BUS208: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT By Saylor.org
Open Courseware
Self-paced
This course will illustrate the ways in which the practice of management evolves as firms grow in size. Historically, middle managers have served as “gatekeepers” who collect, analyze, and pass on information and messages up and down the management chain in an organization. Two developments—low-cost data manipulation in computers and the emergence of widespread, real-time communication (low-cost long-distance and global calling, email, text messaging, and wireless phones)—have reduced the need for these gatekeepers, and companies have eliminated thousands of such positions. The goal? To speed the flow of information and decision making and reduce the number of layers that separate the customer from the leadership of the organization.
This course is based upon the idea that the essential purpose of a business is to produce products and services to meet the needs and wants of the marketplace. A manager marshals an organization’s resources (its people, finances, facilities, and equipment) towards this fundamental goal. In this course, we will begin by looking at what managers do, and then delve into the key knowledge areas for running a business.
Are leaders born or made? Learn the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire, design teams for collaboration, and craft win-win negotiation strategies. High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation focuses on leadership, teamwork, and negotiation. Students will engage in self-assessments to analyze their leadership style, develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.
Human Resources (HR) By the Open Training Institute via Open2Study
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 4 weeks Examine human resources from a modern perspective. This course covers all the steps from staff recruitment to retention.
During this course you can take a step by step journey into the core Human Resource functions of an organisation, through this you will develop a broad understanding of the key areas such as recruitment, training & development and performance management. The course has a consistent theme being technology and the significant impact it has on the way we manage people today.
Syllabus
THE EVOLUTION OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment
RECRUITMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT
10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
10 videos, 9 quizzes, 1 assessment
You know the basics of managing human capital from your Principles of Management course (BUS208), but this course will introduce you to more advanced topics in the field. You will learn that identifying the best employees begins with identifying the firm's needs and carrying out a proper recruitment and selection process. Training, development, and performance evaluations can then shape the selected employee into an ideal firm resource. Finally, adequate and incentivizing compensation can keep those resources with the firm. This course will cover all these topics and more.
Learn to analyze and improve business processes in services or in manufacturing by learning how to increase productivity and deliver higher quality standards. Key concepts include process analysis, bottlenecks, flows rates, and inventory levels, and more. After successfully completing this course, you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.
An unconventional approach to management strategy! This class offers students the opportunity to explore today's management practices from unexpected perspectives in order to ask provocative questions about the modern business environment. This approach will allow us to interrogate key management concepts in order to explore the thinking that informs them and, as importantly, the form of capitalism they foster.
This course is designed for students of all backgrounds who have an interest in how firms are governed, the forces that have helped define modern management practice, and the outcomes of that practice not only for the firm itself, but also for the societies in which they operate. For students who are thinking of a career in management, it may also prove useful as a basic introduction to some of the conceptual vocabulary and ideas behind modern theories of management.
Topics include: the function of the firm; the role of incentive; the ways in which narrative forces shape decision making, and how market relationships define the managerial culture in ways that can lead to sub-optimal outcomes.
Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, we will explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as well as Strategy Maps. We'll apply these tools in case studies of industry leaders Google, Redhook, Piaggio and Apple.
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