MANAGEMENT: FRINGE TOPICS

INTRODUCTION TO FRINGE TOPICS

27 Final Selections in RBI Grade B 2017

72 Selections in RBI Grade B 2018
41 Selections in SEBI Grade A 2018

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1 What are Fringe topics?
Fringe topics are those topics which are neither explicitly mentioned nor categorically related to RBI
Syllabus of Management. However, every year, questions are being asked by RBI in Grade B examination
from such topics.

2 Why Fringe Topics Matter?

Every year RBI asked questions from Fringe Topics worth 4-5 marks, and taking the intense competition
into considerations, 4-5 marks become crucially important for the final selection.

3 How We Have Selected Fringe Topics

We have analyzed past previous 5 years question paper thoroughly and came out with an idea of
covering such topics which are though not mentioned in RBI syllabus explicitly, yet mainstream and
important concept/part of overall Management Subject, and RBI probably ask few questions from these
topics which may decide aspirants’ fate in final selection.

4 Example of Previous Year Question Asked from Fringe Topics

2016. Transactional Analysis Question from Psychology | Question about Out bound Learning I Question
About Personality

2017. Question About Strategy and Competency| Question About Aptitude| Question About Group
Dynamics | Question About Negotiation and Bargaining

2018. Question from Operation Management Concepts such as: KABAN, JIT, EOQ | Question from
Change Management: Kurt Lewin Theory

5 FRINGE TOPIC LIST

List of fringe topics are mentioned as below, however this list is tentative and may change during the
process of development because some more topics may be included or some portion from existing list
may be omitted.

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 PLEASE DON’T GET FRIGHTENED LOOKING AT THE NUMBER OF TOPICS! PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT
THESE TOPICS WILL BE COVERED UNDER 3 BROADER CATEGORIES NAMELY: ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR, PEOPLE MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS, WITHIN 8-9 FILES WITH EACH FILE BEING 25-30
PAGES. SO, IT SHALL NOT TAKE YOU MORE THAN 10-15 HOURS TO READ ALL THE FILES.

Name of the topics to be covered:

1. Organizational Change
2. Change Management
3. Decision Making
4. Interpersonal Relationship
5. Conflict & Negotiation
6. Public Relations
7. Risk & Crisis Management
8. Public Private Administration
9. Psychology
10. Personality Development
11. Personnel Management
12. Human Resource Management
13. Performance Management
14. Competency Based Assessment
15. Employee-Development
16. Training & Development
17. Talent Management
18. Human Capital Management
19. Employee Engagement
20. Knowledge-Management
21. Entrepreneurship
22. Few Topics from Operations

6 FRINGE TOPIC NOTES & SUMMARY SHEET, NO VIDEO

• We will cover above listed topics in the form of easy to understand NOTES ONLY, with SUMMARY
SHEETS
• Summary-Sheets will be downloadable, and may be read for REVISION purpose ONLY.
• Summary-Sheets should NOT be substituted for NOTE, hence only be helpful if one has studied
notes properly.
• NO VIDEO OF ANY FRINGE TOPIC WILL BE PROVIDED as these are just the fringe topics and going
into detail is wastage of time.

ALL THE BEST

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