Delhi University TYBMS Sem 5 Syllabus – Training and Management Development

Training and Management Development refers to bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings. Training and Management Development aims to make sure the availability of a skilled and willing workforce to an organization.

Training and Management Development subject aims to familiarize DU BMS students with the concept and practice of training and development in the modern organizational setting.

Here we present Delhi University TYBMS Sem 5 Syllabus – Training and Management Development:

Unit 1 – 9 lectures

1. Organization vision and plans
2. Assessment of training needs
3. Setting training objectives
4. Designing training programmes
5. Spiral model of training

Unit 2 – 9 lectures

1. Tasks of the training function
2. Building support
3. Overall training capacity
4. Developing materials
5. Strategic planning
6. Networking
7. Designing training programmes

Unit 3 – 10 lectures

1. Training methods
2. On the job training
3. Job instruction training
4. Apprenticeship
5. Coaching
6. Job rotation
7. Syndicate method
8. Knowledge based methods
9. Lecture
10. Conferences
11. Programmed learning
12. Simulation methods
13. Case study
14. Vestibule training
15. Laboratory training
16. In-basket exercise
17. Experiential methods
18. Sensitivity training

Unit 4 – 10 lectures

1. Management Development Programme Methods
2. Under study
3. Coaching
4. Action learning
5. Role play
6. Management games
7. Seminars
8. University related programmes
9. Special projects
10. Behavioural modeling
11. Job rotation
12. Case study
13. Multiple management
14. Sensitivity training
15. Post training
16. Input overload
17. Unrealistic goals
18. Linkage failure
19. Training impact on individuals and organizations
20. Training evaluation
21. Evaluating programmes, participants
22. Objectives and worthwhileness of training

Unit 5 – 18 lectures

1. Organizational Development (OD)
2. Definition and Foundations of OD
3. Managing the OD process
4. Action research and OD
5. OD Interventions
6. Overview of OD Interventions
7. Team Interventions
8. Inter-group and Third party peacemaking interventions
9. Comprehensive OD interventions
10. Structural interventions and the applicability of OD
11. Training experiences
12. Issues in consultant – client relationships
13. System ramifications
14. Power
15. Politics and OD.

Textbooks and References:

• Effective Training, Systems, Strategies and Practices – Blanchard P. Nick and Thacker James W
• Organization Development, Behavioural Science Interventions for Organization Improvement – French Wendell, Bell Cecil and Vohra Veena
• Training and Development – Lynton Rolf and Pareek Udai