Brand Course for International Students
Curriculum Name: Management
Curriculum Number: 20805200
Teaching Arrangement: 48 period; 3 credit hour
Required Pre-courses: Nothing
Teaching School: School of Economics and Management
Teaching term: Autumn term
Curriculum Tape: Required Curriculum (RC) for undergraduate students of English teaching class in the fields of economics and management.
Teaching Objectives:
Management is one of disciplinary fundamental curriculums. It provides the basis of other later major curriculums, such as human resource management, strategic management, marketing, organizational behavior, operational management, quality management, and so on. After learning this curriculum, students can grip the basic theories and general methods systemically, understand management yesterday and today, and acquire management skills for a manager when he or she plans, organizes, leads and controls.
Curriculum Highlights:
Management is one of core curriculums in the fields of economics and management. This curriculum, integrating managerial theory and practice, describes the essentials of management, general principles and methods of management. It highlights what managers do. Its content contains introduction to management, management yesterday and today, and management functions including planning, organizing, leading and controlling. This curriculum takes teaching mode such as managerial theories, cases, simulation, games and roll play, etc.
Teaching Requirement:
This curriculum describes the essentials of management, general principles of management, as well as what managers do. The requirement of teaching is: 1) provides the students the body of knowledge in management; 2) understand traditional and contemporary managerial theories and practices; 3) let students learn to the methods of analyzing the real managerial issues; 4) acquire management skills for a manager when he or she plans, organizes, leads and controls.
Brief Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Management and Organizations (8 hours)
Who Are Managers?
What Is Management?
What Do Managers Do?
What Is an Organization?
Why Study Management?
Case Application
Managerial simulation
Chapter 2 Management Yesterday and Today (8 hours)
Historical Background of Management
Scientific Management
General Administrative Theorists
Quantitative Approach to Management
Toward Understanding Organizational Behavior
Current Trends and Issues
Case Application
Chapter 3 Planning (8 hours)
Section 1 Decision-Making: The Essence of the Manager’s Job
The Decision-Making Process
The Pervasiveness of Decision Making
The Manager as Decision Maker
Managerial games
Section 2 Foundations of Planning
What Is Planning?
Why Do Managers Plan?
How Do Managers Plan?
Planning Tools and Techniques
Contemporary Issues in Planning
Case Application
Chapter 4 Organizing (9 hours)
Section 1 Organizational Structure and Design
Defining Organizational Structure
Organizational Design Decisions
Common Organizational Designs
Section 2 Managerial Communication
Understanding Managerial Communication
The Process of Interpersonal Communication
Organizational Communication
Section 3 Managing Change and Innovation
What Is Change?
Managing Change
Contemporary Issues in Managing Change
Stimulating Innovation
Case Application
Team work
Chapter 5 Leading (11 hours)
Section 1 Motivating Employees
What Is Motivation?
Early Theories of Motivation
Contemporary Theories of Motivation
Current Issues in Motivation
From Theory to Practice: Suggestions for Motivating Employees
Section 2 Leadership
Managers Versus Leaders
Early Leadership Theories
Contingency Theories of Leadership
Cutting-Edge Approaches to Leadership
Contemporary Issues in Leadership
Case Application
Managerial roll play
Chapter 6 Controlling (4 hours)
What Is Control?
Why Is Control Important?
The Control Process
Types of Control
Implications for Managers
Contemporary Issues in Control
Case Application
Teaching Mode: Teaching based on managerial theories, cases, simulation, games and roll play, etc.
Examination Mode: Grades are based on exams, case analysis, and class participation. Exams are weighted 60 percent (distributed between final and midterm exam), case analysis is weighted 20 percent, and the remaining grade is for class participation and group projects.
Teaching Materials:
1. Stephen P. Robbins and Mary Coulter. Management (11th edition). Prentice Hall. 2012
2. Stephen P. Robbins 等著.管理学（第11版）.北京:清华大学出版社, 2013