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Introduction to Management

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Course Title: Introduction to Management

Course No: CAMG304

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 5

Full Marks: 40 + 60

Pass Marks: 20 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. Introduction

4 hrs

1.1. Management: concepts, meaning and functions

1.2. Types of managers

1.3. Managerial roles and skills

1.4. Organization and management

1.5. Changing perspectives of organization

2. Perspectives in Management

7 hrs

2.1. Classical Perspective: scientific management, administrative management and bureaucracy

2.2. Behavioral Perspective: Hawthorne studies, human relations movement, and emergence of organizational behavior

2.3. Quantitative Perspective: management science and operations management

2.4. Integrating perspectives: systems and contingency perspectives

2.5. Emerging management issues and challenges

3. Planning and decision making

7 hrs

3.1. Concept of planning

3.2. Levels of Planning: Strategic, Tactical and operational

3.3. Steps in Planning

3.4. Tools for planning

3.5. Decision Making: meaning, types and process

3.6. Decision making conditions – certainty, risk and uncertainty

9 hrs

4.1. Concept of organizing, process and principles of organizing

4.2. Organization Architecture: vertical differentiation – tall versus flat hierarchies, horizontal differentiation – functional structure, multidivisional structure, geographic structure, and matrix structure

4.3. Authority: line authority and staff authority

4.4. Delegation of authority

4.5. Centralization, Decentralization and Devolution: meaning, reasons, advantages and disadvantages

4.6. Staffing: concept and importance

5. Leading and communication

7 hrs

5.1. Concept and qualities of leadership

5.2. Transformational and transactional leadership

5.3. Leadership Styles: autocratic, democratic, and participative

5.4. Concept of managerial ethics

5.5. Motivation: concept, importance, and techniques

5.6. Communication: meaning, process, and networks

5.7. Types of communication, Barriers to effective communication

6. Controlling and total quality management

5 hrs

6.1. Concept, purpose, Process and types of controls

6.2. Essentials of effective control systems

6.3. Control tools and techniques

6.4. Quality: Concept and importance

6.5. Total Quality Management: concept, components, principles, tools and techniques

6.6. Emerging issues in quality management

7. Organizational Change and Development

5 hrs

7.1. Concept and nature, forces, paradigm shifts and areas (structure, technology, business process and behaviors) of organizational change

7.2. Resistance to change

7.3. Overcoming resistance to change

7.4. Concept of Organizational Development

8. Technology, Organization and Management

4 hrs

8.1. Concept of technology, approaches to technology and organization

8.2. Social networking

8.3. Use of technology in people management

Reference Books

1.Charles W.L. Hill and Steven L. McShane, Principles of Management, Tata Mc-Graw-Hill Company, New Delhi.
2.Griffin, Ricky W., Management. AITBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.
3.Hitt, M.A., J.S. Black and Porter, L.W., Management, Pearson Education, New Delhi
4.Laurie J. M. Management and organizational Behaviour, Pearson, New Delhi

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