Fundamentals of Management

Catalog description

This course provides a framework for understanding the opportunities and challenges impacting managers and how they conduct business. Management is about working with teams of employees to achieve organizational goals andperforming the work effectively and efficiently. Successful management requires managers to master the four main functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managing these functions is essential for achievingimportant organizational goals. Students will learn the skills needed to manage people in the changing demands of a global environment, emphasizing theroles and challenges of managing a diverse workforce, increasing ethical awareness and social responsiveness, developing commitments to quality 35and productivity, and developing decision-making and interpersonal team building skills. The course aims to increase the students' self-awareness, foster critical-thinking skills, and analyze, solve, and communicate solutions to the practical problems faced by managers. Using an experiential learning method, students will focus applying key principles to the human side of management through role-playexercises, simulations, expert talks, and group projects.