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ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
(Department of Business Administration)
Course: Management Theory & Practice (137) Semester: Autumn: 2010
Level: BBA
CHECKLIST
This packet comprises the following material:
- Text Book
- Assignments No. 1 & 2
- Course Outline
- Assignment 6 forms (2 sets)
- Assignment submission schedule
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Mailing Section, Block # 28
Allama Iqbal Open University,
Sector H-8, Islamabad.
Tel: (051) 9057611, 9057612
Mohammad Majid Mahmood Bagram
Course Coordinator
ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
(Department of Business Administration)
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Course: Management Theory & Practice (137) Semester: Autumn, 2010
Level: BBA Total Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 40
ASSIGNMENT No. 1
(Units: 1–4)
Q.1 (a) How do today’s managers use general administrative theories? (10)
(b) How do today’s managers use scientific management? (10)
Q.2 Write notes on the following current trends and issues: (6+6+8)
(a) Globalization
(b) Workforce diversity
(c) Entrepreneurship
Q.3 (a) What is organizational career? Discuss strong versus weak culture. (10)
(b) What are the limitations to rational decision-making? Give practical examples from day to day life. (10)
Q.4 Describe decision-making steps. Also, discuss the techniques for improving decision-making. (20)
Q.5 Explain management roles and functions. Also, discuss the historical background of management. (20)
ASSIGNMENT No. 2
(Units 5-9)
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40
Q.1 Why and how do managers plan? Also, discuss temporary planning techniques in detail. (20)
Q.2 Explain the importance of motivation in any organization. Also, discuss the basic assumptions about motivation. (20)
Q.3 Describe qualities for an effective control system? Discuss the importance of information system as a tool of controlling. (20)
Q.4 What is organizational performance? Also, discuss the tools for monitoring and measuring organizational performance. (20)
Q.5 What is meant by organizational structure and design? Also, explain the contingency approach to organizational design with appropriate examples. (20)
Management Theory and Practice
Course Outlines BBA (137)
COURES COORDINATOR:
Mohammad Majid Mahmood Bagram
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Administration,
AIOU, Islamabad. Tel: (051)-9057406
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course covers major aspects of management theory & practice with primary focus on management yesterday and today, organizational culture and the environment, decision making, planning, organizing, motivation, leadership, and foundations of control. This course is designed to prepare students for more advanced courses in management.
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course the student will:
1. Have a broad familiarity with the terms, theories, roles, responsibilities and skills required for modern managers.
2. Be able to apply organizational and managerial concepts.
3. Be familiar with the major functions of management and how these functions relate to successful management.
4. Be familiar with the major aspects of management theory & practice.
BRIEF COURSE OUTLINE:
Unit 1 Introduction to Management
Unit 2 Management Yesterday and Today
Unit 3 Organizational Culture and the Environment
Unit 4 Decision Making: the Essence of the Manager’s Job
Unit 5 Planning
Unit 6 Organizing
Unit 7 Motivation
Unit 8 Leadership
Unit 9 Foundations of Control
DETAILED COURSE OUTLINES
Unit–1 INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
§ Who are managers?
§ What is management?
§ Why Study Management?
§ Management roles and functions.
Unit–2 MANAGEMENT YESTERDAY AND TODAY
§ Historical background of management
§ Scientific management
— How do today’s managers use scientific management?
§ General administrative theorists
— How do today’s managers use general administrative theories?
§ Current trends and issues
— Globalization
— Workforce diversity
— Entrepreneurship
Unit–3 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
§ What is organizational culture?
§ Strong versus weak cultures.
§ The changing global environment.
§ How organizations go international?
§ The legal-political environment
§ The economic environment
§ The cultural environment
Unit–4 DECISION MAKING: THE ESSENCE OF THE MANAGER’S JOB
§ The decision-making process
§ The manager as decision maker
§ Problems and decisions.
§ Decision-making styles
§ Techniques for improving decision making
Unit–5 PLANNING
§ What is planning?
§ Why and how do managers plan?
§ Techniques for allocating resources
§ Contemporary planning techniques
Unit–6 ORGANIZING
§ Organizational structure and design
§ Organizational design decisions
— Mechanistic and organic organizations
— Contingency factors
§ Common organizational designs
— Traditional organizational designs
— Contemporary organizational designs
§ Managerial communication and information technology
— What is communication?
— The process of interpersonal communication.
— Barriers to effective interpersonal communication.
Unit–7 MOTIVATION
§ What is motivation?
§ Early theories of motivation:
— Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory
— McGregor’s theory X and Theory Y
— Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory
§ Contemporary theories of motivation:
— Three-Needs theory
— Goal-Setting theory
— Reinforcement Theory
§ Current issues in motivation:
Unit–8 LEADERSHIP
§ Managers versus leaders
§ Early leadership theories:
— Trait theories
— Behavioral theories
§ Contingency theories of leadership:
— The Fiedler model
— Path-Goal theory
— Leader Participation model
— Situational leadership theory.
§ Approaches to leadership:
— Transactional versus transformational leadership
— Charismatic leadership
§ Contemporary Issues in leadership:
— Leaders and Power
§ Leadership Styles and different cultures
Unit–9 FOUNDATIONS OF CONTROL
§ What is control?
§ Why is control important?
§ The control process:
— Measuring
— Comparing
— Taking managerial action
§ Types of control:
— Feed forward control
— Concurrent control
— Feedback control
§ Implications for managers:
— Qualities of an effective control system.
— Contingency factors in control.
§ What is organizational performance?
§ Tools for monitoring and measuring organizational performance
RECOMMENDED BOOKS (LATEST EDITIONS)
1. Management by Stephen P. Robbins & May Coulter, Printer National Book Foundation, Islamabad.
2. Management by John R. Schermerhorn, publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, ISBN-13:9780470078358
3. Management by Leslie Rue, Lloyd L. Byars, Lloyd L. Byars, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, ISBN-13:9780073530147