Paper 2 · Management · Code 17
UGC NET Paper 2 — Management (17)
Management (subject code 17) is the subject paper (Paper 2) for candidates in this subject. It carries 100 questions for 200 marks (+2 per correct answer, no negative marking), attempted together with Paper 1 in the single 180-minute combined session. The syllabus below is the verified official syllabus, organised unit-wise; chapters and practice questions appear as they are published, and nothing is marked complete before it exists.
100 questions
200 marks · +2 per correct · No negative marking · Paper 2 within the 180-min combined session
10 units · 49 topics
Full syllabus below, with topic summaries
40 practice questions · 49 premium chapters
Easy 10 · Medium 20 · Hard 10 — all original practice; verified PYQs live separately in the PYQ Library
Syllabus
Complete syllabus — all units and topics
Topic summaries are the unit study material already published on NETSaathi. Weightage badges are platform estimates from past-question frequency — they are not NTA guarantees.
Unit 1: Business Management and Managerial Economics
व्यावसायिक प्रबंधन और प्रबंधकीय अर्थशास्त्र · 4 bank questions · 4 premium chapters- Management: concept, process, theories, roles — Management: concept, process, theories and approaches, management roles and skills.High weightage
- Functions, communication, decisions, structure — Functions: planning, organising, staffing, coordinating and controlling; communication: types, process and barriers; decision making: concept, process, techniques and tools; organisation structure and design: types, authority, responsibility, centralisation, decentralisation and span of control.High weightage
- Managerial economics and demand analysis — Managerial economics: concept and importance; demand analysis: utility analysis, indifference curve, elasticity and forecasting; market structures: classification and price determination.High weightage
- National income, inflation, ethics and governance — National income: concept, types and measurement; inflation: concept, types and measurement; business ethics and CSR, ethical issues and dilemmas, corporate governance and value based organisation.Medium
Management: concept, process, theories, roles → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Functions, communication, decisions, structure → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Managerial economics and demand analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
National income, inflation, ethics and governance → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Unit 2: Organisational Behaviour
संगठनात्मक व्यवहार · 4 bank questions · 5 premium chapters- Organisational behaviour: significance and theories — Organisational behaviour: significance and theories.Medium
- Individual behaviour — Personality, perception, values, attitude, learning and motivation.High weightage
- Group behaviour and interpersonal behaviour — Group behaviour: team building, leadership and group dynamics; interpersonal behaviour and transactional analysis.High weightage
- Culture, diversity, emotions and justice — Organisational culture and climate, workforce diversity and cross-cultural organisational behaviour, emotions and stress management, organisational justice and whistle blowing.Medium
- Human resource management foundations — Human resource management: concept, perspectives, influences and recent trends; human resource planning, recruitment and selection, induction, training and development; job analysis, job evaluation and compensation management.High weightage
Organisational behaviour: significance and theories → premium chapter · free preview · ~12 min
Individual behaviour → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Group behaviour and interpersonal behaviour → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Culture, diversity, emotions and justice → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Human resource management foundations → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Unit 3: Human Resource Management
मानव संसाधन प्रबंधन · 4 bank questions · 5 premium chapters- Strategic HRM and competency mapping — Strategic role of human resource management, competency mapping and balanced scorecard.High weightage
- Career planning, performance and OD — Career planning and development, performance management and appraisal, organisation development, change and OD interventions.Medium
- Talent management and employee engagement — Talent management and skill development, employee engagement and work life balance.Medium
- Industrial relations and trade unions — Industrial relations: disputes and grievance management, labour welfare and social security; trade union and collective bargaining.High weightage
- International HRM and green HRM — International human resource management: HR challenge of international business; green HRM.Medium
Strategic HRM and competency mapping → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Career planning, performance and OD → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Talent management and employee engagement → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Industrial relations and trade unions → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
International HRM and green HRM → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Unit 4: Managerial Accounting
प्रबंधकीय लेखांकन · 4 bank questions · 6 premium chapters- Accounting principles and financial statements — Accounting principles and standards, preparation of financial statements.High weightage
- Financial statement analysis — Financial statement analysis: ratio analysis, funds flow and cash flow analysis, DuPont analysis.High weightage
- Cost sheet, marginal costing and CVP — Preparation of cost sheet, marginal costing, cost volume profit analysis.High weightage
- Standard costing and variance analysis — Standard costing and variance analysis.Medium
- Financial management and capital structure — Financial management: concept and functions; capital structure: theories, cost of capital, sources and finance.High weightage
