• 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

 

• Managerial Functions

 

•  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