Elective Selection and Open House 2022-23

Area: HR and Behavioral Sciences

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Electives offered to FTMBA in Year 2

Trimester IV Trimester V Trimester VI

• Driving Organizational Change: • Strategic HRM (3)

• Managing High Performance (3) Strategies and Behavioral
Interventions (3) • Talent Management (3)
• Diversity Management (3)
• Strategic Leadership (1.5)
• Emotional Intelligence
• Driving Business Outcomes Developing Abilities for
Through Total Rewards (1.5) Superior Performance (3)

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 Managing High Performance
(3 CREDITS) (TRIM IV)
Dr. Sateesh Shet
What matters in today’s organization is not performance but High Performance. Your role is not just
managing your performance but your team, unit and project performance. The functional expertise
support the job requirements, but ability to deliver high performance needs understanding
behavioural and management of performance contexts. This course orients towards developing
managerial competencies for high performance in a VUCA world.

Course Coverage
• Develop an understanding towards performance management system in the organizations
• Learn the skills towards enhancing capabilities and improving managerial performance in
business
• Critical analysis of different ways of managing people’s performance in different contexts,
challenges and ethical concerns in managing performance

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Managing Diversity in the Workplace (3 credit course) (TRIM
IV)
Dr. Geeta D’Souza
• Why Diversity and Inclusion?

• The ‘I’ in dIversity

• The ‘Team’ and ‘I’ in dIversity MAnagEmenT

• Leadership in the era of Diversity and Inclusion

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Driving Business Outcomes Through Total Rewards (1.5 CREDITS) (TRIM V)
Dr. Hema Bajaj

Objectives:
• To understand the alignment between reward components and employee as well as business performance
• Develop the ability to select/design reward mix to achieve business outcomes
Modules:
• Total Rewards – Components and their Efficacy
• Rewards and Organizational Life Cycle
• Rewards Mix in Different Sectors
• Employee Life Cycle and Rewards
• Gig Workers and Rewards
Pedagogy:
• Case driven course- Industry partnering for a few modules.
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 Driving Organizational Change: Strategies and Behavioral Interventions
Dr. Veena Vohra
3 credits – Trimester 5 – 1 Group

Course Objectives:
- Develop the ability to plan and drive organizational change efforts (individuals, groups or large systems
level);
- Using behavioral science to develop interventions for individual and organizational change
Course Map:
- Systems Theory, Chaos Theory and Organizations; Trend spotting, Change triggers, conducting organizational
diagnosis, change agentry, behavioural science based interventions, change management metrics,
Organizational Network Analysis
Course Activities:
- Review of trends; Case analysis ( Pivoting Startups – Org Structure – Strategy rethink- Launching innovative
services); Decision Sheets; Industry Inputs and Projects; Situation Analysis
Career Fitment:
- Consulting / Strategy / Project Management
 Strategic Leadership
Dr. Veena Vohra
1.5 credits - Trim 5 – 1 Group
Course Objectives:
- Developing strategic thought process;
- Building ability to anticipate, envision, be flexible in making choices for organizational outcomes
Course Map:
- Mental maps about organizational strategy,
- Strategic Frames, Using Power, Making strategic choices,
- Organizational Visioning Process
- Working with diverse stakeholders,
- A day in the life of a CXO
Course Activities:
- Leadership Simulations; Activities to develop an inside out perspective; Visioning; Industry Mentoring;
Situation based analysis
Career Fitment:
- General
 Talent Management (3 Credits Course) (TRIM VI)
Prof. Bijayinee Patnaik
• Full Credit Course in the 6th Trimester
• How do organizations Identify, Acquire, Develop and Retain talent
• How do organizations build a Talent Culture of high potentials and high
performance
• Managing your own talent and careers in Organizations
• Guest sessions from CXO and CHRO’s from reputed global organizations.
• Past 2-3 years CXO’s, CHRO’s and senior professionals from organization's
like Asian Paints, Johnson & Johnson, Google, AstraZeneca, Unilever,
Capgemini, M&M and ABG have been associated with this course.
• Questions to be directed to Prof. Bijayinee Patnaik @
bijayinee.patnaik@sbm.nmims.edu, Office # E832.
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 Emotional Intelligence
Dr. Veena Vohra
3 credits - Trim 6 – 2 Groups
Course Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of self and others based on the Science of emotions and Neuroscience
- Achieve greater personal effectiveness through self-management tools
- Enhanced Social awareness and social skills development
Course Map:
- History and Science of Emotions; Neuroscience findings, Building Emotional Literacy,
- Dealing with Anger, Anxiety and Lack of Assertiveness
- Covert Modeling, Visualization and Cognitive reappraisal
- Science of Happiness and Well being
Course Activities:
- Creative Movement Therapy; Peer Coaching; EI inventories and worksheets based self analysis;
- Working with Affirmations; Guest Speakers; Experiential activities
Career Fitment:
- General
 Strategic HRM (3 Credits Course) (TRIM VI)
Prof Seema Rawat

Failure to invest in employees causes leads to

Human assets are risky investment

Inefficiency

HR practices directly related to

profitability & market value
Require extra effort
to ensure that they
are not lost Top 10% of
Integrated
Weakening of Primary reason for organizations studied
management of
organization’s profitability: Effective experienced 391%
human capital can
competitive management of return on investment
result in 47% increase
position human capital in management of
in market value
human capital

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 Thank You!

Questions?

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