Managing in Today’s World
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
80h
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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
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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.
Reviews
Subjects
- Management
- Team Motivation
- Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Team Development
- Team Performance
- Management Planning
- Management Control
- Administration
- Team management
Course programme
- 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