Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management at IIM Indore Offline Course

The Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management (PGP-HRM) at IIM Indore is a two-year, full-time, residential programme. The programme will commence from the academic year 2018. The programme aims to groom participants into professional managers with a capacity:

• to integrate human resource and business issues emerging in a dynamic environment
• to apply an understanding of behavioral tenets for harnessing value in organizations and society
• to apply an analytical orientation in creating sustainable and innovative value creation frameworks

The curriculum of PGP-HRM with its first batch from 2018-20 has been designed by taking into account feedback from the corporate sector, emerging trends in human resource management and business education, and integrating insights from analytics and behavioral sciences.

Structure

The Post Graduate Programme lasts six trimesters, spread over two years, with a summer project at the end of the first year. This eight-week programme is an opportunity for participants to put their ideas and skills in to work, in established and reputed companies from various sectors.

The first-year participants are given the fundamental knowledge, analytical skills & techniques, contextual understanding, environmental awareness and overall perspective, which will serve as the bedrock for the programme. The areas covered are Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Operations, Economics and Strategy. The first year also introduces participants to psychometric instruments, behavioural labs, analytics and assessment centres.

In the second-year electives give participants a deeper understanding of different functional and thematic domains of HR. The participants are encouraged to select courses in specific domains such as Analytics, Negotiation and Conflict Management, Organisation Development and Change, Talent Management and Competency Based Approaches and Leadership. The emphasis is on the application of knowledge gained, in the form of projects, group exercises and case discussions. Guest lectures and workshops further enrich their learning.