Organisation and Management Fundamentals

CWA ICWA_Foundation :: Paper 1: [One paper: Three hours - 100 marks]

Section - I: Organisation [30 Marks]

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    Functional areas of organization — different organization structures, operations of main functional areas of business, the organization and the activities of different functions. Formal and informal organization - principles of organization, criteria for grouping activities.

    Schools of organization theory — classical, behavioural and systems, current trends and approaches, behaviour in organisation, role of behavioural science.

    Organisational management — objectives (missions, goals and targets), conflict between the objectives ; appropriate strategy formulation; the determinants of culture the different models available for categorising cultures; different models of organizational management available to achieve goal congruence.

Section - II: Management [70 Marks]

  1. Human Resource management — human resource plan; the human issues relating to recruitment, dismissal, retirement and redundancy. Models of human behaviour and motivation and their application (e.g. Taylor, McGregor, Maslow, Hertzberg, etc); training, development and design of reward system.

  2. Management of relationship — process of management covering planning, organizing, staffing, directing, motivating, communicating and control; the concepts of power, authority, responsibility and delegation; the characteristics of leaders and managers; management style theories, contingency approach.

    Theories of group development, behaviour and roles. The sources of conflict in organisation and the ways in which the conflict can be managed.

  3. Management of change — The stages in the process of management change, approaches to the management of organisational development and major cultural and structural change; the importance of managing critical period of change and the ways in which these periods can be managed effectively.

  4. Pattern of management — Broad policies and functions, structural pattern of the Board of Directors; concept of public sector, social objectives; public sector management. Current management thoughts.

Recommended Books


  • Sultan Chand
    1. Management & Organisation
      • C.B. Gupta
  • McGraw Hill
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    1. Management & Organisation
      • Louis A. Allen
    2. Management : A Global Perspective
      • Koontz & Weirich
    3. Organisational Behaviour
      • F. Luthans
    4. Organisational Behaviour and Management
      • Ivanicevich and Matteson
  • Tata McGraw Hill
    1. Management
      • Koontz & O' Donnel
  • Prentice Hall
    1. Essentials of Management
      • Massie
    2. Management
      • Stoner and Freeman
    3. Management
      • S.R. Robbins
  • IRWIN
    1. Fundamentals of Management
      • Donelly, Gibson & Ivanicevich


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