HPSC Manager Syllabus 2026

HPSC Manager Syllabus 2026: Complete Exam Pattern & Subject-wise Details

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Exam Pattern

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Subject-wise Syllabus

Unit I: Management & Managerial Economics

• Management: Concept, Process, Theories and Approaches, Management Roles and Skills
• Functions: Planning, Organizing, 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
• Managerial Economics: Concept & Importance
• Demand Analysis: Utility Analysis, Indifference Curve, Elasticity & Forecasting
• Market Structures: Market Classification & Price Determination
• National Income: Concept, Types and Measurement
• Inflation: Concept, Types and Measurement
• Business Ethics & CSR: Ethical Issues & Dilemma, Corporate Governance, Value Based Organisation

Unit II: Organisational Behaviour & HRM

• Organisational Behaviour: Significance & Theories
• Individual Behaviour: Personality, Perception, Values, Attitude, Learning and Motivation
• Group Behaviour: Team Building, Leadership, Group Dynamics
• Interpersonal Behaviour & Transactional Analysis
• Organizational Culture & Climate
• Work Force Diversity & Cross Culture Organisational Behaviour
• Emotions and Stress Management
• Organisational Justice and Whistle Blowing
• Human Resource Management: Concept, Perspectives, Influences and Recent Trends
• HR Functions: Human Resource Planning, Recruitment and Selection, Induction, Training and Development
• Job Analysis, Job Evaluation and Compensation Management

Unit III: Strategic HRM & Industrial Relations

• Strategic Role of HRM
• Competency Mapping & Balanced Scoreboard
• Career Planning and Development
• Performance Management and Appraisal
• Organization Development, Change & OD Interventions
• Talent Management & Skill Development
• Employee Engagement & Work Life Balance
• Industrial Relations: Disputes & Grievance Management, Labour Welfare and Social Security
• Trade Union & Collective Bargaining
• International HRM: HR Challenge of International Business
• Green HRM

Unit IV: Financial Management & Accounting

• Accounting Principles and Standards
• Preparation of Financial Statements
• Financial Statement Analysis: Ratio Analysis, Funds Flow and Cash Flow Analysis, DuPont Analysis
• Cost Management: Preparation of Cost Sheet, Marginal Costing, Cost Volume Profit Analysis
• Standard Costing & Variance Analysis
• Financial Management: Concept & Functions
• Capital Structure: Theories, Cost of Capital, Sources and Finance
• Budgeting and Budgetary Control: Types and Process, Zero Base Budgeting
• Leverages: Operating, Financial and Combined Leverages, EBIT-EPS Analysis, Financial Breakeven Point & Indifference Level

Unit V: Investment & Portfolio Management

• Value & Returns: Time Preference for Money, Valuation of Bonds and Shares, Risk and Returns
• Capital Budgeting: Nature of Investment, Evaluation, Comparison of Methods; Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
• Dividend: Theories and Determination
• Mergers and Acquisition: Corporate Restructuring, Value Creation, Merger Negotiations, Leveraged Buyouts, Takeover
• Portfolio Management: CAPM, APT
• Derivatives: Options, Option Payoffs, Option Pricing, Forward Contracts & Future Contracts
• Working Capital Management: Determinants, Cash, Inventory, Receivables and Payables Management, Factoring
• International Financial Management: Foreign Exchange Market

Unit VI: Strategic Management & Marketing

• Strategic Management: Concept, Process, Decision & Types
• Strategic Analysis: External Analysis, PEST, Porter's Approach to Industry Analysis, Internal Analysis - Resource Based Approach, Value Chain Analysis
• 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
• Strategy Implementation: Challenges of Change, Developing Programs, McKinsey 7s Framework
• Marketing: Concept, Orientation, Trends and Tasks, Customer Value and Satisfaction
• Market Segmentation, Positioning and Targeting
• Product and Pricing Decision: Product Mix, Product Life Cycle, New Product Development, Pricing - Types and Strategies
• Place and Promotion Decision: Marketing Channels and Value Networks, VMS, IMC, Advertising and Sales Promotion

