CONTENT

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 (M.B.O.) 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 System; Contingency Approach. Planning : Concept, Process and Types; Decision-making : Concept and Process : Management by Objectives.

Unit II   Organising : Concept, Nature, Process and Significance : Authority and Responsibility Relationships : Centralisation and Decentralization; Departmentation; Organisational Structure-Forms and Contingency Factors. Corporate Planning; Environment Analysis and Diagnosis; Strategy Formulation.

Unit III  Direction : Concept and Techniques, Managerial Control— Concept and Process, Effective Control System. Techniques of Control; Motivation and Leading People at Work : Motivation— Concept, Theories—Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor and Quchi, Financial and Non Financial Incentives, Leadership—Concept and Leadership Styles, Likert's Four System of Leadership.

Unit IV  Co-ordination as an Essence of Management, Communication— Nature, Process, Networks and Barriers. Effective Communica-tion. Management of Change : Concept, Nature and Process of Planned Change, Resistance to Change, Emerging Horizons of Management in a Changing Environment.