MGMT 101 - Introduction To Management

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Prerequisite(s): None. This course addresses contemporary management challenges stemming from changing organizational structures, complex environmental conditions, new technological developments and increasingly diverse workforces. It highlights critical management issues involved in planning, organizing, controlling and leading an organization. This course will help you understand some of the issues involved in both managing and being managed and equip you to become more effective contributors to organizations that you join. The course will cover several topics in management, organization and strategy. Each topic will span one or two weeks. Topics include combinations of the following areas: organizational structure, organizational culture, strategy, interorganizational relationships, job design, groups, reward systems, work force composition, power and politics, social responsibility, organizational change, organizational decision-making, business history. The professor will cover an overview of the topic with frameworks and examples in the lecture and the teaching assistant will lead a case discussion that integrates these frameworks in the recitation.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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