MODULE 4: MARKETING & MANAGEMENT

Unit 4: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT: Leading and Controlling

Coordinators: Baasansuren Sandui, School of Economics and Business, MULS

Lecturer:  Baasansuren Sandui, School of Economics and Business, MULS, a Guest lecturer from the List of teachers within the AGRIMBA network (Annex 1)

Leading and controlling agribusiness activities

To give theoretical, methodological, and practical knowledge of leading and controlling functions of managers in the framework of management science

To Describe organizational culture and its importance

To Discuss values of social networks and networking, and to analyze its ethical considerations

To Describe behaviors of effective leaders, and to specify contexts of various effective leadership styles

To Define the decision-making process and, to discuss key causes of faulty decision making and its implications

To Discuss differences between groups and teams, and effective ways of building and maintaining cohesive teams

To Discuss process-based theories of motivation and effective ways of organizational control

Lectures

Interaction with teachers and fellow students

Self-guided group work

Organizational Culture

Social Networks

Leading People and Organizations

Decision Making

Managing Groups and Teams

Motivating Employees and Essentials of Control

Carrying out of business cases related to subtopics and tests

Written and oral exam

Mason A. Carpenter. Principles of Management / Flat World Knowledge, University of Minnesota: ISBN-13 978-0982043073. – 646 p. (Chapter 8-15)