Business Management

Paper Code: 
BSR 412
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

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):

 

Course

Learning Outcome

 (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

BSR412

Business Management

CO 123 :Understand basics of management along with its core functions namely planning and decision making.

CO 124 :Understand the authority and responsibility together with different organizational structures applied in corporates. 

CO 125 :Understand the function of staffing with a brief introduction to the concepts of Human resource planning.

CO 126 :Identify and understand the function of directing along with its two broad aspects i.e. motivation and leadership

CO 127 :  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

 

 

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, the process of selection, Job analysis, job specifications, job description, manpower planning concept and process

11.00

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

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

Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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