1. Introduction to management; Line managers, Middle managers, Top managers; Efficiency; Effectiveness; Management functions; Management roles.

2. Management skills; Change in the job of managers; Traditional organization; Learning organization; Purpose of studying management; Rewards and challenges of manager.

3. Historical background of management; Management theories; Scientific management; General administrative theory.

4. Quantitative approach; Organizational behaviour approach; Systems approach; Contingency approach; Current trends and issues; Manager as omnipotent or symbolic.

5. Organizational culture and sources of it; Employees learning about culture, Current issues about culture; Decision making process.

6. Manager as decision maker; Rational, Bounded rational and intuitive decisions; Types of problems and decisions.

7. Decision making conditions; Styles; Biases and errors, Today’s effect for decision-making.

8. Managers plan; purpose and performance; Types of goals; Types of plans; Establishing goals; Well-designed goals characteristics.

9. Goals setting process; Development of plans; Issues in planning; Effective planning in dynamic environments.

10. Strategic management and its importance, Strategic management process; Types of strategies.

11. Corporate strategy; Business strategy.

12. Functional strategy; Today’s effect on strategic management; Motivation.

13. Different theories of motivation; Maslow’s Theory; McGregor’s Theory of X n’ Y.

14. Herzberg’s Theory; Contemporary Theories; Current issue in motivation.