Course detail

Company Management I

FSI-HP1Acad. year: 2011/2012

The course is structured to inform the students with basic principles of management and with approach to management in successful companies. The course also introduce the students with modern methods of company management. Entrepreneurship, business entities. Management processes. Decision-making process.
The course focuses especially on the following topics: Knowledge of principles, goals and structuralization of management, management application on corporate level. Requirements laid on managers, his expected qualities and role. Management system at the company Bata. Structuralization of management according to the functions and elements. Detailed explanation of individual elements. Planning, organization. Typology of organizational structures. Applicable business units.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will have a clear idea of modern approach to and application of management including development connections and individual planning procedures, creating of organizing conditions and organizational structures, including possibility of choice of business unit.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of courses Corporate Economics, functions of company, its economics and results.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Conditions for awarding the course-unit credit:
1. Active participation in exercises during presentations followed by discussion over seminar work
2. Successful completion of a credit
3. Successful elaboration of semester work in preset deadline.

Total number of points is 100; the minimal number of points for awarding the course-unit credit is 70.

Students have an opportunity to acquire points for:
- individual semester work
- team semester project
- elaboration of tasks related to the studies
- elaboration of partial tasks
- control test

Students will be penalized by negative points for:
- late submission of individual semester project (i.e. within 6th and 10th week of the semester)
- late submission of team project – after 5th week of the semester
- late delivery of individual resp. team project (after 10th week of the semester)
- late delivery of resit – supplementary individual project – term is set by the seminar teacher.

If the student does not acquire sufficient number of points, there are set up to 3 following supplementary – resit means for the course-unit credit acquirement:
- up to three supplementary – resit tests
- supplementary – resit individual project
- supplementary – resit team project
Note: these ways of resit can be accepted provided that student have already tried to acquire points at least in one individual semester project!

Conditions for passing an exam: Knowledge of taught topics and their practical application.
Form of examination: Oral – presentation of acquired knowledge and own opinions expressed in the seminar work, knowledge of taught topics, knowledge of textbooks and recommended literature. The exam is sat by three students at the time. The course-unit credit awarding is a necessary condition for passing an exam.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The main objective of the course is to provide students with theoretical knowledge and methodology regarding fundamentals of management, its terms, content, structuralization and practical application. To recommend approaches necessary for solution of managerial tasks on corporate level.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

An introductory course intended to provide a basic knowledge of management, its methods, structure and intent. The aim of this course is recommended to students the approaches for solving the managerial task.
Active participation in seminars regarding presented topics, participation in discussion, quality
Presentation of semester work on given topic, knowledge test.

Attendance in lessons and exercises 13x 4 hours 52 hours
Continuous preparation for seminars (individual study of literature)
Case study solution
Semester work elaboration
Preparation for final exam
Final exam and discussion over semester work
In case of excused absence from seminars, the teacher can set additional condition if appropriate, usually elaboration of partial written task.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

WEIHRICH H., KOONTZ H. Management. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1993. 659 s. ISBN 80-85605-45-7

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2I-P Master's

    branch M-STM , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Topics of lectures are the following:
Introduction to management.
Properties of businessman.
Classic management schools (Taylor,Ford,Fayol)
Classic management schools, development in our country: Masaryk Labour Academy, Prague Congress, Bata’s management system, Success of F. Janeček
Management at present, aims, function, elements, definitions, position, structure.
Competitiveness of the company
Management according to the objectives
Strategy, planning
Organising
Organising - investment subjects: state companies, commercial companies -public commercial organisation, limited partnership company
Organising - Investment subjects, limited liabilities company, joint stock company,
The seminars are focused on practising the lectured topics and elaboration of case studies (both individually and in teams).

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

The seminars are focused on practising the lectured topics and elaboration of case studies (both individually and in teams).