FPM at IIFM Bhopal Offline Course

IIFM is a sectoral management Institute that strives to meet the changing scenario in the forestry, environment, development, management and allied sectors. It is constantly striving to update itself and accordingly respond to the needs of all concerned stakeholders. Given the emerging, and much-needed, emphasis on environmental sustainability, climate change, carbon trading, green finance, corporate social and environmental responsibility, biodiversity conservation and natural resource management, IIFM suitably modifies its focus, activity frame and course structure to successfully meet these needs. All these activities not only require manpower, possessing the desired blend of skills pertaining to forestry, environment & development with management science but also need the professional assistance and guidance for capacity building, project implementation and monitoring. Therefore, IIFM through its educational, training, research and consultancy activities has planned to endeavor to meet this emerging need.

The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), approved by AICTE is meant for people who need specialized knowledge, skills, and attitudes for positions requiring conceptual and visioning skills, the Fellow Programme is an important step in that direction. It is designed to develop and equip students for career opportunity in management education and research in the following faculty areas of specialization:

• Communication and Extension Management
• Ecosystem and Environment Management
• Environment and Developmental Economics
• Financial Management
• Human Resource Management
• Information Technology and Quantitative Techniques
• Marketing Management
• Sociology and Community Development
• Technical Forestry
• Strategic Management

The two-year classroom course work is designed to provide in-depth knowledge in management science, forestry, environment and development management, in general, and the area of the specialisation of the student, in particular.

The PGDFM first-year courses provide grounding to the FPM students in functional areas of management with application orientation in forestry, environment and development context. The classroom courses in the first year, which a candidate has to attain, is spread over a total of 20.75 credit unit. The PGDFM/PGDM graduates of IIFM/IIM get an exemption from first year FPM courses. The course structure of first year (three terms with one Field Work) is as follows:-

  First Year

Term Paper (Research oriented project of ten weeks' duration immediately after Term-III)

Second Year of (advanced courses, case preparation and finalization, comprehensive examination, initiation and formulation of thesis proposal)

The FPM candidate shall acquire a total of 29.75 credit unit in the first two years of the course work.

Third Year    

Thesis Work, Research /Teaching Assignments

Participation in Research/Teaching work

Each of the students would be expected to provide assistance in research/teaching work of the Institute as an FPM scholar during the third and fourth years of study. This will provide them with an opportunity to develop their research skills and teaching skills.

Fourth Year

Thesis Work, Research/Teaching Assignments, Pre-thesis submission seminar, Publication of two research articles, Thesis submission and defense.

THESIS WORK

The thesis should be a scholarly work related to contribution to the understanding and resolution of management problems. The thesis should demonstrate professional competence in developing a model or a set of hypotheses, collecting and interpreting data, reaching conclusions, and drawing the implications for research and managerial practice.