Introduction: Management: Introduction, Definition of management,Nature, Purpose and Functions, Levels and types of managers, managerial roles, skills for managers, evolution of management thought,Fayol’s fourteen principles of management, Recent trends in management.
Planning: Nature of Planning, Planning Process, Objectives, MBO, Strategies, level of strategies, policies, methods and programs, Planning Premises, Decision-making, Process of decision-making, Types of decisions, Techniques in decision-making.Organizing: Organization structure, Formal and informal organizations, Principles of organizations-chain of command, span of control, delegation, decentralization, and empowerment. Functional, divisional, geographical, customer based and matrix organizations, tram based structures, virtual organizations, boundary less organizations.
Controlling: Controlling, importance of controlling, controlling process, types of control, factors influencing control effectiveness.
Introduction: Organizational Behaviour: Introduction, definition, historical development, fundamental principles of OB, contributing disciplines, challenges and opportunities.
Foundations of Individual Behaviour: Individual behaviour:Foundations of individual behaviour. Ability: Intellectual abilities, Physical ability, the role of disabilities.Personality: Meaning, formation, determinants, traits of personality, big five and MBTI, personality attributes influencing OB.Attitude: Formation, components of attitudes, relation between attitudeand behaviour.Perception: Process of perception, factors influencing perception, linkbetween perception and individual decision-making.
Motivation: Meaning, theories of motivation-needs theory, two factor theory, Theory X and Y, application of motivational theories.Leadership: Meaning, styles of leadership, leadership theories, trait theory, behavioural theories, managerial grid, situational theoriesPractical Components:• Studying organizational structures of any 10 companies andclassifying them into different types of organizations which arestudied in Unit 2 and justifying why such structures are chosen bythose organizations.• Preparing the leadership profiles of any 5 business leaders andstudying their leadership qualities and behaviours with respects tothe trait, behavioural and contingency theories studied.• Identifying any five job profiles and listing the various types,abilities required for those jobs and also the personalitytraits/attributes required for the jobs identified