MBA

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Globalization is the biggest challenge in 21st century for the business. Further volatile world economy, quality and productivity, ownership, environment, strategy formulation, ethics and social responsibility, workforce diversity, change, empowerment, and information technology, safety issues and ever changing environment of government regulations, both domestically and internationally pose serious challenges to the managers. The managers of the future require a different set of skills based on the functioning of the right-brain like holistic or systems thinking, intuitive problem solving and value driven decision making. They have to focus on decreased performance levels, understaffed, lack of communication, poor teamwork, pressure to perform, absence of structure and time management. All these have been considered to be barriers, which need to be resolved. All such challenges can be addressed through qualitative and contemporary harnessed skills

The G-7 countries, SAARC, Common Wealth countries, BRICS, QUAD, BIMSTEC, and other blocs etc. have paved the way for abundant activities/opportunities to accelerate various economic activities.Further both centre and states in India have undertaken lot of developmental activities. As the activities grown unprecedentedly; the perils, hazards, and accidents are inescapable. Construction, Industrial, health, all kinds of transportations, hospitality, health care, R&D, manufacturing and service sectors, environment, and so on are vulnerable to the safety problem. Disasters may be either natural or manmade, they will become a catastrophe and its loss will wreck the fortune of the concerned. Safety mechanisms and standards to maintain better health and environment should be on top most priority. For this purpose, every organization has to focus on the capacity building in terms of health, safety and environment.

A few institutions of higher learning offer advanced study on Management in Health, Safety and Environment, entitled MBA (HSE). Singania University, Rajasthan, University of Wisconsin(USA),Talent Garden Barcelona(Spain),Global School of Business Management (Delhi), East Bridge College (England/USA,), and Annamalai University actively engaged in teaching-learning process of MBA (HSE).National Education Policy stress the need for multidiscipline skill based program. The MBA (HSE) program help aspirants to understand about 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 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. The rigorous activities in the program will help developing the qualified professionals in occupational health, safety and environment. 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 2 years is composed of discipline courses, discipline specific courses and highly relevance skill enhancement courses.The program is a multifaceted pedagogy and an effective interface with the industry to translate the mission into action. It creates opportunities for its learners to enhance their capacity to handle the issues relating to health, safety and environment in any organisation by using managerial skills.

MBA in Health and Safety Environment course can be a fruitful option for:
• Candidates who are aiming for a job in both the public and private sectors.
• Candidates who want to build a strong career in the field of risk management and environmental safety.
• Private sector workers, advisors, and employees aspiring to establish a top position in the healthcare and safety departments can enhance their knowledge, skills and overall personality.

Qualified learners of the PG program in HSE will secure positions in HSE sector; such as seniors HSE / Safety officers,Dy.HSE manager, HSE/EHS engineers and DGM HSE/safety, with attractive pay package in various companies across the world. Further after completing the MBA (HSE), the learners can also pursue research in various disciplinary specific subjects. They can step in to teaching positions in of higher learning institutions offering programs in HSE.

Program objectives:

The objectives of MBA (HSE) are to:

• Protect personnel from any health hazards that may be associated with the work
• Provide accident-free environment to OETC and contractors’ employees
• Maintain compliance with all the applicable QHSE legal / regulatory requirements
• Improve QHSE culture among OETC and contractors employees
• Reduce environmental impacts and improve performance regularly
• Provides knowledge about the various principles and theories involved in health, safety and environmental management.
• Meet the vast requirements of professionals having suitable qualification as well as exposure in the Health, Safety and Environment industry.
• Get introduced to developing a safety policy and safety plan to employees and develop a communications plan.
• Equip the learners to handle any health issues and hazards in various industrial sectors.
• Adopt tools strategically to diagnose the problems of environment, health and safety, and resolve them to ensure sustainability.
• Develop students into leaders ready to tackle the challenges of today's global business environment.
• Analyze and synthesize information across disciplines/functions in order to evaluate business opportunities and make sound business decisions
• Conduct investigation in the accident process to find out its route cause.
• Apply statutory rules, regulations and standards in various operations of industry.
• Develop competency of the employees through training in various aspects of safety, health and environment.
• Imbibe personal and institutional integrity, social responsibility, team work and perpetuating learning for over all development.
• Instill confidence to the learners to become job providers

Program Outcomes (PO):

• Plan and perform workplace inspections and audits for compliance with occupational health and safety and environmental legislation..
• Prevent accidents at the work place so as to save the lives and the property.
• Tackle issues in safety and environmental of the petroleum industry.
• Resolve these key issues for making petroleum production and processing, cleaner and safer.
• Thinking critically and decision-making supported by economic principles and best practices in business.
• Work effectively in teams and to address strategic and organizational challenges.
• Visualize the safety issues at the construction sites.
• Use various devices to assure safety from fire hazards.
• Enrich the entrepreneurial competencies.
• Develop competency of the employees to resolve any problems relating to HSE
• Identify business opportunities, design and implement innovations in workspace.
• Adopt best practices of health safety and environment management for the wellbeing of the individual and organizations
• Visualize the safety problems at the infra development /construction sites.
• Use energy management to reduce carbon emissions which are detrimental to the environment.
• Employ various devices to assure safety from fire hazards.