Dissertation Guide Lines for students of M.B.S & M.T.

DISSERTATION GUIDE LINES

FOR STUDENTS OF
MASTER OF BUSINESS STUDIES
(M.B.S) & MASTER OF TOURISM
AND ADMINISTRATION (M.T.A)

DISSERTATION GUIDELINES FOR STUDENTS OF

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MASTER OF BUSINESS STUDIES (5 yr Integrated) /

MASTER OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM (5 yr Integrated)
The objective of Dissertation work is to experience the way in which organizations
function in agiven environment. The keyword is experience. Experience has two dimensions,
understanding and application.
(I) Understanding
Understand the global and local economic scenario and the sector in which the selected
organization operate;
The business model of the organization;
Understand how each of the functional areas are designed and performed in an
organization;
How the organization is similar to other organizations in the same sector as well as how it
is different from other organizations;
Business proposition offered by the organization, SWOT Analysis, financial for the past
five years, the strategy of the organization.
The understanding expected out of you may appear to be obvious. However, in practice it
is different. You will realize that the business models of organizations are complex and need
analysis and study. You can also study the strategy of the organization.
(II) Application
Apply knowledge of research methodology to analyze the problems or issues faced by
organizations.
Understand how various principles you have learned during course work is applied in the
real time business world.
Learn the changes that are taking place in the business world. If certain guidelines are
followed, experiences indicate that project work will be fulfilling experience and paves
way for final placement. Certain assumptions are made before starting the dialogue. It is
assumed that you have successfully completed your Dissertation work. The guidelines
may not be different but are applied with fewer rigors. You have also selected your
specialization with due diligence and passionate about perusing your career in the given
specialization.
A Project report is logical. The project is a formal document whose sole purpose is to
prove that you have made a contribution to knowledge or solved an organizations problem. Your
Dissertation must have two things.
You have identified a problem or question from the organization.
You have solved the problem or answered the question.
The guidelines for Dissertation are divided into two main parts:
(A) Guidelines for Project work
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(B) Guidelines for preparing Project report
(A) Guidelines for Project work
This section provides you the guidelines for actual project work at the chosen
Organization. The main objectives of Project work are:
To analyze, understand and experience the environment and functions of an organization;
To understand the industry within which the organization operates;
To understand the business model of the organization; and
To understand the functional areas like marketing, Finance, HR, International business,
Operations, etc.
Phases in Project Work
The project work you will be doing may be divided into three phases:
(i) Pre-project preparation
(ii) Interface during the project
(iii) Interface after the project
(i) Pre-project preparation
The important factors affecting in this stage are:
Your approach towards project
The institute you come from
Your competencies
Your project search ability
References given by you
Personal interview attended by you
Your knowledge, integrity, presentation, communication, etc.
The basic requirements you should carry during project are:
Project work request letter from College
Updated resume / CV (Curriculum Vitae)
College-Id card
Required documents
Your recent photographs
A scribbling pad/ Notebook/ Pen.
(ii) Interface during the project
This is the period of your actual work and it is the most important period for you.
Generally the project work starts in the first week of January and gets over with the submission
of Project report in the last week of May. After getting the project the following things will be
important.
Entry-pass from Company
Name, Contact no. and email-id of the person to whom you have to report to
Your dress code (Formal wear).
Show patience. Dont expect immediate response from the Organization or the person in
charge. It may even take few days. It doesnt mean that the Organization is not need of you.
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Dos!

Keep yourself updated with recent trends and market conditions related to your project;
Go through books on research methodology, Industrial surveys, Organization website;
Read business newspapers, magazines, etc;
Be professional. Be positive. Smile and enjoy the work;
Ask questions relating to your project, show enthusiasm. Give detailed account of your
problem and ask for correct questions;
If some urgent work is to be done by the organization, do it willingly;
Share the experience with your teacher and classmates. It is an opportunity to bring in
professionalism in you;
Take your guides email-id. Do not disturb him/her on cell phone;
Keep in touch with your other colleagues, exchange thoughts;
Be enthusiastic to listen, to talk, to learn and to work;
Be honest. Be curious. Show integrity;
Define your body language.

