Course Outline
Course Title: Principles of Management
B.Com (Term System) Term-IV Paper-III
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:
1. Focus on the foundations of management, covering the essential concepts in
management.
2. Reflection of contemporary trends in management.
3. It offers strong practical focus and also covering latest research studies in the
field.
Book 2, Chapter- A
Introduction to Managers and Management
 What is management and what to manager 1
Book 4, Chapter do?
1
 Defining Management
 Management functions
 Management process
 Managerial roles
 Management skills
 Managing in the new competitive landscape.
Book 3, Chapter - A
Pioneering ideas in Management
2
 Classical Viewpoint
o Scientific Management
o Bureaucratic Management
o Administrative Management
 Behavioral View – Point
o Early Behaviourists
o Hawthorne studies
o Human relation Movement
o Behavioural Science Approval
Book No. 1, Book A
Organizational Culture and Environment
 Manager as symbolic or omni-potent view No. 3
the environment
o Defining Environment
o The general environment
o Characteristics of the environment
o Managing environmental elements.
 The organization’s Culture
o Defining Culture
o Culture dimension
o Strong VS Weak Culture
o Sources of Culture
o How organization can maintain and
continue its culture
Decision Making
 The decision making process
 The rational decision Maker
o Rationality
o Bounded Rationality
o Intuitive Decision Making
 Types of problems and types of discusses
 Decision Making styles
 Analyzing decision alternatives
o Certainty
o Risk
o Uncertainty
 Group Decision Making
Foundation of Planning
 The Definition of Planning
 The purpose of planning
 Types of plans
 Contingency Factors in planning
 Objectives
o SMART
o Multiplicity of Objectives
o Real versus stated objectives
o Traditional Objective setting
o Management by objectives (MBO)
Organizational Structure and Design
 Defining organization structure and design
 Building the vertical dimension of
organizations
 Building the horizontal dimension of
organizations
 The contingency approach to organization
design.
 Common Organization design.
o Traditional organization Design
o Contemporary organization design
Motivating employees
 What is Motivation
 Motivation process
 Motivation Theories
o Content Theories
o Process Theories
Leadership
 Defining leadership
 Managers vs Leaders
 Trait theories
 Behavioral Theories
o University of Lowa model
o Managerial Grid
 Contingency Theories
 Emerging approaches to leadership
 Sources of powers
Book – 1, Chapter A
6
Book 2, Chapter 3 A
Book 1, Chapter A
10
Block
Chapter, 10
2, B
Book 2, Chapter B
II
Communication
 Communication and interpersonal skills
 Understanding Communication
 Group communication Networks
 Organizational communication channels
o Vertical Communication
o Horizontal Communication
o Diagonal Communication
o Informal
Communication
(The
Grapevine)
Controlling
 Foundation of Control
o What is control?
o Importance of Control
o The Control Process
o Types of control
o Qualities of effective control
 Controlling Tools and Techniques
o Information Control
o Financial Control
o Operations Control
o Behavioral Control
Change Management and Innovation
 The nature of change and innovation
o Distinguishing between change and
innovation
o Forces for change and innovation
 The change management and innovation
process
 Resistance to change
 Managing resistance to change.
Managing group and teamwork
 Foundation of Work Group
o What is a group?
o Types of work groups.
o How informal groups develop
o How work groups operate
 Work Group inputs
o Managing diversity: work group
composition
o Member Roles
o Group size
 Work Group process
o Group Norms
o Group Cohesiveness
o Group development
Book 2, Chapter B
3
Book 2, Chapter B
13
Book 3, Chapter B
II
Book 3, Chapter B
15
Social responsibility and ethics in management
Book 3, Chapter B
4
 Organizational social responsibility
o Major perspectives
o Social
responsibilities
of
management
o Social stakeholders
o Does social responsibility pay?
o Types of managerial ethics
Recommended Text:
1. Robbins, S.P. & Coulter, Mary (1996). Management: Practice Hall.
2. Robbins, S.P. & Decenzo, David A. (2001). Fundamentals of Management,
Pearson.
3. Kathryn M. Bartol, David C. Martin. (Latest Edition)
4. Thomas S. Bateman, SCOTT A. Snell, Management McGraw-Hill.
(Latest Edition)