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This course deals with basic principles and processes of management.
Introduction:
Meaning – Scope – Importance – Principles - Functions – Is Management Science or Art? – Is Management a profession as a Career.
Schools & Approaching of Management:
Early contribution to management – various approaches to management – Taylor’s scientific management – functional or preaches approach – Fayol’s principles of management – human relations approach – behavioral sciences approach – quantitative approach – systems approach – contingency approach – other contemporary approaches to management.
Planning:
Meaning – importance – nature – types – steps – factors affection planning – planning techniques - limits to planning – making planning effective.
Organizing:
Meaning – Nature – Importance – span of management – departmentation – authority – and responsibility – types of organization structure – delegation of authority – decentralization of authority – problems in organizing.
Staffing:
Meaning – purpose – importance – recruitment - selection – promotion – developing managers – using manager inventory chart.
Leading:
Meaning – importance – ingredients of leadership- styles of leadership: autocratic, democratic and free reign – likerts’ systems – management grid approach – theories of leadership.
Motivation:
Meaning – motivation – and motivator – importance – the need – want – satisfaction – chain – theory – of motivation – McGregor’s theory X and theory Y – Maslow’s need hierarchy theory – Hergberg’s two factor theory – Vroom’s expectancy theory – McCelland’s achievement – motivation theory- Various motivation techniques.
Directing:
Meaning – scope – importance – principles of direction- consultative direction – limitation of consultative direction.
Co-ordination:
Meaning – nature – importance – principles and procedures.
Controlling:
Meaning – nature – importance- control process – requirements of an effective control system – control techniques.