Unit 3: Organisations and Behaviour
Approaches to management and leadership
Examine different approaches to management and leadership and theories of organisation
Development of management thought: scientific management, classical administration, bureaucracy, human relations approach, systems approach, contingency approach
Functions of management: planning, organising, commanding, co-ordinating, controlling
Managerial roles: interpersonal, informational, decisional
Nature of managerial authority: power, authority, responsibility, delegation, conflict
Frames of reference for leadership activities: opportunist, diplomat, technician, achiever, strategist, magician, pluralistic, transformational, change
Management Links
How to avoid the fatal F-Laws
Uncomfortable truths about the (mistaken) way most organisations are run.
Suggested Reading
Introducing Organisational Behaviour/Organizational Behaviour Student Workbook
Organizational Behaviour: An Introductory Text
Why Work?: Motivating the New Generation
Management and Organisational Behaviour
Multi Pack: Essentials of Organisational Behaviour & CD-Rom
