Introducing Modern Management: Concepts and Skills
A manager’s task, management process and organizational resources,
the key to management success and management careers
Society, Ethics and Sustainability
Fundamentals of social responsibility, social
responsiveness, the social audit challenge,
the philanthropy challenge, the sustainable
organization challenge and managers and ethics
Management and Entrepreneurship: Handling Start-Ups and New Ventures
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship, types of
opportunities, opportunity identification,
opportunity evaluation, opportunity
exploitation, financing exploitation, corporate
entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship
Management and Diversity
Defining diversity, advantages of diversity in
organizations, management challenges with
diverse populations, strategies for promoting
diversity in organizations and how managers
promote diversity
Managing in the Global Arena
Fundamentals of international management,
categorizing organizations by international
involvement, multinational corporations,
the workforce of multinational corporations,
management functions and the multinational
corporations, transnational organizations and
international management special issues
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity in individuals, increasing creativity
in organizations, innovation and creativity, the
innovation process, catalyst for creativity and
innovation: total quality management, the quality
improvement process
Plans and Planning Tools
General characteristics of planning, types
of plans, planning process steps, planning’s
foundation, management by objectives (MBO)
and planning tools
Making Decisions
Fundamentals of decisions, rational decision
making, decision-making and intuition, decisionmaking
tools and group decisions
Strategic Planning: Strategies, Tactics and Competitive Dynamics
Strategic planning and strategy, strategic
management process, environmental analysis,
establishing organizational direction, strategy
formulation tools, strategy implementation,
strategic control, tactical planning and
competitive dynamics
Fundamentals of Organizing
Organizing and organizing skill, Weber’s
bureaucratic model, division of labor, structure
and types of departmentalization
Responsibility, Authority and Delegation
Responsibility and job descriptions, dividing
job activities, clarifying job activities,
authority, delegation and centralization and
decentralization
Human Resource Management
Appropriate human resources, recruitment,
selection, training and performance appraisal
Changing Organizations: Stress, Conflict and Virtuality
Fundamentals of changing an organization,
factors to consider, change and stress and
conflict and virtuality
Influencing and Communication
Influencing, emotional intelligence,
communication, interpersonal communication
and encouraging organizational communication
Leadership
Approaches to leadership, how leaders make
decisions, leaders changing organizations,
leaders coaching others and emerging concepts
for modern times
Motivation
Process theories, content theories: human needs,
importance of motivation and motivation strategies
Groups and Teams
Kinds of Groups, managing work groups, team
development stages and collaboration and
effective teams
Building Organization Culture
Fundamentals, functions and types of
organizational culture, building a highperformance
organization culture and keeping
organization culture alive and well
Controlling, Information and Technology
Fundamentals, the controlling process, power
and control, essentials of information and the
information system
Production and Control
Production and productivity, Quality and
productivity, operations management and
control and control tools
