Annotation
The course explains fundamental principles and practices related to business planning, organizing, leading and controlling. It offers an understanding of what management is all about and how management functions are performed. After completing the course, participants should be able to explain how to define goals, establish strategies and develop plans, how to develop an organizational structure and individual jobs, how to lead people toward the achievement of desired performance, or how to establish performance standards and monitor actual performance.
Recommended literature
- Drucker, P. F. (2005). The daily Drucker: 366 days of insight and motivation for getting the right things done. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
- Robbins, S. P., & Coulter, M. (2016). Management. Pearson
- Armstrong, M., & Taylor, S. (2017). Armstrong’s handbook of human resource management practice. Kogan Page
- Armstrong, M. (2019). How to manage people: fast, effective management skills that really get results. Kogan Page
- Barends, E., & Rousseau, D. M. (2018). Evidence-based management: how to use evidence to make better organizational decisions. Kogan Page