Course Number: BU260
Course Title: Fundamentals of Management
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
General
To enable students to develop an understanding of
management and organization. The course focuses on important management
functions such as planning, organizing, leading and controlling for successful
managerial activities. The students will learn how successful managers use
organizational resources through organizational functions in order to
effectively and efficiently achieve organizational objectives.
Specific
The student will be able to:
1.
The
students will be able to define management and organization and explain
the challenge of management.
2. The students will be able to explain the history of management and
examine managers' actions in terms of conditions faced at a
point in time.
3.
The students will
be able to define managerial ethics and corporate social
responsibility and explain the classical view, the
accountability view and the public view of ethics.
4.
The students will
be able to define three terms - decision, risk, and problem- as they relate to
the managerial decision making
process. They will be able to discuss different
categories of decisions facing managers and describe the seven steps of the
decision making process.
5.
The students will
be able to define planning, discuss its relationship with
organizational performance, and describe its
benefits.
They will be able to define and discuss differences between strategic,
tactical and operational plans.
6.
The students will
be able to discuss the importance of strategic planning and
strategic management.
7.
The students will
be able to explain the key aspects of job design and work group
design, meaning and nature of organizational
structure and describe the bureaucratic organization structure and
departmentalization.
8.
The students will
be able to describe the meaning and sources of power and
authority in organization, explain the process of
empowerment in
organizations
and explain and give examples of the difference between line
authority and staff
authority.
9.
The students will
be able to describe the delegation process; specify the conditions
for effective delegation; identify and explain
the behavioral
aspects of delegation; explain the meaning of decentralization and
centralization of authority; and identify the
advantage and disadvantage of
decentralization.
10. The students will be able to identify the most
important components of human resource planning; outline a model of
organizational
staffing; summarize the FSM laws regarding equal employee compensation;
explain methods of staff orientation and training.
11. The students will be
able to define the meaning of leadership, specify the major Traits, characteristics, and behaviors of
successful leaders, and explain the leadership styles and what the
leader can do to foster teamwork and quality.
12. The students will be
able to explain the relationship between motivation and performance and productivity, describe a general
model of motivation and identify characteristics that contribute to job
enrichment.
13. The students will be
able to specify the steps in the communication process, identify the major forms of organizational
communication and explain how to improve the sending and receiving of messages.
14. The students will be
able to discuss the nature of controlling function and describe the differences among three levels of controls
in firms: operational, tactical and Strategic; define controlling and describe the
six stages of control process.