School of Management

Course Syllabus

Course Name:Principles of Management

Course Number:BUS 121 SYS

Professor:Dr.Shanmuganathan, G.D.

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Course Description:

This course examines the nature of management and the interpersonal and analytical skills managers need to be successful. Students will examine the manager's role with emphasis on planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in a variety of firms, including profit and not-for-profit organizations. Students will examine management theories on leadership, motivation, and communication and how these can be applied to manager’s every day role.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Analyze management theories and their application within the business environment;
  • Analyze financial data influenced by internal and external factors in order to make short-term and long-term decisions;
  • Describe human resource functions and their importance to an organization's successful operation;
  • Discuss characteristics of effective work groups;
  • Identify leadership styles and theories of motivation;
  • Examine the role of ethics and social responsibility in decision making;
  • Examine the issues of corporate culture and managing in the global environment;
  • Identify methods of managing change;
  • Develop personal management skills to function effectively and efficiently in a business environment

Required Text for Course:

Dubrin, Andrew J. Essentials of Management. Ninth Edition.

Southwestern Publishing, 2012

ISBN-10:0-324-35389-8 / 13:978-0-538-47823-6

Grading Policy

A95-100%

A-90-94%

B+87-89%

B83-86%

B-80-82%

C+77-79%

C73-76%

C-70-72%

D+65-69%

D60-64%

FBelow 60%

FWDExceeded 5 absences

FNSNever Showed

Grading Procedure:

Weekly Assignments 30%

Participation & Attendance 10%

Midterm Exam30%

Final exam 30%

TOTAL100%

Weekly Assignments (30%) To allow for a progressive build-up of learning, a weekly assignment is required for submission. Assignments may be in the form of projects, research, class presentations, essays or homework questions to be handed in. Each assignment will be graded on a 100 points scale. Every week, following the fifteen-week schedule of the full semester, a weekly reading from the textbook and other resources are assigned. Students are required to submit the weekly assignments by a specific day of the week (Wednesday of that week) during the class.

Participation & Attendance(10%) Class participatingis an important part of the leaning process and students are expected to be able to discuss specific course topics to allow interaction, exchange of opinions, and sharing of knowledge.

Exams (30%) each. There will be two exams, a midterm and a final exam

Standards of Academic Conduct and Student Integrity

The College expects academic honesty from students and instructors. Students have the obligation both to themselves and to the College to make the appropriate College representative aware of instances of academic deceit or dishonesty. Generally, this entails making the situation known to the instructor, and if needed, to the Dean of the student’s school. Likewise, faculty members are responsible for enforcing the stated academic standards of the College. Instances of violating academic standards might include, but are not necessarily limited to, the situations outlined below:

Cheating – Receiving or providing unapproved help in any academic task, test or treatise. Cheating includes the attempt to use or the actual use of any unauthorized information, educational material, or learning aid in a test or assignment. Cheating includes multiple submission of any academic exercise more than once for credit without prior authorization and approval of the instructor.

Plagiarism – Presenting someone else’s work as though it is your own. In an academic community the use of words, ideas, or discoveries of another person without explicit, formal acknowledgement constitutes an act of theft or plagiarism. In order to avoid the charge of plagiarism, students must engage in standard academic practices such as putting quotation marks around words that are not their own, employing the appropriate documentation or citation, and including a formal acknowledgement of the source in the proper format. Each school of MCNY follows a style manual prescribed in your Purpose Handbook. Students are responsible for following that style.

Fabrication – Inventing or falsifying any data, information, or records.

Obstruction – Impeding the ability of another student to perform assigned work.

Collusion – Assisting any of the above situations or performing work that another student presents as his or her own.

Attendance Policy

Students are required to arrive on time and attend all scheduled classes, to complete all assignments by the due date, and to actively participate in class discussions. Faculty members are required to take attendance during each class session and must keep their own attendance rosters. Additionally, students are responsible for knowing missed material. Faculty need not offer make-ups or extensions for missed work.

