Business Leadership: Management Fundamentals – BOH4M (Tutoring)

Foundations of Management:

Students identify and describe management roles, and summarize managerial responsibilities, competencies, and skills. Major management theories are described, analyzed, and evaluated. Students investigate ethical issues, social responsibility, and organizational codes of ethics to end this unit. Students will analyze the social, ethical, and environmental implications of financial decisions while understanding how the for-profit industry operates.

Planning:

Students are given the opportunity to: analyse the importance of proper planning in a variety of economic and financial scenarios facing an organization; apply creativity, effective problem solving, and decision making in addressing an organization’s human resources; apply appropriate planning theories and strategies to a variety of situations; and analyse the relationships between strategic planning and the success for an organization. Students demonstrate an understanding of how evaluation techniques relate to the managerial process, identify the factors affecting individual and group performance, and explain the strategies used by managers to manage human resources.

Organizing and Controlling:

Students are given the opportunity to: demonstrate an understanding of the various organizational structures used to manage the workforce effectively; identify and describe the ways in which organizational structures have changed to adapt to the changing nature of work; and demonstrate an understanding of staffing issues. Students explain the nature and importance of performance appraisal and compare major performance appraisal methods and techniques. The teacher and students investigate compensation, benefit and discipline systems, and the relationship between high-performance activities and increased job satisfaction.

Leading:

This unit provides students with opportunities to apply theories of human behaviour to understand how individuals and groups function in the workplace. Students will then connect these theories to motivational techniques used in the workplace by managers. Students will also apply teamwork and group dynamics to carry out projects and solve problems. Students demonstrate the use of proper leadership techniques in a variety of situations.

Unit 5: Management Challenges:

Students analyse the elements that bring about change, the reason for various attitudes towards change, and the major challenges facing organizations, and evaluate strategies used to implement change. Students will demonstrate the use of appropriate communication techniques related to business management. Finally, students evaluate the strategies used by individuals and organizations to manage stress and conflict while comparing a variety of theories about how to motivate individuals and teams in a productive work environment. Students complete this unit of study by researching a career in management.

Final Project   

Final Exam  

6 hours  

2 hours