BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

K. K. Birla Goa Campus

INSTRUCTION DIVISION
SECOND SEMESTER 2018-2019
Course Handout (Part II)
01/01/2020
In addition to part-I (general handout for all courses in the time-table), this handout provides the specific details
regarding the course.

Course No. : MGTS F211

Course Title : PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
Instructor-in-charge : CH V V S N V PRASAD
Instructors : Ch V V S N V Prasad, Abhisek Kumar Sinha, A V S Durgaprasad

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The course provides students with a practical and concrete explanation of management concepts and techniques they will
need to manage today’s and tomorrow’s organizations. The course will follow the “planning, organizing, leading,
controlling” format of managerial functions while putting together the many small pictures presented by the individual
modules into one big meaningful picture of universe in which the managerial knowledge would apply. At the end of the
course the students are expected to understand the importance of components of the big picture and the many interactions
between and among the same components.
TEXT BOOK
Stephen P. Robbins, Mary Coulter. , ‘Management’, 13th edition, Pearson education.
REFERENCE BOOKS
1 John R. Schermerhorn, Introduction to Management, Wiley Student Edition, 10th Ed., 2009.
2 Koontz H. and Weihrich H., "Essentials of Management", Mcgraw Hill Int ed., 2004, 6th edition.
3. Thomas S. Bateman and Scott A. Snell, “Management”, Mcgraw Hill, 2002, 5th edition
4. Gary Dessler, “Management”, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1998, 1st edition.
5. Daft Richard L. ‘Management’ Thomson South Western, 5th edition.

COURSE PLAN

Reference to Text
Sl Topic Title Learning Objectives LH
Book
PART 1 : Introduction to Management
1 Managers in the Why Managers are important? Who are managers and where do Chapter 1 2
Workplace they work? What do managers do? How is the manager’s job
changing? Why study Management?

2 Management History Early Management, Classical approach, Behavioral approach, See Page no 26-41 2
Quantitative approach, Contemporary approaches.
3 Making Decisions Decision making process, Managers making decisions, Types of Chapter 2 2
decisions and decision making conditions, decision making styles.
PART 2 : Basics of Managing in Today’s Workplace
4 Managing the External The Manager: Omnipotent or Symbolic; The external Chapter 3 2
Environment and the environment; Organization’s Culture; Organizational Cultural
Organization’s Culture Issues

5 Managing in a Global What is your Global Perspective?; Understanding the Global Chapter 4 2
Environment Environment; Doing Business Globally, Managing in a global
environment
6 Managing Social What is Social responsibility?, Green Management, Managers and Chapter 6 2
Responsibility and Ethics Ethical behavior, Encouraging ethical behavior

7 Managing Change and The Change Process, Types of Organizational Change, Managing Chapter 7 2
Innovation resistance to change, Contemporary issues in managing change,
Stimulating innovation.
PART 3 : Planning
8 Planning Work Activities What is planning, Why do managers plan? Goals and Plans, Chapter 8 2
Setting goals and developing plans, Contemporary issues in
planning.
9 Managing Strategy Importance of strategic management, Strategic management Chapter 9 2
process, Corporate strategies, Competitive strategies, Current
 strategic management issues
10 Creating and Leading The context of Entrepreneurship, Start-up and Planning Issues, See Page no 264-284 2
Entrepreneurial Ventures Organizing Issues, Leading Issues, Controlling Issues

11 Planning tools and Techniques for assessing the environment, Techniques for See Page no 572 3
techniques allocating resources, Contemporary planning techniques.
PART 4 : Organizing
12 Designing Organizational Designing organizational structure, Mechanistic and Organic Chapter 10 2
Structure- Basic Designs structures, Contingency factors affecting structural choice,
Traditional organizational designs
13 Designing Organizational Contemporary organizational designs, Organizing for Chapter 11 2
Structure- Adaptive collaborations, Flexible work assignments, Contingent workforce
designs
14 Managing Human Importance of HRM, HRM process, Identifying and selecting Chapter 12 2
Resources competent employees, Providing employees with needed skills
and knowledge, Retaining competent high performing employees,
Contemporary issues in managing human resources
15 Creating and Managing Groups and Group Development, Work group performance and Chapter 13 1
Teams satisfaction, Turning groups into effective teams
PART 5 : Leading
16 Managing Communication The nature and function of communication, methods of Chapter 14 1
interpersonal communication, Effective interpersonal
communication, Organizational communication, Information
Technology and communication

17 Motivating employees Motivation, Early theories of motivation, Contemporary theories Chapter 16 3

of motivation, Current issues in motivation.
18 Being an effective Leader Managers vs. Leaders, early leadership theories, contingency Chapter 17 2
theories of leadership.
PART 6 : Controlling
19 Monitoring and Control process, Controlling for organizational performance, tools Chapter 18 2
Controlling for measuring organizational performance. Contemporary issues in
control
20 Managing Operations Operations management, value chain management, current issues See Page no 590-601 2
in operations management.

Evaluation Scheme
EC Nature of
Evaluation Component Duration Weight age (%) Date & Time
NO. Component
03-03-20 Tuesday
1 Mid Semester Test 90 min 30 Closed Book
9.00AM to 10.30AM
Tutorial Tutorials/Lecture
2. 50 min 20 Open Book
assignments//Tests/quiz/cases hours
3 Comprehensive Exam 3 hours 50 01-05-19 (AN) Closed Book

Chamber Consultation hour: To be announced in the class.

Notices: All the notices concerning the course will be displayed on the http://photon.bits-goa.ac.in/lms/ only.
Students are required to read newspapers, business magazines such as Business Today, HBR, Business India, etc. to relate the
concepts learnt.

Instructor-in-charge
MGTS F211