Introduction: Concept of Entrepreneurship - need and scope for entrepreneurship - Entrepreneur and society - qualities of entrepreneur
Risks, relevance and benefits of small scale Industry - definition of tiny, small ancillary industry - prevailing industrial policy of SSI -
incentives and benefits of SSI units.
Motivation theories - Maslow, McCllend - Motivation model - need, want, motive and behaviour - attitude towards work - self
assessment and goal setting - Achievement, motivation and behaviour measurement, SWOT analysis, TA analysis - Stress and conflict
management; coping with uncertainty; creativity and innovation.
Project identification and formulation: Sources of information - opportunity guidance - choice of technology and its evaluation;
consumer behaviour; market survey and research; demand and resource based industry- servicing industry - import substitution-
Technoeconomic feasibilty assessment - shortlisting, preliminary project report, detailed project report, assessing viability and
feasibility of a report.
Forms of business organisations/ownership - formation of a Company - procedures and formalities for setting up of new industrysources
of information to contact for what and where - subsidies and concessions for SSI - role of State and Central Government
Agencies in promotion of Small Scale Industry. Sickness and nursing of sickness in SSI.
Labour Laws - The Factories Act 1948, Minimum Wages Act - Payment of Wages 1936, Workmen Compensation Act, 1923.
Taxation - State and Central - Concessions.
Introduction to e-business; EDI and e-commerce; EDI standard, implementation and Tools; e-commerce imperatives,
e-commerce applications: I - Markets, Customer care, Vendor Management and Extended supply chain management; security aspects -
cryptography, digital signature, digital watermarking, secured socket layers, understanding threats to security, securing internet
connections, Firewall techniques, electronic payment systems - ATM model, Payment Models, credit card based payment system, 1st
virtual banking, e-cash, smart cards; Electronic Data interchange EDI) - Value added networks.