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DCC Management Syllabus

This course provides an overview of management from the perspective of a general manager. [1] It aims to help students analyze business situations and address the core aspects of management. [2] Key topics include strategic decision making, resource allocation, integrating organizational activities, and determining corporate purpose. [3] The course uses case studies, discussions, and projects to help students develop a general management mindset and skills in strategic analysis, problem solving, and effective communication.

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DCC Management Syllabus

This course provides an overview of management from the perspective of a general manager. [1] It aims to help students analyze business situations and address the core aspects of management. [2] Key topics include strategic decision making, resource allocation, integrating organizational activities, and determining corporate purpose. [3] The course uses case studies, discussions, and projects to help students develop a general management mindset and skills in strategic analysis, problem solving, and effective communication.

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Doctoral Core Course:

Management

Mark Esposito, Ph.D.


Associate Professor of Management
Swiss Management Center
[email protected]

INTRODUCTION:

This course is designed to enable students to analyze business situations from the point of view of the
general manager, but more specifically with a know-how understanding and confidence, to properly
address the stamina of Management and its pillars. Managers have responsibility for making strategic
decisions that insure the long-term health of the entire firm or a major division. The key tasks involved in
general management include the detection of and adaptation to environmental change, the procurement and
allocation of critical resources, the integration of activities across subparts of the organization, and, at the
most senior levels, the determination of corporate purpose and direction. The course will verge also
significantly on the role of change, its variable and deliverable and its intrinsic force to delegate and
empower the entire concept of Management.

COURSE STRATEGIES & METHODOLOGIES :

To be effective, general managers need to have an in-depth understanding of the generic problems in
relevant functional areas such as marketing, finance, R&D, and production.. However, this does not mean
that general managers can only be “generalists” who know a little bit of everything, but not very much of
any one thing. Instead, general managers need not only functionally-based knowledge, but also the ability
to deal with problems and issues confronting the total enterprise, including relationships between the
enterprise and its external environment.
Students will be expected to combine knowledge from other courses with the new information presented
here to develop sophisticated interpretations and analyses of actual business problems and opportunities,
since DCC 02 Management is considered a core curriculum course, aimed at those foundations necessary to
positively enhance the interaction among business players.
It is increasingly important for executives and non-executives to understand how their actions affect the
total enterprise. Second, functional specialists will also benefit from developing a general management
perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1: You as a Manager


Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Managing Change

Part 2: Assessing the Environment


Chapter 3 Evaluating the External Environment
Chapter 4 Managing within Cultural Contexts
Chapter 5 Ethics and Social Responsibility

Part 3: Setting Direction


Chapter 6 Strategic Management
Chapter 7 Organizational Structure and Design
Chapter 8 Planning
Chapter 9 Decision Making

Part 4: Implementing through People


Chapter 10 Leadership I: Basic Concepts and Practices.
Chapter 11 Leadership II: Approaches and Issues.
Chapter 12 Motivation
Chapter 13 Groups and Teams
Chapter 14 Communication and Negotiation
Chapter 15 Managing Human Resources

Part 5: Monitoring and Renewing


Chapter 16 Control
Chapter 17 Organizational Development and Transformation

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. Development and reinforcement of a general management point of view -- the capacity to


view the firm from an overall perspective, in the context of its environment.

2. Development of an understanding of fundamental concepts in strategic management: the role of the


general manager, the levels and components of strategy, competitive analysis, and organizational evolution
and change.

3. Synthesis of the knowledge gained in previous courses and understanding what part of that knowledge is
useful to general managers.

4. Development of a better understanding of the inner workings of large and/or complex organizations – the
goal being for students to better understand their future work environment.

5. Development of an awareness of the impact of external environmental forces (technological,


governmental, demographic, social, etc.) on business and corporate strategy.

6. Practice in distinguishing between basic causes of business problems and attendant symptoms.

7. Practice in working out business strategies and implementation plans.

8. Development of habits of orderly, analytical thinking and skill in reporting conclusions effectively in
both written and oral form.
9. Familiarity with some of the practical realities of running different types of businesses.

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES:

This course will include fora, case studies, paced assignments, self-quizzes and a series of learners’ friendly
powerpoint and e-chapters. The insertion of real life videos and business articles will enhance its reflection
towards the current trends. A section on case studies, with subsequent subdivision of thematic areas of
research are available on the Coursecompass environment. Cases depict real companies scenarios and are a
great asset for the best understanding of Management and its specifics.

REQUIRED READING:

Management, 2005, 1st Edition. Authors - Hitt, Black, & Porter Publisher:Pearson/Prentice Hall.

ASSESSING STRATEGIES AND EXAMS :

The course will offer an applicative project which will be assigned in the initial part and which will offer
an opportunity to develop effective management strategies against a contemporary discussion issue. The
project will be divided as follows:

Phase 1 20%
Phase 2 25%
Phase 3 25%

Upon successful completion of these 3 phases, the student and professor will agree a date for the final
exam.The assessment strategy for this latter is as follows:

Final exam 30%

Instuctions on the final exams, length of the exam, access and general rules, will be disclosed by the
instructor when appropriate, in due course.

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