Internship/ Independent Project

Guidelines
for
Master of Business Administration

Alliance University
 Table of Contents
1 General Guidelines......................................................................................................1
2 Schedule of Activities..................................................................................................1
3 Guidelines for Proposal...............................................................................................2
4 Guidelines and Formats for Preparation of Progress Report.......................................3
4.1 Format of progress report..........................................................................................3
4.2 Content of progress report........................................................................................3
5 Guidelines for Preparation of Final Report.................................................................5
6 Internship Evaluation...................................................................................................6
7 Procedure of Submission of the report........................................................................7
Formats for Initial Pages.....................................................................................................8

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1 General Guidelines
1.1 Students have to be in continuous contact with their faculty guides either in
person, e-mail or over phone to update the progress of their work. The students
have to submit their proposal and progress reports through email in the enclosed
formats within the stipulated time. Additional sheets can be used to fill the details
wherever necessary.

1.2 Students have to ensure that their email ids and contact details are available with
their faculty guides.

2 Schedule of Activities

No. Submissions Date

2.1 Proposal 20 May, 2020
(No later than 05 June)
2.2 Progress Report 1 5 June, 2020
(No later than 20 June)
2.3 Progress Report 2 15 June, 2020
(No later than 30 June)
2.4 Final Report 05 July, 2020
(No later than 10 July)
2.5 Coursera course 30 June, 2020

*A window for proposal/report submissions has been provided keeping in mind few
internship dates that may get deferred due to extension of lock-down; All students
have to mandatorily take up projects (either independently or via internships) by 1st
June 2020 to be able to submit the project proposal on time.

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3 Guidelines for Proposal

Name of the Student:
E-mail:
Phone:
Area of Specialization:

Project Title:

Name of the Organization with complete address (if applicable)

1) The Proposal should not exceed 1500 words.

2) Contents:
(a) Introduction (includes motivation).
(b) Problem definition (Objectives and hypotheses).
(c) Methodology planned (data sources, methods and techniques of data
collection and analysis).
(d) Expected outcomes.
(e) Bibiliographical references.

Signature of Industry Guide (if applicable) Signature of Student

Date:

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4 Guidelines and Formats for Preparation of Progress

Report
4.1 Format of progress report

Progress Status Report for IIP

Progress Report No. ........... Date :……….....…………

Reg. No……………………………. Name of the Student: ............................................

Submitted to : ............................................................. (Faculty Guide)

Title of Projec Work / Theme of the Internship:

4.2 Content of progress report

Work carried out during the phase under report (use which one is applicable):
 
    a. Books / Reserach papers/ Articles refered
read : ....................................................................................................................
 
    b. Databases
used : ....................................................................................................................
 
    c. Internet Searching Results, if
any : .....................................................................................................................
 
    d. Visits to Institutions / Libraries / Companies, if
any : ....................................................................................................................
 
    e. Designing of a Questionnaire and Administering to Respondents, if
any : ....................................................................................................................
 
    f. Meeting with Target Group Members, if
any: ....................................................................................................................
 
    g. Analysis of Data
Collected : ....................................................................................................................
 
    h. Draft Write-up Prepared, if
any : ....................................................................................................................
 
    i. Problems Encountered, if
any : ....................................................................................................................

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    j. Proposed Steps During the next
phase: ....................................................................................................................
 
    k. Any Other Relevant
Information : ....................................................................................................................

i. Work done in the orgnaization (if applicable)

......................................................................................................................

Date: .....................                                                    (Signature of the student) 

Note: You may please attach additional sheets if required.

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5 Guidelines for Preparation of Final Report

Preamble

In preparing the internship / project report utmost attention must be paid to the content
ensuring that it meets the guidelines of academic integrity as stipulated in the academic
honesty policy of the University. A standard format is being prescribed to ensure
uniformity in all the reports submitted.

Organization of the Internship Report

The internship report is required to be in the following format. The table of contents
along with page numbers should be given. There should be a seperate contents page for
tables and charts along with page numbers.

Executive Summary – A one page description of your internship/ project work.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Introduction about the Eork done / Study, Research Motivation, Problem Statement,

Objectives, Need and Scope of the Study, Limitations of the Study.

Chapter 2 : Literature Review

Scholarly research articles should be reviewed with help of databases

Chapter 3 : Methodology or how the work was carried out

The methodology for carrying out the research (if any) or how the work was carried out
should be eloborated upon. It can talk about the sources of data, and tools and techniques
used for analyzing the data, wherever applicable. It can aslo include methods followed to
to the required work in the organization (as applicable).

Chapter 4 : Observations & Analysis

Critical evaluation of the work done during the internship/project period should be
adressed in this section.
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Chapter 5: Findings
The findings should be based and drawn from the critical evaluation, observations and
data interpretation.

Chapter 6: Conclusion
A one or two page conclusion about the work done.

Annexure
All those relavant to the study, e.g., factual data about the company or about the industry
or problem studied, data collection tools used for collecting primary data, etc.

References
The latest APA convention should ideally be followed.

6 Internship Evaluation
Internship/ Independent Project Assessment Components:

Assessment Components Marks Allotted

Proposal Content 10

Progress Report 1 5

Progress Report 2 5

Final Report 50

Coursera course 30

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7 Procedure of Submission of the report

The students are advised to submit non plagiarized work.

 Submission of the soft copy/hardcopy of the final draft report to faculty guide for
review.
 The faculty guide will revert back to the student with the reviewed report.

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 Annexure I

Formats for Initial Pages

 Study on

Title ______________________________________________________________

Company Name and Place (if applicable)

Submitted by
……....….......…………

Registration No:
………......……………….

Under the Guidance of Prof.……………..

In partial fulfillment of the Course - Industry Internship Programme - IIP

in Semester II of the (programme name)

Bangalore
 Master of Business Administration

Industry Internship Programme (IIP)

Declaration

This is to declare that the report titled “………………......................................................”

has been prepared for the partial fulfillment of the Course: Industry Internship
Programme (IIP) in Semester II by me at _______________________________
(organization) under the guidance of Prof. _________________ .

I confirm that this report truly represents my work undertaken as a part of my Industry
Internship Programme (IIP). This work is not a replication of work done previously by
any other person. I also confirm that the contents of the report and the views contained
therein have been discussed and deliberated with the faculty guide.

Signature of the Student :

Name of the Student (in Capital Letters) :

Registration No :
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Certificate

This is to certify that Mr. / Ms. ___________________ Regn. No. __________ has
completed the report titled ___________________________________________ under
my guidance for the partial fulfillment of the Course: Industry Internship Programme
(IIP) in Semester II of the Master of Business Administration.

Signature of Faculty Guide:

Name of the Faculty Guide: