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!



Fundamentals of Management
This course is part of Career Success Specialization

Instructor: Dave Nagy
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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
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Reviewed on Jan 8, 2017
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
Reviewed on Nov 10, 2017
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
Reviewed on Feb 6, 2020
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.
Recommended if you're interested in Business
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