- Budgeting and leverages — Budgeting and budgetary control: types and process, zero base budgeting; leverages: operating, financial and combined leverages, EBIT-EPS analysis, financial breakeven point and indifference level.Medium
Accounting principles and financial statements → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Financial statement analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Cost sheet, marginal costing and CVP → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Standard costing and variance analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Financial management and capital structure → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Budgeting and leverages → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Unit 5: Financial Management
वित्तीय प्रबंधन · 4 bank questions · 5 premium chapters- Value and returns — Value and returns: time preference for money, valuation of bonds and shares, risk and returns.High weightage
- Capital budgeting and risk analysis — Capital budgeting: nature of investment, evaluation and comparison of methods; risk and uncertainty analysis.High weightage
- Dividend, mergers and acquisitions — Dividend: theories and determination; mergers and acquisition: corporate restructuring, value creation, merger negotiations, leveraged buyouts, takeover.Medium
- Portfolio management and derivatives — Portfolio management: CAPM, APT; derivatives: options, option payoffs, option pricing, forward contracts and future contracts.High weightage
- Working capital and international financial management — Working capital management: determinants, cash, inventory, receivables and payables management, factoring; international financial management and foreign exchange market.Medium
Value and returns → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Capital budgeting and risk analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Dividend, mergers and acquisitions → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Portfolio management and derivatives → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Working capital and international financial management → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Unit 6: Strategic Management
रणनीतिक प्रबंधन · 4 bank questions · 4 premium chapters- Strategic management: concept, process, decisions — Strategic management: concept, process, decision and types.High weightage
- Strategic analysis — External analysis, PEST, Porter’s approach to industry analysis, internal analysis: resource based approach and value chain analysis.High weightage
- Strategy formulation — SWOT analysis, corporate strategy: growth, stability, retrenchment, integration and diversification, business portfolio analysis: BCG, GE business model, Ansoff’s product market growth matrix.High weightage
- Strategy implementation — Strategy implementation: challenges of change, developing programs, McKinsey 7S framework.Medium
Strategic management: concept, process, decisions → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Strategic analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Strategy formulation → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Strategy implementation → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Unit 7: Marketing Management
विपणन प्रबंधन · 4 bank questions · 6 premium chapters- Marketing: concept, segmentation, product, price, place — Marketing: concept, orientation, trends and tasks, customer value and satisfaction; market segmentation, positioning and targeting; product and pricing decisions: product mix, product life cycle, new product development, pricing types and strategies; place and promotion decisions: marketing channels and value networks, VMS, IMC, advertising and sales promotion.High weightage
- Consumer and industrial buying behaviour — Consumer and industrial buying behaviour: theories and models of consumer behaviour.High weightage
- Brand management — Brand management: role of brands, brand equity, equity models, developing a branding strategy, brand name decisions, brand extensions and loyalty.Medium
- Logistics, supply chain and sales force — Logistics and supply chain management: drivers, value creation, supply chain design; designing and managing sales force, personal selling.Medium
- Service marketing, CRM and retail marketing — Service marketing: managing service quality and brands, marketing strategies of service firms; customer relationship marketing: relationship building, strategies, values and process; retail marketing: recent trends in India, types of retail outlets.Medium
- Emerging trends and international marketing — Emerging trends in marketing: e-marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing and green marketing; international marketing: entry mode decisions, planning marketing mix for international markets.Medium
Marketing: concept, segmentation, product, price, place → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Consumer and industrial buying behaviour → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Brand management → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Logistics, supply chain and sales force → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Service marketing, CRM and retail marketing → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Emerging trends and international marketing → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Unit 8: Business Statistics and Operations Management
व्यावसायिक सांख्यिकी और संचालन प्रबंधन · 4 bank questions · 4 premium chapters- Statistics for management — Statistics for management: concept, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions: binomial, Poisson, normal and exponential; data collection and questionnaire design; sampling: concept, process and techniques.High weightage
- Hypothesis testing, correlation and regression — Hypothesis testing: procedure, t, z, F and chi-square tests; correlation and regression analysis.High weightage
- Operations management — Operations management: role and scope; facility location and layout: site selection and analysis, layout design and process; enterprise resource planning: ERP modules and implementation; scheduling: loading, sequencing and monitoring.Medium