Unit VII: Consumer Behaviour & Marketing Management

• Consumer and Industrial Buying Behaviour: Theories and Models of Consumer Behaviour
• Brand Management: Role of Brands, Brand Equity, Equity Models, Developing a Branding Strategy; Brand Name Decisions, Brand Extensions and Loyalty
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Drivers, Value Creation, Supply Chain Design, Designing and Managing Sales Force, Personal Selling
• 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
• Emerging Trends in Marketing: Concept of e-Marketing, Direct Marketing, Digital Marketing and Green Marketing
• International Marketing: Entry Mode Decisions, Planning Marketing Mix for International Markets

Unit VIII: Statistics & Operations Management

• Statistics for Management: Concept, Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Probability Distribution - Binomial, Poisson, Normal and Exponential
• Data Collection & Questionnaire Design
• Sampling: Concept, Process and Techniques
• Hypothesis Testing: Procedure; T, Z, F, Chi-square Tests
• Correlation and Regression Analysis
• Operations Management: Role and Scope
• Facility Location and Layout: Site Selection and Analysis, Layout - Design and Process
• Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP Modules, ERP Implementation
• Scheduling: Loading, Sequencing and Monitoring
• Quality Management: Quality Circles, Total Quality Management - KAIZEN, Benchmarking, Six Sigma; ISO 9000 Series Standards
• Operation Research: Transportation, Queuing Decision Theory, PERT / CPM

Unit IX: International Business & IT

• International Business: Managing Business in Globalization Era; Theories of International Trade; Balance of Payment
• 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
• 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

Unit X: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

• Entrepreneurship Development: Concept, Types, Theories and Process, Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies
• Intrapreneurship: Concept and Process
• Women Entrepreneurship and Rural Entrepreneurship
• Innovations in Business: Types of Innovations, Creating and Identifying Opportunities, Screening of Business Ideas
• Business Plan and Feasibility Analysis: Concept and Process of Technical, Market and Financial Analysis
• Micro and Small Scale Industries in India: Role of Government in Promoting SSI
• Sickness in Small Industries: Reasons and Rehabilitation
• Institutional Finance to Small Industries: Financial Institutions, Commercial Banks, Cooperative Banks, Micro Finance

How to Download Syllabus

1. Visit the official HPSC website at hpsc.gov.in.
2. Navigate to the "Notices" or "Syllabus" section.
3. Look for the official notice titled "Ann_Sch_Pattern_Syllabus_Mana_Perso_advt_01_2026_13_08_2026.pdf".
4. Click on the link to download the complete syllabus PDF.
5. Save the file for offline reference during preparation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. What is the HPSC Manager (Personnel) syllabus 2026?
The syllabus covers 10 units including Management, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Strategic Management, Marketing, Statistics & Operations Management, International Business, and Entrepreneurship, as released by HPSC for Advertisement No. 01/2026.

Q2. What is the exam pattern for the HPSC Manager (Personnel) post?
The exam consists of a subjective-type Subject Knowledge Test of 150 marks, to be attempted in English within 3 hours, followed by an interview. The Subject Knowledge Test carries 87.5% weightage and the interview carries 12.5% weightage in the final result.

Q3. Is there negative marking in the HPSC Manager (Personnel) exam?
The official announcement does not mention negative marking. Since the paper is subjective (descriptive) and not objective/MCQ-based, negative marking does not apply in the conventional sense.

Q4. What are the qualifying marks for the HPSC Manager (Personnel) Subject Knowledge Test?
Candidates must secure a minimum of 35% marks in the Subject Knowledge Test to be considered for the interview stage.

Q5. How many candidates will be called for interview?
The number of candidates called for interview will be three times the number of advertised posts, along with bracketed candidates (if any), subject to securing the minimum qualifying marks of 35%.

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