UNIVERSE

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

Summer Training Project Preparation Guidelines for Students

Perusing MBA

Prepared by

Dr. Yogesh Upadhyay

Director - Management Studies
Summer Training Project Preparation Guidelines for Students Perusing
MBA

The Objective:

The overall objective of summer training is to offer a practical

exposure to the students of management discipline concerning real business
environment. The intent is to provide an arrangement whereby students are
able to relate the classroom learning with the practice. During summer
training students are expected to:

1. Observe keenly business practices in real business environment and

calibrate the Input with their classroom learning.
2. Using classroom learning to resolve issues being faced by business
entity where he is pursuing his summer training. This helps a student
to further test his learning on the practical side of the things.
3. Learn to attend issues in hand with a scientific temper. They are
expected to use their knowledge concerning research methodology to
understand some important issues being faced by enterprises and
study. analyse & synthesize the same in order to offer a feasible
resolve.
4. Identify an opportunity of summer training that matches with the
specialization that he intends to pursue.

What they are required to do at the Summer Training:

1. First of al they need to internalize the working environment of the
business entity where they have been placed to peruse summer training.
2. They should take a stock of what they are expected to do during their
summer training assignment. For the same, they should take few sittings
with their superior to whom he is expected to report.
3. At the same time a student is expected to keenly observe the environment
and underpin the broad issues where he could contribute in offering
resolve. He should keep in mind that his/her areas of interest should sink
in with the specialization that he wishes to undertake during the next
semester.
4. Few of the students may find that the job allotted during summer training
does not has any scope of working on any relevant issue. In that case also
the onus will be on the student to get back to his research mentor and try
to identify an appropriate area for his project work.
5. Whole design of the work will have to be ratified by the research
mentor of the student. Any work conducted without approval of his
research mentor will not be evaluated when the same is submitted to
Faculty of Management.
6. The student will have to take a break of 04-05 days from his/her summer
training in order to access electronic data base of articles available with
the institute in order to develop theoretical base of issue that he/she is
attending.
7. After completion of his training a student will submit a preliminary
report to the business organization. He is supposed to work in detail on
the data collected during summer training when he is back in the
Campus. Every student has a facility to work on PASW 18.0 installed in
campus to analyse the data.
8. He is expected to maintain discipline at the business entity where he will
pursue his summer training.

Format:

Title:_______________________________________
The first title you arrive at need not be the final title. You can change e as
you progress during the project.

Contents
1. Industry Profile

You can use EBSCO available at your Institute and Google to

get the same.

2. Organizational Profile
You need to collect and present information concerning
development of the organization in various functional areas - finance,
marketing, human resource management etc. You need to emphaise more on
the functional area to which your study is connected. You will be required to
collect information regarding the organisation from all the secondary sources
available in the organisation where you are undergoing your summer
training as well as from the web.

3. Need for the Study

 Here you need to rationalise your study. You have to underpin the
relevance of the study for organisation in which you are serving. Specifically
you need to indicate in which way your study help in formulating,
understanding and offering solution to the present study.

4. Literature Survey.

The intent of this part is to give details of at least 20 studies conducted

in this area. For example, if your study is related to job satisfaction, you hav-
e" to details twenty similar studies conducted in different organisations.
Details concerning such studies can be collected from EBSCO available at
your institute.

5. Research Methodology

o Objectives of the Study You have to state the objective of your study in
following manner:
• Main objective (it should be only one or at the most two);

• Supplementary objective can be more than two but not more than
five)

o Hypothesis
o Types of Research Design
o Sample Design
o Sample Unit
o Sample Frame
o Type of Sampling Method
o Sample Size
o Data ( primary and secondary)
o Research Instrument - Here you have to specify questionnaire by
which you will be measuring variable in case of marketing and HR
studies. For example, in case you are measuring customer satisfaction,
you need to mention as to who has developed that questionnaire.

You have to mention it like this - Customer Satisfaction will be

measured using the scale by Mary and John (2000). This means that
two authors whose sir name is Mary and John have developed this
questionnaire. Don't forget to put its complete reference at the end of
Chapter.
o Analysis tools used - Statistical techniques used should be mentioned here.
You also are required to state the statistical analysis software that you use.
Most likely you will be using P ASW 18.0 available in the you ,labs, you
can mention the same.