Donts!
Do not sit with crossed legs or in a squatting position. Dont exhibit your curiosity or
nervousness;
Dont disturb the receptionist and other workers by asking questions;
Dont talk often with your friends through cell phone or any other stranger in the
reception;
Dont take breaks/ holidays while doing project work;
Dont disappear for long period (when the manager wants to meet you, you should be
available);
Dont degrade your institute or teachers by making statements;
Dont talk negative and try to be certain with everything;
Dont take campus culture to organization (like leave letters, excuses, concessions, etc.)
Dont change the project if you get another project.
Steps for Project work
Understand expectations of Organizations;
Choose a topic for Project work
Topic from the Organization;
Prepare a list of topics (atleast 15 20 topics) and then choose the topic;
Select statistical tools to analyze the data (by using parametric and non-parametric tests);
Decide a rough title. You can finalize it later;
Once a business problem is identified, choose the topic reflecting your research and then
address the organizations needs. Then go to next phase of research.
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Basis for research work
Apply knowledge of research methodology to analyze the problems or issues faced by
organizations;
Understand how to apply the principles learned during the course to real-time business
world;
Observe recent changes in the business world and then start your project.
(iii) Interface after the project
This is the third phase of your project and includes Dissertation report preparation, their
submission, appearing for the viva-voce, preparation for interview, etc.
Read available data carefully;
Understand it;
And then write. Avoid reproduction of data given in the book or in the text;
Refer available project reports to get an exact idea.
(B) Guidelines for Project report
The chapters of a Project report may be broadly divided into 3 parts:
(i) Introductory chapter
(ii) Chapters developing the main text or theme of the project and
(iii)
Conclusion.
The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be further
divided into several divisions and sub-divisions.
Arrangement of contents
Dissertation should be as per the following format and size. The sequence given below
should be strictly followed:
Cover Page
Title Page
Project Completion Certificate from the company
Certificate from the Coordinator
Declaration
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapters*
Bibliography
Appendices
Chapters*: The chapters may broadly be divided into six as follows:
1) Introduction (Industry profile) 01 15
2) Review of Literature & Research Design 16 25
3) Profile of the Business/selected Organisations 26 35
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4) Data Analyses & Interpretations 36 75
5) Summary of Major findings, Conclusions and Recommendations 76 90
6) Conclusion (financial policy implications and scope for further research).
Executive Summary
Put the following and write a paragraph or two on each:
Title of the project
Objectives and sources
Findings
Recommendations
Conclusion.
Table of contents/Index
1. Table of contents
2. List of Tables
3. List of Figures
4. List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature
Chapter No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topic

Page No.

Introduction
Review of Literature & Research Design
Profile of the Business/selected Organization
Data Analysis & Interpretation
Summary of Major findings, Suggestions and Recommendations
Conclusion

Table No.
1.1
2.1
2.2
3.1
4.1
4.2

LIST OF TABLES
Description
No.of Software industries, 2009
Attrition rate among Top Executives
..
..

Page No.
09
46
57
64
79
98

Chart No.
1.1
2.1
2.2
3.1

LIST OF CHARTS
Description
Growth of Profitability, 2002-09
Net Capital, 2002-09
..
..

Page No.
08
24
36
52
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4.1
4.2
Figure No.
1.1
2.1
2.2
3.1
4.1
4.2

LIST OF FIGURES
Description
Organizational structure of .
Training process as followed by .
..
..

