Management Principles and Organizational Behaviour
Subject Overview
The opening paper of the M.Com program builds the management foundation the rest of the degree assumes — the evolution of management thought from Taylor and Fayol through Maslow and McGregor, planning and MBO, decision-making and organizing (structure, delegation, centralization/decentralization) and control, and then moves into organizational behaviour: individual behaviour, motivation, leadership theories, group formation, conflict management, power and politics, and organizational change. A 4-credit core theory paper.
Unit-wise Syllabus
4 units — click WhatsApp below to get the full notes for each
Unit 1: Foundations of management
Definition, nature, scope and functions of management, managerial roles and skills, evolution of management thought (classical, neo-classical, quantitative, behavioural, systems, contingency approaches), contributions of Taylor, Fayol, Follett, Barnard, Weber, Drucker, the Gilbreths, Gantt, Maslow, Herzberg and McGregor, planning importance/types/process, business forecasting, MBO
Unit 2: Decision-making, organizing and control
Decision-making importance, types, steps, approaches and decision trees, concept and process of organizing, formal vs informal organization, organizational structure types and bases of departmentalization, delegation and its effectiveness, centralization and decentralization, control concept, characteristics, process, types and techniques
Unit 3: Understanding individual behaviour
Concepts, determinants, challenges and contributing disciplines of organizational behaviour, determinants of individual behaviour (personality, perception, values, attitudes, learning), motivation concept and early theories and applications, leadership concept and theories (trait, behavioural, transactional and transformational)
Unit 4: Group behaviour and organizational change
Nature and stages of group formation, theories of group formation, group properties, individual vs group decision making, conflict definition and process, functional vs dysfunctional conflict, conflict management, power and politics in organizations, organizational change and development — change agents, models and resistance to change