Contents: 1. Business administration: origin and evolution. 2. Principles of business administration. 3. Business and industrial organizations. 4. Corporate planning: strategies for healthy, purposeful sustenance and growth. 5. Managing resources for business enterprises. 6. Engineering/Design, R & D and Product Development Management. 7. Project management: an introduction. 8. Capital investment projects: feasibility studies and investment decision process. 9. Facility planning for industrial enterprises. 10. Managing human resources and general administrative affairs in business enterprises. 11. Industrial administration for production and manufacturing processes and support services (QM, PMS, IE/PS, IS).12. Materials management.13. Inventory management and control: a critical function in materials management.14. Supply chain management.15. Commercial management (marketing/sales/customer services/customer relationship management).16. Financial management: finance and accounting functions.17. Budgeting and budgetary control in business and industrial enterprises.18. Total quality management (TQM) approach helps an organization attain business excellence.19. Asset management in industrial enterprises. 20. System – support to business administration. 21. Energy: sourcing and utilization management. 22. Miscellaneous topics relevant to business administration. 23. Business economics. 24. Use of quantitative methods in business decisions. 25. Entrepreneurs’ guide to business management-concepts and practices. Annexures. Index. This book is primarily meant to serve as a management training and development guide for young professionally qualified graduates/post graduates (engineers, MBAs, CAs, and such others) who aspire to make a successful career in the fields of Corporate Business Administration. Laid out in twenty-five chapters, with fourteen annexure and over fifteen illustrative diagrams/graphs etc., the topics are dealt with intimately relate to various functions and activities that are carried out in medium and large industrial and commercial organisations. The book includes topics like project management, capital investments, facility planning, managing human resources and administrative affairs, among other useful topics with lots of insight. The emphasis is on practice-oriented knowledge inputs that will help the young upcoming managers acquire profession competence and functional confidence at an accelerated pace so as to be able to make a productive contribution right from the beginning day and weeks of employment. Such an attitude will help employees meet the expectation of the higher-ups management, without much of a close mentoring from their side. The book is based on author's over 40 years of professional working experience with large industrial houses, as well as long association with reputed professional institutions. This is author's sixth book in the series in the field of industrial and business administration.