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The Principles of Management textbook contains sixteen modules—roughly one module per week for a sixteen-week semester. If you need to modify the pace to cover the material more quickly or create a 12 week course design, the following modules work well together:
- Module 3: Planning and Mission and Module 4: Environments and Strategic Management
- Module 8: Groups, Teams, and Teamwork and Module 12: The Individual and the Organization
- Module 10: Leadership and 13: Ethics in Business
If you are teaching this course in an eight-week session, you could combine the following modules.
- Module 1: Introduction to Management and Module 2: History of Management
- Module 3: Planning and Mission and Module 4: Environments and Strategic Management
- Module 5: Decision Making and Module 6: Organization Structures
- Module 7: Human Resource Management and Module 11: Motivation
- Module 8: Groups, Teams, and Teamwork and Module 12: The Individual and the Organization
- Module 9: Culture and Diversity and Module 16: Globalization and Business
- Module 14: Communication and Module 15: Control