60
90
Page No.
10
12
25
48
72
112

Each and every chapter aforementioned should have the following sub-divisions:
4.10.1. Introduction: Introduction includes
About the broad area of the topic chosen
About the specific area of the topic chosen
About the topic
Description of specific industry/general scenario of industry.
4.10.2. Review of Literature & Research Design
Introduction
Review of Literature
Statement of the Problem
Scope of the Study
Objectives of the Problem
Hypotheses
Operational Definitions of Concept
Methodology
Limitations of the Study
Chapter Scheme.
4.10.3. Profile of the Industry/Business/Selected Companies
Go through past balance sheets, organizations website, press reports and all other data
pertaining to the organization;
Online data bases may help you to a large extent to achieve better;
Understand the organization and prepare the brief report. Use Mckinsey 7S framework;
Understand your organization in the context of present business situation.
4.10.4. Data Analysis and Interpretation
Analysis (Statistical Tools) and Interpretation and Discussion, Inferences;
Diagrammatic Representations;
Deliverables.
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4.10.5. Summary of Findings, Suggestions and Recommendations
Summary of Findings
Suggestions, and
Recommendations.
4.10.6 Conclusion
Financial policy implications
Scope for further research.
Industry Profile
Go through Hindu Industrial Survey;
Use your discussion carefully;
Visit various websites such as www.about.com. If you want to go through various
research reports please go through www.ssrn.com;
Find at least 10 major companies in your industry and in the international market;
Write a brief write up on what happened for the past three years;
Identify at least three; Indian CEOs and three international CEOs and find their views
about industry. You can have photographs of the CEOs, being copied.
(Example: you can provide the trends in Indian Retail Industry. Please go through the website of
www.ibef.org one of the most authentic sources on Industry data)
Research Problem and its Background/Need for Study
You are working 16 weeks for project work. Your effort, understanding and value
addition to the organization by answering specific questions will provide better experience for
you. It explains what you want to achieve and what you mean by profiling.
A precise statement of the question is framed;
Justification, by reference to review of literature, that your question is previously
unanswered or answered or requiring further exploration;
Discussion of why it is necessary to answer this question in the organizational context. If
you are doing a project on employee engagement, then out of all the human resources
issues why you have chosen employee engagement?
Objectives of the study
State your objectives clearly not more than 3 5 statements (3 will be ideal);
Be precise while writing your objectives; and
Should reflect the research you are going to undertake.
Scope of study
Certain other tasks which are important in the process of achieving your objectives, you
may include them under scope of study;
In the process of your study, if you have identified some areas that need to be studied.
Research Methodology
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Research Objectives
Clearly state your research objectives. They are derived from your objectives of study.
Types of Research Design
The next area is what type of research, is it exploratory, descriptive or conclusive.
Data (primary and secondary)
The secondary data has to be complemented with your primary data. Therefore write
what all the data sources that you have collected and source of primary data.
Research Instrument
If it is a questionnaire, you have to write what type of questionnaire.
However, do not assume always that you need to have questionnaire to start the research.
You have different methods and use them to enrich your thought process.
Research tool
Generally in most of the research we use questionnaire method. There are four different
types of questionnaires. However, there are other methods such as focus group interviews, word
association tests, etc., generally being used in project works. Use such tools that provide better
insights into the data.
Research Plan
Here you can give the plan you have done for the research in a flow diagram.
Type of Universe
Defining the set of objects, finite or infinite is technically called the Universe.
(Population of a city, Number of workers in a factory Finite universe;
Listeners of a specific radio programme, Users of a soap Infinite universe.)
Sample Unit
The indication of a geographic dimension such as Bangalore North or Davangere or
Karnataka is a sampling unit.
Type of sampling
The sampling technique involved in selecting a sample from the universe, say random
sampling or non-random sampling is to be specified.
Sample size
This refers to the number of items to be selected from the universe to constitute a sample.
Statistical Tools
Hypotheses and testing of hypotheses using statistical tools is a must. No report will be
accepted without statistical tools. In the case of finance and system projects, you are expected to
use appropriate models. For ex: Please use Altman Z score Model for predicting bankruptcy.
Your guide will be able to help you to identify appropriate model.
Literature Survey /Review of literature
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4-5 pages;
May include latest research as literature survey.

