 Dear learners, first of all I would like to extend warm welcome to all of you to this massive of an online course on management process and organizational behavior. This is a four credit course spread over 16 weeks. As the name indicates, this course will discuss about management process and organizational behavior. This is a foundational course. In this course, the endeavor would be to discuss the very fundamental concepts of management. What is management? How has it evolved? What are the different schools of management? What are the levels of management? What are the different functions of management? All these basic concepts will be discussed. After discussing the basic concepts of management, this course will make an endeavor to equip the learners with the basic concepts of organizational behavior. My dear learners, as you would appreciate, management is all-pervasive. It is applicable to each and every one of us. It is applicable to any kind of organization, whether it is a government organization, whether it is a public sector enterprise, whether it is a non-governmental organization, whether it is an educational institution, hospital, self-help group, club, any kind of organization. The principles, the practices, the philosophies of management are applicable. So, foundation is very important. After having the proper foundation only, we can aspire to develop the detailed knowledge as regards various functional areas of management, like production management, financial management, material management, different functional areas. But this course will not discuss much about the functional areas. It will discuss the governing principles which will help us understand imbibing the basic essence of management. Dear learners, this course is designed in such a manner that in 16 weeks there will be various modules. Each module will have certain assignments. These assignments are likely to provoke you to look around your surroundings. What is happening outside? How management is taking place? How can the learning of management, the theoretical learning of management be applied in the practices? Moreover, we shall discuss certain case studies. And based on these case studies, we hope you will be able to relate the concepts of management around the surroundings, the happenings in our environment. This will provoke you to develop a case methodology of thinking. The assignments will be there. At the end of each module, you will be given certain quizzes. Answers will also be given which would provoke you to think about the details of concepts which would help you to clarify the concepts. And we are sure you definitely enjoy the quizzes, you definitely enjoy the assignments and at the end of the course there will be the end course assessment. Dear learners, as I have already told you, the fundamental concepts of management are very important. What are the managerial functions? What are the managerial skills? In addition to this, in any kind of organization, as you would appreciate, leadership and motivation takes a very important role. So does communication. Along with leadership, motivation, communication, etc., in an organization there are some underlying forces. Those underlying forces could be in the areas of conflict, could be in the areas of power. So not only the fundamental concepts of management, slowly and gradually we shall also try to delve into the larger issues, the intricate issues of conflict, motivation, leadership, communication, performance, etc. Keeping all these aspects in mind as well as to help you imbibe the basic managerial issues in an organization, this 16-week course has been designed. Hope you would enjoy the course. Hope you will be able to extract a lot of benefit from this course. So wish you a very happy learning. Thank you.