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.

 

Course Outcome(COs):

Course

Learning Outcome

 (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

COM 402

Business Management

CO 125: Demonstrate the roles, skills and functions of management along with understanding of how planning occurs in today’s organizations.

CO 126: Evaluate different organizational structures applied in organizations and help in designing an appropriate structure which is industry specific.

CO 127: Competencies to recruit and select the employees as per organizational requirement.

CO 128: Learn importance of directing and motivation and apply the same for putting workforce in right direction.

CO 129: Evaluate different approaches for organizational control and apply appropriate controlling procedures and techniques for managing organizational operations

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
Unit I: 
Management
  • Concepts, Functional aspects of Management,
  • Fayol’s principle of management,
  • Managements. administration,
  • Planning concepts and process, decision making concept and process

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Organization function
  • Concepts, principles,
  • Centralization vs decentralization,
  • Organization structures (line, line & staff, functional, project, matrix, committee)

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Staffing function
  • Concept, Recruitment,
  • Sources of recruitment,
  • Selection, process of selection,
  • Job analysis, job specifications, job description,
  • manpower planning concep and process

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Directing function
  • Concept, Motivation concepts,
  • theories (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor’s X-Y theory, & WilliamOuchi’s Z theory) Leadership concept, Styles and Theories

 

7.00
Unit V: 
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, McGrawHill, NewYork
  • Drucker, Peter Ferdinand, Management Challenges for 21stCentury, Harper Collins, USA.
  • Luthans, Fred, Organization Behaviour, McGraw Hill, NewYork
  • Allen, Louis A., Management and Organization, McGraw Hill, NewYork
  • Ansoff, H., The New Corporate Strategy,Wiley.
  • Hampton, David R., Modern Management, McGraw-Hill

 

 

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