Data analysis and interpretation

Please give a table for each of the questions with heading;
For each of the item provide an interpretation;
Do the cross tabulation of data and test all hypotheses you have developed.
Findings
In the findings section, write all your inferences and test of hypotheses. First write all
the inferences. Find their connectivity. Then provide an overall picture of your findings.
Recommendations and suggestions
Here provide suggestions and recommendations based on your research, insights you
have developed. Never provide generic suggestions eg. You have to improve advertisement.
There is no meaning unless you answer the question how, when, where, what, outcome expected.
Suggestions should be innovative. Use your knowledge, the research you have done and the
insights you gained.
Conclusion
Maximum 2 pages (1 page ideal). If possible provide the benefit received by
organization. You can give here all the information on suggestions given by you and
implemented by organization.
How each of the chapters is to be organized?
Introductory Chapters: The first and second chapter provide the context of the problem of study
consisting of industry analysis, broad area and specific area of study; and other information such
as review of different studies, objectives and methodology adopted, sample methodology, data
sources, tools of analysis, hypothesis formulated for testing and broad limitations of the study.
Third and fourth chapters: These chapters focus on organizational profile, data analysis,
interpretation of results, discussion based on observations made, results of hypothesis tested.
Fifth and sixth chapters: A brief summary of discussion on the basis of results and major
implications to be listed out. Then the report will spell out for making suggestions for any
improvement required in the policies and procedures followed by the enterprise under study.
Bibliography / List of References
The Bibliography refers to the reference material consulted by the student in connection
with the Project Work. Published studies conducted by different authors, Text books dealing with
the subject of study, Industry Reports, Business Magazines, Government Reports and Websites
generally constitute the reference material. Students are expected to give the details of all sources
referred for conducting the present study. The presentation of such reference material often
referred as Bibliography. It should follow a logical arrangement in alphabetical order. Each
reference should give the details regarding the author(s), the title of paper / book, details
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regarding its year of publication, place of publication, name of the publishers / name of the
Journal in case of a research article, etc.
Appendices
Appendices refer to the annexure enclosed to the report. These enclosures help the reader
of the report to refer in case of any clarity required on the type of instrument used by student in
eliciting the information from the respondents. Generally, the appendices contain a copy of the
questionnaire administered in the study, published raw data collected and used in the study, etc.
If some other studies which are relevant but may hinder continuity to the study are given in the
appendix. Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix 2,
etc. Appendices, Tables and references appearing in appendices should be numbered and referred
to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters. Appendices shall carry the title of the work
reported and the same title shall be made in the contents page also.

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1.

A Manual for preparation of Dissertation Report

GENERAL :
The manual is intended to provide broad guidelines to the M.B.S. / M.T.A. (5 year
integrated courses) candidates in the preparation of the Dissertation report. In general, the
Dissertation report shall report, in an organized and scholarly fashion an account of
original research work of the candidate leading to the discovery of new facts or
techniques or correlation of facts already known (analytical, experiments, hardware
oriented etc.)

2.

NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED:

M.B.S. / M.T.A. students should submit three hard bound copies and a soft copy to the
Coordinator, School of Business Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore concerned on
or before the specified date. Spiral binding or plastic comb binding will not be accepted.
The office shall send (i) One copy to the library; (ii) one hard copy and the soft copy to
the University for evaluation ; (iii) other copy to the student concerned.

3.

SIZE OF PROJECT REPORT:

The size of project report should not exceed 120 pages of typed matter reckoned from the
first page of Chapter 1 to the last page.

4.

ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS OF PROJECT REPORT:

The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound should
be as follows:
1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Project Completion Certificate from the company
4. Certificate from the Coordinator
5. Declaration
6. Acknowledgements
7. Executive summary
8. Table of Contents
9. List of Tables
10. List of Figures
11. Chapters*
12. Bibliography
13. Appendices

The Tables and Figures shall be introduced in the appropriate places.

5.