- Quality management and operations research — Quality management and statistical quality control, quality circles, total quality management: KAIZEN, benchmarking, Six Sigma, ISO 9000 series standards; operations research: transportation, queuing, decision theory, PERT/CPM.Medium
Statistics for management → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Hypothesis testing, correlation and regression → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Operations management → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Quality management and operations research → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Unit 9: International Business and Management Information Systems
अंतर्राष्ट्रीय व्यापार और प्रबंधन सूचना प्रणाली · 4 bank questions · 2 premium chapters- International business — International business: managing business in globalisation era, theories of international trade, balance of payments, foreign direct investment: benefits and costs, multilateral regulation of trade and investment under WTO, international trade procedures and documentation, EXIM policies, role of international financial institutions: IMF and World Bank.High weightage
- Information technology and MIS — Information technology: use of computers in management applications, MIS, DSS; artificial intelligence and big data; data warehousing, data mining and knowledge management: concepts; managing technological change.Medium
International business → premium chapter · free preview · ~16 min
Information technology and MIS → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Unit 10: Entrepreneurship Development
उद्यमिता विकास · 4 bank questions · 8 premium chapters- Entrepreneurship: concept, types, theories, process — Entrepreneurship development: concept, types, theories and process, developing entrepreneurial competencies.High weightage
- Intrapreneurship — Intrapreneurship: concept and process.Medium
- Women and rural entrepreneurship — Women entrepreneurship and rural entrepreneurship.Medium
- Innovations in business — Innovations in business: types of innovations, creating and identifying opportunities, screening of business ideas.Medium
- Business plan and feasibility analysis — Business plan and feasibility analysis: concept and process of technical, market and financial analysis.High weightage
- Micro and small scale industries in India — Micro and small scale industries in India, role of government in promoting SSI.Medium
- Sickness in small industries — Sickness in small industries: reasons and rehabilitation.Medium
- Institutional finance to small industries — Institutional finance to small industries: financial institutions, commercial banks, cooperative banks, micro finance.Medium
Entrepreneurship: concept, types, theories, process → premium chapter · free preview · ~15 min
Intrapreneurship → premium chapter · free preview · ~12 min
Women and rural entrepreneurship → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Innovations in business → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Business plan and feasibility analysis → premium chapter · free preview · ~14 min
Micro and small scale industries in India → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Sickness in small industries → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Institutional finance to small industries → premium chapter · free preview · ~13 min
Study material
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Management: concept, process, theories, roles
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Read free previewManagerial economics and demand analysis
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Read free previewNational income, inflation, ethics and governance
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Unit 9: International Business and Management Information Systems
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Preparation strategy for this subject
- Start with the high-weightage topics — Management: concept, process, theories, roles, Functions, communication, decisions, structure, Managerial economics and demand analysis, Individual behaviour, Group behaviour and interpersonal behaviour — and finish their chapter previews first.
- Read one unit, then test it the same day: each unit page ends with its own unit test, so gaps show up while the material is fresh.
- Use the unit-wise result report: after every test, revise the units where accuracy is lowest before starting a new unit.
- Attempt every question in mocks: there is no negative marking, so an unattempted question is a guaranteed zero.
- Finish with unit tests: take every available unit test under timed conditions; full mocks for this subject arrive once the bank is large enough for a 100-question paper.
Revision
Important topics & revision resources
Important topics (high weightage)
- Unit 1: Management: concept, process, theories, roles
- Unit 1: Functions, communication, decisions, structure
- Unit 1: Managerial economics and demand analysis
- Unit 2: Individual behaviour
- Unit 2: Group behaviour and interpersonal behaviour
- Unit 2: Human resource management foundations
- Unit 3: Strategic HRM and competency mapping
- Unit 3: Industrial relations and trade unions
- Unit 4: Accounting principles and financial statements
- Unit 4: Financial statement analysis
- Unit 4: Cost sheet, marginal costing and CVP
- Unit 4: Financial management and capital structure
- Unit 5: Value and returns
- Unit 5: Capital budgeting and risk analysis
- Unit 5: Portfolio management and derivatives
- Unit 6: Strategic management: concept, process, decisions
- Unit 6: Strategic analysis
- Unit 6: Strategy formulation
- Unit 7: Marketing: concept, segmentation, product, price, place
- Unit 7: Consumer and industrial buying behaviour
- Unit 8: Statistics for management
- Unit 8: Hypothesis testing, correlation and regression
- Unit 9: International business
- Unit 10: Entrepreneurship: concept, types, theories, process
- Unit 10: Business plan and feasibility analysis
Revision resources
- Premium chapters (49) → free previews; full chapters unlock with Premium.
- Study planner → plan revision around the exam countdown.