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Course Syllabus

Introduction to Principles of Management

Who Are Managers?

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy

Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling

Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance

Performance of Individuals and Groups

Your Principles of Management Survivor's Guide

What's Your Learning Style?

History of Management

What Is Management?

Managing for Business Success

Planning

Organizing

Directing

What Is the Difference between Management and Leadership?

Controlling

Managerial Skills

Management Skills and Styles Assessment

The Role of Tomorrow's Leaders

Influencing Skills

The Influencing Skills of President Obama

Personality, Attitudes, and Work Behaviors

Personality and Values

Perception

Work Attitudes

The Interactionist Perspective: The Role of Fit

Work Behaviors

Developing Your Positive Attitude Skills

The Big Five Personality Test

Subunit 3.7 Discussion

Course Feedback Survey

PRDV221: Certificate Final Exam

Work Attitudes

Course Introduction

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: What Is Management?

1.1: Introduction and Doing Good as a Core Business Strategy

Introduction to Principles of Management

1.2: Who Are Managers?

Who Are Managers?

1.3: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy: A Manager's Guide

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy

1.4: Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling: The P-O-L-C Framework

Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling

1.5: Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance for Managers

Economic, Social, and Environmental Performance

1.6: Understanding the Performance of Individuals and Groups

Performance of Individuals and Groups

1.7: Your Principles of Management Survivor's Guide

Your Principles of Management Survivor's Guide

What's Your Learning Style?

1.8: Management Principles throughout the Ages

History of Management

1.9: A Final Thought: An Alternative Perspective on What Management Is

What Is Management?

Unit 2: The Role of Managers: What Do Managers Do?

2.1: An Introduction to What Managers Do: The Four Functions

Managing for Business Success

2.2: What Is the Management Planning Function?

Planning

2.3: How to Organize People, Equipment, and Money

Organizing

2.4: Managers Have To Possess Great Directing Skills

Directing

What Is the Difference between Management and Leadership?

2.5: Effectively Controlling the Environment Is a Management Essential

Controlling

2.6: Managers Need a Variety of Skills to Be Successful

Managerial Skills

Management Skills and Styles Assessment

2.7: The Role of Tomorrow's Leaders

The Role of Tomorrow's Leaders

2.8: Developing Influencing Skills

Influencing Skills

The Influencing Skills of President Obama

Unit 3: The Personal Side of Management

Personality, Attitudes, and Work Behaviors

3.1: Identifying Your Personality and Values

Personality and Values

3.2: Behavior = Values + Perception

Perception

3.3: Workplace Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

Work Attitudes

3.4: KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Other Characteristics) vs. Fit

The Interactionist Perspective: The Role of Fit

3.5: Influencing Workplace Behaviors

Work Behaviors

3.6: Developing Your Positive Attitude Skills

Developing Your Positive Attitude Skills

3.7: Workplace Personality Tests

The Big Five Personality Test

Subunit 3.7 Discussion

Course Feedback Survey

Course Feedback Survey

Certificate Final Exam

PRDV221: Certificate Final Exam