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Principles of Management (MGT 202
3.0 Cr)
Business & Management
Course Description
This course introduces students to the history,
theory and practice of management. It reviews
different management techniques and their
appropriate applications. Students learn to
assess their own approaches to management
and to formulate management styles and practices
by developing management applications in simulated
management positions. The course content is
incorporated into applied exercises and student
projects so that issues such as organizational
context, strategy, leadership, and human relations
are addressed.
Learning Objectives After completing this
course, students will be able to:
• Discuss various management techniques
• Use those techniques appropriately
in all types of management situations
• Explain the relationships among management
and the organizational environment and culture,
the government, and society
• Apply management functions of planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling
• Analyze an organization's strategy
to meet competition
• Organize people, projects and processes
• Propose processes for increasing efficiency,
coordinating activities, and increasing the
social benefits of the leadership process
Breadth of Assignments
This course uses a variety of methods to explore
the Principles of Management including: textbook
reading assignments, online e-lectures, web
resources provided to support particularly
challenging subject matter, self-assessment
quizzes and graded exams, collaborative projects
involving problem-solving or discussions with
classmates, individual activities ranging
from Java and Flash-based interactive exercises
to writing assignments and case studies.
Required Resources
Daft, R. L. (2003). Management (6th ed.).
Mason, OH: South-Western College Publishers.
ISBN: 0-03-035138-3
Course Summary
Principles of Management
Business & Management
Module/Topics
Module 1: Modern Management
• Management functions
• Identifying different management levels
• Identifying different management skills
• Differentiating between effectiveness
and efficiency
• Management periods
Module 2: The Environment of Management
• Managerial environments
• Differentiating between external and
internal environments
• Identifying the characteristics of
a multinational firm
• The international management environment
Module 3: Managerial Ethics
• Differentiating between law and ethics
• Ethical guidelines
• What is involved in starting your
own business
• Differentiating between entrepreneurship
and intrapreneurship
Module 4: Planning
• Organizational missions
• MBO process steps
• Types of goals
• Types of plans
Module 5: Strategic Management
• Strategic planning process components
• Completing a SWOT analysis
• Formulating strategies
• Implementing strategies
Module 6: Decision Making
• Differentiating between programmed
and non-programmed decisions
• The characteristics that make up a
decision
• The decision-making process steps
• Quantitative decision-making approaches
Module 7: Organizing
• Organizing decisions
• Comparing centralized and decentralized
organization
• Authority relationships
• Departmentalization approaches
Module/Topics Module 8: Change
• Change resistance
• Determining why change efforts fail
• Identifying conflict management strategies
• Employment laws and regulations
• Employee training and development
benefits
• Comparing employee performance appraisal
methods
Module 9: Leading
• Identifying major personality traits
• Identifying different learning styles
• Selecting a leadership style
• Leadership theories
• Managing stress
Module10: Motivating
• Determining motivation factors
• Identifying motivation theories
• Approaches to job design
• Empowerment
Module 11: Communicating
• The communication process
• Using what you learned about communication
to persuade and influence others
• The barriers to organizational communications
• Identifying teams in organizations
• Team development stages
Module 12: Controlling
• Control process steps
• Comparing typical control methods
• Control system barriers
• Budget development processes
• Non-budgetary financial controls
• Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques
• Evaluating Information Technology
system success
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