This paper aims at helping students think about some of the important ethical Implications of the day-to-day happenings and practices of Indian industry and business. It also aims to improve ethical reasoning by correlating moral concepts to business practices and clarification of the values that determine managerial behaviour.
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Growth, Stability, Retrenchment Combination, Business Level Strategy: Porters' Generic Business strategies, Cost Leadership, Differentiation & Focus. Comeptitive Advantage and Core Competence, Blue Ocean Strategy, Functional Level Strategies( Elementary Knowledge only)
Concept, Aspects and Issues in Strategic Implementation. Evaluation and Control: Meaning, Process, Techniques, and Elements of a Strategic control system- Feed forward control, Feedback control and concurrent control.
Concept, Definition, Friedman’s Traditional view and Carroll’s Modern view of CSR, Responsibility towards various Stakeholders. Corporate Governance: An Overview, Management of corporate governance, duties, responsibilities, attributes and liabilities of corporate board.
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