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MBA SYLLABUS
MBA 101: PERSPECTIVES OF MANAGEMENT

Unit 1 INTRODUCTION: Management, Concept, Significance, Process, Levels, Skills, Functions, Principles; Management as an Art, Science and Profession; Management and environment; Social and ethical responsibilities.

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Unit 2 Planning: Nature, Purpose, Process of planning, Types of Plans; Premising, Types of Premises; Forecasting: Significance, Process and Environmental Forecasting; Decision making : Concept, Types of Decisions, Steps in Decision Making Process, Rationality in Decision; Management By Objective: Concept, Process Precondition.

Unit 3 Organizing: Nature, Purpose, Process; Formal and Informal Organizations, Distinctions; Organizational structures: Significance, Principles of Organization; Departmentation; Span of control: Concept, V.A. Graicunas Theory; Factors determining Span of Control; Delegation: Concept, Process, Advantages and Principles of effective Delegation; Decentralization: Concept, When to Decentralize and How to Decentralize; Line and Staff: Concept, Reasons for Conflicts between Line and Staff and Measures to overcome; Committees:
Nature of Committees, Reason for using Committees, Disadvantages,
Conditions for successful operations of Committees:.
Staffing: Nature and Importance of Staffing, Factors in Selecting Lower, Middle and Upper Level Managers, Skills and Personal Characteristics needed by Managers.

Unit 4 Direction: Elements of Directing; Communication: Importance Process, Media, barriers to communication: Effective communication; Motivation and importance in management- Theories of Maslow, Hertzberg, Theory X and Theory Y, McClelland, Alderfer, Vroom, Porter and Lawler, Techniques of Motivation - Leadership, Trait Approach to Leadership, Leadership Styles, Likert’s Four Systems of Management, Managerial Grid.
Unit 5 Control: Process of Control, Prerequisites, Requirements of Adequate Control; Techniques of Control- American Vs Japanese Managerial Practices.

(Case study is compulsory)
Reference Books:
1 Heinz Weihrich, Harold Kontz, Management: A Global Perspective, 10/e TMH, 2007.
2 Stoner, Freeman and Gilbert, Jr. Management, Pearson Education, New Delhi.2006.
3 Luthans.F. Organizational Behaviour, TMH 1995
4 Robbins, Management, 7/e, Pearson Education, 2006.
5 Singh, Dilip, Emotional Intelligence at work, Response Books, Sage Publications, Delhi 2001
6 Staw, B.W. Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behaviour, New Delhi, 2006
7 Jayanthi Mukherjee, Management & Organisational Behaviour, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2006.
8 Ricky W.Griffin, Management, Wiley India, New Delhi
9 John F.Wilson, The Making of Modern Management, Oxford University Press.
10 Bajaj, Management Processing and Organisation, Excel Books, New Delhi.