Other university, Mechanical Engineering , INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTION Syllabus

INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTION

Module – I:Introduction- Introduction to Management: Concept, Definition, Functions; Levels of Management, Skills and Roles of a Manager; Management Process, School of Management thoughts: Pre-Scientific, Classical, Behavioral and Modern; Types of business organizations, merits and demerits, Public Organizations.

Module – II: Planning- Nature & Elements of Planning, Planning Types, Steps, MBO, MBE, Planning Premises. Decision making process, Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty, Participation in Decision making, Creativity in decision making

Module – III: Organizing and Staffing- Formal and Informal, Line and Staff Relationship, Centralization Vs. Decentralization, Basic issues in Organizing, Work Specialization, Chain of Command, Delegation, Span of Management, Principles of organizing; Organization Structure for Departmentalization.

Module – IV: Directing and Controlling: Process, Standards and Bench Marking; Control techniques, Factors influencing control effectiveness, Co-ordination- Principles of Co-ordination; Inter-Dependence.