Principles of Management

O.P. Jindal Global University via Coursera

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12 weeks, 2 hours a week
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Self-Paced
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Beginner
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English, Vietnamese

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Build the management skills you need to plan effectively, organize teams, lead people, and drive organizational performance. Principles of Management gives aspiring and practicing managers a structured foundation in the core principles, functions, and practices of effective management. Explore how management has evolved, how managers make decisions, and how planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling work together to achieve organizational goals. You’ll also examine strategy, organizational structure, empowerment, workplace culture, human resource management, performance appraisal, motivation, leadership, communication, teamwork, productivity, operations management, and total quality management. Go beyond theory with practice assignments, discussions, role plays, case-based activities, and graded assessments designed to help you connect management concepts with real organizational situations. Whether you’re an aspiring manager, business professional, team leader, entrepreneur, or student building a foundation in management, this course can help you develop a clearer understanding of how effective managers think, communicate, make decisions, and improve organizational effectiveness. Enroll now to strengthen your management, leadership, strategic planning, decision-making, and organizational skills—and prepare to manage with greater confidence and effectiveness.

Syllabus

Management Theory and Practice
- In this module, you will learn about the nature and purpose of management applicable to all types of organizations and to managers at all organizational levels. The module outlines the evolution of management theories and highlights the emergence of modern management thought. It discusses how management is both a science and an art, and further analyzes the concepts of organizational efficiency and effectiveness. You will gain insights into the various functions of management—planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. The module discusses various approaches to management and their contribution.
Management and Society
- In this module, you will learn about the organization and its external environment. The module describes the nature of the pluralistic society and selected environments which will help you understand the impact of technological and innovative environments. The module discusses the social responsibility of managers and puts forward arguments for and against the social involvement of business. You will also be able to understand the nature and importance of ethics in managing and ways to institutionalize ethics and raise ethical standards.
Weekly Summative Assessment: Management Theory and Practice, and Management and Society
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the module covered in this week.
Planning
- In this module, you will learn about the essentials of planning and why it is important. The module outlines the concept of management by objectives. You will learn about the strategies, policies, and planning premises. The module also discusses the importance of decision-making. You will also gain insights into global perspectives of managerial planning.
Organizing
- In this module, you will learn about the nature of organizing, organizational structure, departmentalization, levels, and types of authority. The module analyzes the first days of leadership. You will gain insights into the concepts of empowerment, centralization, and decentralization. The module also discusses effective ways of organizing and developing organizational culture.
Weekly Summative Assessment: Planning and Organizing
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the module covered in this week.
Staffing
- In this module, you will learn about the managerial function of staffing. The module provides an understanding of human resource management, performance appraisal, and career strategy. You will also learn about managing change through the manager and organizational development.
Leading
- In this module, you will learn about human factors and motivation theories. You will be able to understand leadership theories, and various leadership styles. The module explains the purpose of communication, communication process, and breakdowns in communication. The module describes the nature of teams, team building, self-managing teams, and virtual teams.
Weekly Summative Assessment: Staffing and Leading
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the module covered in this week.
Controlling
- In this module, you will learn about the process of controlling, controlling techniques, ways of effective control, and control techniques. You will also be able to understand productivity, operations management, and total quality management.
Principles of Managerial Functions
- In this module, you will learn about the fundamental principles or guides for the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. You will also gain insights into the conceptual schema of each managerial function. The module outlines the purpose, and nature of each function and its corresponding principles, structure, and control mechanisms.
Weekly Summative Assessment: Controlling and Principles of Managerial Functions
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the module covered in this week.