Required Text:
Management. 2nd Edition, Lewis, Goodman, Fandt . 2nd Edition, Lewis, Goodman, Fandt
CATALOG DESCRIPTION: An introduction to the managerial
process of decision making and problem solving related to planning, organizing, directing
and controlling in the typical business firm.
PREREQUISITES: None
Purpose: An introduction to the managerial process of decision making and
problem solving related to planning, organizing, directing and controlling in the typical
business firm.
Competencies/Goals:
- Develop an understanding of the importance of organizations and their management in our
lives
- Identify the traditional viewpoints of management, the behavioral viewpoint and the
systems and contingency viewpoints and how they relate to management today.
- Discover the nature of the general environment facing organizations, including the
economic system, the political system, demographics, and culture.
- How to organize and develop basic strategies for international involvement.
- Determine how traditional, stakeholder, and affirmative social responsibility concepts
are related to the three ethical approaches
- Identify preconditions for meaningful decision making, basic classes of organizational
decisions, and how conditions of certainty, risk, and uncertainty affect individual
decision making.
- Identify the benefits and limitations for making routine and adaptive decisions.
- Learn the differences between strategic planning and tactical planning.
- Discover the essentials of forecasting aids.
- Identify basic elements of organizational structure, types of departmentalization and
principles of coordination.
- Identify key components of the staffing process.
- Learn the importance of motivation, theories of motivation and their application.
- Learn the core skills of effective leaders, where they get their power, how they use it,
traits of successful leaders, behavioral models of leadership, contingency models of
leadership, and how leaders motivate others.
- Learn elements in the communication process, importance of nonverbal messages, channels
of communication, barriers to communication and guidelines for effective communication
- Learn basic facts about groups and teams, group process models, how to use teams
effectively, essentials of quality improvement teams, how organizational cultures are
created and characteristics and implications of clan and market cultures.
- Learn the different views of conflict and the effects of the types of role conflict.
- Learn the basic elements of control.
- Discover challenges managers face, steps a managers should follow in achieving planned
organizational change, reasons why people resist change, approaches to achieving effective
organizational change.
Evaluation
Your grade will be based on a point system as follows:
| Unit Exams & Notebooks |
80-100% |
| Class Participation |
0-10% |
| Article presentation/s |
1-3 pts. |
Grading Scales: Grades will be assigned according to the following:
Letter Grades
A = 90 - 100%
B = 80 - 89%
C = 70 - 79%
D = 60 - 69%
F = Below 60%
Other Information: Students who have excused absences must make arrangements
with the instructor to complete make-up work. Students should attend the first day of
class or contact the instructor prior to the first class. Plagiarism, cheating, and other
forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited. Regular, attentive class attendance and
diligent outside-of-class preparation time will contribute to the successful completion of
the course. |
