Paper 1: Organization & Management Fundamentals
Section I: Organization 30%
1. Nature and Functional Areas of
Organization 10%
a)
Organizational
structures.
b)
Functional
areas of business and their operations
c)
Activities
of different functions
d)
Formal
& informal organizations: principles of organizations
e)
Criteria
for grouping
2. Schools of
Organizational theory 10%
a)
Classical,
behavioural and systems
b)
Current
trend and approaches
c)
Behaviour
in organizations
d)
Role of
behavioural science
3. Organizational Management 10%
a)
Objectives
(missions, goals and targets)
b)
Conflicts
between objectives
c)
Appropriate
strategy formulation
d)
Determinants
of culture
e)
Different
models available for categorizing cultures
f)
Different
models of organizational model management available to achieve goal congruence.
Section II:
Management 70%
4. Human resource management 20%
a)
Human
resource plan
b)
Human
issues relating to recruitment, dismissal, retirement and redundancy
c)
Models of Human
Behaviour and Motivation and its applications (Taylor, McGregor, Maslow,
Hertzberg etc).
d)
Training
& development.
e)
Development
and design of reward system
5. Management of Relationship 20%
a)
Process of
Management covering planning, organizing, staffing, directing, motivating,
communicating and control
b)
Concept of
power, authority, responsibility and delegation
c)
Characteristics
of leaders and managers
d)
Management
Style theories
e)
Contingency
approach
6. Management of Change 15%
a)
Stages
& Process of Management change
b)
Structural
change & Cultural change
c)
Approaches
to the management of organizational development
d)
Importance
of managing critical period of change
e)
Ways of
handling these periods of change
7. Pattern of
Management 15%
a)
Broad
policies and functions
b)
Structural
pattern of Board of Directors.
c)
Concept of
public sector, social objectives, public sector management
d)
Current
management thoughts