PCP7H015 Business Regulatory Framework

Module – I
Overview of legal world, Law of Contract : Contract Act: Indian Contract Act, 1872, Agreement, Contract, Essentials of Contract (Offer & Acceptance, Consideration, Capacity of Parties, Free Consent, and Legality of Object), Performance and Discharge of Contract, Remedies for breach of contract, Quasi-Contract and Contingent Contract.

Module – II
Special Contracts: Contract of Agency: Mode of creating & revocation of Agency, Rights and Duties of Agents and Principals. Contract of Bailment (Rights and duties of Bailer and Bailee). Sales of Goods Act: Sale and agreement to sell, Condition and Warranty, Transfer of properties, Finder of Goods, Performance of Contract of sale, Unpaid seller and his rights.

Module- III
Consumer Protection Law: Consumers, Rights of Consumers, Redressal Machinery under the Act, Procedure of Complaint, Relief available to the consumers, Procedure of filing appeal, Powers of Redressal agencies, Unfair Trade Practices. Overview of Competition Act,

Module – IV
Company Law:Indian Companies Act 2013, Salient features and Classes of Company. Lifting of corporate veil, Procedure of Incorporation and Certificate of commencement of business, Memorandum and Articles of Association, Doctrine of ultra vires and Indoor Management, Management of Company: Qualification, Appointment of Directors, Company Meetings, Resolutions, Winding-up of Companies and their modes.

Reference:
1. Business Regulatory Framework–Mohapatra and Patra,HPH
2. Business Law – N D Kapoor, SChand
3. Business Law – Pathak, Tata Mc GrawHill
4. Legal frame work,Oxford.

PCP7H011 INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTION

Module – I:Introduction- Introduction to Management: Concept, Definition, Functions; Levels of Management, Skills and Roles of a Manager; Management Process, School of Management thoughts: Pre-Scientific, Classical, Behavioral and Modern; Types of business organizations, merits and demerits, Public Organizations.

Module – II: Planning- Nature & Elements of Planning, Planning Types, Steps, MBO, MBE, Planning Premises. Decision making process, Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty, Participation in Decision making, Creativity in decision making

Module – III: Organizing and Staffing- Formal and Informal, Line and Staff Relationship, Centralization Vs. Decentralization, Basic issues in Organizing, Work Specialization, Chain of Command, Delegation, Span of Management, Principles of organizing; Organization Structure for Departmentalization.

Module – IV: Directing and Controlling: Process, Standards and Bench Marking; Control techniques, Factors influencing control effectiveness, Co-ordination- Principles of Co-ordination; Inter-Dependence.

Reference Books
1. Management Theory & Practice; SubbaRao P &HimaBindu, HPH
2. Principles and Practices of Management – Kaul, Vikas
3. Management, Robbins, Coulter &Vohra, Pearson.
4. Management: Text and Cases-VSP Rao, Excel Books

Intellectual Property Rights

Module I:
Introduction to Intellectual property: Introduction, types of intellectual property, international organizations, agencies and treaties, importance of intellectual property rights. Trade Marks: Purpose and function of trade marks, acquisition of trade mark rights, protectable matter, selecting and evaluating trade mark, trade mark registration processes.

Module II:
Law of copy rights: Fundamental of copy right law, originality of material, rights of reproduction, rights to perform the work publicly, copy right ownership issues, copy right registration, notice of copy right, international copy right law. Law of patents: Foundation of patent law, patent searching process, ownership rights and transfer

Module III:
Trade Secrets: Trade secrete law, determination of trade secrete status, liability for misappropriations of trade secrets, protection for submission, trade screte litigation. Unfair competitiion: Misappropriation right of publicity, False advertising.

Module IV:
New development of intellectual property: new developments in trade mark law; copy right law, patent law, intellectual property audits. International overview on intellectual property, international - trade mark law, copy right law, international patent law, international development in trade secrets law.

TEXT BOOKS & REFERENCES:
1. Intellectual property right, Deborah, E. Bouchoux, cengage learning.
2. Intellectual property right - Unleashing the knowledge economy, prabuddhaganguli, Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd.

ARCHITECTURE & TOWN PLANNING

Module – I
Principles of architectural design – primary elements, form, space, organization, circulation, proportion and scale, ordering principles.
Functional planning of buildings: Planning, designing and construction, General building requirements, Permit and Inspection (as per the National building Code).

Module – II
Town Planning ; Evolution of towns : History and trends in town planning; origin and growth, Historical development of town planning in ancient valley civilizations; Objects and necessary of town planning; Surveys and analysis of a town; New Concepts in town planning : Garden city movement, Linear city and Satellite city concepts, Neighborhood Planning.

Module – III
Planning Principles, Practice and Techniques: Elements of City plan, Estimating future needs, Planning standards.

Module – IV
Zoning: its definition, procedure and districts, height and bulk zoning, F.A.R., Master Plan; Concepts of urban planning , design and landscaping.