Management as an integrating activity
The nature of Management
- Objectives
- The meaning of Management
- The process of Management
- Management as a social process
- Other analysis
- The tasks and contributions of a manager
- The particular approaches to management
- Essential nature of managerial work
- The efforts of other people
- The personnel function
- Management in service industries
- Management in Public Sector and private enterprise organisations
- The attributes of a manager
- Qualities of a successful manager
- The work of a manager
- Classifications of a managers job
- Managerial roles
- Patterns of managerial work and behaviour
- Behaviour patterns of general managers
- Overview of the nature of management
- Synopsis
- Review and discussions
- Bibliography
Managerial behaviour and effectiveness
- Objectives
- Managerial Behaviour
- Managers attitudes towards other people
- The V W X Y Z Theory
- Behavioural implications of management accounting
- The leadership grid
- Management Systems
- System 4 management
- Casual intervening and end result variables
- Management by objectives (MBO)
- Applications of MBO
- Criticisms and limitations of MBO
- Managing people
Organisational processes
- The nature of work motivation
- Job satisfaction and work performance
- The nature of delegation
- The nature of management control
The personnel function
- Personnel and employee relations
- Staffing your organisation
Improving organisational performance
- Organisational Development
- Management Development and organisational effectiveness