Preamble: Change is permanent and rapid changes in technology, approach, attitude and other tangible/intangible conditions are bringing more and more uncertainty in business environments. Due to changes, the task of managing is becoming more & more complex and demanding. Key to business survival in the future lies in developing human resource that can effectively respond to rapidly unfolding challenges of tomorrow. Realizing the challenge, KASBIT, precisely to cater to future needs, has developed and designed KASBIT Executive MBA Program (EMBA)
 

EMBA: The EMBA program is intended for entrepreneurs and mid-career managers who can take on greater challenges and make an impact on the productivity of their organizations. These persons can leverage their work experience through an exceptional management education program in the form of EMBA. The program is structured to enable busy managers to acquire management education while fulfilling regular professional obligations. The program is spread over 26 to 31 months intensive studies and involves about 25 months regular full-time academic activity supplemented by distance learning. In a semester of 8/9 weeks duration a student has to register minimum in 1 and maximum in 2 courses to retain admission.
 

Special Features of the program: EMBA Courses are carefully chosen to provide both depth and breadth of a thorough, exceptional management program. While starting with basics of each functional area, the courses will quickly ramp up to advanced levels in order to maximize learning of a group of highly experienced managers. Program will help participants to develop useful knowledge at operational and strategic levels in each business area.

 EMBA appeals to the working professionals and senior executives because of class timetable, which schedules all classes on weekends and other holidays thus making it easier for the students to be educated and trained without disturbing their office routine.

 The other proposition comes from EMBA’s balanced syllabus, which has been formulated keeping in view the current environment surrounding corporate sector and the weak areas of the skilled labor of Pakistan. The syllabus focuses on all business and management functions.  A mix of all the major disciplines required to manage efficient and effective business concerns is thus available having included in the course outlines.

KASBIT’s highly skilled regular & visiting handpicked faculty is another strong point. The faculty is continuously involved in various training and development exercises to keep themselves updated with latest trends, theories, procedures, changes and techniques that are frequently evolving throughout the world.

 EMBA Courses are carefully chosen to provide both depth and breadth of a thorough, exceptional management education & development program. While starting with basics of each functional area, the courses will quickly ramp up to advanced levels in order to maximize learning of a group of highly experienced managers/executives. Program will help participants to develop useful knowledge at operational and strategic levels in each business area.
 

CURRICULUM:
  To qualify for EMBA degree participant has to earn a minimum of 69 credit hours & qualifying CGPA; details are listed below:
 

● 19 courses of 3 credit hours each: Listing with syllabus appended below.

● 2 elective courses of 3 credit hours each for specialization in the field of Management, Marketing or Finance.

● Project of 6 credit hours and comprehensive exam.

● Overall minimum qualifying cumulative grade point average of 2.5
 

1. EMBA (----) Computer Concepts (CC): The course introduces basics re computers & information technology. The topics include: essential basics about computer systems generation, computer hardware, computer software, central processing units, input & output, storage & multimedia, networking, database management systems, programming & languages, system analysis & design, operating systems, management information systems, expert system and artificial intelligence, virtual reality.


2. EMBA---- Effective Communication Methods (ECM): ECM course concentrates on developing and/or augmenting students’ ability to communicate effectively and efficiently in all work settings. The syllabus covers three major components of communication: non-verbal, verbal and written. The course grooms participants to handle all communication tasks in their current as well as future job assignments. Course conducting methodology that includes Lectures, exercises, discussions, cases, role-playing and use of audio-visual aids help participants improve their communication skills.


3. EMBA---- Financial Accounting (FA): Accounting is known to be “Language of Business”, to communicate effectively, and to take prompt decisions knowledge of applicable known language is most essentially required. Students must know the vocabulary, perspective and bias that underline accounting processes and reports. “Financial Accounting” course provides an understanding of accounts preparation and analysis that develop skills in students for analysis and interpretation of financial statements.


4. EMBA---- Managing Persons in Organizations (MPO): All level Managers in “Organization’s Hierarchy” and in all “Management Functions” have to manage themselves, their superiors, their subordinates and peers in order to achieve Organizational and Management goals. MPO course brings together knowledge and skills expansion in areas of “Self Management through individual personality appraisal”, “preferences & development needs”, “conflict management”, “negotiation skills”, “building & maintaining teams”, “managing superiors & diversity”, and “actuation in the work place”.


5. EMBA---- Managerial Accounting (MA): Developed on the technical foundations of Financial Accounting, this course contemplates on use of accounting information for decision and control in an organization. This course teaches different costing methods and their use in decision-making including use of management accounting information for planning and performance evaluation.


