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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