UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN Nautical Science
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject II - Marine Management and Maritime Commerce

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Sectiort A - Marine Management

1. Managing & Managers : Organisation and the need for management; the management process, types of managers, management level and skills, managerial roles, the challenge of management.

2. The evolution of management theory: Why study management theory ? The classical management theories, the behavioural school; the quantitative school - operations research and management science; the evolution of management theory.

3. The external environment of organisations: The external environment and its importance; elements of the direct-action environment; elements of the indirect-action environment; theories of total organisation environments, managing the total environment.

4. Planning and strategic management: Planning - an overview, the formal planning process; the evolution of the concept of strategy.

5. Social responsibility and ethics: The changing concept of social responsibilities; the shift to ethics; the tools of ethics; the challenge of relativism.

6. Strategy implementation: Matching strategy implementation to strategy ; matching structure and strategy; institutionalising strategy.

7. Decision making : Problem and opportunity finding ; the nature of managerial decision making; the rational model of decision making; challenges to the rational model; improving the effectiveness of decision making and problem solving.

8. Planning and decision making tools & techniques: The management science approach; the management science process; planning for the future - forecasting; planning for the future scheduling; planning to meet goals with uncertainty.

9. Organisational structure, coordination, and design: Organisational structure, types of organisational structures, coordination, organisational design.

10. Authority, delegation and decentralisation: Authority, power, and influence, line and staff authority, delegation, job design, decentralisation.

11. Human resource management; The HRM process - a traditional view, human resource planning, recruitment, selection, orientation or socialisation, training and development, performance appraisal, promotions, transfer, demotions and separation, HRM and stratery.

12. Managing organisational change and innovation: Why planned change in. needed ? A model of the change process, types of planned change, organisational development, managing creativity and innovation.

13. Motivation, performance and job satisfaction: Theories of motivation - an overview, content theories of motivation, process theories of motivation: reinforcement theory, a system view of motivation in organisations.

14. Leadership: Defining leadership the trait approach of leadership, the behavioural approach to leadership, contingency approaches to leadership, the future of leadership theory.

15. Groups and committees: Types of groups, characteristics of groups, problem solving in groups, making formal groups effective.

16. Communication and negotiation: The importance of communication, interpersonal communication, barriers to effective interpersonal communication, communication in organisations, using communication skills - negotiating to manage conflicts.

17.. Effective control: The meaning of control, types of control methods, designing control systems, financial controls, budgetary control methods.

18. Operations management: The nature of operations, the importance of operations management designing operations systems., operational planning and control decisions, quality control. .

19. Information systems: Information and control, management information systems, designing a computer based MIS, implementing a computer based MIS, end user computing, the impact of computers and MIS on managers and organisations.

Section B - Commercial Shipping Management

1. International Trade and Shipping: Seaborne trade of the world composition and direction of cargoes - different types of ships which carry them - Technological developments - Role of Shipping on national economic development.

2. Basic structure of shipping industry: Types of shipping services - Liner and tramp - Role of intermediaries in shipping business; Freight brokers, Clearing and Forwarding Agents - Stevedores - Ship brokers, Bunker and Stores suppliers etc. Shipping Agencies.

3. Liner Trades - characteristics - liner conferences - how freight rates are fixed components of liner freight - non conference lines - competition. Procedures of shipping cargoes and related documentations; mate's receipt, bill of landing, unitload systems - containerisation and multimodal transport.

4. Tramp Trades - chartering different types of chartering ships - their relevance to trades - procedures and documentation relating chartering - charter markets of the world - how freight / charterhire is fixed.

5. Organisation of shipping company - manpower planning - business and cargo management - statutory regulations to be complied with like foreign exchange regulation.

6. Role of ports: Port locations - functions and range of services - financial aspects of utilisation and cargo handling. Indias ports, their organisation and administration. Modernisation and development of ports.

7. Role of customs: Customs act and documents relating to customs relating to ship operations and trade.

8. Indian shipping development: India's merchant fleet - role of government - maritime administration in India - India's shipping policy.

9. Maritime frauds: Safeguards to be taken to prevent frauds with special reference to shipping industry, operators and seafaring personnel.

Books for Reference:

1. Management - Stoner & Freeman

2. Basic Marine Management - DR.A.V.Athalye

3. The Practice of Management - Drucker P

4. People in Organisation, an Introduction to Organisation Behaviour - Mitchell, Teerence P

5. Consumer Behaviour. Basic Findings & Manegerial Implegations - Zaltman G & Wallendrof A

6. Mathematics of investment - Hart W.L

7. Theory and Practice of Management Information System - Burch, Strater & Grudneski

8. A Concept of Corporate Planning - Russel L & Ackoff

9. IACOCCA: An Autobiography - Lee Lacocca

10. An Introduction to Financial Management - Solomon & Pringle

11. Manpower Management - Dwivedi R.S

12. Industrial Relations in India's Developing Economy - N.N.Chaterjee

13. An Introduction Database System - Dale C.J

14. Monetary Planning for India - Gupta Suraj B

15. Economics of Shipping & Other Papers - Dr. S.N. Saklecha

16. International Maritime Fraud - Ellen and Campbell

17. Elements of Shipping - Alan Branch

18. Containerisation era in India - Dr.K.V.Hariharan