Here I am providing important notes of MBA First Semester Course of Pondicherry University for your reference:

Pondicherry University MBA 1st Semester Notes
Management Concepts & Organisational Behaviour
Unit – I
Nature of Management - Social Responsibili Ties of Business - Manager and Environment Levels in Management - Managerial Skills - Planning - Steps in Planning Process - Scope and Limitations - Short Range and Long Range Planning - Flexibility in Planning ¬Characteristics of a sound Plan - Management by Objectives (MBO) - Policies and Strategies - Scope and Formulation - Decision Making - Techniques and Processes.


Unit-II
Organising - Organisation Structure and Design – Authority and Responsibility Relationships - Delegation of Authority and Decentralisation - Interdepartmental Coordination - Emerging Trends in Corporate Structure, Strategy and Culture - Impact of Technology on Organisational design - Mechanistic vs Adoptive Structures - Formal and Informal Organisation.


Unit – III
Perception and Learning - Personality and Individual Differences - Motivation and Job Performance - Values, Attitudes and Beliefs – Stress Management - Communication Types-Process - Barriers – Making Communication Effective.


Unit – IV
Group Dynamics - Leadership - Styles - Approaches - Power and Politics - Organisational Structure - Organisational Climate and Culture - Organisational Change and Development


Unit – V
Comparative Management Styles and approaches – Japanese Management Practices Organisational Creativity and Innovation - Management of Innovation - Entrepreneurial Management – Benchmarking - Best Management Practices across the world - Select cases of Domestic & International Corporations - Management of Diversity

Lesson - 1 : Nature Of Management
Introduction:
Take a close look at the society around you. You would find the existence of several organizations. To mention a few, the business organizations that produce goods or services, hospitals, religious and social institutions like charities, schools, colleges and universities. All these organizations exist to achieve pre-determined objectives. They affect our lives in many ways. Though there are vast differences in their functioning and approaches, they all strive to achieve certain objectives. It must also be noted that organizations cannot achieve the objectives effortlessly. They are achieved through systematic effort. Several activities have to be performed in a cohesive way. In the absence of systematic and cohesive performance of the activities to achieve the objectives, it is no wonder that the resources of organizations would be underutilized. As such it is the function of the management to facilitate the performance of activities such that the accomplishment of the objectives becomes possible.
Meaning of Management
Management is understood in different ways by different people. Economists regard it as a factor of production. Sociologists see it as a class or group of persons while practitioners of management treat it as a process. For our understanding, management may be viewed as what a manager does in a formal organization to achieve the objectives. In the words of Mary Parker Follet management is “the art of getting things done through people”. This definition throws light on the fact that managers achieve organizational goals by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves.

Management encompasses a wide variety of activities that no one single definition can capture all the facets of management. That is why, it is often said that there are as many definitions of management as there are authors in the field. However, the definition given by James A.F. Stoner covers all the important facets of management. According to him:

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