PAGE DIMENSIONS AND MARGIN:

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The dimensions of the final bound copies of the project report should be 290mm x
205mm. Standard A4 size (297mm x 210mm) paper may be used for preparing the
copies.
The final three copies of the project report (at the time of submission) should have the
following page margins:
Top margin
Bottom margin
Left margin
Right margin

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1
1
1
1

The project report should be prepared on good quality white paper preferably not lower
than 80 gsm /sq. meter.
Tables and figures should conform to the margin specifications. Large size figures should
be photographically or otherwise reduced to the appropriate size before insertion.
6.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The candidates shall supply a typed copy of the manuscript to the guide for the purpose
of approval. In the preparation of the manuscript, care should be taken to ensure that all
textual matter is typed to the extent possible in the same format as may be required for
the final project report.
Hence, some of the information required for the final typing of the project report is
included also in this section.
The headings of all items 2 to 11 listed section 4 should be typed in capital letters without
punctuation and centred 50mm below the top of the page. The text should commence 4
spaces below this heading. The page numbering for all items 1 to 8 should be done using
lower case Roman numerals and the pages thereafter should be numbered using Arabic
numerals.
6.1

Title page A specimen copy of the title page for M.B.S./ M.T.A. project report
are given in Appendix 1.

6.2

Bonafide Certificate Using double spacing for typing the Bonafide Certificate
specified in Appendix 2.

6.3.

Executive summary Abstract should be an essay type of narrative not

exceeding 600 words, outlining the problem, the methodology used for tackling it
and a summary of the findings.

6.4.

Acknowledgement It should be brief and should not exceed one page when
typed double spacing.

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6.5.

Table of contents The table of contents should list all material following it as
well as any material which precedes it. The title page, bonafide Certificate and
acknowledgement will not find a place among the items listed in the table of
contents but the page numbers of which are in lower case Roman letters. One and
a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head.

6.6.

List of Tables The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear
above the tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing
the matter under this head.

6.7.

List of Figures The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear
below the figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing
the matter under this head.

6.8.

List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomanclature One and a half spacing

should be adopted for typing the matter under this head. Standard symbols,
abbreviations etc. should be used.

6.9.

Chapters The chapters may be broadly divided into 3 parts (i) Introductory
chapters, (ii) Chapters developing the main theme of the project report, (iii)
Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may be
further divided into several divisions and sub-division.

Each chapter should be given an appropriate title.

6.10.

6.11.

Tables and figures in a chapter should be placed in the immediate vicinity of

the reference where they are cited.
Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space and
placed directly underneath in the very same page which refers to the material
they annotate.

Appendices Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which

if included in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme
under discussion.

Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1,

Appendix 2, etc.

Appendices, Tables and References appearing in appendices should be

numbered and referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.

List of References Any work of other researcher is used either directly or

indirectly the origin of the material thus referred to at appropriate places in the
project report should be indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book may be
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designated by the name of the first author followed by the year of publication,
placed inside brackets at the appropriate places in the project report should be
indicated. A paper, a monograph or a book may be designated by the name of the
first author followed by the year of publication, placed inside brackets at the
appropriate place of reference. The citation may assume any one of the following
forms.
A typical illustrative list given below relates to the citation examples quoted
above.
REFERENCES
1.
Ariponnammal S. and Natarajan S. (1994) Transport Phonomena of Sm
Se 1-x Asx Pramana Journal of Physics Vol. 42 No.5 pp.421-425.
2.
Barnard R.W. and Kellogg C. (1980) Applications of Convolution
operators to Problems in univalent function theory. Michigan Mach. J.,
Vol. 27, pp 81-94.
3.
Jankins G.M. and Walts D.G. (1968), Spectral Analysis and its
Applications Holder Day, San Francisco.
4.
Shin K.G. and Mckay N.D. (1984) Open loop minimum time control
of mechanical manipulations and its applications, Proc. Amer. Contr.
Conf., San Diego, CA, pp. 1231-1236.
6.12.

Tables and Figures By the word Table, is meant tabulated data in the body of
the project report as well as in the appendices. All other material used in the body
of the Dissertation report and appendices such as charts, graphs, maps,
photographs and diagrams may be designated as figures.

A table or figure including caption should be accommodated within the

prescribed margin limits and appear on the page following the page where
their first reference is made.

Tables and figures on half page or less in length may appear on the same page
along with the text. However, they should be separated from the text both
above and below by triple spacing.

