Description

Management Principles

Management Principles is essential to any organization that wishes to be efficient and achieve its aims. Without someone in a position of authority there would be organizational anarchy with no structure and very little, if any focus.

In addition, it has been said that management has four basic functions – planning, organizing, leading and controlling.

Course Outline

Introduction to Principles of Management

• Who Are Managers?
• Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy
• Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling
• Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance
• Performance of Individuals and Groups
• Your Principles of Management Survivor’s Guide

Personality, Attitudes, and Work Behaviors

• Personality and Values
• Perception
• Work Attitudes
• The Interactionist Perspective: The Role of Fit
• Work Behaviors
• Developing Your Positive Attitude Skills

Developing Mission, Vision, and Values

• The Roles of Mission, Vision, and Values
• Mission and Vision in the P-O-L-C Framework
• Creativity and Passion
• Stakeholders
• Crafting Mission and Vision Statements
• Developing Your Personal Mission and Vision

Strategizing

• Strategic Management in the P-O-L-C Framework
• How Do Strategies Emerge?
• Strategy as Trade-Offs, Discipline, and Focus
• Developing Strategy Through Internal Analysis
• Developing Strategy Through External Analysis
• Formulating Organizational and Personal Strategy With the Strategy Diamond

Goals and Objectives

• The Nature of Goals and Objectives
• From Management by Objectives to the Balanced Scorecard
• Characteristics of Effective Goals and Objectives
• Using Goals and Objectives in Employee Performance Evaluation
• Integrating Goals & Objectives with Corporate Social Responsibility
• Your Personal Balanced Scorecard

Leading People and Organizations

• Who Is a Leader? Trait Approaches to Leadership
• What Do Leaders Do? Behavioral Approaches to Leadership
• What Is the Role of the Context?
• Contingency Approaches to Leadership
• Contemporary Approaches to Leadership
• Developing Your Leadership Skills