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Description
Management Principles and Practice
Management Principles and Practice is intended to equip the candidate with the knowledge, skills and attitude that will enable him/her to apply management principles in decision making in a practical organisational context.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A candidate who passes this paper should be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of management principles and techniques
- Apply knowledge of management theories in organisations
- Effectively practice management functions such as planning, organising, leading, and controlling in organisations (P-O-L-C framework)
- Demonstrate understanding of management principles and techniques
- Embrace and manage change
- Develop capacity for making rational decisions
CONTENT
- Introduction to management
- Nature of management
- Importance of management
- Levels of management
- Multi-disciplinary nature of Management s
- Roles of management as advocated by Henry Mintzberg
- The changing roles of management and managers
- Qualities of an effective manager
- Management, administration and leadership
2. Evolution and development of management thought
- Classical approaches to management
- Taylor’s view point
- Fayol’s administrative theory
- Max Weber’s bureaucratic theory
- Behavioural management approach
- Elton Mayo-Human relation theory
- Abraham Maslow’s theory
- McGregor’s X and Y theory
- Mary Parker Follett management theory
- Modern management theories
- Quantitative thinking
- Systems thinking
- Contingency thinking
3. Functions of management
- Planning function
- Introduction to planning
- Importance of planning
- Macro-environment
- Micro-environment
- External environment
- Internal environment
- Planning process
- Types of plans
- Approaches to planning
3.2 Organising function
- Meaning and importance of organising
- Factors affecting the organising function
- Process of organising
- Principles of organising 3.Organisational structures
3.3 Staffing function
- Meaning and importance of staffing
- Staffing process
- Factors that affect the staffing function
- Components of the staffing function
3.4 Leading function
- Meaning of leadership
- Attributes and skills of a good leader
- Delegation, responsibility and accountability
- Difference between management and leadership
- Power and Authority
3.5 Controlling function
- Meaning and importance of control
- Steps in the control process
- Types of control
- Controlling for organisational and employee performance
- Tools for measuring performance
- Essentials of an effective control system
4. Enterprise management
- Meaning and concept of entrepreneurship
- Intrapreneurship in organisations
- Entrepreneurial development
- Enhancing creativity and innovation in organisations
- Methods of generating ideas
- Introduction to business plan
- Protection of intellectual properties
5. Change Management
- Meaning of change
- Theories of change
- The change process
- Types of organisational change
- Managing resistance to change
- Innovation at the workplace
6. Project management
- Project management concepts
- Characteristics of a project
- Importance of projects
- Features of projects and baseline surveys
- Project life cycle
- Project planning and organising
- Project resources and costing
- Project completion and evaluation
7. Marketing management
- Meaning and importance of marketing
- Marketing management orientation/philosophies
- Marketing mix
- Developing of marketing information
- Marketing strategies
- Marketing research and intelligence
- International marketing and e-commerce
8. Decision making
- Importance of decision making
- Decision making process
- Decision making models/approaches
- Types of decisions
- Decision making under different conditions
- Challenges in decision making
- Problem solving skills
- Effective decision making in today`s world