All tables and figures should be prepared on the same paper or material used
for the preparation of the rest of the project report.

For preparing captions, numerals, symbols or characters in the case of tables

or figures, the Computer should be used.

Two or more small tables or figures may be grouped if necessary in a single

page.

Whenever possible, the entire photograph(s) may be reproduced on a full

sheet of photographic paper.
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7.
7.1

Photographs, if any, should be included in the colour xerox form only. More
than one photograph can be included in a page.

Samples of Fabric, Leather, etc., if absolutely necessary may be attached

evenly in a page and fixed/pasted suitably and should be treated as figures.

TYPING INSTRUCTIONS
General
This section includes additional information for final typing of the project report.
Some information given earlier under Manuscript preparation shall also be
referred.
The impressions on the typed copies should be black in colour.
Uniformity in the font of letters in the same project report shall be observed.
A sub-heading at the bottom of a page must have atleast two full lines below it or
else it should be carried over to the next page.
The last word of any page should not be split using a hyphen.
One and a half spacing should be used for typing the general text.
Single spacing should be used for typing:
(i) Long Tables
(ii) Long quotations
(iii)
Foot notes
(iv)Multiline captions
(v) References
All quotations exceeding one line should be typed in an indented space the
indentation being 15mm from either margin.
Double spacing should be used for typing the Bonafide Certificate and
Acknowledgement.

7.2.

Chapters
The format for typing chapter headings, divisions headings and sub division
headings are explained through the following illustrative examples.
Chapter heading
Division heading
Division heading

: CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
: 1.1 OUTLINE OF PROJECT REPORT
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Sub-division heading

: 1.1.2. Literature review.

The word CHAPTER without punctuation should be centered 50mm down from
the top of the page. Two spaces below, the title of the chapter should be typed
centrally in capital letters. The text should commence 4 spaces below this title, the
first letter of the text starting 20mm, inside from the left hand margin.
The division and sub-division captions along with their numberings should be
left-justified. The typed material directly below division or sub-division heading
should commence 2 spaces below it and should be offset 20mm from the left hand
margin. Within a division or sub-division, paragraphs are permitted. Even
paragraph should commence 3 spaces below the last line of the preceding
paragraph, the first letter in the paragraph being offset from the left hand margin
by 20mm.
8.
8.1.

NUMBERING INSTRUCTIONS
Page Numbering
All pages numbers (whether it is in Roman or Arabic numbers) should be typed
without punctuation on the upper right hand corner 20mm from top with the last
digit in line with the right hand margin. The preliminary pages of the project
report (such as Title page, Acknowledgement, Table of Contents etc.) should be
numbered in lower case Roman numerals. The title page will be numbered as (i)
but this should not be typed. The page immediately following the title page shall
be numbered (ii) and it should appear at the top right hand corner as already
specified. Pages of main text, starting with Chapter 1 should be consecutively
numbered using Arabic numerals.

8.2

Numbering of Chapters, Divisions and Sub-Divisions

The numbering of chapters, divisions and sub-divisions should be done, using
Arabic numerals only and further decimal notation should be used for numbering
the divisions and sub-divisions within a chapter. For example, sub-division 4
under division 3 belonging to chapter 2 should be numbered as 2.3.4. The caption
for the sub-division should immediately follow the number assigned to it.
Every chapter beginning with the first chapter should be serially numbered using
Arabic numerals. Appendices included should also be numbered in an identical
manner starting with Appendix 1.

8.2.

Numbering of Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures appearing anywhere in the project report should bear
appropriate numbers. The rule for assigning such numbers is illustrated through
an example. Thus if as figure in Chapter 3, happens to be the fourth then assign
3.4 to that figure. Identical rules apply for tables except that the word Figures is
replaced by the word Table. If figures (or tables) appear in appendices then figure
3 in Appendix 2 will be designated as Figure A 2.3. If a table to be continued into
the next page this may be done, but no line should be drawn underneath an
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unfinished table. The top line of the table continued into the next page should, for
example read Table 2.1 (continued) placed centrally and underlined.
8.3.

