Evolution & Development of Management & concomitant implication for people at work.Different Management Approaches:- Max Weber‘s ideal Bureaucracy - Taylor's Scientific Management Movement - Administration Theory - Human Relations Approach, System Approach and the Contingency Approach. Comments regarding approach towards people at work for each Management Approach.
Management Function:- Planning - Organizing - Line & Staff concepts - Authority - Decentralization - Delegation - Differentiation & Specialization.
Management Practices:- Role of Manager - Concept of work - Sources & Extent of Authority - Responsibility & Accountability.
Some Management Processes:- Decision Making - Leadership styles, Job Attitudes - Groups & Group Dynamics, Managing Planned Change - Overcoming resistance to change.
Human Resources Management:- Personnel Management A traditional view of Managing Human Resources - Overview & functions Man-power planning - Job Analysis - Recruitment - Selection - Induction & Placement - Training & Development - Appraisal - Counseling.
Other Personnel Functions:- Wage Administration, Industrial Relations - Disciplinary Procedure - Personnel Research Human Resource Management - Emerging thoughts & concepts since Eighties - Settle differences between Traditional & Emerging views & practices.
International Human Resource Management (IHRM):- Specific issues involved in Managing Human Resources for businesses across the National Boundaries, like - Culture, Compensation, Communication, Competence & Co-ordination - IHRM - Issues related to impact on domestic competitors.
Management & Society:- Management and the public - Quality of life - Social Responsibility.