Management

Aims of the course

This course is designed to familiarize the student with the basic functions of management, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Additional selected topics of interest to managers will also be examined. The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and process of management as applied to a variety of settings within organizations and with relation to the environment of the 21st century. Management entails the coordination of tasks for the achievement of set objectives and is defined as the creative solving of problems, which occur in the planning, organizing, leading and controlling of resources.

Course syllabus

1. Fundamentals of management
2. Planning function
3. Organizing function
4. Leading function
5. Controlling function
6. Case studies of organizations in practice
7. Role-modelling and trends recognition and trend-setting in contemporary management practice

Course director(s)