Unit 1: Nature of Management
- Management: Meaning and Essentials
- Management as science, art and profession
- Key management functions: Planning, organizing, leading and controlling
- Levels of management
Unit 2: Classical Management Perspective
- Scientific management: Principles and Limitations
- Administrative management: Principles and Limitations
Unit 3: Planning and Decision Making
- Planning: Concept and Rationale
- Process of planning
- Benefits and pitfalls of planning
- Types of plans
- Decision making: Meaning and Importance
- Types of managerial decisions
- Decision making conditions: Certainty, risk and uncertainty
- Decision making process
Unit 4: Organizing
- Organizing: Concept and Principles
- Organizing process
- Departmentalization: Meanings and Bases
- Types of organizational structure
- Drivers of organizing: Authority, responsibility and accountability
- Centralization and decentralization
- Arguments for and against Centralization and Decentralization
- Guidelines for effective delegation of authority
- Challenges for effective delegation of authority
- Differences between delegation and decentralization of authority
Unit 5: Leading
- Leading: Meaning and Importance
- Role of manager as a leader
- Leadership qualities
- Leadership styles: Autocratic, democratic and laisses faire
Unit 6: Controlling
- Controlling: Meaning and Importance
- Process of control: Pre-control, concurrent control and post-control
- Essentials of effective control
Unit 7: Other Management Functions
- Motivation: Meaning and Importance
- Techniques of motivation
- Theories of motivation
- Supervision: Meaning and Role
- Factors influencing supervision
- Communication: Meaning and Importance
- Essentials of effective communication
- Types of communication: Horizontal, vertical and diagonal
- Barriers to effective communication
Unit 8: Contemporary Issues on Management
- Conflict management: Meaning, sources and level
- Talent management: Meaning and Importance
- Quality management: Meaning and Components
- Supply chain management: Meaning and Importance
- Family business management: Nature and Roles
Unit 9: Business Letter Writing
- Business letter: Meaning and Uses
- Structure of business letters
- Qualities of business letters
- Drafting of business letters
Unit 10: Business Plan
- Introduction to business plan
- Significance of business plan
- Contents of business plan
- Formulation of business plan
