CONTENTS

1. Management-Meaning, Characteristics and Functional Area 2. Management-Nature, Principles, Levels and Limitations 3. Functions of Management and Managerial Roles 4. Development of Management Thought 5. Planning 6. Types of Plans and Corporate Planning 7. Management by Objectives 8. Decision-Making, 9. Environment Analysis and Diagnosis 10. Nature and Process of Organisation 11. Organisation Structure and Forms of Organisation 12. Departmentation 13. Authority, Responsibility and Delegation of Authority 14. Centralisation and Decentralisation 15. Direction-Concept and Techniques 16. Managerial Control 17. Techniques of Control 18. Motivation 19. Leading and Leadership 20. Co-ordination : Meaning and Nature 21. Communication 22. Management of Change.

SYLLABUS

Unit I.  

Introduction : Concept, nature, process and significance of management; Managerial roles (Mintzberg); An overview of functional areas of management; Development of management thought, Classical and neo-classical systems; Contingency approaches.

Unit II. 

Planning : Concept, process, and types Decision making-concept and process; Bounded rationality; Management by objectives; Corporate planning; Environment analysis and diagnosis; Strategy formulation.

Unit III.

Organizing Concept, nature, process, and significance; Authority and responsibility relationships; Centralization and decentralization; Departmentation; Organization structure-forms and contingency factors.

Unit IV.  

Motivating and Leading People at Work Motivation-concept; Theories-Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, and Ouchi; Financial and non-financial incentives.

Leadership-concept and leadership styles; Leadership theories (Tannenbaum and Schmidt); Likert’s System Management.

Communication-nature process, networks, and barriers; Effective communication.

 Unit V.  Managerial Control; Concept and process; Effective control system; Techniques of control-traditional and modern.

 Unit VI.  

Management of Change : Concept, nature, and process of planned change; Resistance to change; Emerging horizons of management in a changing environment.