Subject Management Concepts and Organizational
Behaviour
Paper No and Title 1: Management Concepts and Organisational
Behaviour
Module No and Module 1: Schools of management thought
Title
Module Tag COM_P1_M1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUBJECT PAPER No.1: MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND
ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR
MODULE NO.1: SCHOOLS OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
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SUBJECT PAPER No.1: MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND
ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR
MODULE NO.1: SCHOOLS OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
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1. Learning Outcomes
Through this module, you will gather information to:
2. Management
Managing as an activity is considered to be of paramount significance.
Ever since human beings started forming groups in order to achieve
targets, that were not attainable individually, managing has played a big
role to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. Management
involves making others work and obtaining the desired level of work by
giving direction to their efforts in an integrated and coordinated manner
that is required to attain business objectives. It is a process comprising of
functions such as planning, organizing, actuating and controlling business
operations in such a manner that is necessary to achieve the premeditated
goals. It also involves securing men, materials, money and machinery
required for the achievement for business objectives and putting all of
them into operation and checking their performance so to assure the
productive and beneficial use of the material resources. It consists of all
organizational activities that require formation of goal and achievement,
performance appraisal and the development of an operating philosophy
that ensures organization survival.
3. Management: Defined
SUBJECT PAPER No.1: MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS AND
ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR
MODULE NO.1: SCHOOLS OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT