SIMAD UNIVERSITY
Comprehensive Course Outline: Management
Course Description :
This course and this book are about management and managers. Managers are important to
organizations- no matter the size, kind, or location-their managerial skills and abilities. In
today’s world, managers are dealing with global economic and political uncertainties,
changing workplaces, ethical issues, security threats, and changing technology. Being a
manager there are rewards and challenges.
Course Objective
:
To provide student the best possible understanding of early history management and
contemporary issues facing today’s managers.
Course Outline
Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 6
Part III
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
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Topics
Management and Organization
Why are managers important
Who are managers and where to they work
What do managers do
How is the manager’s job changing
Why study management
Early history of Management
Understanding Manager’s Context
The manager : omnipotent or symbolic
The external environment: constraint and challenge
Organizational culture constraint and challenge
Current issue of organizational culture
Managing Change and Innovation
The change process
Types of organizational change
Managing resistance to change
Contemporary issues in managing change
Techniques for stimulating innovation.
Planning
Managers as Decision Makers
decision making process
Managers making decision
Types of decision and decision making
decision making style
Effective decision making in today’s world
Foundation of Planning
Week
1
2
3
4
5
Chapter 9
what and why of planning
Goals and plans
Setting goals and developing plans
Strategic Management
Definition and the importance of strategic management
What managers do during the six steps of the strategic management
process
The three types of corporate strategies.
Description of competitive advantage and the competitive strategies
organizations use to get it.
Current strategic management issues.
6
Midterm Exam
Part IV
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Part IV
Chapter 17
Part VI
Chapter 18
Organizing
Basic organizational design
Designing organizational structure
Mechanistic and organic design
Contingency factors affecting organizational choice
Traditional organizational design
Managing Human Resource
Human Resource Management Process
Identifying and selecting competent Employees
Providing employees with needed skills and knowledge
Retaining competent, high performance employees
Managing Teams
Groups and the stages of group development
The major components that determine group performance and satisfaction.
Definition of teams and best practices influencing team performance.
Contemporary issues in managing teams.
Leading
Managers as Leaders
Definition of leader and leadership
Compare and contrast early theories of leadership
Describe the three major contingency theories of leadership
Describe contemporary views of leadership.
Discuss contemporary issues affecting leadership.
Controlling
Introduction to Controlling
What is control and why is it important
the control process
Controlling for organizational performance
Tools for measuring organizational performance
Presentations
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8
9
8
9
12, 13
and
14
Course Coordinator:
Ahmed Hassan Mohamud