Undergraduate - UnitMGW1010 - Introduction to management

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Malaysia First semester 2014 (Day) South Africa First semester 2014 (Day) Malaysia Second semester 2014 (Day) Malaysia October intake 2014 (Day) Malaysia Summer semester A 2014 (Day) South Africa Summer semester A 2014 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Esther Chong Yit Sean (Malaysia); Ms Leane Coetzee (South Africa)

Synopsis

On completion of this unit students should have an understanding of: the nature of managerial work in organisations; theories of management and their historical development; contemporary issues and practices relating to managing people and organisation's; key factors in the organisation's environment that impact on how managers and the organisations work.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

define management and summarise the evolution of management ideas on how managers may influence, people, organisations and their contexts to achieve organisational goals. This includes an awareness of the cultural contexts of the original source, development and contemporary application of management theory and practice
identify and discuss contextual factors in the organisation's environment that impact on how people, managers and organisations interact
describe how decision-making, planning, leading, organising and controlling can be managed in organisations
examine the impact on individuals and organisations of contemporary issues in management including, stakeholder interests, ethics and social responsibility
apply the skills of academic writing, research, questioning and analysis required of the management discipline.