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Management and Behavioral Sciences 352- Business English lays the foundations for advanced courses in communication. The topics included emphasize vocabulary development and the understanding of grammatical rules. The course aims to inculcate a simpler, more informative and expressive business like writing style in the participants, written communication. 353- Oral Communication teaches the student to communicate orally with others in an effective manner in a business environment. Some of the areas covered in this course are interviewing, -public speaking, inter-personal communication etc. Participants gains practical experience of preparing and delivering speeches in front of large groups and thus prepares them for the numerous presentations they will have to make during their stay at IBA and later in their corporate careers. 354- Human Behaviour familiarizes the students with the major theories, research findings and concepts, attempting to describe and explain human behaviour. Particular attention is paid to those theories and concepts, which seem especially significant for the understanding and controlling of behaviour in organizations. 355- Organizational Behaviour analyses the behaviour of humans in large groups and especially in work settings. The course tries to inculcate a positive attitude in the student's relationships with their equals, superiors and subordinates. 356- Behavioural Sciences for Management is an introduction to basic concepts and theories of Behavioural Science. Emphasis is placed on the application of the concepts, theories, and research findings of the discipline in dealing with problems in all areas of management. 406- Principles of Management deals with management principles and methodology demonstrating their application to manufacturing and other enterprises. It includes a study of all the functional areas of management namely, planning, organizing, communicating, staffing, directing and controlling with special emphasis on their applications. 407- Logic is taught with the objective of assisting business students in following a sound reasoning process in their decision-making. Course contents include deductive and inductive logic, the use of language and the analysis of the nature of fallacies. 408- Social & Economic Philosophy of Islam acquaints the participants with the classic and contemporary literature on Islamic social and economic philosophy. It compares the Islamic classic system with the modern economic one and gives appraisal of modern economic and financial institutions in the light of the Islamic principles of banking, insurance and joint stock companies. 409- Personal Management is specially designed to help the students in organizing their personal lives, and every day training, which could reduce the physical and mental load in the corporate setting. It includes speed-reading, time management, positive thinking, personal grooming, and transactional analysis. 412-
Small Business Management discusses the entrepreneurial aspects
of the management courses taught at IBA. Whereas the other courses relate
to environments of large business, this course explores how these concepts
apply to a small business environment. 413- Business and Labor Laws acquaint students with the laws governing business enterprises and business relationships. The emphasis is placed on Limited Liability Companies, and Partnerships and the laws governing the working of these in detail. Besides, the course covers general provisions of substantive law affecting business and industry, specifically, the Law of Contract, the Law of Sale of Goods, the Law of Agency, Factories Act, Payment of Wages Act, Trade Unions Act, Workmen's Compensation Act and Industrial Relations Ordinance. 414-
Office and Records Management provides extensive training to prospective
office managers and supervisors. It includes modern techniques of Office
organization, setting up of work, arrangement of people, establishment
of organizational relationships, office reports and correspondence, setting
up filing record retention system, office work and procedure, supervision,
quality control, office work simplification, form design and control,
office layout and flow of paper work, office budgets, tools of records
retention, records centers, vital records protection and procedure management
and control. 461-
Personnel Management covers all phases of manpower management.
Specific subjects include staffing, salary and wage administration, relations
with labor unions, training, safety, fringe benefits and service. In addition,
the course integrates, for managerial application, such concepts as motivation
and morale, and various ways to measure manpower management effectiveness,
as it contributes to the attainment of general management objectives. 480-
Comparative Management explores alternatives to the American &
European management theories. It deals with the management principles
in the socialist countries, the Japanese management methods and the Islamic
philosophy & guidelines for management. 482- Business Communication is concerned with the theory and application of administrative communication and techniques of effective communication in management. It includes development in effective speaking, inter-personal communication, grievance handling, conference participation, etc. Other areas include the diagnosis of communication problems in administration and planning for solutions to these problems. 542-
Production and Operations Management familiarizes students with
the fundamental problems in the areas of plant operations management.
It covers a study of the economics of production, layout of machines and
building, production control, operations management in service industries
and other allied problems. 591-
Managerial Policy is an advanced management course in strategy
planning, policy, formulation and implementation thereof. This course
develops an integrated viewpoint by inter-relating the functional areas
of finance, marketing, production, personnel, and the general business
environment. It is a course in business statesmanship and stresses the
challenges that emerge when top management tries to redefine its outlook
and company objectives in the face of important changes which may be taking
place in and around the company. Evening students of this course are allowed
to take only one more course in addition to this. 589-
Advanced Management examines in greater detail and depth the basic
administrative process, i.e. planning, organization, co-ordination and
control, which is common to all fields of co-operative human endeavor.
The subject matter is studied in the context of the managerial and economic
environment of Pakistan. Adaptation and application of management principles
as developed in the Pakistani situations is explored through class discussion
and analysis case studies. |
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