- Management- Definitions- Nature and Significance-Management as a Profession.
- Introduction
- Definition of management.
- Nature of management.
- Level of management
- Roles of a manager.
- Evolution of Management and Major Schools of Thought- Early Management Thoughts – Modern Management Thoughts
- Approaches to management/Evolution of managementthought
- Scientific management
- Administrative management
- Bureaucratic management
- MBO
- Human relation approach.
- Behavioural approach
- Quantitative approach
- Systems approach
- Contingency approach
- Planning – Steps – Types of Plans, Basics of Strategies and Policies – Formulation – Evaluation – Correction
- Planning
- Steps in planning
- Hierarchy of planning
- Types of plan
- Organizing – Basic Concepts - Centralization and Decentralization, elements of Organizing, Organisational Structure: Departmentation -Line/Staff Authority and Decentralization, Committees
- Organizing
- Departmentation.
- Levels of management
- Span of management
- Centralization and decentralization
- Authority
- Delegation of authority
- Organizing process
- Organizational structure
- Committees
- Co-ordination Functions in Organisation
- Coordination
- Needs for coordination
- Techniques of coordination
- Difficulties of coordination
- Human Factors and Motivation
- Directing
- Motivation
- Maslow’s need hierarchy theory
- ERG theory
- Vroom’s Expectancy theory
- Equity theory
- Theory X and theory Y
- McClelland’s theory
- Carrot and stick approachs
- Leadership- Styles, Behavioral and Situational Approaches, Leadership Effectiveness
- Directing
- Leadership
- Great man theory
- Trait theory
- Behavioural theories
- Situational theories/Contingency theory
- Transactional leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Communication
- Directing
- Communication
- Types of communication
- Forms of communication
- Process of communication
- Barriers of communication
- Decision Making in Organizations
- Decision making
- Types of decision making
- Steps in decision making
- Models of decision making behaviour
- Decision making environment
- The System and Process of Controlling, Control Techniques and Information
- Controlling
- Definition of controlling
- Types of control
- Control techniques