Business Organization and Management

Management: Concepts, Nature, Scope, and significance, Management Functions. Principles of Management, Roles and Skills of a manager, Levels of Management.

School of Management Thought: Classical- Scientific, Administrative and Bureaucratic School of Thought, Neo-Classical- Human Relations and Behavioral School of Thought; Modern- Quantitative, Systematic and Contingency School of Thought

Planning: Concept, Types and Process; MBO, MBE
Decision Making: Techniques and Components, Rationality in Decision Making

Organizing: Concept, Types, Process and Principles, Authority and Responsibility, Delegation of Authority, Centralization and Decentralization, Span of control
Organization Structures: Forms of Organizational Structures, Formal and informal Organization, Features, Merits and Demerits.

Controlling: Nature of control in organizations, Types of control, Steps in control process, Controlling Techniques
Change management: Concept, Features, Lewin’s three step model, Resistance to change and Overcoming Resistance to Change