ICWA : Foundation
Paper 1 : Organization & Management Fundamentals
[One paper: Three Hours – 100 marks]
Objective . . .
• | To gain basic knowledge in Organizational Management |
• | To understand the concept of business management at the macro level |
Section I : Organization — 30%
1. | Nature and Functional Areas of Organization | 10% |
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• | Organizational structures. |
• | Functional areas of business and their operations |
• | Activities of different functions |
• | Formal & informal organizations: principles of organizations |
• | Criteria for grouping |
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2. | Schools of Organizational theory | 10% |
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• | Classical, behavioural and systems |
• | Current trend and approaches |
• | Behaviour in organizations |
• | Role of behavioural science |
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3. | Organizational Management | 10% |
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• | Objectives ( missions, goals and targets) |
• | Conflicts between objectives |
• | Appropriate strategy formulation |
• | Determinants of culture |
• | Different models available for categorizing cultures |
• | Different models of organizational model management available to achieve goal congruence. |
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Section II : Management — 70%
4. | Human resource management | 20% |
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• | Human resource plan |
• | Human issues relating to recruitment, dismissal, retirement and redundancy |
• | Activities of different functions |
• | Models of Human Behaviour and Motivation and its applications (Taylor, McGregor, Maslow, Hertzberg etc). |
• | Training & development. |
• | Development and design of reward system |
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5. | Management of Relationship | 20% |
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• | Process of Management covering planning, organizing, staffing, directing, motivating, communicating and control |
• | Concept of power, authority, responsibility and delegation |
• | Characteristics of leaders and managers |
• | Management Style theories |
• | Contingency approach |
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6. | Management of Change | 15% |
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• | Stages & Process of Management change |
• | Structural change & Cultural change |
• | Approaches to the management of organizational development |
• | Importance of managing critical period of change |
• | Ways of handling these periods of change |
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7. | Pattern of Management | 15% |
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• | Broad policies and functions |
• | Structural pattern of Board of Directors. |
• | Concept of public sector, social objectives, public sector management |
• | Current management thoughts |
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