American International University - Bangladesh

Department of Business Administration

Management & Organization (D)
Spring 2006-2007 (January– May 2007)

Course Code: MGT 3202 Course Name: Management & Organization

Nature: Core course Academic Term: Spring, 2007
Credit Hour: 3 Campus: # 2
Faculty: Mosaddeq Khan, Assistant Professor; E-mail: mkhan@aiub.edu; Tel: Campus – 1, ext-571
Office Hours: 9:30am – 5:00pm (ST);
9:30am – 11:00 am ; 4:00 pm – 5:00pm (MW); 11:00 am – 2:00pm (Sa);

Objectives:
This course would provide an introductory overview of the entire management processes and
acquaint the engineering and science students with some management principles/techniques. These
processes have extensive uses in business, engineering and research fields.

This course is designed to introduce the students to the fundamentals of Management. It intends [1]
to facilitate the students’ understanding of the link between engineering and corporate strategy as
well as that between management decisions and decisions of other functional areas, [2] to
familiarize the students with the tools/techniques used in management to assess various trade-offs
and to make decisions.

At the end of the course, the students should be able:

A. To understand managerial challenges of the changing world, management functions, management
involvement to get competitive advantages.
B. To find and to analyze environmental forces that influences organization and to know how to
respond/adapt to the environments.
C. To know all about decision making and to understand how to use tools and techniques to take
creative decisions.
D. To understand planning, planning processes and strategic planning and to know how companies can
achieve competitive advantages through good planning and good strategy.
E. To know all about organization structure and to construct good organization’s structure to execute
plan and to achieve organizational goals.
F. To know how to manage human resources to gain competitive advantages.
G. To understand all about leadership and to know how a good leader can motivate all to achieve
organizational goals.
H. To know how to supervise, monitor and work as per plans and to control the execution of the plans.
I. To understand all about team, change management and international business.

Lecturer schedule and topics to be covered

Time Topics Suggested Activities Teaching Strategies
- Subtopics
Week 1 Course Overview/Introduction to Management
- Course Introduction Reading Lecture
- Introduction to Management: Definition, Chapter # 1 of the text
Competitive advantages, Managerial function, # 1 and chapter # 3 of Multimedia presentation
Level of management, The Successful Manager the text # 2 and
- Forecasting handout

Week 2 Environment
- Environment that influences organizations: Reading Lecture
macro and competitive environment; scanning, Chapter # 2 of the text
analyzing and responding to environment # 1 and handout Multimedia presentation
Assignment
 Group discussion
Week 3 Dcision Making
- Decision and Decision making: managerial Reading Lecture
decisions and stages of decision making; Chapter # 3 of the text
barriers to decision making; group decision # 1 and handout Multimedia presentation
making. Assignment Group discussion
Week 4 Decision Making Tools
- Formulation of decision problem Reading Lecture
- Graphical presentation Chapter # 3, of the text
- Linear Programming # 1 and supplement to Multimedia presentation
chapter # 6 of the text # Group discussion
2 and handout
Assignment
Week 5 Planning & Organizing
- Planning and Planning Process, Level of Reading Lecture
Planning Chapter # 4 & 8 of the
- Strategic Management: strategic planning, text # 1 Multimedia presentation
strategic planning process Group discussion
- Organizing: vertical & horizontal structure; Assignment
common types of structures; organizational
integration.
Week 6 Managing Human Resources, Leading & Controlling
- HRM: human resource planning process; Reading Lecture
strategic HRM; HR forecasting and staffing, Chapter # 10, 12 &16 of
labor relation the text # 1 and Multimedia presentation
- Leadership: vision, leading and understanding handout Group discussion
leadership; types of leadership
- Controlling: control cycles, devices; monitoring Assignment
and learning; reporting and changing
Week 7 Ethics, International Management & Change
Management Reading Lecture
- Ethics and Ethical System Chapter # 5, 6 &18 of
- Ethics and Corporate responsibility the text # 1 and Multimedia presentation
Global Environment & Global Strategy handout
International Management
Creative Management & Management Change
- World Class Management & Future
Management
Week 8 Mid – term Exam

Week 9 Productivity and System Design

- Productivity and productivity calculation Reading Lecture
Competitive advantages chapter # 2 & 4 of the
- Product & Service Design text # 2 and handout Multimedia presentation
- Manufacturing Design Group discussion
- Quality Function Deployment Assignment
- Service design
- Financial Analysis: NPV, IRR and Payback
Period
Week 10 Planning and Selection of System
- Capacity Planning Reading Lecture
- Process Selection chapter # 5, 6, & 7 of
- Job Design and Work Measurement the text # 2 and Multimedia presentation
handout Group discussion
Assignment
Week 11 MRP, ERP and Inventory Management
- Capacity Planning Reading Lecture
- Process Selection chapter # 11 & 13 of the
- Job Design and Work Measurement text # 2 and handout Multimedia presentation
- MRP, MRPII and ERP Group discussion
- Inventory models and control Assignment
 Week 12 Quality Control and Management
- Quality system Reading Lecture
- Quality Management and Assurance chapter # 9 & 10 of the
- Quality tools text # 2 and handout Multimedia presentation
- Inspection Group discussion
- Statistical Quality Control Assignment Industrial Visit
Week 13 Scheduling & Project Management Reading
- Scheduling Operations chapter # 13 & 17 of the Lecture
- Project and Scheduling text # 2 and handout
- Network diagram: CPM/PERT Multimedia presentation
Assignment Group discussion

Week 14 Reading
Transportation Model, and Waiting lines chapter # 8 & 18 of the Lecture
text # 2 and handout
- Transportation Models & Cost: Location Multimedia presentation
Decision
- Waiting Line Analysis Assignment Group discussion
- Performance of waiting lines
- Queuing Models
Week 15 Reading
JIT production & Supply Chain Management chapter # 14 & 16 of the Lecture
- Japanese Management text # 2 and handout
Multimedia presentation
- JIT types and Goals
- JIT Development, Transitioning to a JIT system Assignment Group discussion
- Need for Supply Chain Management and
Benefits
- Elements of Supply Chain Management
- Creating effective supply chain
Week 16 Final Exam

Text:
1. Bateman & Snell, Management – The New Competitive Landscape, 6th edition. McGraw-Hill.
2. Stevenson, William J., Operations Management, 8th edition, McGraw-Hill.
Reference:
1. Koontz, Management, 8th edition
2. Prichett & Saber, Mathematics with Applications in Management & Economics, 7th edition, Irwin.
Course Policies:
Students would be allowed to miss maximum of two classes without losing any grade during pre mid-term
and post mid-term section. For missing each additional class(s) (i.e. from third missing class), 0.5 mark
would be deducted. Class performance means contribution of the student to the class. Time to time you
would be asked questions in the class room to check your attentiveness in the class. If the response is
satisfactory then you would get marks for the assigned Class Performance.

No abusive or bad words would be allowed inside the class room. If anybody is found using any abusive or
bad word inside the class room, he/she would be immediately dropped from this course and the disciplinary
committee of the university would be informed about it.

All the quizzes are unannounced. No make up of the quizzes would take place.

It is mandatory that every student would come to the class with his/her ID card visible. If any student found
without the ID card visible would not be allowed to continue the class and his/her attendance would be
cancelled.

GOOD LUCK