Are you about to enter the workforce? Are you an emerging professional? Are you new to your role in the organization? All prospective new employees benefit from understanding management principles, roles and responsibilities, regardless of position. Now you can acquire an in-depth understanding of the basic concepts and theories of management while exploring the manager's operational role in all types of organizations. Gain insight into the manager's responsibility in planning, organizing, leading, staffing and controlling within the workplace. It’s never too soon to plan your professional path by learning how the best managers manage for success!
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About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Explain the difference between managers and leaders
Describe the five functions of management
Use the SMART goal-setting technique
Understand the power of building a network
Skills you will gain
- Management Theory
- Management Styles
- Leadership
- Management
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Managers vs Leaders
Skills for Today's Manager
Planning
Management Styles and Networking
Reviews
- 5 stars71.73%
- 4 stars21.91%
- 3 stars5.02%
- 2 stars0.84%
- 1 star0.48%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT
This course help me to know about how to planning and organizing and how leading people in organization ,I recommend it for anyone who wants to know more about fundamentals of management
I found Dave Nagy very interesting and easy to understand. It is obvious how 2nd nature this area of knowledge is to Prof. Nagy in the way that he makes it all seam so easy and possible.
Very useful course and a lot of information that could be used in real world . Even with my 15 years of experience I learned a lot from this course
Really simple and easy to follow along. I learned things that will definitely help me work more efficiently in my business. I found it faster to just go over the slides instead of watching the videos.
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