DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, GOMAL UNIVERSITY, D.I.

KHAN
(Department Of Public Administration)

Course Outline

Level: Diploma of Project Management Term: 1st

S. No Course Code Subject

01 101 Introduction to Project Management
02 102 Managing Human Resources for Projects
03 111 Organizational Behavior
04 112 Statistics for Mangers

Course: Introduction to Project Management

Course Code: 101

Outline:
The Context of Project Management
• The necessity for project management

• The project management context

• What is a project?

• What is a program?

• What is project management?

• Relationship with other management disciplines

• Organizational structuring for project management

• Combination on line and project management structure

Course: Managing Human Resources for Projects
Course Code: 102

Outline:
Organizational Planning
• Nature of planning

• Organizational planning

• Tools and techniques for organisational planning

Staff Acquisition
• Project post analysis

• Staff acquisition

• Inputs to staff acquisition

Team Development
• Distinguishing team building from team development

• Theoretical stages of team development

• Team development

• Barriers to project team development

• Team effectiveness

• Team effectiveness review (TER)

People Dynamics in Project Management

• Role of the project manager

• Role of the project team members

• Important people dynamics in project management

• Politics and project management

• Ethics and professionalism in project management

Course: Organizational Behavior
Course Code: 111

Outline:
A. Organization
1. Introduction to the concept of organization and human Resource Behavior
2. Reasons and components of organization
3. Typologies of organization
B. Theoretical Approaches of the Study of Organization
1. Classical Organization Theory
2. Neoclassical Organization Theory
3. Modern Organization Theory
1. The Classical Theory: Three main Streams
a. The Bureaucratic Model
• Characteristics of Bureaucracy
• Function of Bureaucracy
• Dysfunction of Bureaucracy
b. Administrative Theory
• Principles of Administrative Theory
• Relation with Bureaucracy
c. Scientific Management Theory
• Principles of Scientific Management
• Relation to other classical theories
2. The Neo Classical Theory
a. The Human Relation School
b. The Behavioral School
c. Element of Neo Classical Theory
3. Modern Organization Theory
a. The System and contingency Views
b. Characteristics of Modern Organization Theory
C. Organizational Processes
1. Decision Making Process
a. Rationality in Decision Marketing
b. Steps in Decision Making Process
c. Psychological Barriers in Decision Making Process
d. Creativity in Decision Making
2. Communication Process
a. Communication Defined
b. Organizational Communication
 c. Types of Communication
3. Leadership
a. What is Leadership?
b. Qualities of good Leader
c. Types of Leadership
d. Leadership Theories
D Basic Motivation Process
a. The meaning of Human Motivation
b. Primary Motives
c. General Motives
d. Secondary Motives
e. Maslow Needs Hierarchy
f. Herzberg’s two factor Theory
g. Expectancy Theory of Motivation

E Organizational Change and Conflict Resolution

a. Introduction
b. Source of Change
c. Managing Organization Change
d. Conflict and conflict Resolution

Suggested Reading:

1. Alan.H. Anderson, Anna Kyprianou (1988) Organizational behavior: A skill and activity
based approach, Beacon books, A. Maya Blackwell Imprint 1st Ed. New Delhi

2. Dale, Ernest (1997) Management: Theory and Practice 7th Ed. London, McGraw Hill,
New York
3. Fred Luthans (1986) Organizational Behavior, 4th International Student Ed. McGraw
Hill, New York

Course: Statistics for Managers

Course Code: 112
Outline:
1. Introduction.
• Meaning and definition of statistics
• Importance of statistics for managers
• Limitation of statistics
• Main division of statistics
• Some important concepts
2. Data reduction and data presentation.
• Frequency distribution
• Classification and tabulation
• Data matrix
• Graphs and diagrams
3. Measures of Central Tendency.
• Arithmetic Mean
• Median
• Mode
4. Measures of Dispersion.
• Range
• Mean Deviation
• Variance and standard Deviation
5. Correlation and Regression.
• Meaning of correlation
• Some concepts of correlation
• Co-efficient of correlation
• Meaning of Regression
• Regression Lines
6. Inferential Statistics.
• Estimation
• Hypothesis testing.

Reading List
1. Iqbal A. Bhatti Elements of Statistics
2. Sher M. Chaudhry Introduction to Statistical Theory
3. Tero Tamane Statistics an Introductory Analysis