completed this course successfully, participants will be able to:

Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate quick identification ( during probation) of organization’s
culture, business ethics, and social responsibilities enabling him/her to
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adjust and adapt to the environment in a short time and ultimately
directing his/her energies towards productive work
Demonstrate an understanding of Business Networking, Business
2 Etiquettes and business systems, both when applying for job or on joining
an organization as a first job.
Demonstrate and prove understanding of Teamwork skills and the ability
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to adjust and adapt to teamwork situations
Develop greater awareness of coaching, mentoring towards accomplishing
4
corporate goals and objectives
5 Demonstrate understanding of Business Etiquettes
Demonstrate understanding of CV preparation, Interviewing skills and
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entrance exams such as NTS
Prepare and equip oneself with all essential tools from preparing,
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presenting and planning for interviews with Employers

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Text Books and Course Material:

Sno. Text Book Title Author

1 Skills for Success Dr. Stella Cortell
Jeffery H. Greenhauss
2 Career Management
(Text book E book PDF)
Nella Henney
Release Date: October 13, 2007
3 The Book of Business Etiquette
[EBook #23025]
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
by Barbara Pachter
ISBN-13:9780071811262Publisher:McGraw-Hill
The Essentials of Business Etiquette: Professional Publishing
4 How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Publication date:08/02/2013
Way to Success Pages:256
Sales rank:89,601
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

References:

Sno. Reading Material Source

Monster.com
Six Business Skills Every New
1 http://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/business-
Graduate Needs to Develop
skills-for-new-graduates#.V6BanrGjJeQ.gmail
5 Must-Have Skills Graduates need to http://www.fastcompany.com/3033332/work-smart/5-
2
land their first job must-have-skills-graduates-need-to-land-their-first-job
What do employers really want from http://www.marketplace.org/2013/03/01/education/what-
3
college grads.? do-employers-really-want-college-grads

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Week wise Course Distribution:
Week Topics Activities
Introduction Session
A. All about SGP
B. Course Objective
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C. Discuss Course Outline
D. Teaching Methodology
E. Flip Class Methods
Preparation & Directions for Week 2
Read Chapter 2 &3 of Jeffery H. Greenhauss Text Book “Career Management”

Week Topics Activities

Career Management & Planning (a) Class Lectures & Discussions
A. Definition & Need for Career Planning (b) Home Assignment:
Changing Landscape of work:  Interview a friend/family
 Job Loss member with at least 10 years of
B.
 Internationalization experience and
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 Technology  Track his/her career events both
C. Changing Structures of Organizations subjective and objective.
D. Changing nature of work and work life balance  Present in diagram format as in
Self Analysis of Interests, Values, Competencies, Work exhibit 1-1 of Chapter 1, Page
E. 10, of Jeffery
Attitudes.

Week Topics Activities

Goals, Strategies and Appraisals (a) Lectures & Group discussions
A. Components of Career Goals (b) Self Assessments: Grooms
B. Conceptual Goals vs. Operational Goals Associates.
C. Expressive vs Instrumental functions (c) Assignment:
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D. Short term vs long term  Prepare your career goals for 5
years, beyond 5 years up to 15
Chapter 4 Jeffery years and after 25 years of work.
 Develop your Goals on template.

Week Topics Activities

4 Business Culture & Ethics First Half:
A. What is Business Culture? (a) Identified groups will be given
B. Origins of Business Culture topics from Business Culture and
Influence of Business Culture on organizations’ Ethics for discussions for 20
C.
mission, vision and Strategies minutes. Instructor will facilitate
D. Business Ethics Local and Global discussions and

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 (b) Each group will present their
findings to the class and respond
to Q &A from other group
members.
Second Half:
Week Topics Activities
Business Etiquettes (a) Topics distributed to group on
A. Understanding of local and global business etiquettes. different aspects of business
B. Conducting yourself at business meetings. etiquettes.
C. Value of Courtesy Chap 11 (b) Role play by members of each
Book of Business Etiquette, by Nella Henney group on etiquette scenarios
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decided by Instructor
(c) Peer rating by groups to be
Quiz 1 moderated by Trainer.
(d) Pre Class briefing for next session
on Business etiquettes

Week Topics Activities

Business Etiquettes (a) Role play in a simulated
A. Conducting yourself at business meetings environment to continue
B. Understanding Global cultures and social etiquettes supplemented by a Guest speaker
C. E mail Etiquettes session.
Book of Business Etiquette, by Nella Henney Chap 11
(b) Best performing groups and
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students to be graded on role play
and quiz assignments.

(c) Pre Class briefing on Personal

grooming through Videos and
Dos and Donts.

Week Topics Activities

Personality & Grooming (a) Role play in a simulated
A. Table Manners environment judged by preferably
B. Telephone manners a guest or a panel of peers and
C. Travelling instructors.
7 D. Dining manners (b) This session will continue on with
E. Talking to ladies. same activities and graded as
above.
Quiz 2 (c) Videos(TBD) Guest speaker

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Week Topics Activities
Personality & Grooming
(a) Role play in a simulated
A. Table Manners
environment judged by preferably
B. Telephone manners
8 a guest or a panel of peers and
C. Travelling instructors.
D. Dining manners (b) Videos(TBD) Guest speaker
E. Talking to ladies.
Mid Term
Week Topics Activities
Marketing Yourself (a) Basics of CV writing.
(b) Students will be asked to develop
9 CV Writing: developing your personal marketing
A. their CVs under Instructor
brochure supervision.

Week Topics Activities

Marketing Yourself (a) Basics of Interviewing supported
A. Interview Phases by class lectures, videos and role
B. Preparation play on responses against
10 C. Presentation questions asked, body language,
elevator speech.
D Follow up (b) Dress codes, basic preparation,
presentation and follow up.

Week Topics Activities

(a) Interviews will be arranged in
house by professional HR guests.
11 Mock Interview Sessions (b) Feedback will be provided which
will also be a basis for student
evaluation

Week Topics Activities

(c) Interviews will be arranged in
house by professional HR guests.
12 Mock Interview Sessions (d) Feedback will be provided which
will also be a basis for student
evaluation

Week Topics Activities

External Trainers will be sourced to
13 NTS preparation train students on entry tests common
with MNCs and large organizations

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Week Topics Activities
External Trainers will be sourced to
14 NTS preparation train students on entry tests common
with MNCs and large organizations

Week Topics Activities

External Trainers will be sourced to
15 NTS preparation train students on entry tests common
with MNCs and large organizations
Final Exam

Week Topics
16 Final Exam

Learning Methodology

Assessment Plan

Description Marks Frequency Total Marks

Panel Discussions 2 30 each 06
Presentations 2 30 each 06
Quizzes 4 5 (N-1) 15
Mid Term 1 25 25
The 7 Habits Work Book 1 80 08
Final Paper 40 40
Total 100

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