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Johns Hopkins University

Principles of Management

UPDATE: This course is being deprecated as we have refreshed and expanded the content into a new Specialization designed to provide a more comprehensive and up-to-date learning experience. You can explore the updated Specialization here:  https://www.coursera.org/specializations/principles-of-management. Team leads, managers, and entrepreneurs must juggle team citizenship and leadership, ethics, strategy, and projects with their work in their area of expertise. While an individual contributor’s success may depend on their own direct input -- the sweat of their own brow – managers’ success depends on their ability to enlist the active involvement of others: direct reports, other managers, other team members, other department employees, and those above them on the organizational chart -- sometimes even their suppliers or customers! How do you form, launch, and manage a team such that it has the highest chance of success? How can you ensure your team’s work aligns with the organization’s strategy? What basic project management tools can you utilize right away, without purchasing special software, that will help your team meet its objectives on time, on budget, and to spec? Your success at work will depend on the level of trust your colleagues, those who report to you, and those to whom you report feel toward you – how can you build and maintain a high degree of trust? While AI can support you in managerial actions, it cannot replace you. While AI is advanced enough to coach teams or address performance issues, it lacks the intrinsic connection to the organization that a human manager possesses. An employee who perceives themselves as working for “Company X's AI” will not feel the same level of loyalty or commitment as they would to YOU. Since AI, both literally and figuratively, cannot embody an organization or a manager, managers and leaders who delegate important communication and oversight responsibilities to AI inherit this fundamental limitation.   This course will help you succeed in your career.

Status: Business Communication
Status: Relationship Building
Course17 hours

Featured reviews

SS

4.0Reviewed Sep 26, 2023

Excellent information - would be better if all resources were presented at start of course instead of downloads attached to videos

SC

5.0Reviewed Nov 14, 2023

This was an excellent course! It provided real and practical methods for dealing with management challenges and to promote maximum efficiencies.

SF

5.0Reviewed Oct 8, 2022

V​ery well designed course for the practitioners. Informative, engaging and very well presented and explained by the instructor Prof. Ilysea.

FA

5.0Reviewed Aug 6, 2024

I learn a lot of new terms, new skills, new idea and new knowledge. It was such an easy topic to follow. Thanks to the instructor and coursera.

TJ

5.0Reviewed Jan 17, 2026

Absolutely loved this course. I didn't realize how exciting principles of management could be. Much credit must be given to the instructor for her infectious enthusiasm of the subject. Well done!

SN

5.0Reviewed Jan 9, 2025

This is a great course equivalent to a Mini-MBA., provided this is done diligently and followed. A must for your upcoming management workforce.

LM

5.0Reviewed Sep 21, 2024

To anyone with a job title that involves you to engage other people to work,this course is for you.l enjoyed gaining fundamental skills on leading.Thank you professor

JJ

5.0Reviewed Mar 27, 2023

nice course, suitable not only for managers or those who seek to be managers, but also for others who want to have better work relationship and be mpre productive

TD

5.0Reviewed May 22, 2023

Nice course with the basics for management. It introduces many aspects of management with lots of resources for further in depth learning

FA

5.0Reviewed Aug 1, 2024

I have enjoyed this course. It is a journey and paced myself as there is a lot of good content - but wanted to take my time in order to get what I needed out of this material.

HH

4.0Reviewed Jun 15, 2023

Well structured course with valuable learning content. Very useful for new, aspiring, and current managers seeking to develop a learning path and roadmap for their development.

DH

4.0Reviewed Nov 25, 2023

Excellent course! Would have loved a PDF textbook to accompany the course to refer back on a more regular basis, but overall, I highly recommend.

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