A lot of reading and thinking about management issues. Submit a brief blog discussing your insights concerning what you have learned thus far about management. What stands out most? What has been most useful?
Things that have been discussed are:
-Evolution of Management
-Management is a Diverse Workplace
-The Management Movement
-Essence of Management
-Conflict, Change, and Culture
-Stress in the workplace
-Five approaches for resolving interpersonal conflict
-How managers can lead change, and how to reduce resistance
-Corporate culture
-Generic types of organisational culture
-Planning and Organizing
-SWOT
-Concepts of centralization and decentralisation
-two basic types of operating systems
-power, authority, and responsibility
-management by objective process (MBO)
-planning and strategic planning and operational planning
-organizing work
-the basics of planning and strategic management