Duration of the online course: 33 hours and 58 minutes
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Strong management is a practical skill set that can be learned, improved, and applied in any industry. This free online course helps you build a clear foundation in how organizations are managed and why effective leadership, planning, and decision-making shape performance. Whether you are preparing for a first supervisory role, already leading a team, or simply want to understand how businesses work, you will develop a structured way to think and act like a manager.
You will explore what managers actually do day to day and how the core functions of management connect to real outcomes. The course also places modern practices in context by tracing how management thinking evolved, from early efficiency-focused approaches to broader views that consider people, quality, systems, and the environment. This perspective makes it easier to recognize why certain methods succeed in one situation and fail in another, and how to adapt your approach rather than relying on a single formula.
Planning is treated as a critical managerial responsibility, emphasizing how to scan the environment, identify opportunities and risks, and translate insights into actionable direction. You will learn to interpret internal and external factors, strengthen your strategic thinking, and use proven frameworks to make more informed choices. The course also addresses forecasting and premising so you can reduce uncertainty, set realistic assumptions, and prepare for alternative scenarios instead of reacting under pressure.
To round out your capability, you will focus on decision making in the presence of limited information, competing priorities, and human bias. Understanding common perceptual traps and interview biases helps you evaluate options more fairly, communicate decisions more clearly, and improve staffing-related judgments. By the end, you will be better equipped to plan effectively, think strategically, and make decisions that hold up in real organizational settings.
Video class: Principles of Management
03m
Video class: Lecture 1: Introduction to Management - I
35m
Exercise: What are the primary functions of management?
Video class: Lecture 2 : Introduction to Management-II
37m
Exercise: What skill is most important for top-level managers?
Video class: Lecture 3 : Introduction to Management- III
37m
Exercise: What does the multistream approach to management emphasize compared to the mainstream approach?
Video class: Lecture 4 : Introduction to Management - IV
32m
Exercise: What is the primary focus shift in modern management practices?
Video class: Lecture 5 : Evolution of Management - I
37m
Exercise: What is one of the key contributions of Frederick Winslow Taylor to management?
Video class: Lecture 6 : Evolution of Management - II
33m
Exercise: What is the main purpose of studying the evolution of management concepts according to the text?
Video class: Lecture 7 : Evolution of Management - III
30m
Exercise: What is the primary focus of Henri Fayol's administrative principles of management?
Video class: Lecture 8 : Evolution of Management - IV
36m
Exercise: What is a key focus of Total Quality Management?
Video class: Lecture 09 : Planning - I
32m
Exercise: Why is environmental scanning a crucial aspect of the planning process in contemporary business management?
Video class: Lecture 10 : Planning - II
30m
Exercise: What are the two major components of the business environment?
Video class: Lecture 11 : Planning - III
27m
Exercise: What is SWOT analysis used for in business environment appraisal?
Video class: Lecture 12 : Planning - IV
33m
Exercise: What does the term 'Strategos,' which is the origin of the word 'strategy,' mean in Greek?
Video class: Lecture 13 : Planning - V
29m
Exercise: What are the three main types of strategies within strategic management?
Video class: Lecture 14 : Forecasting and Premising - I
33m
Exercise: What is the main benefit of environmental scanning in business planning?
Video class: Lecture 15 : Forecasting and Premising - II
31m
Exercise: Which of the following is NOT a quantitative forecasting technique discussed in the context of human resource planning?
Video class: Lecture 16 : Forecasting and Premising - III
34m
Exercise: What is the purpose of time series analysis in decision making?
Video class: Lecture 17 : Forecasting and Premising - IV
31m
Exercise: What is a critical path in PERT network analysis?
Video class: Lecture 18 : Decision Making - I
31m
Exercise: Which of the following best describes the halo effect?
Video class: Lecture 19 : Decision Making - II
33m
Exercise: What impact do perceptual biases have during employment interviews?
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Course comments: Principles of Management
Ritesh Chettiyar
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Rajashwath V
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