Starting with an overview of the historical developments within the field of management, the module will go on to explore various aspects of management from within the following two broad areas.
1. Key functions of business – managing people, managing strategy, managing responsibly, managing marketing, managing operations, and managing projects.
2. Organisational Behaviour (i.e. the study of the structure, functioning and performance of organisations,
the behaviour of groups and individuals within them).
This is an outline of the syllabus for the module:
• Introduction; What is management and what do managers do?
• Historical developments in the field of management
• Management Science aspects;
• Strategic management
• Operations management
• Project management
• Marketing
• Business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Human Resource Management
• Organisational Behaviour
• Personality
• Motivation
• Groups and teams
• Communication