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DME 101 Management Principles and Values
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COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course intends to develop the basic awareness of management
functions and various dimensions of organizational life. It also attempts to provide exposure of
the ethical dilemma in management practices.
COURSE STRUCTURE:
Concept of Management: Its nature, scope and purpose. Managing Science or Art.
Management Vs Administration, Skills of a Manager. Organization and its pervasiveness.
Reasons for organizations. Significance of Goals in Organizations.
Evolution of Management Thought: Scientific Management. Frederick W.Taylor.
Contributions and Limitations of Scientific Management Theory. Classical Organisation
Theory. Contributions and Limitations of Classical Organisation Theory. Henry Fayol’s
Principles of Management, Human Relations Movement: The Hawthorne Experiments.
Concept of System and Systems Approach. Organizations as Socio-technical systems. The
contingency approach to Management.
Organisation Structure: Formal and Informal organisations. Forms of formal organisation
structures. Line and staff organisation. Functional Organisation. Product/Market
Organisation. Project organisation and Matrix organisation. Benefits and Cost of Informal
Organisations.
Decision-Making: Phases of Decision-Making. Problem Discovery. Problem Definition.
Goal Setting. Developing Alternatives, Evaluating alternative and Making choices, Nature of
Managerial Decision-making. Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty. Rationality, Behavioural
and Emotional Barriers to Decision-Making. Dealing with barriers to Decision-Making.
Group as Decision- maker. Individual Vs. Group Decision-making.
Management Process: Plans and Decision Making. Basic Steps in Planning. Operational
Plans. Single use Plans. (Policies, Strategies) and standing plans (Projects, Programs,
Budgets). Forecasting.
Organizing: Division of work. Job Specialization. Span of Management Organisation
Chart. Coordination. Approaches to achieving effective coordination. Selecting the
appropriate coordination mechanism. Delegating and Decentralisation. Concept and
significance of delegation. Delegation, Authority, Accountability and Responsibility.
Classical guidelines for delegation and its limitations. Effective Delegation. Factors
influencing Decentralisation. Centralisation Vs. Decentralisation.
Communication: Importance of Communication. The Communication Process - Channels
of Communications. Formal and Informal barriers to Effective Communication.
Overcoming Barriers to interpersonal communication. Communication in Organization.
Factors influencing organisation communications. Communication network within the
organizations: Vertical, horizontal, diagonal and informal. Overcoming organizational
barriers to communication.
Controlling : The meaning of control. Steps in Control Process. Importance of Control.
Types of Control Methods. Sources of Control. Design of the Control Process.
Characteristics of effective Control System.
Values in Management: Transnational environment and perspectives of business. Quality
of work life (“QWL). Japanese Management Techniques. Search for Excellence. Human
Values In Management: Indian perspectives. Values for Managers. Ethical dilemma In
Management. Indian versus Western concepts of ethics and values, contextual ethics. Selfdevelopment
and lessons from Ancient Indian Traditions.
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