Course Code
Objective:
The course objective is to introduce students with the management environment, processes and its importance in business. It is not intended to make them specialist but the approach is general
Course Outlines:
Introduction, overview and scope of discipline
• The evolution and emergence of management thought
• Management functions
• Planning concepts, objectives, strategies and policies
• Decision making
• Organizing; departmentalization, line/staff authority, commitments and group decision making
• Staffing: principles of selection, performance, career planning
• Leading: Motivation, leadership, communication
• Controlling: the system and process and techniques of controlling
• Management and Society: future perspective
Week – 1:
The Business Environment
 System & its types
 Business Ecology
 Types of environment environmental forces
 External environmental variables
Week –2:
Nature and Meaning of Management
 Definition
 Management – Science or Arts
 Levels of Management
 Function of management
 Managerial skill’s
Week – 3: and
Evolution of Management Thought
 The classical or traditional school of thought. Henry Foul Principles
 Scientific Management school
Taylor Principles
 Humans relation school
 Modern management
Week – 4:
Humans relations in Management
 Historical perspective
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Hawthorne Studies
Post Hawthorne Studies
 Behavioral Studies
Week – 5:
The Planning function
 Nature, meaning of planning
 Types of planning
 Planning process
 Planning techniques
Week – 6:
The Organizing Functions
 Meaning, types and goals of
Organizations
 Organization structure
 Authority, Duties and responsibilities of organizations
Week – 7,8:
Departmentalization
 Centralization Vs Decentralization
 Types of organization structure
 Matrix structure
Week – 9:
Control function
 Control of supervision
 Process of control
 Characteristics of control
Week – 10:
Staffing Functions
 Recruitment
 Sources of manpower
 Stages of selection process
Week – 11:
Decision Making Process
 Meaning
 Decision making conditions
 Types of decisions
Week – 12:
Steps in Decision making
 A decision situation
 Decision making technique

Week – 13:
Communication
 Meaning & its types
 Barriers to communication
 Avoiding pitfalls in communication
 Media for communication
Week –14
Motivation
 Components of motivation
 Various human motives
 Motivation theories
Week –15, 16
Leadership Management
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Course Books:
1: Management by Hoseph M.Putti
Publishers McGraw Hill
Reference Book:
1.
Management A Global Perspective
Tenth Edition by “ Harold Koontz”
Publisher McGraw Hill
2.
Management 5 th Edition 1999
Publisher Prentice Hall International
3.
Management A Global Perspective
Tenth Edition By Harold Koontz
Publisher McGraw Hill
4.
Stephen P. Robins, Mary Coulter:
Management
5.
Mc Farland: Management:
Foundation and Practice
6.
Robert M. Fulmer: The New
Management