Fundamentals of Management

Paper Code: 
CBBA 101
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to

• To acquaint students with the management concept, principles, school of management thoughts and functions of management.

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

CBBA 101

Fundamentals of Management

CO 9: Understand the nature and functions of management.

CO 10: Describe the development of management thought.

CO 11: Explain planning and decision making, and their techniques.

CO 12: Identify the organization structures used in business.

CO 13: Inculcate the managerial skills among students.

CO 14: Learn change management and controlling process.

Interactive Hours, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

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

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Management: 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: 

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

• Sudha, G.S., Business Management, RBSA Publishers, Jaipur

• Mathew, M. J., Business Management, Sheelsons, Jaipur

• Nolakha, R.L., Principles of Management, RBD Publication, Jaipur and Delhi SUGGESTED READINGS:

References: 

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

E-RESOURCES:

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

JOURNALS:
• Asian Journal of Management Cases
• South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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