Fundamentals of Management

Paper Code: 
CBBA 101
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
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, Decision Making

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

12.00
Unit IV: 
Organizing

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 & Change management

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. 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. Y.K. Bhushan: Fundamentals of Business Organisation & Management, Sultan Chand & Sons.
6. Stoner, Freeman, and Gilbert, Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.

References: 

1. Terry and Franklin, Principles of Management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi
2. Mathew, M. J., Business Management, Sheelsons, Jaipur
3. Sudha, G.S., Business Management, RBSA Publishers, Jaipur

Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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