Management: Concepts, Nature, Scope, and significance, Management Functions. Principles of Management, Roles and Skills of a manager, Levels of Management.
School of Management Thought: Classical- Scientific, Administrative and Bureaucratic School of Thought, Neo-Classical- Human Relations and Behavioral School of Thought; Modern- Quantitative, Systematic and Contingency School of Thought
Planning: Concept, Types and Process; MBO, MBE
Decision Making: Techniques and Components, Rationality in Decision Making
Organizing: Concept, Types, Process and Principles, Authority and Responsibility, Delegation of Authority, Centralization and Decentralization, Span of control
Organization Structures: Forms of Organizational Structures, Formal and informal Organization, Features, Merits and Demerits.
Controlling: Nature of control in organizations, Types of control, Steps in control process, Controlling Techniques
Change management: Concept, Features, Lewin’s three step model, Resistance to change and Overcoming Resistance to Change
Readings:
1. Gilbert: Principles of Management, McGraw Hill
2. Kaul Vijay Kumar, Business Organisation & Management - Text and Cases, Pearson.
3. Koontz & Heinz Weihrich: Essential of Management, McGraw Hill.
4. Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter: Management, Pearson.
5. Y.K. Bhushan: Fundamentals of Business Organisation & Management, Sultan Chand & Sons.
6. Stoner, Freeman, and Gilbert, Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
7. Terry and Franklin, Principles of Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi
8. Mathew, M. J., Business Management, Sheelsons, Jaipur
9. Sudha, G.S., Business Management, RBSA Publishers, Jaipur
Links:
[1] https://www.management.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/fundamentals-management-3
[2] https://www.management.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2017-2018