St Claret College Department of Management Project Guidelines

As per Bangalore University guidelines the students of final year BBM are required to undertake a project work on a current management topic towards partial fulfilment of the requirement of the course. Topics chosen should provide value addition and cover socially relevant topics. Care should be taken to avoid irrelevant and redundant topics. The project data should be accurate, the presentation consistent and the methodology systematic. General Instructions: The project carries 100 marks. 75 marks is for the project report and 25 marks for the viva-voce. Project reports should be on executive bond paper, A4 size, and one sided- computer print outs only. Students should retain the original copy of the project report and submit two hard bound, coloured print outs to the college, one each for the library and for the department. The original copy should be carried for the viva-voce. Pages should be serially numbered starting from chapter 1. Number the pages by use of only Arabic numbers eg. 1,2,3 and not Pg1, Pg2, Pg3 etc Font used in the report has to be Times New Romans, font size of 12 and headings should have font size 14. There should be double spacing between lines as well as paragraphs. Font used for title page and certificates should be 14 for text and 16 for headings. (Samples attached) Bordering should be 1 inch on each side. Lined border is allowed only on the top of the page. Company logo, can be affixed on the top right hand side of the page. College logo should be used only on the title page. Figures should be in colour. Please take care to use gentle colours. Spelling, grammar and punctuation should be taken care of. No spacing after full stops and commas. All typos should be corrected. 1st level heading in the report should be centered, capital and bolded. Second level heading should be on the left hand side of the page and should start with a capital letter eg.Finance and the third level heading should start with a capital letter and in italics eg Finance. Second and third levels will also bolded but not underlined. First level heading: INTRODUCTION Second level heading: Finance Third level heading: Finance

The report should be about 90 to 100 pages. The report should be written in the past tense and passive voice. College logo should be used in the title page only and nowhere else in the project. Citation (Quoting the source book and page number used for ideas used in the text).
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 Active and regular interaction with the guide and class mentor is important and necessary. The print out of the project shall not be done without the final approval from the guide. The project shall be submitted to the guide by March 15, 2011.

Format of the Report: (This format is a basic one; details can be discussed with the guides ) Preliminary pages: Title page (Title should be in bold and caps with no inverted commas) Certificate of the guide Certificate of the college. (college letter-head) Certificate of the company. Declaration by the student. Acknowledgements. List of Contents (with page numbers) No physical tables should be drawn. List of tables (with page numbers) ---do-- List of figures (with page numbers)----do----For the above, sample formats will be provided.

Chapter 1: Introduction

20 pages

The chapter includes the theoretical background or conceptual frame work of the study. Part A: the Industry-Brief history, growth and prospects of industry. Part B: about the topic-definitions of the terms, importance and other relevant aspects of the topic. Operational definitions of Concepts. Chapter 2 : Research Design Title of the Study. Statement of the problem Objective of the study Scope of the study Methodology Sampling technique Tools of data collection Plan of analysis Key findings, implications and recommendations Limitation of the study Chapter scheme. 10 pages. 10 pages

Chapter 3: Company Profile

Complete information about the company, Inception, type, nature, BOD, organization chart, Business operations, product/service profile, Market share, Competitors, functional chart, future prospects/ Growth of the company. Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Interpretation Data in tabular form analysis of the table Graphical representation (pie chart, bar diagram) and inference. 40 Pages.

Chapter 5 : Summary of findings and conclusion

08 Pages.

The findings should be summarized and presented in a paragraph form either numbered or in bullets. Conclusion of the project should be given so as to justify the objectives. Chapter 6 : Recommendations and Suggestions 2 pages

In this chapter recommendations to each objective should be stated. Suggestions should be specific, practical and clear. Issues of implementation should be specified Bibliography The reference made; Text books, Journals, newspaper and Magazines should be listed in this section. The order followed is Name of the Author, year of publication (last name first) edition of the book, place of publication, Name of the publisher. And page numbers should be indicated in the case of journals and magazines. The source of Internet and Web site may also be mentioned with the correct web address of the site and the date, month and year of retrieval. Appendix A copy of questionnaire and all other material collected (financial statements, brochures, etc) from the organization should be annexed. ***********************************************************************