SRI SRI UNIVERSITY, CUTTACK

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROJECT GUIDELINES

(7th June to 31st July 2024)
About the Summer Internship Program :
The Summer internship program at FMS gives an opportunity to management students to
participate in specific workplace projects in business, industrial or other organizations. Students get
to see contrasting business and managerial work cultures, styles and teams in the midst of legalese,
accounting methods, technology and markets. The Summer internship is an integral and critical part
of management education as it feeds in from the first year and feeds out to the second year.

Guide
The Summer internship is done under the Organizational Guide (OG) & Faculty Guide of FMS.

Role of the Organization Guide :

The organization where the trainee is placed has complete control over an intern’s assignment, title,
and work environment. To achieve the desired training balance between the “why” and the “how”,
students should be assigned to work on actual projects under the close nurturing supervision of one
or more experienced managers called as the “Organizational Guide”. The organization guide, while
giving pointers, should also try to provide the broadest possible, relevant management exposure
during the internship program. S/he should attempt to expose students to a variety of qualitative and
quantitative techniques the company typically uses in its decision making and are considered
relevant to the managerial issues under study. The OG should make the student perform a variety of
meaningful tasks that would be done by individuals in a professional career track.

Internal Faculty Guide :

Every student will be assigned a Faculty Guide at the beginning of the Summer Internship. The role
of the Faculty Guide is to enable the student to undertake a meaningful project, provide the
necessary academic guidance and to facilitate evaluation, with the aid of the company executives.
The faculty Guide would be involved at all stages of the Summer internship, beginning from the
‘definition of the work content’ to the project completion.

Every student works under the counsel of a Company Guide, who supervises and evaluates the
performance of the student at every stage of the Summer internship and gives the feedback to
Faculty Guide. It is the responsibility of the students to utilize the knowledge and experience of the
Company Guide to complete the Summer internship.

It is therefore necessary that the students interact with the Faculty guide and
Company guide regularly to update them about the progress and seeking guidance on
Summer internship. The responsibility of contacting and interacting with the Faculty Guide
vests with the students only.

Students undertaking Summer internship at outstation locations should be in touch

with their Faculty Guide through e-mail of submitting the reports for evaluation as per the
schedule.

Attendance and Conduct :

Students should adhere to the rules and regulations of the organization during Summer internship.
It is particularly important to be regular, punctual and well-mannered at work. During the period of
Summer internship, the student shall be subject to the timings and leave rules of the organization.
Unprofessional behavior, misconduct, indiscipline, irregularity at work and
unsatisfactory performance will lead to cancellation of Summer internship leading failure.

The student will indemnity, defend and hold the institution harmless from and against any
and all loss, damage, liability and expenses arising out of any third party claim, actions or
proceedings by him or by any agents, during the period of internship programme.

Credit for Summer Internship:

1. Initial plan & timelines to be submitted by 20th June 2024. The initial Plan
should include a) Project Topic, b) Project Objectives c) Methods along with timelines for
data analysis.

2. The Interim Report by 15th July 2024 of the internship training.

3. Students are required to submit the final project report by 10th August 2024 after
the successful completion of Summer internship duly approved and signed by their guide. This
final report includes all the contents mentioned in the initial plan.

Plagiarism – The Content Similarity / Plagiarism within a report should be less than equals to
20 %. This is to be tested through “Turnitin” software.

4. Project presentation is mandatory for all the students after the successful
completion of the Summer Internship.

5. Project Report Evaluation

Evaluation Components Timeline Marks

Initial Plan – Blue Print 20th June 2024 10

Interim Report 15th July 2024 10

Final Report 10th August 2024 10

Presentation and Viva As and when announced 20

Note: -
1. Faculty members are likely to check the students’ performance in the
Summer internship. If students are found irregular and non-punctual, their Summer internship
may be cancelled and they may be asked to repeat the same.

2. It is mandatory for all students to submit the hard copy of project report. In
case they do not submit, they are liable to lose the grade. If required, students may maintain
confidentiality of the company by disguising the names.

3. Submissions have to be done as per the timelines mentioned above. Any

submission made after the stated deadline for the component concerned will not be
evaluated and the candidate will be awarded ‘zero’ in that component.

4. In case of any Company related queries, student can contact to their Internal
guide and Head Placements.
Placement Head
Email – [email protected]
Contact No. – 0671-7132768
 SRI SRI UNIVERSITY, CUTTACK
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

APPENDIX- X: Organization of the Summer Internship Projects

1) 3 C Reports –

(i) Company

(ii) Customers

(iii) Competitors

2) OJT Details

3) Problems Identified

4) Literature Review

5) Methodology Adopted

6) Data Analysis - Qualitative / Quantitative

7) Findings & Suggestions

8) Conclusion
 Appendix 1

Guidelines for Summer Internship Project Final Report Preparation

Number of Copies of Summer Internship Report: Two Copies of the Summer Internship Report
should be submitted to the respective guides on or before 10th August 2024 duly approved by the
organizational guide. A student's failure to fulfill this requirement may lead to his/her being
debarred from promotion from first year to second year.

Components: For the order of the components refer to Appendix X (given above)

A brief of each component is given below.

Cover Page: Cover page and second title page must conform to the sample shown in Appendix.

