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! Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Describe the difference between managers and leaders 2. Explore the focus of a manager’s job 3. Cite the required skills for a new manager’s success 4. Describe the five functions of management 5. Explain the new model management operating philosophy 6. Describe the hierarchy of planning 7. Use the SMART goal setting technique 8. Discuss the concept of evolution of leadership 9. Explain how customer satisfaction is linked to controlling 10. Discuss the power of building a network
JA
Highly impressed with the content and delivery of this Course. I without reservation recommend this Course to all practicing and upcoming managers/leaders.
MW
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.
AA
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
VY
This course is very useful for management fraternity whether they are practitioners or academiciansit changes my orientation with relevant examples. Thank you for the wonderful course.
J
This course really helps me to get the general concepts about management.I'm willing to take further courses provided by UCI.Thanks for the faculty.
VA
Many New things are available to learn. I am alrealy a management student but this course help to know me that i dont know anything and I am continously learning many new concept.
MJ
Great for people that, like me, does not have a management background but maybe end up dealing with this type of position. Good guidelines, simple but complete and using understandable examples.
AK
A good, quick, to the point course on basics of management. Recommended for everyone who is new to this field & wants to get acquainted with the various terms, philosophies & processes.
NS
The course gives the introduction to the very basics of management skills. This helps the entrant people managers to develop skillset besides technical knowledge.
K
I really enjoyed learning this course.It gave me a whole infrastructure of a manager and how a manager deals with the things.I also learnt about how to do organizational planning and implementing it.
NY
It was very informative and too simple courses which everyone who wants to be one step ahead should take it. Every fundamental aspects have been shown
RR
With Business Administration experience I was able to relate what I learnt from this course. Also this is a great course to start with. Recommended for leadership roles. Thank you
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Really great and very useful course! One of the most interesting and fruitful courses I have passed. I want to thank the turor for his contribution and sharing valuable knowledge with us!
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.
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
Great for people that, like me, does not have a management background but maybe end up dealing with this type of position. Good guidelines, simple but complete and using understandable examples.
The valuable information in this course got me the promotion I wanted.
Higher management noticed I had changed my management style in a short time period and was pushing the employee's to get the job done.
In fast food it's all about timers and labor.
The employees trust me and I have confidence that shows. Not east considering they are mostly teens and young adults.
Thank you, Tammy G.
This course is very useful for management fraternity whether they are practitioners or academicians
it changes my orientation with relevant examples. Thank you for the wonderful course.
Lecturer, Mr. Nagy, gives the course in a very basic and understandable way with real life examples and sharing his experiences. One of the best course among this Career Readiness saga
4/5 for content, 2/5 for presentation. Compared to other courses, the lecturer is slow and often reads from slides. Nevertheless thanks for the course.
Mr. Nagy presents an introduction to fundamentals of management that can be used by experience managers as a refresher. He presents the contents in a clear and concise manner, with useful examples that help retain the concepts he is presenting. I highly recommend this course to anybody, whether he or she is just entering the workforce after College or people that is already involved in management.
Great introductory course for those want know about the Fundamentals of Management
A Simple Course on the basics of management that surely could benefit any working person...I would have love to come across this class much earlier on in my life...it would have given me a much broader view on what it takes to be in charge and lead others and would have made some past experiences a lot easier to transition through...thank you for providing these learning opportunities online...
Very clear explanation of management aspects for today’s generation
Muy recomendado!
Mr. Nagy presents associate introduction to fundamentals of management which will be utilized by expertise managers as a refresher. He presents the contents in a very clear and epigrammatic manner, with helpful examples that facilitate retain the ideas he's presenting. I extremely advocate this course to anybody, whether or not he or she is simply getting into the personnel when school or those that is already concerned in management.Thank you!
The transition from one topic to another is very seamless and the topics are covered in a very easy and understandable format. Professor Dave Nagy uses really nice, understandable and simple examples to explain some very core topics like feed-forward ,concurrent and feedback control systems . Hence, it becomes easy to relate the information from the course in everyday scenarios.
Thank you Professor Dave Nagy and the Coursera team !
Thoroughly enjoyed this course! At first I thought it would be boring because of an older instructor but Mr. Nagy was great! Very easy to understand and you can tell he has alot of experience in the field. One of the best courses in this specialization! I understood everything right away with his excellent examples and explanations. Lots of useful and practical information. Well done!
I just finished this course with my happiness and pleasure. I be always grateful about this course, because thank to course, I learned the number of vocabulary of management that I never knew before. Besides that, I also improve my English skills, especially Listening and Vocabulary.For this reason mentioned above, I really grateful this course so much, and helps my dream come true.
Even though some of the information seems like common sense, it's good to have it stated aloud. I thought the pace was well done, the examples used applicable and easy to understand, and the instructor seemed to enjoy the topic he was teaching. It's a good introduction to thinking about these topics and understanding jobs and roles in any business.
the course is really nice for beginners where the topicis started from the stratch and take to various approacheand models adopted in organisations. The instructor Mr. dave nagy is a brilliant instructor when it comes to giving examples. overall the course is very well designed for someone who is beginnng his or herjouney in management.
This is the best course if you want to learn the Fundamentals of Management. Dave keeps it very simple and explains the topics lucidly. I have trained in some topics as part of my job which made it easy for me to get certified in this course. Some of the questions on the quiz have real world scenario's which are pretty fun to work on.