6. Analysis of the study

Here you need to present the analysis which you have done using
software. The analysis you have to present should preferable be objective-
wise or hypotheses-wise. You can use tables and graphs to depict your
results. You are advised to paste the output in the same form that you have
received after running the analysis beneath the table you are required to
explain the output put in the table.
7. Findings and Suggestions

In this chapter, you have to reproduce findings from your earlier

chapter. Based on your findings you have to offer your solutions that will
require an input of creativity from your side. Your suggestions will actually
reflect upon your understanding of organization and problem that you tried
to attend to.
(04 pages)
08. Appendices

This will not be a part of chapter scheme. Under this heading you
have to append questionnaire that you used to collect data. You can also
append balance sheets or other financial details on which your study is
based.

09. Bibliography

Here you have to state all the resources that you referred to complete
your study. Such resources may include books, articles, reports, websites
etc. List of websites should be given separately.

Remarks

You can't copy from anywhere till you accredit the source. In case you
are writing conclusion or finding of any publication in your own word, you
are required to accredit it as as follows:
A: Ram (1980) has proved.. Empirical evidence (Bhardwaj, 1980; Ghosh.
1991; Saha 2003)

B: Reference should be given on a separate page doubled spaced at the end

of the paper. They should carry the surname of the author. Followed by the
other names. year of publications, title of the paper/book in quotes, name of
the journal. place of publications
and publisher's name (in case of book).

Example: Book Reference should be sen., A.K. (1991). Contemporary issues

in HRD, New Delhi Sage Publication.

For Journal: Ghosh, P. K. & Walter, T.P. (2003). Work Environment in the
Banking Organization, Journal of Applied Psychology, 5 , 123-124

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:

• There might be many project reports available at the organisation. In
no case you should try to use it as your project. Stringent action
against you will be taken if such instance come to our notice. We can
also use some software to identify such cases of disparaging.
• You don't have a liberty to take breaks during your summer training.
There are no breaks in summer training.
• You are expected to be submissive during your training period. Don't
be a part of any scuffle at the organisation.
• Don't try to extract any proprietary information from the organisation.
• Go by the time schedule of the organization.
• Be brief with your supervisor. You need to appreciate that he is an
employee of the organisation with definite time line. You also need to
use the time resources optimally.
• You have to submit a preliminary report at the organisation at the end
of training and complete it using state of art statistical tools and
literature available at EBSCO, after your return at the Institute.

CHAPTER SECHEME
:
Acknowledgement
Declaration
Certificate by company
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1 - Industry Profile
2 Chapter - Organisational Profile
3 Chapter - Need for the Study
4 Chapter - Literature Survey
5 Chapter - Research Methodology
6 Chapter - Analysis of the Study
7 Chapter - Findings and suggestions
Bibliography
Appendix

PRINTING DETAILS:
PRINTING DETAILS:
Typing - One side Line Spacing - 2.0
Page Margins - 1.5" left, 1.0" Right, 1.0" Top and 0.5" Bottom
Page Size - A4
Font - Times New Roman
Binding - Hard Bound
IMPORTANT DATES:

Start Date of Summer Training: May 15, 2010

Finish Date of Summer Training: June 30, 2010
Date of Submission of Project Report at the Institute: August 31, 20 10
FORMAT OF TITLE PAGE:

UNIVERSE

ITM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

ITM UNIVERSE, GWALIOR (M.P.)

SUMMER TRAINING PROJECT REPORT

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF H.R. STRATEGIES

IN
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS
IN GWALIOR REGION

FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT

FOR
THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION

SUBMITTED TO

ITM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT,

ITM UNIVERSE, GWALIOR (M.P.)

SUBMITTED BY:

M.B.A.II SEM.
(BATCH 2009·2011)

Website: www.itmuniverse.in
Format of Decleraton

DECLERATON

I, hereby, undertake that the project titled, “A Comparative Analysis of he

Effectiveness of H.R. Strategies in private and Public Sector Banks in
Gwalior Region," has been undertaken by. me and is an original project.

The findings of the study are based on the information collected by me

during my summer training.

Ms/Mr. XXXXXXX
MBA II Semester
ITM-SOM, Gwalior