Principles and Practices of Management

Paper Code: 
24GBBA303A
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to acquaint students with the management concept, principles, school of management thoughts and functions of management.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

Title

24GBBA303A

Principles and Practices of Management

(Theory)

CO139: Explore the concepts of management, along with the functions, principles, roles, and skills of a manager across different levels of management.

CO140: Compare and contrast the schools of thought in management, and emphasising their contributions and implications for organisational practices

CO141: Analyse the concepts MBO and MBE, alongside evaluating decision making processes

CO142: Develop an understanding of organisational concepts including authority, responsibility, delegation, centralisation, decentralisation, and span of control, alongside evaluating various organisational structures.

CO143: Integrate conceptual understanding and practical application to analyse the nature, types, processes, and techniques of organisational control alongside examining change management.

CO144: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Interactive Hours, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

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

 

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 Behavioural 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: 
Organising
  • Concept, Types, Process and Principles, Authority and Responsibility, Delegation of Authority, Centralisation and Decentralisation, Span of control
  • Organisation Structures: Forms of Organisational Structures, Formal and informal Organisation, Features, Merits and Demerits

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Controlling
  • Nature of control in organisations, 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: 
  • 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

 

 

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

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Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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