BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Paper Code: 
BSG 412
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

CO129    : Demonstrate the roles, skills and functions of management along with understanding of how planning occurs in today’s organizations.

CO130    : Evaluate different organizational structures applied in organizations and help in designing an appropriate structure which is industry specific.

CO131    : Competencies to recruit and select the employees as per organizational requirement.

CO132    : Learn importance of directing and motivation and apply the same for putting workforce in right direction.

 CO 133: 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, Divisional 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 concept and process
11.00
Unit IV: 
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
 
• 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..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
References: 
 
• 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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