6. EMBA---- Management Science &/or Operations Research (MS/OR): This course will introduce participants to new concepts, new ideas, new attitudes, and new approaches particularly scientific management to the aide of Management. The course teaches “Mathematical Techniques”, “Mathematical Model Building & Manipulation”, “Computer-based Mathematical Modeling techniques” that will enable participants to make better decisions by intelligent use of data. Although course focus remains on general-purpose modeling using spreadsheets, yet, tools like simulation, linear programming, regression analysis and decision trees will be covered.


7. EMBA---- Methods in Business Research (MBR): The course deals with the tools and techniques of scientific research methods and their application to Business Management. Topics include formulation of problem & related hypothesis, development of research design, sampling techniques, construction of questionnaires, interviewing techniques, analysis of data, construction & solution of models and use of primary & secondary data sources.


8. EMBA---- Managerial Economics (ME): The ME course will focus on providing business managers with a working understanding of the national economy. Topics include theory of costs and production, theories of market equilibrium, determinants of national income and the principles of national income accounting, theories of employment and inflation, theories of trade and balance of payments and monetary and fiscal policies and strategies. Moreover ME course will cover topics in micro & macro economics which will help participants in organizational economic decision-making and management.


9. EMBA---- Marketing Management (MM): Marketing main function is to aid exchange of value in the marketplace. For real Marketing Management present and potential managers need to understand, both, how to create a value proposition and how to deliver it most profitably to customers. Actual knowledge of customers’ needs, competitors’ competencies, intermediaries’ actuation, and finally organizations’ own proficiency is essential for successful marketing plans. MM course covers all the key aspects of marketing management by using best textbooks, practices and case studies available from Pakistan, developing and the more developed countries.


10. EMBA---- Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM): This course introduces the key terms, main conceptual framework and analytical tools essential to know services manufacturing operations and distribution businesses. Some of the basic topics covered are process planning and control, inventory and quality management, and developing improvement in systems. OSCM also covers important elements of supply chain design, planning and operations to enhance the performance of the businesses.


11. EMBA---- Business Applications of Information Technology (BAIT): BAIT course focuses on managerial aspects of IT and related systems with special reference to local environments Topics include: Impact of the information systems on business at strategic and operational levels; planning and organizing the information processing functions; evaluating and selecting systems; implementing new information systems, and the role of internet/web technologies and related business models.


12. EMBA---- Marketing Strategy (MS): MS is a critical managerial activity today and it is because of forces of open market, competition & access to information and organizations becoming more customers oriented. MS course uses cases and readings to explore frameworks for developing competitive marketing strategies. Major course content is marketing strategy simulation, which requires students to deal with shifting markets and evolving competitive challenges in a dynamic simulated competitive environment.


13. EMBA---- Managing Organizations (MO): MO course is extension of MPO course and it focuses on organizational processes and macro organizational features central to effective management of organizations. The course topics include leadership and influence, power and politics, empowerment, and coaching, typologies, options and issues related to organizational design. The course also covers the topics of culture of work organizations and performance planning, evaluation and employee development, rewards system and their role in performance management.


14. EMBA---- Managerial Finance (MF): This course educates theoretical and practical issues in financial decision-making in terms of underlying economic principles. Topics include capital budgeting decisions, financial structure and dividend policies and other topics within the context of financial markets and risk/return trade-off.


15. EMBA---- Business Law, Tax Management & Corporate Governance (BLTCG): Law governs business. Therefore, insight of business law is essential for all businesspersons or managers. This course introduces participants with fundamental legal principles of business law, taxation & corporate governance and topical Pakistani issues such as Privatization, WTO, NAB, Banking laws, Telecommunication Law and Cyber law have been made part of this course for knowledge, deliberations and practice.


16. EMBA---- Business Ethics (BE): BE introduces course participants to Quranic perspective of Business, Organization & Management. How ethical issues confronting the contemporary business world are to be handled in the light of providential directives. An analytical approach is adopted in deciding about ethical issues from an Islamic perspective. Topics include interest-free financial system, insurance, unethical marketing practices, the role of media, value systems of employees and employers, gender issues and social harmony.


17. EMBA---- Corporate Finance (CF): Finance is an important “Business Function” and its knowledge is primary for running any organization. This course covers strategic aspects of corporate finance. It blends theoretical and actual aspects of investment and financing decisions of firms. In CF we learn how financial strategy, in conjunction with overall corporate strategies adds value to a firm. Topics include long-term investments decisions, cost of capital, valuation of stocks & bonds, capital structure, dividend policies, company valuations and mergers/acquisitions. In addition, the course will also cover the role of derivative securities such as options, forwards, futures and swaps in making financial decisions.


18. EMBA---- Corporate Strategy (CS): CS provides learning opportunities for conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of industry structure and formulation and implementation of competitive strategies. Topics include industry analysis, vertical and horizontal integration, diversification, mergers and acquisitions, alliances and joint ventures, globalization, and corporate strategies in emerging markets. Present and past policy formulation and strategic management practices and methodologies are also integral part of the course.


19. EMBA---- Internal Audit (IA): This is introduction of a new discipline and subject knowledge being statutory in nature is essentially required for all managements and organization in Pakistan. Certain advanced portions and practices of tax management and finer elements of corporate governance will also be components and contents of this course. Although its knowledge and practice and true implantation and implementation as per directives of corporate law enforcement agencies in Pakistani organization culture is mandatory now. Still formal and informal education and practice in corporate culture of Pakistan has not begun so far. In times to come it will be essentially required for all governing management to have complete knowledge of Internal Audit and have sufficient trained manpower in this field.
 

Participant’s Performance Assessment: Participants in each course will be assessed using appropriate instruments, which include individual and group assignments, exercises, projects, class participation and examinations of various kinds. The nature of the assessment tools will vary with each course.

Project Report Each group (maximum=2) or individual will be required to work on a project and write a report under supervision of faculty with the help of organization/s on which participant is researching. This will help participants to integrate what they learned during EMBA and apply to an issue concerning organizations. It will give the participants an opportunity to provide a tangible benefit to even their own organization, alongside ongoing benefits of applying the knowledge acquired from EMBA to their responsibilities at work. Those students who opt not to work on a project will have to complete another 2 elective courses with permission of Dean Faculty of Management Sciences.

Grading Plan & Examinations: In all situations and contingencies as a uniform standard maximum marks remain 100. Depending on nature of course and teaching methodology the faculty may allocate and allot different weights to different components of the grading plan. The grading plan will be as follows:

   a. Final examination:                            40 marks)

   b. Mid-term examination                       30 marks) 100 marks (semester course work)

   c. Quizzes, Home assignments, Reports:     30 marks)

   d. Project as prescribed by faculty:       200 marks (Dean &/or Head of Department)

   e. Comprehensive examination:                    100 marks (Dean & Faculty)

Flexible Grading: The faculty, for semester course work, may have two mid term exams and count best of two toward final award of grades. In advanced course like Marketing Strategy, Corporate Strategy since “case method” is used and report writing is mandatory, the following or discretionary grading method depending on nature of course or compulsions due to change may be adopted:

   a. Final examination:                                      40 marks}

   b. Mid-term examination or case studies:       20 marks} 90 marks (semester work)

   c. Report Writing & Presentations:                  30 marks}

   d. If needed the faculty may give home assignments, readings or take quizzes &
       may assign upto 10 marks or else add these 10 marks to final exam or mid-term.

Exemptions, Credit Transfers & Challenge Test: Participants may claim exemptions but in certain situations they will have to appear in a challenge test after payment of prescribed fee by KASBIT. The following may be the situations and treatment will be awarded as mentioned against each situation:

a.   Evaluation committee will evaluate each case and its decision shall be final. If the student has qualified in a subject from accredited foreign or local academic institution with 65% or above marks, the student would be granted transfer credits without payment of any fee. However, if the student has qualified in less than 65% marks, he/she will have to appear in challenge test on payment of challenge test fee.

b.  If the student has qualified from a non-accredited institution he/she will have to appear in challenge test on payment of full fee and must obtain 65% marks for exemption in a particular or equivalent course.

c.  If a student cannot attend a particular course: He/she may apply for exemption and challenge test. On normal payment of tuition fee the student will be allowed to appear in a special challenge test of 4 hours; plus the student will have to submit assigned home work and other assignment as per prescription by Head of Department on approval of Dean Faculty of Management Sciences. In this situation absence from classes shall remain condoned and the student can study the entire course in his/her own time and appear in the required challenge test as per arrangements, procedures and rules in vogue.

d.   If attendance becomes short: Student may opt for challenge test. On case-to-case basis student with normal tuition fee will have to pay 50% of exemption fee. Also if needed the concerned student may be asked to complete certain extra assignments/ special projects.    

