BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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

COURSE OUTCOMES (COs):

Course Outcomes

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

  1. : Demonstrate the roles, skills and functions of management along with understanding of how planning occurs in today’s organizations.
  2. : Evaluate different organizational structures applied in organizations and help in designing an appropriate structure which is industry specific.
  3. : Competencies to recruit and select the employees as per organizational requirement.
  4. : Learn importance of directing and motivation and apply the same for putting workforce in right direction.
  5. : Evaluate different approaches for organizational control and apply appropriate controlling procedures and techniques for managing organizational operations

Classroom lectures, Group Discussions, assignments, Handouts, PowerPoint presentations,

Case studies, Role plays, Student presentations.

Class test, Semester end examination, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Management

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

Unit II: Organization function

  • Concepts, principles,
  • Centralization vs decentralization,
  • Organization structures (line, line & staff, functional, Divisional project, matrix, committee)

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Staffing function

Unit III: Staffing function

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

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Directing function

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
Unit V: 
Controlling function

Controlling function

  • Concepts
  • Process
  • Tools and techniques

 

 

Essential Readings: 

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.

 

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

·       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

 

e-RESOURCES

·        Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal

·        Asian Journal of Management Cases, http:// sagepub.com

·        South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, http:// sagepub.com

 

JOURNALS

·        Business Strategy

International Journal of Management Review

Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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