Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Plan, organize, and control the operations of the basic elements of people, materials, machines, methods, money and markets , get things done through the efforts of other people - individually, in groups, or in organizations, providing direction and coordination, and giving leadership to human efforts, so as to achieve the sought objectives of the enterprise.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learners will be able to:• Solve problems creatively. • Learn who managers are and about the nature of their work.• Know why you should care about leadership, entrepreneurship, and strategy.• Know the dimensions of the planning-organizing-leading-controlling (P-O-L-C) framework.• Learn how economic performance feeds social and environmental performance.• Understand what performance means at the individual and group

Course Contents

The course is an introduction to business and its relation to the society. It introduces students to the basic concepts and principles of business enterprises while considering social and ethical issues. Economic forces affecting businesses, international business, forms of business organizations, franchising and small businesses are among the topics to be covered. It also exposes the students to the management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, motivating, and controlling.