Managing in Today’s World

Course

Online

£ 99 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Class hours

    80h

  • Start date

    September

The course aims:


-To evaluate the usefulness of management theories in understanding the operation of business.
-To understand the development of organisations in their historical, social and cultural contexts,
and the choices that this creates for the management of organisations.
-To be able to use a variety of models of organisational effectiveness to suggest changes to an organisation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Online

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course



After completing the module the student should be able to:


1. Describe what managers do and the roles that they fill.
2. Assess the use of the various models and theories of management in relation to organisations
today.
3. Identify the factors in the wider economy that may affect your organisation’s operations.
4. Assess how a manager’s power and authority can best be used to achieve the organisation’s purpose.

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Subjects

  • Management
  • Team Motivation
  • Leadership
  • Team Leadership
  • Team Development
  • Team Performance
  • Management Planning
  • Management Control
  • Administration
  • Team management

Course programme

Indicative Content


  • Management, administration and leadership
  • Principles of management – Fayol, Moorcroft, Hamel
  • Tasks – Drucker, Stewart
  • Mintzberg’s roles
  • Theories of management – Scientific Management, bureaucracy, Hawthorne experiment
  • Systems theory
  • Economic influences
  • Purpose, power and authority – Friedman, Handy
  • Delegation and empowerment

Managing in Today’s World

£ 99 VAT inc.