Introduction to Business Management

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Business Management
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Business Management

Course Overview

Introduction to Business Management


  

The business world and business management Entrepreneurship The establishment of a business The business environment

General Management Principles
   



General management The basic elements of planning Organising management activities Leadership: leading people in organisation Human resource requirements and developing effectiveness in HR

General Management Principles






Motivating and managing human resources The legal environment and human resources Controlling the management process

The functional management of the organisation
    



The marketing process The marketing instruments The integrated marketing strategy Public relations The financial function and financial management Asset management: the investment decision

The functional management of the organisation
 



 

Financing decisions The operations management function Operations management: activities, techniques and methods Purchasing and supply management Sourcing activities

Contemporary issues in business management


Management challenges

Prescribed text for programme


Introduction to Business Management , editors Cronje; Du Toit; Marais and Motlatla. 6th Edition, Oxford University Press 2003

Recommended text


Business Management , second edition , editors; S Marx , DC Van Rooyen , JK Bosch and HJJ Reynders. J L van Schaik Publishers 1998

Business Management

The Business World And Business Management

The business world and business management
     

The role of business in society Needs and need satisfaction The main economic systems The need satisfying institutions of the free market The nature of business management The development of business management

The role of business in society
   

Transformation of resources into products and services Meet the needs of the people Business activity involves human activities. People manage activity Business activity involve productionmanufacturing,retailing,mining and services

The role of business in society conti.
 



Business produce products and services for money Business involve profit ± the reward for meeting the needs of the people and means for an organisation to pay for resources The prevailing characteristic of the business world is called the market economy

The role of business in society conti.








The market economy compromise small and large business organisation Needs in a country determine the complexity of its business environment Business creates wealth. Wealth results in a country¶s economic growth The businessperson or entrepreneur is at the heart of the business world.

Society influence business






Society has certain expectation toward business Control is through regulations and legislation Some examples ± competition policy, employment equity , skills development act and black economic empowerment legislation

Society influence business: factors
 

  

Social responsibility Business ethics ± exploitation of workers and consumers Affirmative action Environmental damage Consumerism

Needs and need satisfaction




A need may have physical , psychological or social origin. All needs require satisfaction According to Abraham H. Maslow human needs range in a definite order from the most essential for survival to the least necessary

Needs and resources of the community
Unlimited needs  Self ± realisation  Esteem needs  Social needs  Security needs  Physiological needs Limited resources  Natural resources  Human resources  Capital resources  Entrepreneurship/ management

Society¶s limited resources
 

  

Resources are production factors Natural resources can not be increased ± land , minerals , forests and water Human resources ± labour and related skills Capital ± buildings , machinery , computers etc. Entrepreneurship ±risk takers.

Need satisfaction




Community decides which institutions should produce and distribute products and services The community determines through political process the economic system in which necessary need satisfying institutions are established

The main economic systems




The free market economy ± most products and services are supplied by private organisations seeking profit Command economy ± communism, the state owns and control factors of production

The main economic systems conti.




Socialism ± compromise between pure market and pure command. State controls the principal industry. Socialism ± strategic resources belong to every citizen. The rest of the business and consumers operate within free market environment

The free ± market economy
   



Private ownership Freedom of choice Free competition Profit and reward according to ability Management environment ± private business

The free market economy conti.
   



Free to choose career Free choice of job , union and strike Consumer freedom and choice Economic freedom and private initiative Unstable environment- cyclical flactuations

Command economy


    

State owns and controls all industries and agriculture No competition Profit not allowed Management are party members Limited choice of work Limited choice of products

Command economy conti.






State can control / concentrate resources towards particular ends Low productivity & standard of living Planning difficult or impossible

Socialism
    

Basic industries owned by state Freedom of choice Limited competition Profit motive recognised Decisions restricted to government policy in state ± owned organisations

Socialism conti.
 



 

Free to choose job and employer Limited right to strike in state enterprises Consumers have freedom of choice except on state products Possibility of full employment State stabilises economic fluctuations

Socialism conti.




There is little incentives in state organisations Unproductive state organisations

Need ± satisfying institutions of the free market


 

Business organisations ± mobilise the resources in a country at the risk of a loss and in seeking a profit Business organisations refer and mean private enterprises Government orgnisations ± protection and creation of collective non-profit seeking facilities and services ; education , health etc.

Need ± satisfying institutions of the free market conti.




Government organisations like education and health are need satisfying organisations that operate without a profit motive Management of government organisations fall under the subject of public administration an independent science

Need ± satisfying institutions of the free market conti.




The state may control and own business organisations in the form of public corporation i.e.. Eskom, Transnet and Telkom Non ± profit seeking organisations provide seek a surplus of income over expenditure

Nature of business management


Economics as a social science studies how humans and society exercise choices concerning different ways of using their scarce resources for products and services

Nature of business management




Business management as an applied science is concerned with the study of those institutions in a particular economic system that satisfies the needs of a community Economics studies the entire economic system of a country while business management look at the individual organisation

Purpose and task of business management




Obtain the highest possible output ( products and services) at the least possible input ( lowest cost) Examine factors , methods and principles that enable a business organisation to maximise its profits and achieve its objectives

The development of business management




Middle Ages ± AD 1000 subsistence economies feudal and manorial system Renaissance ± birth of mercantilism; simple urban industries , territorial specialisation and the development of banking and book-keeping

The development of business management conti.


 

Early capitalism followed the renaissance ± Adam Smith and the growth of cities ± the industrial revolution 19th Century saw the appearance of the company The demand for professional management brought business management into being

The development of business management : approaches.






1900 emphasis on production management ± resulting in overproduction 1930s emphasis on sales management in an attempt to get rid of the excess 1950s emphasis on the marketing concept

The development of business management: approaches




1970s & 1980s focused on strategic management 1990s globalisation of business management

Theories of management
   

Scientific school Classical school Human relations school Contemporaray management thinking

The study of business management


Business management is a young applied science that sets out to study the ways in which a business can achieve its prime objective , which is to make a profit. Successful management is often regarded as an art as well as a science.

Business management and other sciences
   

Anthropology- culture , behaviour and diversity Economics ± environment , markets location etc. Engineering ± product development factory lay out and employee safety Law- formation of a business , employment conditions and contract development

Business management and other sciences conti.








Computer science ± information management , e-marketing etc. Accounting ± control systems , budgets , cost analysis etc. Psychology ± leadership , negotiation communication etc. Sociology ± organisational behaviour and ethics

Business management and other sciences conti.


Mathematics ± decision models , planning models , market measure, financial models , human resource models etc.

Functional areas in business management
     

General management Marketing Public relations Financial management Production/ Operational Purchasing

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