Unit Code: MGT502.

Unit Name: Theory and Practice of Management

Description: This unit provides a basic introduction of Theory & Practice to Management. This course is designed as an introductory foundation to early theories and modern management concepts. Business students, and students from other discipline who contemplate a managerial career, need an integration of the significant factors involved in managing an enterprise. The course is structured in the format of most successful management textbooks; a treatment of early contributions to management is followed by analysis of management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Consistent with many contemporary management textbooks, the course presents both the quantitative and behavioral approaches to management. The quantitative approach is treated no rigorously, yet in comprehensive manner.

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Prerequisite: The student must have passed Year 13

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2