Business Management Grading Policy

Course Overview

• Assessment consists of Quizzes (20%), Class Presentation and Participation (10%), and Final Exam (70%)

Grading Scale

• Refer to the Undergraduate Handbook

Required Textbooks

• Certo, S.C., & Certo, S.T. (2015). Modern Management: Concepts and Skills. Prentice Hall.
• Hitt, M.A., Black, Stewart, Porter, Lyman W. (2014) Management: Pearson New International Edition, 3/E, Pearson
• Mullins, L.J., & Christy, G.(2013). Management and Organizational Behavior (10th Edition). Edinburgh Gate, UK: Pearson Education Limited.
• Robbins, S.P., & Coulter, M.(2016). Principles of management. Pearson
• Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A.(2013). Organizational behavior. Boston: Prentice Hall.

Course Requirements

• Attend all lectures and participate in all assessments
• No mobile phones in class unless for lesson purposes
• Participate in assigned organizational visits

Course Delivery Schedule

• Week 1: Management: Nature and Purpose
• Week 2: Management: An Art

Management Concepts

• Management: coordinating and overseeing the work of others to achieve goals
• Types of managers:
  • Top managers: make decisions affecting the entire organization
  • Middle line managers: implement strategies and policies
  • First line managers: supervise operating employees
• Functional managers: responsible for departments performing a single functional task
• Line managers: responsible for work that makes a direct contribution to the organization's outputs
• Staff managers: advise, recommend, and counsel
• General managers: responsible for activities covering many functional areas
• Administrator: works in a public or non-profit organization

Managerial Roles (Mintzberg's 10 roles)

• Interpersonal roles:
  • Figurehead: performing ceremonial duties
  • Leader: responsible for the work of others
  • Liaison: interacting with people outside the organization
• Informational roles:
  • Monitor: gathering and distributing information
  • Disseminator: transmitting information to others
  • Spokesperson: communicating with the external environment
• Decisional roles:
  • Entrepreneur: initiating and implementing projects
  • Disturbance handler: dealing with unexpected events
  • Resource allocator: allocating resources
  • Negotiator: negotiating with others

Planning

• Purpose: provides a basis for other management functions, clarifies expectations, provides direction, and minimizes waste
• Forms of planning: formal and informal
• Framework for planning:
  • Strategic planning: long-term, high-level planning
  • Tactical planning: middle-level planning
• Contemporary issues in planning: effective planning in dynamic environments

Decision Making

• Types of decisions: programmed, unprogrammed, and group decisions
• Decision-making process:
  • Recognizing the need for a decision
  • Diagnosing the situation
  • Establishing decision criteria
  • Allocating weights to criteria
  • Generating alternatives
  • Evaluating alternatives
  • Choosing an alternative
  • Implementing the decision

Organizing

• Allocating and arranging people and non-human resources to achieve plans
• Activities of organizing:
  • Defining work to be done
  • Grouping activities
  • Assigning work to people
  • Determining reporting relationships
  • Allocating resources
• Organization structure:
  • Formal system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages
  • Formal and informal structures
• Organization chart:
  • Box-and-lines illustration of formal lines of authority and official positions
  • Vertical hierarchy of authority and horizontal work specialization

This quiz assesses your understanding of the grading policy for a business management course, including the weightage of quizzes, class participation, and final exam. It also covers the required reading list and textbooks.