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Description of CoursesDepartment of ManagementMANAGEMENT COURSESMGT201 Principles of ManagementThis course focuses on basic managerial functions ofplanning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling.It is specially designed to orient students with modernmanagement practices essential for successfulmanagement of large organizations having a diversework force and operating in the changing global,political, economic, social and technological scenarios.MGT211 Business CommunicationThe course focuses on the theory and practice ofeffective communication techniques in businessenvironments. It polishes verbal and non-verbalcommunication skills for effective participation inbusiness meetings and other activities. It preparesstudents to write formal business reports and to addvalue to previous work through further library researchand fieldwork.MGT221 Organizational BehaviorThis course inculcates a positive approach in managingproductive relationships with peers, superiors andsubordinates by examining teams, individuals andnetworks in a business environment. Topics such asgroup culture, individual motivation and behavior,collective and individual performance, decision making,interpersonal communication, small group behaviorand inter-group conflict are extensively covered. Thiscourse exposes students to frameworks for diagnosingand dealing with problems in organizational settings.MGT301 Ethics in a Corporate SocietyThe course examines the importance of ethics in thecorporate society. It highlights the need to draw ananalytical distinction between ethics and morality, goodand bad, right and wrong so as to develop a criterionof judgment for socially responsive behavior. Thiscourse examines the relationship between valuejudgment and attitude formation, informed by theteleology of various ethical theories. Through thiscourse the ethical relevance of such values like honesty,justice, fairness and equity in relation to the dynamicsof corporate society will be highlighted. Distinction willbe made between personality ethics and characterethics to draw the contours of corporate behavior.Special attention will be paid to the legislative natureof intentionality as the foundation of the principles ofethics. Fundamentals of lessons of Islamic societyand those of all other religions are also included.Prerequisites: MGT201, ACC301, MKT201MGT311 Production and Operations ManagementThis course includes design, planning, and control offirms' capabilities and resources. The course work isintended to strengthen students' conceptualunderstanding and skills in the areas of operations,strategy and technology, forecasting, capacity andmaterials management, and design of productivesystems.Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, FIN201MGT400 Management Theory and PracticeThe course presents an overview of the basic theoreticalconcepts in the field of management. It also highlightsthe linkage between management theory andmanagement practice. Various implications of thetheoretical concepts will be discussed. The course willprovide an opportunity to evaluate various selectedtheoretical concepts and their application to businessorganizations.MGT401 Small Business ManagementThis interdisciplinary course emphasizes theimportance of small businesses in the economy. Thecourse deals with the adoption of managerial conceptsto small business, essentials of business startup,determinants of choice of business capital, location,structure, size, etc. It aims at motivating enterprisingstudents to choose small business at entry stages oftheir careers, contribute to economic growth and setuptheir own enterprise later on.Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, FIN201MGT411 Comparative ManagementThe purpose of teaching Comparative Management isto provide students with comprehensive knowledge ofvarious management systems/models practiced bymanagers in different countries, with the aim ofpreparing them to manage international organizationssuccessfully. The course includes the study of varioussystems/models and cross cultural issues such as theJapanese Managerial System, the western model, the(Ex-) socialist countries models, the developingcountries models, and the Islamic Countries Modelsas well as the Gulf Countries Models.Prerequisites: MGT201, MKT201, MGT221MGT421 EntrepreneurshipThe objectives of this course are:• To appreciate the role of entrepreneurship ineconomic growth and thereby personal careergrowth of business managers.• To acquaint the students with the virtues ofentrepreneurship for the society so as to enablethem to consider it as one of the early or late careeroptions.The course imparts knowledge about entrepreneurialprocess, business lifecycle, principle concepts andgeneral guidelines for establishing a new businessenterprise at a small or large scale in a dynamicbusiness environment.Prerequisites: MGT201, FIN201,MKT201MGT 430 Managerial PolicyThis is an advanced management course in strategicplanning, policy formulation and implementation thatdevelops an integrated organizational viewpoint byinter-relating the functional areas of finance, marketing,production, human resource and the general businessenvironment. As a course in business statesmanshipand leadership, it intensively uses case studies todevelop class discussions on real life situations.Prerequisites: MGT201, MGT211, MGT221, FIN201,MKT201, HRM401, ECO103, ECO113.pread over 2semesters, 3 credits each. The FME course will betaught by two faculty members from differentdisciplines. The students will take this course insemester 3 & 4.139