Sunday, November 8, 2009

Business Legislation


Business Legislation
By C. Ramagopala


    * Publisher:   New Age Publications (Academic)
    * Number Of Pages:   200
    * Publication Date:   2008-12-01
    * ISBN-10 / ASIN:   8122422322
    * ISBN-13 / EAN:   9788122422320

Teaching law to management students, rather than students of law, is a challenge. This would,
indeed, be a bigger challenge when the students do not have any rudimentary knowledge about law.
Now, majority of students who join MBA are from non-commerce background so they would not
have had any opportunity to study even the fundamentals of law. The problem is where to start. I
have the answer. The UGC syllabus of “Business Legislation” has been taken as the basis for
writing this book. The compelling force behind me to take up this task is my students. They have
approached me to make a tailor-made book available to them to meet the needs of UGC syllabus as
no book is available to cater their total needs, all at one place. This book crisply covers the syllabus
and even the chapters are dealt in the same order of the UGC syllabus of MBA. In this process,
many university students’ requirements are covered, to a large extent, as a greater number of
institutions have, involuntarily, chosen same topics in their syllabus too.
The second aspect is the treatment of explanation. Many consider law is complicated and
nothing is said, directly. I intend to give a different treatment for the subject. I have chosen the
straight way to explain in an easy and direct method. Language is not to stand as a barrier as many
Hindi medium students have been joining MBA, of late. They want the subject to be dealt in an
easy way to understand, with practical and professional approach, but not in a legal way. This book
is meant for managers of tomorrow. They require understanding of law for managing the business
and not to practise as lawyers. Legal concepts are explained in a layman’s language.
The best compliment I have enjoyed on my earlier book “Export-Import Procedures,
Documentation and Logistics” is from Hindi medium students, pursuing MBA. They have
complimented “No difficult words are in the book, which we have not understood”. I thank them
for making the book to go for reprint, within six months of its first appearance. This book has been
accepted as a recommended reading book at IIM, Indore too.
During my interaction and long observation, majority of students and, in particular, working
executives, busy with their employment start preparing, a couple of weeks before the commencement
of examinations. To facilitate them for quick and easy understanding, Descriptive Questions provide
the necessary clues (reference to paragraphs, broadly) for finding answers, quickly, and also serving
as a ready suggested answer book.
I have my family members Sandhya-wife, Radhi, Kalyan, Dheera and Kish, and my lovely little
American grandsons –Theer and Tarkh– not preventing me to write, who have extended their
support in one way or other to steer the book to a happy ending.
CA. C. Rama Gopal

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