Book Description

Modern organizations are highly complex and dynamic systems. Managing organizations efficiently and effectively in this changing time is quite a complicated and challenging job. So, a complete theoretical and practical knowledge of Management is now becomes an essential requirement in order to manage and run the enterprises more successfully. This book on “Principles of Management” is primarily designed for the students of BBA, MBA and other professional courses. The attempt has been made to provide a systematic and integrated framework which would help the reader to understand the topics in clear and simple way. The entire book has been divided into five units and each unit described under different chapters. The book comprises of twenty-five chapters, dealing with all the aspects and issues related to management at different levels. The book covers a wide range of topics which includes Concepts of management, business environment, planning, management by objectives, decision-making, organization design, decentralization, span of control, organizing, leadership, motivation, communication, direction and controlling etc. The sequence of various topics in each chapter has been so arranged that the students and readers will be able to get a complete and updated knowledge about management principles and current practices in the country. We hope the book with its present coverage and contents will prove to be useful to the students, teachers and general readers. The book has been presented in a very simple language and various examples have been incorporated in order to ensure better understanding of the given contents. All endeavors have been made to make this book complete and comprehensive. However, there is always a scope for further improvement. Therefore, we invite suggestions, comments and views from the readers to enable us to bring out more improved volume of this book in the second edition.