Summer Internship Programme (SIP) Guidelines

For M.B.A (General)

1. This is a 100 marks paper.

2. Objectives of the Summer Internship Programme (SIP):

a. To experience the organization in its entirety, inclusive of organization of activities and its
management
b. To develop the ability to innovate within existing frameworks, thereby creating space for
alternative practices.
c. To develop strategies for evaluating organization’s process and a product / service.
d. To learn to choose, design, organize and conduct meaningful managerial activities.
e. To use the skills of systematic observations, record keeping and analysis for reflection on
learning-managing.
f. To learn to set realistic goals in terms of organization, values and management, activities and
learning.

3. Time Frame:-

a. The time frame of the SIP for the students of First year MBA in Organization / Institutions /
Hospitals / NGOs / Service Industry / Companies is 6-8 weeks. Of these, student to spend for
learning the organization and its values for 2 weeks and for a reflective research assignment for 4-
6 weeks.

b. Student should complete a minimum of 45 working days in the organization to fulfill the
objectives (see Clause- 2a to 2f)

4. Each Student has to work under the close guidance of one faculty member of Department of
Management on one project. Mentors will be assigned for each student.

5. Supervisory Support:

a. General Supervisor from the Organization where student work as INTERN. Each Student has
one general supervisor who would supervise him/her on regular basis

b. Faculty Supervisor: Monitoring and mentoring the intern in selecting topic, report writing and
presentation. The Faculty Supervisor would act as a mediator between the Student and the
Organization’s authorities and facilitate all aspects of the Internship Programme.

6. Feedback by both Faculty Supervisor and General Supervisor:

Both the General and Faculty Supervisor should give qualitative feedback to the Student on every
supervisory visit day and evaluation would be done at the end of the Internship programme.

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7. Components of SIP:

a. Planning – Unit and Daily Plans

b. Learning and Transaction in the organization
c. Reflection – Journal Writing
d. Building case studies and case analysis

7a. Planning

This includes the Unit Plans as well as Daily Plans. The student are advised to work with assigned unit to
contribute to the chosen organization as expected while learning the mission, vision and values of such unit so
as to understand its entirety and its integration with organization.

The Unit plans and daily plans of student should be discussed with the General Supervisor and the feedback
should be incorporated.

The total marks for planning is 20 marks would be provided by the General Supervisor.

Criteria Marks
Regularity 4
Ability to understand (aptitude) 4
Sensitivity (relevance) 4
Planning (attitude) 4
Improvement on Feedback and assessment 4

7 b. Learning and Transaction:

The student has to transact the planned activities and contribute to the organization. The total marks for
learning and transaction is 20 marks would be provided by the Faculty Supervisor. The Following criteria is
used for assessing the plans:

Criteria Marks
Choice of Activities 4
Growth and Involvement 4
Appropriateness 4
Culture of Learning 4
Documentation skills 4

7 c. Reflective Journals:

The student should write reflective daily journals and submit to their Faculty Supervisor every week
(Monday) mandatory. Their reflective journals help the student to reshape and constantly evolve their
learning by analyzing it. The Faculty supervisor should given written feedback on these reflective
journals. Those doing their work outside Delhi, may submit date-wise journal reference by email
attachment.

The reflective journal should include:

1. A reflection of the activities transacted and their success or failure on every day basis
2. Issues in the process of transaction
3. Appropriateness of activities

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 4. Time management
5. Individual differences and responses
6. Linkage between class room theory courses and learning the organizational environments
7. Student’s expectations
8. Future strategies in terms of content, planning and management.

The total marks for reflective journal is 20 marks would be provided by the Faculty Supervisor. The
criteria for assessment are as follow:

Criteria Marks
Description of activities 4
Analysis and reflection of organizational practices and own 4
experiences
Quality in the development in the Student’s reflection 4
Conceptual clarity and an understanding of the linkages between 4
assignment and theory building
Regularity 4

7 d. Research Assignment:

The purpose of the assignment is to collate a pool of learnt experiences of a student into documentation /
report. The vision is to enable student to use cumulative reflective journal information and/or cumulative
learning experience during internship and contribute to the growth and quality of learning.

Student also can collect and collate materials, literature and organization documents to strengthen the
documentation/report.

7.1.a. Role of Faculty Supervisor:

General and Faculty Supervisor need to guide student in learning, managing and required documentation
process.

7.1.b. Assessment of Documentation/Report:

The specific research assignment after going through reflective journal and student intern’s cumulative
experience, the topic may be worked upon by a student with the assistance of the Supervisor.

7.1.c. The total marks for the Research Assignment is 20 marks would be provided by the SIP
Committee. The criteria for assessment are as follow:

Criteria Marks
Conceptual Clarity 4
Consistency from Reflective Journals 4
Creativity 4
Relevance 4
Use of Intern’s experience 4

8. The maximum length of the written/typed SIP report should be equivalent to 50 A4 Sized Times New
Roman 12 size font typed pages with normal 1.5 line spacing and justified margins.