 
Attendance: As per international standards students will make all endeavors to be 100% present in tutorial sessions; no relaxation allowed. However in extreme emergencies and special circumstances absences may be condoned due to genuine reasons and circumstances beyond the control of students. The absences may be condoned on case-to-case basis with or without fine imposition by the competent KASBIT authority.

Discipline: Students shall have to observe and obey all academic and administrative rules, regulations and systems in letter and spirit. Any violation and/or deviation from stated rules will make student liable for punitive action, which may include from imposing monetary fines, other academic punishment to expulsion from the institute. Even all students will be bound to adhere to newly evolved accepted and implemented rules. KASBIT has the right to change any rule at any time, which shall be binding on all concerned.    

Admission to EMBA is based on merit only. The objective is to select persons whose intellectual capacity and proven record of accomplishment in their respective jobs best qualify them to lead at a senior management level. To be considered for an Executive MBA place at KASBIT applicants will be assessed on the following criteria:

a. Good academic record with at least a bachelor's degree.

b. Work experience (at least 6 years of full-time experience with 2/3 years of experience
at a managerial position).

c. Admission Test Scores (Master degree holders, Engineers, Doctors and Lawyers will be exempted from appearing in the admission test).

d. Interview performance of the student.
 

Admission Process Admission Committee will review all applications to ensure that candidates meet admission criteria. Only eligible candidates will be called for interview. Committee headed by Dean Faculty of Management Sciences with all Head of Departments as its members will be fully empowered to reject any candidate without assigning any reason or condones acceptable shortcomings in a candidate.


Course Equivalents

There are or may be courses which are exactly similar to existing approved MBA courses and already have a name. We shall have new names for EMBA for the purpose of distinction. Nevertheless a committee appointed by Dean will examine interchange and equivalence of courses and would permit students to attend courses in lieu offered in other programs or allow credits for EMBA degree for courses completed under other programs or as certificate courses.


Certificate Courses

Irrespective of educational qualifications experience or age all citizens of Pakistan are allowed to attend courses as “certificate course participants only” in any KASBIT Program without formal admission; they will have to pay usual tuition fee and other charges if levied but not the admission fee. Depending on candidate’s need he/she may join any graduate/postgraduate course. If student obtains 70% marks and above in any course that he/she attended as “certificate course participants only”, he/she will earn exemption in that course in any degree program provided he/she is or become eligible for admission to that degree program as per prescribed criteria.


Special Academic Proviso: Students registered in other programs on grant of special permission will be allowed to register in EMBA elective courses if class size permits and students otherwise qualify to attend any course after having done pre-requisite and completing formalities. General conditions discussed and recommended hereinabove in this proposal shall be deemed to be applicable and approved for other programs also. All principles, provisions, rules and regulations recommended herein will apply mutatis mutandi to all other programs. If needed in students’ interest approved provisions of all other programs, those are in force and which benefit EMBA and remove obstacles for smooth functioning will be applicable to EMBA program.
 

FINANCE Major:

• Analysis of Financial Statements

• Investment Analysis

• Project Appraisal

• Security Analysis

• Intermediate Accounting

• Portfolio Management

• Financial Institutions

•  Advanced Accounting

• Corporate Finance

GENERAL MANAGEMENT Major:

• Personal Management

• Organization Behavior

• Entrepreneurship

• Total Quality Management

• Supply Chain Management

• Production Management

• International Management

• Organization Strategy & Effectiveness

• Comparative Management Systems

• Change Management

• Cultural & Ethical Values

• Business Policy

• Public Policy

• Operations Management

• Operations Research

• Procurement and/or Purchase Management

• Public Sector Management

• Taxation Management

• Development Economics

• Corporate Governance

MARKETING Major

• Personal Selling

• Product Management

• Brand Management

• Advertising

• Promotion & Publicity

• Sales Management

• Sales Force Management

• Service Marketing

• Strategic Marketing

• International Marketing

• Industrial Marketing

• Consumer Behavior

• Export Marketing

• Media Planning

• Direct Marketing & Sales Promotion

• Internet Marketing

• Marketing Research

• Technical Writing

• E-Business Systems

• Cyber Marketing

• Business System of Pakistan

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Major

• Employee Development & Career Development

• Performance Appraisal & Management

• Salary & Compensation

• Personnel Psychology

• Strategic Human Resource Management

• Recruitment & Selection Techniques

• Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations

• Public Relations

• Career Counseling

• Organization Development

• Human Resource Accounting

• Skills Based Employment of Human Resource

• Human Resource Management

• Training & Development

• Career Planning & Personal Objectives

• Human Resource Management in Commonweal organizations