University : Bharathiar University
Degree : MBA
Subject : Integrated Shipping & Logistics Management
Announcement : Syllabus
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Integrated Shipping & Logistics Management Syllabus :
1.1 Management Principles And Practice
Subject Description : This course presents the Principles of Management, emphasizing managerial functions, explaining internal management of organizations and behavioural concepts as applied to practical management problems.
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Goals : To enable the students to learn the basic functions, principles and concepts of management.
Unit I :
Management : Science, Theory and Practice – The Evolution of Management Thought and the Patterns of Management Analysis – Management and Society: The External Environment, Social Responsibility and Ethics – Global and Comparative Management – The Basis of Global Management.
Unit II :
The Nature and Purpose of Planning – Objectives – Strategies, Policies and Planning Premises Decision Making – Global Planning.
Unit III :
The Nature of Organizing and Entrepreneuring – Organizational Structure: Departmentation Line/Staff Authority and Decentralization – Effective Organizing and Organizational Culture Global Organizing.
Unit IV :
Co-ordination functions in Organisation – Human Factors and Motivation – Leadership Committees and group Decision Making – Communication – Global Leading.
Unit V :
The System and Process of Controlling – Control Techniques and Information Technology Productivity and Operations Management – Overall Control and toward the Future through Preventive Control – Global Controlling and Global Challenges.
1.2. Organisational Behaviour
Subject Description :
Organizational Behaviour brings out the personality and behavioural science, its influence on organizational behaviour by understanding the concepts of organizational change, politics and behaviour.
Goals : To enable the students to learn the basics of individual behaviour and an organizational behaviour. Objectives : On successful completion of the course the students should have : Understood personality trades and its influence on organization.
How personality trades can be molded to suit the organization. To learn the modern trends, theories and concepts in organizational behaviour
Unit I :
Organisational Behaviour : History – evaluation, Challenges & opportunities, contributing disciplines, management functions and relevance to Organisation Behaviour. Personality – Determinents, structure, behaviour, assessment, psycho-analytical social earning, job-fit, trait theories.
Unit II :
Emotions and Emotional Intelligence as a managerial tool. Implications of EI on managers andtheir performance. Attitudes – relationship with behaviour, sources, types, consistancy, workattitudes, values – importance, sources, types, ethics and types of management ethics.
Perception – Process, Selection, Organisation Errors, Managerial implications of perception.Learning – classicial, operant and social cognitive approaches. Implications of learning onmanagerial performance.
Unit III :
Stress – Nature, sources, Effects, influence of personality, managing stress.Conflict – Management, Levels, Sources, bases, conflict resolution strategies, negotiation.
Foundations of group behaviour : linking teams and groups, Stages of development Influenceson team effectiveness, team decision making. Issues in Managing teams.
Unit IV :
Organisational change – Managing planned change. Resistance to change – Approaches to managing organisational change – Organisational Development – values – interventions, change management.
Organisational politics – Political behaviour in organisation, Impression management, Self monitoring. Organisational culture – Dynamics, role and types of culture and corporate culture, ethical issues in organisational culture, creating and sustaining culture.
Unit V :
OrganisationalBehaviour responses to Global and Cultural diversity, challenges atinternational level, Homogenity and hetrogenity of National cultures, Differences betweencountries, The Challenges of work force diversity and managing diversity Cases.