Management of Organizations

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• The students will differentiate between managerial and non-managerial employees
• The students will explain the basics of at least three of the classical approaches to management.
• The students will explain and give an example of how managerial decision making involves the allocation of scarce resources.
• Given a specific case, the student will apply Contingency Theory and explain how it might be used to predict/explain behavior.
• The student can discuss the importance of regional trading and the World Trade Organization to managing organizations.
• The students can discuss the concept of social responsibility and enumerate some of the factors that govern socially responsible decisions.
• The students will describe different decision-making styles and explain how biases affect decision making.
• The students will differentiate among planning, organizing, directing, and controlling and explain each of them with examples.
• The students will compare and contrast several approaches to goal setting.
• The students will explain the link between human resource policies and corporate success.
• The students will list the functional areas of business and then distinguish among them as to their subject matter.
• The students will describe and explain three types of corporate strategies.
• The students will enumerate the different modes of managerial communication and give an example of each of them.
• The students will differentiate between managers and leaders and explain the overlap in these two roles.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Exams	30%
Final Exam	15%
Assignments, Discussion Forums and Chapter Quizzes	55%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
94-100%	A
90-93.99%	A-
87-89.99%	B+
84-86.99%	B
80-83.99%	B-
77-79.99%	C+
74-76.99%	C
70-73.99%	C-
67-69.99%	D+
64-66.99%	D
60-63.99%	D-
Below 60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Connect Access for “Contemporary Management: Text and Cases”, 12th Edition, Jones & George, McGraw-Hill Education