Fundamentals Of Management

The course adopts a kind of a 'circuitous' framework: it begins with 'Managing & Leading Today: The New Rules', and it ends with 'Managing & Leading for Tomorrow: Focus on Your Future'. Leadership is a focal theme in the course, as it relates to the four key roles of contemporary management (planning, organizing, controlling, and leading). The course is focused on these four key management roles. Each of the planning, organizing, and controlling roles will be examined in two parts over two seminars respectively. The role of leading, relating to the central theme of leadership, is examined in five parts over five seminars (this would include the first and closing seminar topics). Each seminar covers three key sub-topics.

Managing & Leading Today: The New Rules

Why do managers have to be leaders?

Differences between managers and leaders

Theories and perspectives of leadership

Planning (1): Planning & Strategy: Bringing the Vision to Life

Types of planning & types of strategy

What is strategy & why it matters?

Steps in the strategic planning process

Planning (2): The Human Side of Planning ? Decision-Making & Critical Thinking

Types of decision, & impact of cognitive and emotional processes

Steps in decision-making process

Improving critical thinking skills and making better decisions

Organizing (1): Designing Adaptive Organizations for a Complex World

Why study organizational design and structure?

Types and contingencies of organizational design

Emergent design and structure & complex adaptive systems (CAS)

Organizing (2): Managing Change & Innovation ? Adaptability & Resilience

Types of change (incremental versus transformational/disruptive change)

Models of organizational change & impact of change on people

Fostering innovation in people and organizations (intrepreneurship, entrepreneurship)

Controlling (1): People, Processes, Quality & Results

Historical perspectives on controls in organizations

Control systems

Steps in control process

Controlling (2): Culture

What is organizational culture & why it matters?

Models of organizational culture

Shaping and developing organizational culture

Leading (1): Motivation & Meaning

What is motivation & what makes work meaningful?

Theories of motivation

Theories of learning

Leading (2): Leading Teams

Models of team development process

Managing conflict in teams

Working effectively in virtual teams

Leading (3): Managing Communication

Barriers and challenges in organizational communication

Improving communication and building resonant relationships at work

Impact of using information & communication technologies (ICTs) at work

Managing in a Global Economic Environment

What is globalization & why it matters?

Opportunities & risks in global business environment

Emerging markets & BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China)

Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility

What is sustainability and why is it important in today?s world?

What is corporate social responsibility and why is it important in today?s world?

Approaches to sustainability and corporate social responsibility

Managing & Leading for Tomorrow: Focus on Your Future

'Moon shots for management' (Leadership 2.0) '

Journey to becoming a resonant leader

What can you do to develop your leadership?