Business Management

Paper Code: 
COM 402
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Objective: 

The Objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the functional aspects of Management and help them understand the various involved in each function

9.00
Unit I: 

Management Concepts, Functional aspects of Management, Planning concepts and process, decision making

9.00
Unit II: 

Organization function: Concepts, importance, principles, centralization vs decentralization, Organization structures

9.00
Unit III: 

Staffing function: Recruitment, Selection, process, sources, Job analysis, job specifications, job description, manpower planning

9.00
Unit IV: 

Directing function: Motivation concepts, theories (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor’s X-Y theory, & William Ouchi’s Z theory)

Leadership: Styles and Theories

9.00
Unit V: 

Controlling function: Concepts, importance, process, tools and techniques

Essential Readings: 
  1. Gupta, C. B., Business Organization, S.Chand, NewDelhi
  2. Weihrich, Heinz and Koontz, Harold, Essentials of Management, McGraw Hill, New York
References: 
  1. Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Management Challenges for 21st Century, Harper Collins, USA.
  2. Luthans, Fred, Organization Behaviour, McGraw Hill, New York
  3. Allen, Louis A., Management and Organization, McGraw Hill, New York
  4. Ansoff, H., The New Corporate Strategy, Wiley.
  5. Hampton, David R., Modern Management, McGraw-Hill
Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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