An Innovative approach to teaching and Learning Principles of Management/ Chuck Williams

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
1. MANAGEMENT
What is management?
What do management do?
What does it take to be a manager?

2 HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT
In the beginning
The evaluation of management

3 ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURES
External environments
Internal environment

4 ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
What is ethical and unethical workplace behavior?
How do you make ethical decisions?
What is social responsibility?

PART 2 PLANNING
5 PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING
Planning
What is relational decision making?

6 ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
Basics of organizational strategy
Corporate, Industry, and firm level strategies

7 INNOVATIONS AND CHANGE
Organizational innovation
Organizational change

8 GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
What is global business?
How to go global
Where to go global

PART 3 ORGANIZING
9 Designing adaptive organizations
Structure and process
Designing organizational structures
Designing adaptive organizations
Structure and process
Designing organizational structures
Designing organizational process

10 MANAGING TEAMS
Why work teams
Managing work teams

11 MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCE SYSTEMS
Finding qualified workers
Developing qualified workers
Keeping qualified workers

12 MANAGING INDIVIDUAL AND A DIVERSE WORK FORCE
Diversity and why it matters
Diversity and individuals differences
How can diversity be managed

PART 4
13 MOTIVATION
What is motivation
How can perceptions and expectations affect motivation
How rewards and goals affect motivation

14 LEADERSHIP
What is leadership
Situation approaches to leadership
Strategic leadership

15 MANAGING COMMUNICATION
What is communication?
How to improve communication

PART 5 CONTROLLING
16 Basic of control
How and what to control

17 MANAGING INFORMATION
Why Information matters
Getting and sharing information