Courses Course Descriptions

1. Remedial Courses (Non-Credit)

LC 4003 Advanced Integrated English Language Skills Development
Course contents and teaching activities focus on the integrated skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing with particular emphasis on academic writing. Students will also work in small groups, practicing paper presentation techniques, précis writing, and research writing.

LC 6000 Advanced Reading and Writing in English for Graduate Studies
This course reviews essential reading and writing strategies required to read and write academic English. Course contents include work on sentence structures, vocabulary, and recognition of major thought-relationships in paragraphs, as well as practice in reading and writing academic English.

2. Core courses

DM8001 Theory of Management
This course examines the intellectual history of management theory in both business and the public sector. Management philosophies, theories, and techniques are examined by doctoral students in management. Participants will acquire a broad and deep understanding of management concepts, values, and ethics at play in management.

DM8002 Econometrics
The course aims to provide the student with a solid knowledge of the most commonly used econometric estimation techniques. The course allows students to bridge theory about economic behavior both at the macro and the micro levels and measurement that is the quantification of some observable phenomena. The contents of the course included statistical instruments, probability and inference, and apply them to the workhorse of econometrics, i.e., the linear regression model, panel data methods, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations models, regression discontinuity designs, and matching methods.

DM8003 Theory of Human Capital Management
Human capital management (HCM) is an approach to employee staffing that perceives people as assets (human capital) whose current value can be measured and whose future value can be enhanced through investment. This course provides empirical research and economic theory related to human capital management (Personnel Economics) and organization management issues such as recruitment, compensation, promotions, performance evaluation, selection, training, and knowledge management (KM). The course provides a rigorous theoretical framework and the statistical tools needed to analyze human capital policies under varying institutional and competitive environments. It highlights the importance of information and incentives in the modern economy.

DM8004 Strategy and Sustainability Management
This course allows students to engage in research that addresses fundamental problems related to management strategy formulation, its implementation by managers, and firms’ responses to their environment and competitors, with a focus on innovation. It combines strong theory development with rigorous empirical methods to develop cutting-edge research in the important question of strategic management, including competitive strategies, innovation, intellectual property, non-market strategy, and global strategy. The course aims to draw knowledge from multiple disciplines, including engineering, management and sustainability sciences, students gain knowledge on underlying principles and visions as well as theory and tools that support the formulation and assessment of resource-efficient and circular measures.

DM8005 Seminar in International Management
This course discusses a series of influential and innovative studies in empirical international management research. International Business (and the study of Multinational Corporations) is an interdisciplinary field that spans a number of different theoretical and empirical approaches in international contexts. Seminar discussions will focus on identifying and developing interesting research questions raised by this interdisciplinary literature, which offers many opportunities for systematic empirical study. The discussion will focus on different schools of thought, approaches, and techniques, as well as the use of data analysis in different managerial contexts.

DM8006 Budgeting and Financial Management
Budgeting and financial management concepts and techniques are essential to the successful operation of government, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. This course includes the theory and practice of entire budgeting process, including budget formulation and execution, budget strategies such as activity-based costing, and revenue forecasting. Financial management and decision-making in terms of cash management, capital budgeting, and debt financing are also in focus

DM8007 Managerial Decision Making
Development programs address various issues for both public and private sectors, such as company investment plan, poverty reduction, demographic governance, crisis prevention and recovery, environmental and energy programs, and human development. This course deals with research topics in which management tools are used to satisfy development goals. It covers the coordination and management processes of development programs and projects. The dominant paradigm in development management is intervention in the form of a transfer of aid by an external agency/donor and oversight of the related project cycle, i.e., project identification, project planning (formulation and appraisal), implementation and monitoring, and evaluation. Research to provide a structured method of project cycle management for development programs will be discussed in class with the objective of identifying strategies for the optimum use of limited resources in manpower, finance, material, and time, as well as determining how to make an effective contribution to the clarification and reformation of policies and objectives.

3. Research Courses

DM8101 Advanced Research Methods in Management
This course provides an in-depth method of preparing and conducting research in management. It is an introduction to doctoral research methods in management that aims to enhance a student’s skills and body of knowledge of how to conduct research, including ideas that students can work on toward their dissertation. Basic issues involved in conducting empirical research for publication in scholarly management journals will be examined. Framing of research questions, research structure, theory development, the initial choices involved in research design, data collection, and basic concerns in empirical testing, and research ethics will be discussed during the course. This course also considers these issues in the context of different modes of empirical research (including experimental, survey, qualitative, archival, and simulation).

DM8102 Quantitative Research Methods in Management
Quantitative research methods use applied statistics, which include statistical methods and statistical tools and techniques. The course also introduces applied econometrics by covering the theory and application of multivariate estimators and the linear, nonlinear, and structural models for cross-sectional, panel data, limited dependent variables, and time series.

DM8103 Qualitative Research Methods in Management
This course introduces students to a range of qualitative research methods and theoretical perspectives, with particular emphasis on the role that theory plays across the different stages of the research process. It examines the underlying philosophical assumptions of qualitative research methods and the implications that these assumptions have for framing a research problem, data collection, analysis, writing, and other dissemination strategies. It also provides some basic opportunities to attain practical, hands-on experience with developing research questions, techniques for data collection, and data analysis.

DM9900 Dissertation
All candidates for the Ph.D. degree must have an advisor, who can be either fulltime or visiting faculty of the International College of NIDA. The advisor is considered the primary reader of the dissertation. The defense must be open to the academic community of the university and be publicly announced at least one week beforehand. The Dissertation Committee is appointed by the Program Committee. The Defense Committee consists of at least three persons. The outside members may include graduate faculty from other NIDA schools or from outside NIDA, in which case the member must meet equivalent academic standards.

To qualify for the Doctor of Philosophy in Management, candidates must meet the following requirements:

1) Successfully complete all assigned program courses and the pass a qualifying examination, as determined by ICO NIDA.
2) Pass a qualifying examination upon completion of all coursework within two years after admission. However, in exceptional circumstances, an extension may be requested and granted at the discretion of the President. The qualifying exam includes a broad inquiry into the student’s preparedness to conduct research and provides an opportunity to discuss the proposed dissertation.
3) Pass a Ph.D. dissertation proposal examination, complete a Ph.D. dissertation, and pass an oral examination on the Ph.D. dissertation within six years after admission. Doctoral candidates are required to write a Ph.D. dissertation proposal and a Ph.D. dissertation.