Business Management

Paper Code: 
COM 402
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

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.
CO 122 Demonstrate the roles, skills and functions of management along with understanding of how planning occurs in today’s organizations.

CO 123 Evaluate different organizational structures applied in organizations and help in designing an appropriate structure which is industry specific.

CO 124 Competencies to recruit and select the employees as per organizational requirement.

CO 125 Learn importance of directing and motivation and apply the same for putting workforce in right direction.

CO 126 Evaluate different approaches for organizational control and apply appropriate controlling procedures and techniques for managing organizational operations

9.00

Management Concepts, Functional aspects of Management, Fayol’s principle of management, management vs. administration, Planning concepts and process, decision making concept and process

9.00

Organization function Concepts, , principles, centralization vs decentralization, Organization structures (line, line & staff, functional, project, matrix, committee)

9.00

Staffing function Concept, Recruitment, Sources of recruitment, Selection, process of selection, Job analysis, job specifications, job description, manpower planning concept and process

9.00

Directing function concept, Motivation concepts, theories (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor’s X-Y theory, & William Ouchi’s Z theory) Leadership concept, Styles and Theories

9.00

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, McGraw Hill, New York

References: 

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

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