Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behaviour

Chandrani Singh, currently working in the capacity of Joint Director (MCA) and Placement Head at the Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Research, Pune, is an academician of significant stature. Apart from her current administrative and academic role, she also handles the recruitment processes of the techno-management students under the Sinhgad Group of Institutions, Pune. She is also the Cofounder and Director of i-Teknika Services and Solutions, an organization catering information technology (IT)-enabled services to customers. She is instrumental in developing a web-enabled rapid recruitment assessment and training-software abbreviated as WERRAT, which has found its significance amongst the stakeholders.Formerly an alumnus of NIT Rourkela, where she pursued Masters in Engineering and Masters in Computer Applications, Dr Singh has been actively involved in the research and development initiatives and is on the Advisory Board of National and International Conferences and Journals. She has published and presented multiple research papers in international journals and conferences of repute. She has authored Software Project Management and co-authored e-World: Emerging Trends in Information Technology and edited AITIS Conference proceeding in the year 2008.She also chairs the responsibility of paper setting and central assessment processes under the University of Pune and has also acted as a liaison for various industry–academia initiatives with Tata Consultancy Services, Zensar Technologies, and so on.She had been a very active sports persona in her yesteryears and set the national record in a track event in the mid-1980s. In personal, she is a fun-loving person with a very optimistic mindset in every walk of life. Aditi Khatri is a freelance Human Resource (HR) Consultant and a Soft Skills Trainer and has worked with TACO Composites Ltd (a Tata Enterprise), Pune, as Assistant Manager-HR and Tricon Infra Buildtech Pvt Ltd, Pune, as Head-HR, where she has been instrumental in developing HR policies and processes.She joined the Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Research, Pune, in the year 2012, in the capacity of Assistant Professor and Training Placement Officer and served the institute for a year-and-half and had carried out during this tenure several academia–industry interaction initiatives.Ms Khatri then went on to set up her own venture by the name of Focus Consultants, through which she has imparted trainings to 2,000+ students and professionals and has earned the repute of a proactive trainer and a public speaker.She has presented a number of papers at national-level conferences and successfully coordinated various induction and training programmes across the country.Ms Khatri has a very optimistic approach towards life and has a go-getter attitude. She is a very creative person, and her creativity reflects in both her hobbies and work.

This is a good reference textbook for those who are following the VTU syllabus.However, the material needs to be supplemented with other resources as the textbook content is quite concise.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction to ManagementEvolution of Management ThoughtPlanningOrganizationStaffing, Training, and DevelopmentDirecting and ControllingDecision-MakingOrganizational BehaviourUnderstanding and Managing Individual BehaviourGroup and Group DynamicsTeam and TeamworkLeadershipMotivationConflict ManagementOrganizational Development, Culture, and ChangeStress ManagementBibliographyIndex