BBA

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In the complex of global environment, the managers find various barriers that prevent them from achieving the goals and improving the level of efficiency in the organizations. Leaders and Managers constantly try tackling these issues that drive towards lowering productivity. Challenges of management in the present contexts include; technology, ethics, globalization, competition, diversity, economic, socio- cultural and politico-legal issues. All these challenges pose threat to the existence of theorganization; as such mortality is high than ever before. All those challenges can be addressed through quality and contemporary harnessed skills of management.

Various blocs such as G-7, SAARC, Common Wealth countries, BRICS, QUAD, BIMSTEC, and WTO declarations, have created a plethora of opportunities to accelerate various economic activities within their jurisdiction. As the activities grown unprecedentedly; the perils, hazards, and accidents are inescapable. Construction, Industrial, health, all kinds of transportations, hospitality, R&D, manufacturing and service sectors, environment, and so on are vulnerable to the safety and health related problems. The main goal of safety and health programs is to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths, as well as the suffering and financial hardship these events can cause for workers, their families, and employers. that finding and fixing hazards before they cause injury or illness is a far more effective approach. Disasters of either natural or manmade will become a catastrophe and its loss will wreck the fortune of the concerned. In order to address these problems professionals need to be proficient with knowledge and skills relating to occupational health and safety.

Many educational institutions have taken up initiatives to offer the compatible programs, so as to empower the young students to cope with the challenges of occupational health andsafety.There is hardly any institution offering UG program (OHS) having the fragrance of managerial skills.BBA (OHS)provides a wide range of industrial relevant skill and professionalism in the occupational health and safety.National Education Policy 2020 emphasizes all such issues with prime motto tomould the younger generation as highly productive citizens of the country.

BBA(OHS) has been designed for the duration of 4 years under National Education Policy 2020. The BBA(OHS) program help aspirants to enrich themselves with the principles, concepts, theories, hypotheses of business, diverging trends in market scenario, managerial duties in the era of globalization and the recent pandemic and many more. The program is an embodiment of multidisciplinary holistic education. The National Education Policy has realized that the skills are imperative need to cope with challenges of 21st century and resolved to develop specialized knowledge with disciplinary rigor. It is to bring equity, efficiency and academic excellence in National Higher Education System. The important ones include innovation and improvement in course-curricula, paradigm shift in learning, teaching pedagogy, evaluation, and education system. Learner-centric, flexibility, and mobility with the fragrance of professionalism and apt skill are required to operate efficiently. It should be holistic to train the students into perfect human beings and useful members of the society and country.

The syllabus and regulations of the program are in conformity with notification of Mangalore University and common curriculum notified by Karnataka State Higher Education Council. The program for 4 years is packed in highly balanced mannerwith discipline courses, discipline specific courses, skill enhancement courses, vocational courses, courses under open elective, language components of highly relevance and courses to assure physical fitness, maintain perfect discipline and courses to inculcate community development. The program is a multifaceted pedagogy with an effective interface with the industry to translate the mission into action. The program creates opportunities for its students to enhance their understanding of economic, social, legal, political and technological environment to broaden their horizon not only to adjust themselves to change but also to become catalyst in developing their power to conceptualize, decide and communicate.

BBA (OHS) program offers extraordinary job opportunities in diverse that includes marketing, operations, finance, infrastructure, automobile, marine, aeronautical, hospitality, hospitals, tourism and travel related sectors. These companies in various sectors are owned and managed by sole, partnership, companies of different types ranging from domestic company to trans- national companies.

Qualified learners of the program will secure positions in various industries, organization, departments of varied sizes. The position includes safety officers, OHS/HSE manager and OHS/EHS/HSE engineers with attractive pay package in various companies across the world. Further after completing the BBA (OHS), the learners can also pursue PG program and move forward to carry on research in diverse field of operation.

Program objectives:

The objectives of B.COM Business Data Analytics are to:

• a) To enrich the learners themselves in disciplined courses i.e. occupational health and safety and allied courses.
• To foster an ability to critically analyze, synthesize and solve complex unstructured business problems.
• To encourage an aptitude for business improvement, innovation and entrepreneurial action.
• To share experiences to enhance the benefits of collaborative learning.
• To instill a sense of ethical decision-making and a commitment to the long-run welfare of both organizations and the communities they serve.
• To gain insight and drive business planning through proper decision.
• To use data analytics very effectively thereby to influence in an organization.
• To focus on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods.
• To derive meaning from data, thereby to make informed business decisions.

Program Outcomes (PO):

On successfully completing the program, the Graduates will be attributed to:

• Apply concepts and principles of management/business, which in turn help them to resolve the problems easily, strategically and tactfully.
• Prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.
• Improve compliance with laws and regulations.
• Reduce costs, including significant reductions in workers' compensation premiums.
• Adopt best practices of occupational health and safetymanagement for the wellbeing of the individual and organizations.
• Increase productivity and enhance overall business operations.
• Prevent accidents at the work place so as to save the lives and the property.
• Visualize the safety issues at the construction sites.
• Anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control hazardous conditions and practices affecting people, property and the environment.
• Communicate and interact effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work individually or on a team to critically analyze, interpret, and provide leadership to address and manage problems in occupational safety and health.
• Recognize that the practice of occupational safety and health requires ongoing learning, and undertake appropriate activities to address this need.
• Employ various devices to assure safety from fire hazards.
• Install the process of first aid and emergency at the workplace.
• Identify business opportunities, design and implement innovations in workspace.