Introduction to Management: Managers and Management – History Module – The HistoricalRoots of Contemporary Management Practices, The Management Environment. Planning:Foundations of Planning – Foundations of Decision Making – Quantitative ModuleQuantitative Decision-Making Aids. Organizing: Basic Organization Designs – Staffing andHuman Resource Management – Career Module Building Your Career – Managing Change,Stress, and Innovation .Leading-Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior – Understanding Work Teams – Motivatingand Rewarding Employees – Leadership and Trust – Communication and Interpersonal Skills.Introduction to Economics: The Firm and Its Goals – Review of Mathematical Concepts usedin Managerial Economics, Supply and Demand – The Mathematics of Supply and Demand,Demand Elasticity – Applications of Supply and Demand, Demand Estimation andForecasting, The Theory and Estimation of Production – The Multiple-Input Case -Expressing the Production Function with the Use of Calculus, The Theory and Estimation ofCost – A Mathematical Restatement of the Short-Run Cost Function – The Estimation of Cost.29Pricing and Output Decisions: Perfect Competition and Monopoly – The Use of Calculus in Pricing and Output Decisions – Break-Even Analysis (Volume-Cost-Profit), MonopolisticCompetition and Oligopoly – Special Pricing Practices.
