Management: Concepts, Nature, Scope, and significance, Management Functions
School of Management Thought: Classical, Neo-Classical and Modern School of Thought
Planning: Concept, Types and Process; MBO, MBE, Decision Making, Techniques and components, Rationality in decision making
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.
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