Book Description

An excellent book for commerce students appearing in competitive, professional and other examinations. CONTENT 1. Management—Meaning, Characteristics and Functional Area, 2. Management—Nature, Principles, Levels and Limitations, 3. Functions of Management and Managerial Roles, 4. Development of Management Thought, 5. Planning, 6. Types of Plans and Corporate Planning, 7. Management By Objectives (M.B.O.), 8. Decision-Making, 9. Environment Analysis and Diagnosis, 10. Nature and Process of Organisation, 11. Organisation Structure and Forms of Organisation, 12. Departmentation, 13. Authority, Responsibility and Delegation of Authority, 14. Centralisation and Decentralisation, 15. Direction—Concept and Techniques, 16. Managerial Control, 17. Techniques of Control, 18. Motivation, 19. Leading and Leadership, 20. Co-ordination—Meaning and Nature, 21. Communication, 22. Management of Change. SYLLABUS Unit I Introduction : Concept, Nature, Process and Significance of Management; Managerial Roles (Mintzberg); An Overview of Functional Areas of Management; Development of Management Thought; Classical and Neo-classical System; Contingency Approach. Planning : Concept, Process and Types; Decision-making : Concept and Process : Management by Objectives. Unit II Organising : Concept, Nature, Process and Significance : Authority and Responsibility Relationships : Centralisation and Decentralization; Departmentation; Organisational Structure-Forms and Contingency Factors. Corporate Planning; Environment Analysis and Diagnosis; Strategy Formulation. Unit III Direction : Concept and Techniques, Managerial Control— Concept and Process, Effective Control System. Techniques of Control; Motivation and Leading People at Work : Motivation— Concept, Theories—Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor and Quchi, Financial and Non Financial Incentives, Leadership—Concept and Leadership Styles, Likert's Four System of Leadership. Unit IV Co-ordination as an Essence of Management, Communication— Nature, Process, Networks and Barriers. Effective Communica-tion. Management of Change : Concept, Nature and Process of Planned Change, Resistance to Change, Emerging Horizons of Management in a Changing Environment.