BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Paper Code: 
FSG 412
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

CO129 : Demonstrate the roles, skills and functions of management along with understanding of how planning occurs in today’s organizations.

CO130 : Evaluate different organizational structures applied in organizations and help in designing an appropriate structure which is industry specific.

CO131 : Competencies to recruit and select the employees as per organizational requirement.

CO132 : Learn importance of directing and motivation and apply the same for putting workforce in right direction.

CO133 : Evaluate different approaches for organizational control and apply appropriate controlling procedures and techniques for managing organizational operations

Approach in teaching:

Classroom lectures, Group Discussions, assignments, Handouts, PowerPoint presentations,

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Case studies, Role plays, Student presentations.

Class test, Semester end examination, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Management

· Concepts, Functional aspects of Management,

· Fayol’s principle of management,

· Managements. administration,

· Planning concepts and process, decision making concept and process

9.00
Unit II: 
Organization function

· Concepts, principles,

· Centralization vs decentralization,

· Organization structures (line, line & staff, functional, Divisional project, matrix, committee)

9.00
Unit III: 
Staffing function

· Concept, Recruitment,

· Sources of recruitment,

· Selection, process of selection,

· Job analysis, job specifications, job description,

                manpower planning concept and process

11.00
Unit IV: 
Directing function·

 

                 Concept, Motivation concepts,

· Theories (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor’s X-Y theory, &William Ouchi’s Z                theory) Leadership concept, Styles and Theories

7.00
Unit V: 
Controlling function

 

· Concepts

· Process

· Tools and techniques

Essential Readings: 

· Gupta, C. B., Business Organization, S.Chand,NewDelhi

· Weihrich, Heinz and Koontz, Harold, Essentials of Management, McGrawHill, NewYork

· Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Management Challenges for 21stCentury, Harper Collins, USA.

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

· Luthans, Fred, Organization Behaviour, McGraw Hill, NewYork

· Allen, Louis A., Management and Organization, McGraw Hill, NewYork

· Ansoff, H., The New Corporate Strategy,Wiley.

· Hampton, David R., Modern Management, McGraw-Hill

 

 

e-RESOURCES

· Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal

· Asian Journal of Management Cases, http:// sagepub.com

· South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, http:// sagepub.com

 

JOURNALS

· Business Strategy

· International Journal of Management Review

 

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