Introduction to Management

Introduction to Management (hereinafter, the Course) is the course delivered by Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology as Vaughn College MGT110 and Shanghai Jian Qiao University in order to introduce its learners to basic management concepts. There is no prerequisite to the Course, but the Course is the prerequisite to Organizational Behavior.

Syllabus

Semester	Spring 2018
Credits	3
Grading System	Letter Grade (see Grading Scale)
Prerequisites	None

Instructor

• Instructor: Gary Ihar
• Title: Adjunct Instructor
• Office: virtual
• Office Hours: Monday -- Friday (9 a.m. -- 9 p.m.); Saturdays and Sunday evenings can be arranged. I also check posts and emails periodically throughout the day.
• Cell phone: exists
• E-mail: course messages are preferable

Textbook

Main wikipage: Management by Robbins and Coulter (14th edition)‎‎

Any of four editions: Management 11/E, 12/E, 13/E, or 14/E, Robbins, Stephen P., Coulter, Mary

Course Description

This course serves as an introduction to the discipline of management. It is designed to integrate the accepted theories in the area with real world applications to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed for managing others. This course begins with a discussion of the current issues in management and then proceeds to cover the traditional functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Lecture and class assignments given in the course are intended to help students understand the needs of modern public and private organizations, including emerging national and international trends.

Learning Techniques

Depending on student's choice, this course can be taught using a variety of techniques including:

• Lecture
• Text readings
• Class examples and discussion
• Case analysis
• Supplemental articles and readings
• Problem simulations.

Course Objectives

Course objectives are to:

1. Identify the principals of managing formal organizations,
2. Recognize the various challenges faced by today’s managers
3. Provide examples of organizations engaging in the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
4. Understand both the theory and practice of the art and science of Management
5. Gain practical, applicable knowledge, through study of real business cases and readings in Management
6. Think clearly about the concepts and principles that support the Management body of knowledge

Course Outcomes

After successful completion of this course, students will have acquired the ability to:

1. Work and manage in the environment of formal private or public sector organizations
2. Address the challenges faced by today’s managers
3. Engage in the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
4. Apply theory to the practice of the art and science of Management
5. Apply practical, applicable knowledge gained through study of real business cases and readings in Management
6. Practice clear thinking about the concepts and principles that support the Management body of knowledge

Course Requirements

All assignments, lectures and examinations are based on comprehension and utilization of concepts and their applications incorporated in the assigned material. Those concepts and applications are represented by glossary terms, which definitions are placed separately on the textbook's pages and at the end of the textbook.

• Forum-based assignments (14 items, 5% of the course grade). You are required to post some message by the end of each week in order to get full credit. However, the topic questions will emerge again as non-scored on your homework quizzes and as scored on your mid-term or final exams. The non-scored submission will get my detailed feedback. If you do better on the exams than on original forum submission, I will increase your initial grade.
• Homework quizzes (14 items, 1% of the course grade each) are posted each week. They include scored true-or-false questions and unscored essay-type questions, which are based on forum topics and will become scored questions in the midterm and final exams.
• Mid-term and final exams (8% of the course grade each) include essay-type questions based on forum topics.

Grading

Course Grade

Grade source	Number of items	Course grade percentage for a single item	Total percentage within the course
Forum-based submissions	14	5%	70%
Homework quiz		1%	14%
Examinations	2	8%	16%
Total			100%

Grading Scale

Grade	Numeric Value	Standard
A	90-100	Excellent
B+	85-89	Good
B	80-84
C+	75-79	Average
C	70-74
D	60-69	Minimal passing
F	Below 60	Failure

Incomplete Grades

Requests for Incomplete grades must be made in writing before the course ends, and after the mid-term has been passed.

Course Schedule (subject to change)

The table below is created to accommodate those students who use various editions of the textbook:

Week #	Chapter topics for every week	Chapter numbers
		14/E or 13/E	12/E	11/E
Week 1	Planning the course	No chapter is assigned
Week 2	Management, organizations	1	1	1
Week 3	Decisions, decision making	2	6	7
Week 4	Managerial constraint, external environment, organizational culture, global environment, diversity, managing diversity, social responsibility, ethics	3‑6	2‑5	2‑5
Week 5	Change, innovation	7	7	6
Week 6	Planning	8	8	8
Week 7	Strategy	9	9	9
Week 8	Organizational structure	10‑11	11‑12	10‑11
Week 9	Human resources	12	13	12
Week 10	Work teams	13	14	13
Week 11	Communication	14	16	15
Week 12	Individual behavior	15	15	14
Week 13	Motivation	16	17	16
Week 14	Leadership	17	18	17
Week 15	Monitoring and controlling	18	10	18‑19

Coursework

• Vaughn College MGT110 coursework