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Fundamentals of Management Subject Outline

MGT 102 – Fundamentals of Management is a 3-credit course that covers the evolution, functions, and processes of management, equipping students with essential management skills for their future careers. The course emphasizes understanding management concepts, ethical responsibilities, and practical applications through various teaching methods such as lectures and case analysis. Key topics include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling within a global management context.

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Fundamentals of Management Subject Outline

MGT 102 – Fundamentals of Management is a 3-credit course that covers the evolution, functions, and processes of management, equipping students with essential management skills for their future careers. The course emphasizes understanding management concepts, ethical responsibilities, and practical applications through various teaching methods such as lectures and case analysis. Key topics include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling within a global management context.

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MGT 102 – Fundamentals of Management

Subject Credits: 3

Role of a Manager is undergoing fast changes in the modern world.


This subject exposes the student to all aspects of management – from
introduction to functions, process and theories of management,
evolution of management principles from the era of Scientific
Summary/Overview Management to today’s Global Management, enabling to draw a clear
roadmap for future career in the management profession.

• To make the students understand the basic requirement of


Management studies and to make the students understand
the processes of Management functions.
Aims • To inculcate the skill of understanding management from
the point of view of efficiency and effectiveness

Core Learning Outcomes


Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria
On completion of this unit you should be To achieve the learning outcome you must
able to: demonstrate the ability to:
Understanding the basic Management
concepts and describe the functions, The students will be evaluated based on
role and skills of Manager in the application based assignments and
1. present global perspective, define presentations.
characteristics of an organisation
Understand the history and
background of how management as a
subject evolved and find out how Analysis of cases from various
todays managers still use many management backgrounds by students
2. elements of historical approaches to
management
Need to understand the complicated Analysis of cases on various ethical issues by
types of ethical and social students
3. responsibility issues that managers
have to cope with.
Performance of students in various
Study the specific management management activities like simulation and
4. functions like leadership and control live assignments.

In order to enable the students better understanding the subject the


following teaching methods will be used.
Approach to 1. Lecture Method
Learning 2. Problem solving Method
3. Case Analysis Method.
4. Supervised Study Method.

Outline Teaching Schedule


Sl.
No. Chapter Name Contents
Introduction to Introduction, Definition of Management, Management process,
Management Universality of Management, Efficiency and Effectiveness in
Management, Organization, Definition, Characteristics, Managers,
Managerial Levels, Managerial Competencies, Functions of
1.
Managers, Mintzberg’s 10 Managerial Roles, How The Manager’s
Job Is Changing

Evolution of Pre-Classical Thoughts, Classical Approach Scientific


Management Management, Administrative Principles, Bureaucratic
Organization), Behavioral Approach
,Quantitative Approach, Modern Approach (Systems and
Contingency), Henri Fayol’s 14 Management Principles, Elton
2. Mayo, Hawthorne Studies, Human Relations, Motivation, Douglas
McGregor’s Theory X and Y.

Social Responsibilities, Definition, Arguments for and against,


Social
Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholders of an Organization,
Responsibilities Managerial Ethics, Factors that affect Employees Ethics, Code of
3. and Managerial Ethics, Ethics Training.
Ethics
Planning, Definition, Nature, Significance, Types of Plans, Why
and how do managers plan, Types of goals, Approaches to
Establishing goals, Management by Objectives, Planning in the
Fundamentals of Hierarchy of Organizations, Effective Planning in Dynamic
4. Planning and Environment, Limitations of Planning. Introduction, Decision
Decision making Making Process, Influences on Decision Making, Intuition,
Decision Making Styles, Decision Making Conditions, Decision
Making Errors and Biases, Managerial Decision Making.
Nature and purpose of organizing, Types of organizational design,
Decentralization of authority and responsibility, Span of Control,
MBO and MBE.
Staffing Organization Model, HRM Process, Human resource
Organizing and Planning, Forecasting Manpower Demand and Supply,
5. Staffing Recruitment, Selection, Employee Orientation and Training,
Performance Appraisal Methods, Current HRM Issues.
Leadership, Definition, Methods of Developing Effective
Directing and Leaders, Leadership Traits, Managers vs. Leaders, Levels of
6. Leadership leadership, Leadership Styles, Theories of Leadership.

Meaning and steps in controlling, Essentials of a sound control


7. Control Process system, Methods of establishing control.

Managing in a Global Environment, Adopting a Global


Perspective, Regional Trading Agreements, World Trade
Global Perspective Organization, How Organizations Go Global, Different Business
8. of Management Environment.

Recommended Resources

Essential Book:

Robbins P.Stephens, Coulter Mary, VohraNeharika, Management (Tenth Edition),


Pearson
Education, New Delhi.

Reference books:

1. Harold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich, Essentials of Management, Tata


McGrawHill,
2002.
2. Stoner, Freemand& Gilbert, Management, Prentice- Hall of India, New Delhi.
3. Prasad L.M, Principles of Management, Sultan Chand& Sons, New Delhi.
4. AmitBhat and Arya Kumar Management, Principles, Processes and Practices, Oxford
University Press.
5. George R Terry and Stephen G. Franklin, Principles of Management, AITBS, New
Delhi

– 2002
6. Don Hellriegel, Susan E. Jackson and John W. Slocum, Jr., Management – A
Competency Based Approach, Thomson publication

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