Executive Summary: Each Summer Internship Report must include an executive summary of a
maximum of two pages in single space (about 800-1000 words). It should state clearly and
concisely the topic, scope, method and conclusions reached. The emphasis should be on the
conclusions and recommendations and should be in greater detail than the other sections. The word
limit should be strictly adhered to.

Acknowledgement: Students are advised to acknowledge help and support from library, computer
centre, outside experts, their sponsoring organizations, etc.

Table of Contents: Every Summer Internship Report must contain a table of contents which
provides a view of the organization of the Summer Internship Report material.

List of Tables, Figures and Abbreviations: If the Summer Internship Report contains tables,
figures and abbreviations used, they should be listed immediately following the table of contents on
separate pages.

Introduction: As in the proposal, this should begin with a very brief summary of the company and
its business, and then the complete details of the managerial problem and the background to the
problem, its genesis, consequences of the problem on the business, current practices, etc. It should
start from a broad overview and then move to the specific focus of the study. This should include
the specific business or functional problem being faced by the organization.

Next, it should describe the rationale for the study and the benefits of the project in terms of
knowledge, skill, practices, systems, etc. and how it will help the organization. All of these should
be specified. The next part is to delimit the scope of the project, and to specify the area of enquiry
under the project.

It should continue with a subsection titled 'Problem Formulation'. This should describe the
specific business problem faced and the related issues involved in greater detail than above. The
variables involved would then clarify the focus of the project, what is going to be studied, why it
needs to be studied. This would clarify the objectives targeted in the Summer Internship.

It should then end by reviewing the literature in this regard and the conclusions drawn from a
survey of literature, in a subsection titled "Literature Survey". Students should do a comprehensive
library search on the topic he/she is going to work on for his/her Summer Internship. This will help
in knowing the work done in the past and also the current work/research being done in the
particular area. The survey should cover all the issues raised in the earlier sections of the
introduction and should help in creating a theoretical framework or set of assumptions which will
define the research area under study, in specific terms. This will help frame the problem in terms of
variables under study and in focusing the research problem. The theoretical framework or the
model developed for this purpose will allow for proper operationalisation of the research problem.
Assumptions made in the study must be clearly justified and the grounds or evidence used for the
development of the hypotheses, (i.e., the variables involved, their relationships, etc.), must be given
in detail in this section.

Results and Conclusions: This section should include all the tabulated and text descriptions of the
results obtained in the study. It should be noted that all the tables and figures should be properly
titled and numbered, and listed in the table of contents.

Next, the conclusions and inferences that are drawn from the analysis of the results (in support of
the hypotheses or in the case of exploratory study, the variables identified and/ or involved), should
be stated clearly and specifically. These should bear on the hypotheses, and should be an answer to
the research problem. Thus they should be linked to the initial research problem, and the
conclusions should then be directly related to the various issues regarding the problem under study.

Recommendations: The Summer Interim Report should conclude with the recommendations
developed from the analysis and findings of the study. This is a critical section and should highlight
your specific contributions keeping in view the purpose of the summer. It should demonstrate
learning and use of skill and knowledge in actual problem solving. The last part of this chapter will
describe the limitations of the study and suggest directions for further study in this area.
 Appendix 2

Format for the Cover/Title page of the Summer Internship Report Proposal
(INITIAL REPORT)

Summer Internship Title

(Times New Roman 18 points)

Summer Internship Proposal for

(Times New Roman 11 points)

Master of Business Administration

(Times New Roman 13 points)

by
(Times New Roman 11 points)

Name
(Times New Roman 13 points)

Roll Number
(Times New Roman 13 points)

Under the guidance of

Shri XXX
Designation

Sri Sri University

(Arial 14 points)
CUTTACK -754006
(Times New Roman 12 points)

Date
(Times New Roman 11 points)
 Appendix 3

Format for the Cover page of the Summer Interim and Final Report

Summer Internship Title

(Times New Roman 18 points)

by
(Times New Roman 11 points)

Name
(Times New Roman 13 points)

Roll Number
(Times New Roman 13 points)

Sri Sri University

(Arial 14 points)
CUTTACK - 754006
(Times New Roman 12 points)

Month, Year
 Appendix 4

Certificate of Approval

The following Summer Internship Report titled "ABC …....." is hereby approved as a certified
study in management carried out and presented in a manner satisfactory to warrant its acceptance as
a prerequisite for the award of Master of Business Administration for which it has been
submitted. It is understood that by this approval the undersigned do not necessarily endorse or
approve any statement made, opinion expressed or conclusion drawn therein but approve the
Summer Internship Report only for the purpose it is submitted.

Summer Internship Report Examination Committee for evaluation of Summer Internship Report

Organizational Guide: Signature …………………………………….

Name …………………………………………

Designation …………………………………….

Address ………………………………………..

……………………………………………………

……………………………………………………

……………………………………………………

Tel No……………………………………………

Email:……………………………………………

Name :

Roll No.
 Appendix 5

List of Figures
(start from separate page)

Figure No. Description Page

 Appendix 6

List of Tables
(start from separate page)

Table No. Description Page

 Appendix 7

List of Appendices
(start from separate page)

Table No. Description Page

 Appendix 8

Abbreviations
(if any start from separate page)