Fundamentals of Management (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24CBTM101
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to acquaint students with the management concept, principles, school of management thoughts and functions of management.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24CBTM101

Fundamentals of Management

(Theory)

 

CO13: Explore the concepts of management, along with the functions, principles, roles, and skills of a manager across different levels of management.

CO14: Compare and contrast the schools of thought in management, and emphasizing their contributions and implications for organizational practices

CO15: Analyze the concepts MBO and MBE, alongside evaluating decision making processes

CO16: Develop an understanding of organizational concepts including authority, responsibility, delegation, centralization, decentralization, and span of control, alongside evaluating various organizational structures.

CO17: Integrate conceptual understanding and practical application to analyze the nature, types, processes, and techniques of organizational control alongside examining change management.

CO18: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Hours, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Group tasks

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

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Management: Concepts, Nature, Scope, and significance, Management Functions. Principles of Management, Roles and Skills of a manager, Levels of Management.

12.00
Unit II: 

School of Management Thought: Classical- Scientific, Administrative and Bureaucratic School of Thought, Neo-Classical- Human Relations and Behavioral School of Thought; Modern- Quantitative, Systematic and Contingency School of Thought

12.00
Unit III: 

Planning: Concept, Types and Process; MBO, MBE Decision Making: Techniques and Components, Rationality in Decision Making

12.00
Unit IV: 

Organizing: Concept, Types, Process and Principles, Authority and Responsibility, Delegation of Authority, Centralization and Decentralization, Span of control

Organization Structures: Forms of Organizational Structures, Formal and informal Organization, Features, Merits and Demerits.

12.00
Unit V: 

Controlling: Nature of control in organizations, Types of control, Steps in control process, Controlling Techniques. Change management: Concept, Features, Lewin’s three step model, Resistance to change and Overcoming Resistance to Change

Essential Readings: 

1. Mathew, M. J., Business Management, Sheelsons, Jaipur
2. Nolakha, R.L., Principles of Management, RBD Publication, Jaipur and Delhi
3. Sudha, G.S., Business Management, RBSA Publishers, Jaipur

References: 

Suggested Readings:

  1. Gilbert: Principles of Management, McGraw Hill
  2.  Kaul Vijay Kumar, Business Organisation & Management - Text and Cases, Pearson.
  3. Koontz & Heinz Weihrich: Essential of Management, McGraw Hill.
  4. Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter: Management, Pearson.
  5. Stoner, Freeman, and Gilbert, Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
  6. Terry and Franklin, Principles of Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi
  7. Y.K. Bhushan: Fundamentals of Business Organisation & Management, Sultan Chand & Sons.

 

E-Resources:

  1. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/34
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271644626_Principles_of_Management
  3. https://www.123helpme.com/topics/management-principles
  4. http://Community.WorldLibrary.In/?AffiliateKey=NDL-FL1773  

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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