Principles and Practices of Management
Subject Overview
Principles and Practices of Management is BBA's foundational paper on how organizations are managed — the natural counterpart to B.Com's Business Organization and Management paper, but built specifically around management as a standalone discipline. You'll study the evolution of management thought from classical and scientific management to contingency approaches, then move through planning (including MBO and strategic planning with growth strategies), organizing structures and teamwork, staffing and motivation theories, and the mechanics of authority, delegation, and control. The final unit closes with genuinely current material — Total Quality Management (TQM) and Just-in-Time (JIT) — connecting classical management theory to how organizations actually operate today. This is a 6-credit core paper across 4 units, and it's the conceptual backbone for later BBA papers like Organizational Behaviour, Strategic Management, and Human Resource Management.
Unit-wise Syllabus
4 units — click WhatsApp below to get the full notes for each
Unit 1: Management fundamentals & evolution of thought
Meaning, definitions, nature and scope of management, managerial roles and skills, forms of organization (sole proprietorship, partnership, joint stock company), evolution of management thought — classical and neoclassical systems, contingency approaches, scientific management
Unit 2: Planning, decision-making & strategic planning
Nature, purpose and types of plans, Management by Objectives (MBO), steps in planning, decision-making process and techniques, strategic planning concepts and process, internal and external growth strategies
Unit 3: Organizing, teamwork, staffing & motivation
Formal and informal organizations, task forces, departmentation, organizational structures, avoiding organizational inflexibility, teamwork and team-building stages, staffing — recruitment and selection, motivation concept and theories
Unit 4: Authority, control & emerging management trends
Authority, responsibility and accountability, delegation, decentralization vs. centralization, line and staff authority, functions and types of control, direct vs. preventive control, Total Quality Management (TQM), Just-in-Time (JIT)