Business Management

The book has been prepared strictly according to the new syllabus for B.Com. Semester Second effective from academic session 2021-22 for all State Universities and Colleges of Uttar Pradesh.
It gives us immense pleasure to present the revised and enlarged edition of the book on Business Management. In the book we have maintained the earlier pattern and style of the book which has been appreciated and lauded over the past so many years. Latest references have also been incorporated making it an authoritative and a very valuable book for the students.
The unique feature of the book is that each and every topic of the syllabus prescribed has been covered in the book.

Business Management Syllabus For B.Com. IInd Semester of Various Universities and Colleges of Uttar Pradesh.

Unit I : Discuss the Management Practices in Indian ‘Vedas’. Introduction : Concept, Characteristics, Nature, Process and Significance of Management; Managerial Roles (Mintzberg); An overview of functional areas of Management; Development of
Management Thought; Classical and Neo Classical System; Contingency Approach, System Approach.

Unit II : Planning : Concept, Characteristics, Process, Importance and Types, Criteria of effective planning. Decision-Making : Concept, Process, Types and Importance. Management by Objectives. Organisation : Concept, Nature, Process and Significance. Authority and Responsibility Relationships. Centralization and Decentralization. Departmentation. Organizational Structure-Forms.

Unit III : Direction : Concept and Techniques, Co-ordination as an Essence of Management, Communication : Nature, Process, Importance, Types, Networks and Barriers. Effective Communication. Management of Change : Concept, Nature, Types of Changes and Process of Planned Change, Resistance to Change and methods of reducing resistance to
change

Unit IV : Controlling : Meaning, Importance and Process, Effective Control System. Techniques of Control Motivation : Concept, Types, Importance, Theories-Maslow, Herzberg, Mcgregor, Ouchi, Financial and NonFinancial Incentives. Leadership : Meaning, Concept, Functions and Leadership styles, Likert’s Four System of Leadership

Business Management Book Contents :

1. Management Practices In Indian ‘Vedas’
2. Management (Concept, Characteristics, Nature, Process and Significance)
3. Managerial Roles (Mintzberg)
4. Functional Areas of Management
5. Development of Management Thought (Classical And Neo Classical System; Contingency Approach, System Approach)
6. Planning
7. Planning Process
8. Types of Plans
9. Decision-Making
10. Management By Objectives
11. Organisation and Departmentation
12. Authority and Responsibility Relationships
13. Centralisation and Decentralisation
14. Organization Structure : Forms
15. Direction : Concept and Techniques
16. Co-Ordination as An Essence of Management
17. Communication (Nature, Process and Networks)
18. Barriers To Communication
19. Effective Communication
20. Management of Change (Process For Planned Change)
21. Recruitment and Selection
22. Controling
23. Motivation
24. Leadership
25. Leadership Theories