Details for MAN101 Introduction to Management

This foundational subject equips students with the essential management skills needed to design roles, recruit effectively, train teams, and develop fair compensation structures. By integrating these skills, students will be prepared to enhance job satisfaction and productivity within organisations, considering ethical and responsible management practices from a Christian perspective.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: MAN101
  • Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of managerial work in organizations.
  2. Outline and explain how planning, organizing, controlling and leading are conducted in an organizational setting.
  3. Examine the role of social responsibility and ethics in management
  4. Identify and outline the evolution of management, its historical development as well as factors which impact on the organization’s internal and external environments
  5. Leadership Styles and Strategies for Employee Motivation

Subject Content

  • History of organisations
  • Managing organisations
  • What managers do
  • The evolution of management
  • Managing in the 21st century
  • Responsible and sustainable management: A Christian perspective
  • Strategy, plans and decision-making
  • Organisational structure and design
  • Leadership styles
  • Contemporary management perspectives

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face-to-Face
  • Distance/ Global Online
  • Intensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Interview Analysis (15%)
  • Case Study Report (20%)
  • Management Scenario Analysis and Role Play (25%)
  • Exam (40%)

 

Prescribed Text

  • Kinicki, Williams, Scott-Ladd, Perry, Groth, Ward & Mitchell. (2020). Management: A Practical Introduction (3rd ed.). McGraw Hill Education.Please consult your instructor before purchasing any texts