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Business Management
Course Objectives:
The Objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the functional aspects of Management and help them understand the various aspects in each function.
Course Outcome(COs):
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FSG 412 |
Business Management |
CO126. Understand basics of management along with its core functions namely planning and decision making. CO127. Understand the authority and responsibility together with different organizational structures applied in corporates. CO128. Understand the function of staffing with a brief introduction to the concepts of Human resource planning. CO129. Identify and understand the function of directing along with its two broad aspects i.e. motivation and leadership CO130. Identify the elements of controlling and understand the tools and techniques applied in organizations. |
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 |
Management Concepts, Functional aspects of
Management, Fayol’s principle of management, management
vs. administration, Planning concepts and process, decision making concept and process
Organization function Concepts, , principles, centralization vs decentralization, Organization structures (line, line & staff,
functional, project, matrix, committee)
Staffing function Concept, Recruitment, Sources of recruitment, Selection, process of selection, Job analysis, job specifications, job description, manpower planning concept
and process
Directing function concept, Motivation concepts, theories (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor’s X-Y theory, & William
Ouchi’s Z theory) Leadership concept, Styles and Theories
Controlling function Concepts, process, tools and techniques
• Gupta, C. B., Business Organization, S.Chand, NewDelhi
• Weihrich, Heinz and Koontz, Harold, Essentials of Management, McGraw Hill, New York
• Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Management Challenges for 21st Century, Harper Collins, USA.
• Luthans, Fred, Organization Behaviour, McGraw Hill, New York
• Allen, Louis A., Management and Organization, McGraw Hill, New York
• Ansoff, H., The New Corporate Strategy, Wiley.
• Hampton, David R., Modern Management, McGraw-Hill
