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 study plan:

              part 1:

1:Introduction to management and organizations

-          Who are managers?

-          What is management?

-          What do managers do?

-         Management functions and process

-         Management roles

-         Management skills

-         Managing systems

-         Managing in different and changing situations

-         What is an organization

-         Why studying management is essential?

-         The university of management

-         The reality of work

-         Rewards and challenges of being a manager

            Summary :

 2:Organizations legal forms of ownership

-          Organizations legal forms of ownership

-          The main advantages of partnership

-          The main disadvantages of partnership

-          Corporations

-          The main advantages of corporations

-          The main disadvantages of corporations

-          Special forms of ownerships

-          What are the main disadvantages of franchises

-          Cooperatives

 

 3:Basic concepts of strategic management  

-          Phases of strategic management

-          Benefits of strategic management

-          Globalization and electronic commerce. 

            Challenges to strategic management

-          Impact of globalization

-          Electronic commerce

-          Internet benefits

-          Theories of organizational adaptation

-           A Basic model of strategic management

-           Environmental scanning

-           Strategy formulation

-           Mission

-           Objectives

-           Strategies

-           Policies

-           Strategy implementation

-           Programs

-           Budgets

-           Procedures

-           Evaluation and control

-           Initiation of strategy: triggering events

-           Strategic decision making

-           What makes a decision strategic

-           Strategic decision-making process: aid to better decisions

-           The strategic audit: aid to strategic decision making

-           Conclusion

 

 4:Finance and accounting

-          Introduction

-          Financial statements and reports

-          The balance sheet

-          The income statement

-          Statement of retained earnings

-          Accounting income versus cash flow

-          Statement of cash flow

-          MVA and EVA

-          Market value added  (MVA)

-          Economic value added (EVA)

-          The federal income tax system

-          Individual income tax

-          Taxes on dividend and interest income

-          Capital gains versus ordinary income 

-          Corporate income taxes

-          Interest and dividends paid by a corporation

-          Corporate loss carry-back and carry-forward

-          Consolidated corporate tax returns

-          Taxation of small business: s corporation

-          Depreciation

 

 5: Economics and business

-          Introduction: what is economics

-          What is produced

-          How is production organized

-          For whom is production organized

-          Positive and normative economics

-          The role of firms

-          The role of consumers in markets

-          The role of government in markets

-          Scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost

-          Microeconomics, macroeconomics, and business

-          Interest rates

-          Exchange rates  

                   part 2:

- Leader Ship.

-          Leadership and leader

-          Leadership differs from management

-         Creating a vision

-          Enrollment

-          Breakdowns

-          Keeping it going

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- Development of management.

-         The historical context of management

-          The classical approach to management

-          Scientific management

-          Administrative management approach

-          The behavioral approach to management

-          The quantitive approach to management

-          The systems approach to management

-          The contingency approach 

- Human Resource Management.

-          -             Managing human resources.

-            -             Human resource function.

        -        Organization culture.

-             Human resource activities in management

-             HR specialists.

-             Strategic aspects of HRM.

-             The HR manager

-             Industrial relation

-             The role of HR development

-             Effects of good HR policy.

-             Responsibilities of the HR department.

-             Effects of good HR policy.

-              HR manpower planning.

-              Problems caused by expansion of the organization.

-             Recruitment.

-             The policy of recruitment.

-             Recruitment process. 

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- Information technology.

- Information Management.

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