Numbering of Equations
Equations appearing in each Chapter or Appendix should be numbered serially,
the numbering commencing a fresh for each Chapter or Appendix. Thus for
example, an equation appearing in Chapter 2, if it happens to be the eighth
equation in that Chapter should be numbered (2.8) thus:
C(s)
----R(s)

G1 G2
----------------1 + G1 G2 H

(2.8)

While referring to this equation in the body of the project report it should be
referred to as Equation (2.8).
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BINDING SPECIFICATIONS
Dissertation report submitted for M.B.S. / M.T.A. should be bound using flexible
cover of thick navy blue art paper. The spine for the bound volume should be of
black Calico of 20mm width. The cover should be printed in black letters and the
text for printing should be identical to what has been prescribed for the title page.

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Cover Page & Title Page (Appendix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 given)

EVALUATION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NERIA MINI HYDEL PROJECT OF

BHORUKA POWER CORPORATION LIMITED, BANGALORE
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Award of the Degree of
MASTER OF BUSINESS STUDIES
By
Ms.Archana Balakrishnan
Reg. No: 07TUMBS001
Under the guidance of
Dr.Muninarayanappa.M
Associate Professor of Commerce & Coordinator M.B.S. course
Bangalore University, Bangalore

School of Business Studies

Bangalore University
Bangalore 560 001
June 2014

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GUIDE CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this dissertation report entitled Evaluation of implementation of
the Neria mini hydel project of Bhoruka Power Corporation Ltd, Bangalore, which has
been submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of MBS Degree of Bangalore University, was
carried out by Ms.Archana Balakrishnan (Reg.No.07TUMBS001) under the guidance of
Dr.Muninarayanappa.M. This has not been submitted to any other University or Institution for
the award of any degree/diploma certificate.

Date:

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CO-ORDINATORS CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this dissertation report entitled Evaluation of implementation of
the Neria mini hydel project of Bhoruka Power Corporation Ltd, Bangalore, which has
been submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of MBS Degree of Bangalore University, was
carried out by Ms.Archana Balakrishnan (Reg.No.07TUMBS001) under the guidance of
Dr.Muninarayanappa.M. This has not been submitted to any other University or Institution for
the award of any degree/diploma certificate.

Date:

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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this Dissertation entitled Evaluation of implementation of the
Neria mini hydel project of Bhoruka Power Corporation Ltd, Bangalore submitted to the
Bangalore University in partial fulfillment of requirements of MBS Degree is a bonafide work
carried by me under the guidance of Dr.Muninarayanappa.M, Professor of Commerce &
Coordinator M.B.S. course, School of Business Studies, Bangalore University, Bangalore. This
has not been submitted earlier to any other University or Institution for the award of any
degree/diploma certificate or published any time before.

Date:

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Place:
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X semester, MBS
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A Comparative Study on Evaluation of implementation of the Neria mini hydel project of

Bhoruka Power Corporation Ltd, Bangalore
Table of Contents
CHAPTER NO.
PARTICULARS
PAGE NO.
1
Introduction
1.1 Management Information System: An Overview
1.2 Human Resource Information System in general
and with ref. to Software Industry across the World
1.3 Human Resource Information System in Indian
Software Industries.
2
Review of Literature & Design of the Study
2.1 Introduction
2.2.1 Literature with reference to HRIS
outside India
2.2.2 Literature with reference to HRIS in
India
2.2 Review of Literature
2.3 Statement of the Problem
2.4 Scope of the Study
2.5 Objectives of the Problem
2.6 Hypotheses
2.7 Operational Definitions of Concept
2.8 Methodology
2.9 Limitations of the Study
2.10 Chapter Scheme
3
Profile of the Software Industry
3.1 An Indian Overview
3.2 Profile of the Selected Organizations
4
Data Analysis and Interpretation
5
Summary of Findings, Suggestions and
Recommendations
5.1 Summary of Findings
5.2 Suggestions and Recommendations
6

Conclusion
6.1 Financial policy implications
6.2 Scope for further research
Bibliography
Appendices

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