Department of Business Administration

Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce

University of Sri Jayewardenepura

BUS1320 Introduction to Management

Course Outline Year I - Semester I
C Lecture Coordinator: Dr. M.D. Pushpakumari Lecturer Location: 3rd Floor, Room No-07 Contact: Email: disnamdpk@yahoo.com

Contact Hours: Tuesdays, 1.00pm 3.00 pm

Course Description
This is an introductory course, which is designed to provide an understanding on basic concepts and theoretical foundations of Management. Developing this foundation knowledge will be beneficial for subsequent study of courses in different Degree programmes in Management. Main objectives of this course are as follows. To provide a comprehensive introduction to the key elements of the organisations, its environment and main functional areas of management. To build a foundation of knowledge on the different theoretical approaches to management and decision making. To develop analytical skills to identify links between the functional areas in management, organisations, management practices and the business environment.

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Understand the nature of organisations and management, different approaches, concepts and frameworks to management, centrality of decision making, managerial roles and functions Explore the impact of key environmental factors on management in an organisation Discuss and understand the main functions of management with the related concepts, components, issues and new trends Develop knowledge, skills and competencies required to be a good manager Analyze the management practices in real world organisations Evaluate the contemporary and future trends in management

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The Structure of this Course

The course consists of three parts, which are interrelated. Part I : Organisations, Management and Organisational Environment This part focuses on key concepts related to an organisation, the field of management, the business environment, the diverse and dynamic nature of the organisational context and the evolution of management thought and finally will lead to a discussion on decision making and problem solving. Part II: Management Process Part II examines the process of management viz planning, organising, leading, motivating, communication and control processes. In addition, this section will focus on managing organisational work with special emphasis on office management. Part III: Contemporary issues/trends in management It has been identified that several issues have emerged with the dynamic nature of the organisational context. Therefore, this section focuses on new trends and issues relating to the field of management.

Course Guide
A course guide is developed for this course. Each lesson of this Course Guide begins with an overview of the lesson. This is followed by learning outcomes, so that students would know the knowledge they should have after successfully completing a specific lesson. Key concepts, sub-areas and diagrams related to the lesson and key terms that are involved with the specific lesson are included thereafter. This course guide offers active learning projects, classroom activities, discussion questions and case studies in order to reflect the lesson content and widen the knowledge and skills of the students. Thus, it is strongly recommended that students complete these activities as they continue with this course.

Students Role
In order to complete this course successfully, a student has to play an active role throughout this course period. It is essential that students should read the relevant lesson of the Course Guide before attending the related lecture session. However, students must remember that this Course Guide is only a road map to follow this course. Thus the students should focus on improving their knowledge through various other sources, including lectures and tutorial sessions. Reading is one of the foremost keys to progress in this course. Therefore, students are required to read the recommended as well as additional reading materials in regular basis.

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Recommended Reading
Daft, L.R. (2012) New Era of Management, 10th Edition, Cengage Learning. Griffin, R.W. (2012) Management Principles and Applications, 10th Edition, Cengage Learning. Mullins, L.J. (2005) Management and Organizational Behaviour,7th Edition,London, Pitman. Robbins, S.P. and Coulter, M. (2010) Management, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall. Stoner, J.A.F., Freeman, R.E. and Gilbert, D.R. (2009) Management, 6th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall.

Additional Reading
Apart from the recommended reading, students should also refer the following additional reading. Anand, N. and Daft, L.R. (2007) What is the Right Organization Design?, Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 329344. Bueno,S.J.M. and Gonzalez,S.I. (2010) Towards new organizational forms, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 18,No.3, pp. 340 357. Certo, S.C. and Certo, S.T. (2010) Modern Management: Concepts and Skills, 11th Edition, PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi. Drucker, P. (2010) The Practice of Management, Butterworth-Heinemann. Jones, G., George, M.J. and Hill, L.W.C. (2000) Contemporary Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill Higher Education. And to examine contemporary issues relating to the field, students are required to read the major journals, magazines and the newspapers. More specifically it is recommended that students should familiarize with following Journals. Journal of Management Studies Harvard Business Review

Tutorial Sessions
A tutorial series has also been designed in corresponding to the lecture series of this course with the intention to provide the students a deep understanding and enhance their knowledge and skills about the discipline. Tutorial teaching is a unique feature in the university life where the students meet the tutorial lecturer in small groups. At the tutorial sessions, students get the opportunity to discuss their written work with the tutorial lecturer, get clarified about the area of study, improve their oral communication skills and to receive feedback from their tutors. Moreover, the activities designed for tutorials will help students to get the understanding on the implication of their knowledge to a given situation. Activities of tutorial sessions will be treated as the mode of continuous assessment and the students participation for the

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tutorial sessions is compulsory and the attendance is closely monitored by the coordinator to the tutorial programme.

Learning Management System (LMS)

In addition to the Course Guide and the recommended reading for this course, students should have an active interaction with the Learning Management System (LMS) of Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce. Learning materials, including case studies relating to each lesson, other reading materials and important notices relating to the course will be uploaded to the LMS by the lecture panel. Thus, the students are required to visit the system in regular basis. You can access the LMS via http://lms.sjp.ac.lk/mgmt. The user name and password to log in to the system could be obtained through the respective Course Lecturer.

Assessment
Continuous Assessment 40% Tutorial Activities 40% Final Examination 60% Total 100% A student should meet the requirement of 80% attendance for the entire Course sessions to sit for the Final Examination.

Binding Policy
The participants are required to avoid using polythene and plastic for binding as a practice for environment friendliness. As an alternative the participants can use perfect binding with hard board back cover. And the binding should be simple and neat.

Plagiarism Policy
Simply put, Plagiarism is an act if appropriating someone elses idea and /or work by a student as his/her own and/or work. In the academic world it is treated as a serious academic misconduct. Therefore, many preventive and corrective actions have been introduced to eradicate plagiarism and related academic misconduct among the students. Adhering to these preventive and corrective actions and the Plagiarism Policy of the Department you are instructed to avoid plagiarism and any act of related academic misconduct when developing your assignments in this course. If the course Lecture/s, the course Coordinator and/or the Examiner/s detect any act of plagiarism and the related academic misconduct committed by you vis--vis any assignment developed by you, individual or collectively, in this course you may either lose marks allocated for the assignment (up to 80 per cent) or you may be asked to resubmit the assignment. Any resubmission may earn marks up to 40 per cent of the total marks originally allocated for the assignment.
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