What is management?
Management is a “science” supported by facts and figures, but it is also an “art” dependent on personal perspectives and views.
Management bases upon “theories” that evolves with time and changes, but it emphasizes a lot on “practices” which require skills and techniques.

This course aims to introduce the fundamental concepts of management, essential managerial tasks, strategies and skills, structures and operations in modern organizations relevant to our experiences today. This course is intended to assist students to learn various management practices and how such practices might impact on the operation of organizations and its performance in the global marketplace. Topics of the course include evolution of management thought, ethics and organizational culture, leadership, human resource management and information technology in management.

Students will also benefit from the instructor’s extensive management experiences and insights which would give students a deeper understanding of realistic management practices.

Students will not only learn cases in the western business world but also gain understandings on how Asian business are managed through studying business cases from Taiwan.

Furthermore, students will connect the contemporary management concepts to the ancient wisdom of Confucius whose fifteen sayings on the governance and management from Lunyu (Analects of Confucius) will be shared by the instructor in the class.

**Students who like to take this course but could not register online, please come to the first class on Sep 14 (Thursday) and obtain the authorization code from Dr. Hsieh or correspond with him by email (dr.edhsieh@gmail.com) before the class.
***International students are welcome to join this course to bring in diversified international perspectives on the management topics.