Students who accumulate 3 absences are jeopardizing their good standing and are n danger of failing.

Students who accumulate excessive absences or lateness may be recommended or withdrawal. Any student who has missed the first 2 sessions per class in a term will not be allowed to begin classes.

Academic Adjustment for Students with Disabilities / ADA Disability Statement

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 – Section 504 applies to all postsecondary educational programs that receive federal assistance. Basically, colleges must be free from discrimination in their recruitment, admissions, and treatment of students. MCNY is committed to complying with this law by making reasonable accommodations in its academic programs, thus insuring maximum participation by all students with disabilities.

Reasonable accommodations and academic assistance are provided to MCNY students with disabilities registered with the Office of Student Services. Once accepted into the College by the Admissions Office, students with disabilities must complete a Request for Academic Adjustment Application Form available from the Student Services Office. Documentation of disability from a qualified medical or other licensed practitioner is required at this time. Specific guidelines for disability documentation are available from the Student Services Office.

Please refer to the student handbook or Student Services for more details/information.

Communication Competency

You convey a certain image of yourself every time you express yourself-whether it's through the written or spoken word. As such, successful professionals (students, managers, employees) must have effective written and oral communication skills. Therefore, communication errors (such as improper grammar, improper sentence and paragraph structure, misspelling and incorrect punctuation) are unacceptable in coursework throughout. Faculty members also consider communication competency when evaluating student performance in addition to coursework.

Writing Guidelines

The Business Department of MCNY has adopted the following writing and citation guidelines:

  1. General Document Guidelines
  2. Margins: One inch on all sides (top, bottom, left, right)
  3. Font Size and Type: 12-pt. Times New Roman font
  4. Line Spacing: Double-space throughout the paper, including the title page, abstract, body of the document, references, appendixes, footnotes, tables, and figures.
  5. Spacing after Punctuation: Space once after commas, colons, and semicolons within sentences. Insert two spaces after punctuation ending sentences.
  6. Alignment: Flush left (creating uneven right margin)
  7. Paragraph Indentation: 5-7 spaces
  8. Pagination: The page number appears one inch from the right edge of the paper on the first line of every page.
  9. Running Head: The running head is a short title that appears at the top of the pages of a paper or published article. The running head is typed flush left (all uppercase) following "Running head:" at the top of all pages (including the title page). The running head should not exceed 50 characters, including punctuation and spacing. Using most word processors, the running head and page number can be inserted into a header, which then automatically appears on all pages.
  10. Active voice: As a general rule, use the active voice rather than the passive voice. For example, use "We predicted that ..." rather than "It was predicted that ..."
  11. Order of Pages:Title Page, Abstract, Body, References, Appendixes, Footnotes, Tables, Figures APA (American Psychological Association) Citation Criteria:
  12. Text citations: Source material must be documented in the body of the paper by citing the author(s) and date(s) of the sources. The underlying principle is that ideas and words of others must be formally acknowledged. The reader can obtain the full source citation from the list of references that follows the body of the paper.

APA (is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.

Example of APA-formatted References: Go to

And Click on ‘Learning APA Style’

Weekly Assignments

Week 1Read Chapter 1, The Manager’s Job

Week 2Read Chapter 2, International Management and Cultural Diversity

Week 3Read Chapter 3, Ethics & Social Responsibility

Week 4Read Chapter 4, Essentials of Planning

Week 5Read Chapter 5,Problem Solving and Decision Making

Week 6Read Chapter 6,Quantitative Techniques for Planning and Decision

Making

Week 7Read Chapters 7 & 8, Job Design and work schedules,

Organization Structure, Culture and Change.

Week 8Midterm Examination

Week 9Read Chapter 10, Leadership

Week 10Read Chapter 11, Motivation

Week 11Read Chapter 12, Communication

Week 12Read Chapter 13, Teams, Groups and Teamwork

Week 13Read Chapter 14, Information Technology and E-Commerce

Week 14Read Chapter 17, Enhancing Personal Productivity and Managing Stress

Week 15Final Examination

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