Course Details

1. Explain stress and individual behaviour and its effects in the management process.
2. Illustrate the way organizational change can be managed.
3. Critically evaluate the process of decision-making as a function of management within organisations.
4. Identify the various functional fields of management integrated within a strategic framework.
5. Demonstrate the process of decision making, as well as the strategic management nature and process.
6. Apply the different methods available for effectively driving decision making for achieving organisational effectiveness.
7. Demonstrate the importance of leadership and influence processes.
8. Evaluate the need for social responsibility and bring ethics into the business realm.

Stress and Individual Behaviour

Causes and consequences of stress

Managing stress

Managing Organizational Change

Forces for change – Planned vs Reactive Change

Managing change in organizations

Business Decision Making

Major issues and concepts in Business Decision Making

Types of decisions – Decision making conditions

Perspectives in Decision Making

Rational Perspectives on Decision making

Behavioural Aspects of Decision Making

Models and Forces in Decision Making

The administrative model

Political forces in decision making - Intuition and escalation of commitment

Risk Ethics Group Decision Making

Risk propensity and decision making - Ethics and decision making

Group and Team Decision Making in Organizations

Managing Leadership and Influence Processes

The nature of leadership

Leadership and management – Leadership and power

Generic approaches to leadership

Situational approaches to leadership

Emerging approaches to leadership

Organizational Strategies

The nature of strategic management

Strategy formulation and implementation

Porter’s generic strategies

Strategies based on the product life cycle

• Griffin, W.R. Management, 8th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2008

• Deresky, H. International Management, 6th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2007
• Hatten, T. S. Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Beyond, 4th edition, South Western College Pub, 2008
• Certo, S. Modern Management, Prentice Hall, 2003