This
unit is designed to enable learners to gain an understanding of different
approaches to managing an organisation in today’s dynamic and complex business
environment. It will introduce learners — whether intending to or working in an
administrative, commercial or management role — to current management theories
and practices to enable them to use these to evaluate organisational
effectiveness.
This unit will introduce you to the
nature of work organisations, approaches to management and leadership and
factors affecting individual and team performance. The unit should provide you with an
understanding of the theories behind management, organisation, and employee
performance and how you should apply these theories to organisational
situations. The basic nature and functioning of work organisations, in general, will be explained and you will examine different approaches that may be used to
improve individual and team performance through effective leadership and
management. To assist your overall understanding earlier theories and models
will be described but concentration will be placed on more modern approaches
and ideas that review the management styles and roles regarded as necessary for
organisations of the 21st century. The unit will also explain the alternative
methods by which work organisations can be structured.
On completion of this unit, you will
be able to identify and apply knowledge of organisational, management and
leadership theory and practice to a range of given situations.