Topic 1

Introduction to Management

• What is Management?
• What do Managers do?
• What does it take to be a Manager?
• Why does management matter?

Topic 2

Organizational Strategy

• Basics of Organizational Strategy
• Sustainable competitive advantage
• Strategy-making process
• Corporate, industry, firm level strategies

Topic 3

Ethics and Social Responsibility

• What is ethical workplace behavior?
• What is unethical workplace behavior?
• How to make ethical decisions
• What is social responsibility?

Topic 4

Innovation and Change

• Organizational innovation
• Why innovation matters
• Managing innovation
• Organizational change
• Why change occurs and why it matters
• Principles of Managing change

Topic 5

Managing Information

• Why information matters
• Strategic importance of information
• Characteristics and costs of useful Information
• Getting and sharing Information

Topic 6

Organizational Structures and Process

• Departmentalization
• Organizational authority
• Job design
• Designing organizational process

Topic 7

Decision-Making

• What is rational decision-making?
• Steps to rational decision-making
• Limits to rational decision-making
• Improving decision-making

Topic 8

Managing Teams

• The good and the bad of using teams
• Kinds of teams
• Work team characteristics
• Enhancing work team effectiveness

Topic 9

Control

• Basics of control
• The control process
• Is control necessary or possible?
• How and what to control
• Control methods

Topic 10

Motivation and Leadership

• Basics of motivation
• Equity theory
• Expectancy theory
• What is leadership?
• Situational leadership
• Strategic leadership