This document outlines the topics that will be covered in a management course, including definitions of management and its functions, the evolution of management theories from early thinkers to current times, the impact of globalization and technology, the processes of planning, decision making, organizational design, and control. It discusses strategic versus operational planning, models of strategy formulation, organizational structures, principles of coordination and authority, and techniques for management control like budgetary control and internal auditing.
2. • Definitions, Nature and Scope of Management
• Functions and process of management
• Evolution of management theory from Taylor,
Fayol, Drucker to the present.
• Growth of professional management in India.
Ethics in management.
• Impact of globalization to management
• Impact of Technology.
3. Unit II: MANAGERIAL PLANNING
• Planning process, Planning in uncertain
environments,
• Types of plans, strategic vs. operational plans,
• Models of strategy formulation, linking strategy
to structure.
4. Unit III- DECISION MAKING
• Managerial decision-making process and
models
• Steps in rational decision-making
• Creativity and group decision-making.
5. Unit IV: ORGANIZATIONS
• Organizational theories and design, various forms of
organization structures, span of management
• Principles of coordination, authority, power, delegation
and decentralization
• Contingency variables that affect structure –
organization design applications
6. Unit V– MANAGERIAL CONTROL
• Relationship between planning and control-limitations of control, types
of control systems and techniques – management by exception,
• Budgetary control, functional and dysfunctional aspects of budgetary
control, internal control systems
• Internal audit and management audit.