9. The written SIP report should necessarily include the following, the chapterization being perhaps in the
sequence given:

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 a. Title Page – title of the project, Student’s name and supervisor name, department, academic year
(one page)
b. Certificate from the General and Faculty supervisor (one page)
c. Acknowledgment (one page)
d. Executive summary (one page)
e. List of contents (one page)
f. Introduction (to the study, with theoretical background) – (three pages)
g. Review of Literature (six pages)
h. Methodology (of data collection and analysis) – (two pages)
i. Data, Interpretation and Analysis (maximum of four chapters) –(30 pages)
j. Summary, conclusion, suggestion and Limitation (four pages)
k. References
l. Appendices

10. The Student can however, with the permission of his/her supervisor, creatively re-work her/his
chapterization, ensuring that all the aspects mentioned above are included (without exceeding the
number of pages).

11. No two students will be permitted to work on the same and/or similar topic in one and/or same
organization under any circumstances.

12. Attendance: Each student is required to meet/contact/interact his/her Faculty Supervisor once a week
(mandatory) according to his/her Faculty Supervisor’s convenience and venue, and/or through virtual
contacts such as email, video conference etc. Faculty Supervisor will keep record of such meeting and
contacts. The supervisor and student may schedule more meetings, if a need is felt. In addition, student
is required to attend workshops/ lecturers organized by the various Institutions/ organizations to
strengthen their knowledge and skills. There will be no attendance for library visits, data collection,
participating workshops/seminars/ conferences etc. The attendance requirement for this dissertation work
is 75% as per the requirements of the course.

13. Presentation / VIVA-VOCE Examination of SIP: All Students are required to attend VIVA-VOCE
examination. The viva-voce examination carries 20 marks. If any student fails to undertake VIVA–
VOCE examination leading to disqualification from the SIP work, which would be considered as an
overall failure and would be required to redo the whole process.

14. Presentation / VIVA-VOCE of Summer Internship Programme will be assessed by the External
Examiner and Faculty Committee based on the following criteria (20 marks):

Criteria Marks
Conceptual Clarity 4
Analytical Ability 4
Interpretation of Data / analysis 4
Data Presentation and chapterization
Relevance of the study 4
Communication and Handling Queries 4

15. All Students are required to attend student’s presentation. The attendance requirement for this
presentation is 75% as per the requirements of the course.

16. Each Student has to submit one hard bound copy and one soft copy in the C.D. towards the end of the
academic session.

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17. Important points to NOTE:

a. The student intern has to complete 45 working days in the assigned organization.

b. The student intern has to work for the assigned organization for the whole day during the
internship.
c. No changes of the organization will be permitted for whatever cause or reasons.

d. The Student has to create a separate register and sign in everyday. The register will be kept in the
General Supervisor’s Office and accessible to the Faculty Supervisor.

e. Due to any unavoidable reason if the Student is not able to attend the Organization on a particular
day, student should inform the General and Faculty Supervisor and submit a leave application.

f. The number of days absent or leaves should be compensated accordingly by extending the
internship days. If required number of days (75%) not completed, will have to redo the whole
process in the next academic year or otherwise Student will be considered failed.

g. Records of reflective journals / Interviews / observations must be preserved. If the student is

unable to prove these records at any time, the authenticity of his/her SIP work will be questioned.

h. The plan and unit plan should be discussed with the Faculty Supervisor every week and these
plans should be maintained as a record i.e., they should be written in a file / register.

i. The reflective journals should be submitted to the Faculty Supervisor every week is mandatory.

j. Draft of the SIP report must be shown to the Faculty Supervisor.

k. All presentation are to be formal Power point presentation, you can make use of charts, OHP
and projector.

l. Absence during the presentations for flimsy reasons, and without informing the Supervisor will
be taken into serious account and may lead to disqualification from the dissertation work, which
would be considered as failure and the student would required to redo the whole process.

m. Certificate from the Organizations/Institution on Original Letter Head to be submitted to

the Faculty Supervisor.

n. The marks awarded by the general supervisor, for Learning and Transaction (20 marks)
should be given in a sealed envelope to the Faculty Supervisor, through the Students.

The above points are to be enforced and any distraction will strictly lead to disqualification from the
summer internship programme.

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18. Calendar for the SIP work:

Date / Month Task / Activity

May 15th onwards Students join in an organization as an INTERN.

Learning of Intern Organization’s values, mission and vision and taking
May 15th - July the roles and responsibilities (from General Supervisor).
14th Submission of Reflective Journals on weekly basis
July 14th – July Submission of draft report to Faculty Supervisor.
21st (Second year classes would resume from July 25th )
First week of Internship Presentations
August

19. Breakup of Marking pattern (100 marks)

Final Marking by Faculty Supervisor

60 Marks 40 Marks
Planning Learning & Reflective Documentation Viva - Voce
Translation Journal
20 Marks By 20 Marks Faculty 20 Marks Faculty 20 Marks 20 Marks
General Supervisor Supervisor Faculty External
Supervisor Supervisor Examiner

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