Czech

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Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

♦ Understanding and getting knowledge about basic principles and relations in company management in construction engineering.
♦ The guidance for application of basic managerial habits.
♦ Basic conceptions of Leadership and Management.
♦ The communication, decision making and control processes are trained.
♦ Application of principles leadership and managing methods.

Before going on this course student must manage basic knowledge of economics and must be oriented in construction company management. The important ability is to understand, speak and write by given language.

Leadership and management of the group.
Basic of project work from the creation to the closing report.

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit, lessons, exercises, projects, presentations and the closing reports.
They are specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. The course is taught through lectures, practical classes and self-study assignments. Attendance at lectures is optional, but attendance at classes is compulsory.

Active participation in exercises and the quality of teamwork is evaluated.
Knowledge of theory is proved in written test and the application by oral exam.
Written exam - series of questions oriented in general knowledge and their application. Limits for each grade of evaluation will be set. The limit for oral exam approval is 50%.
Oral exam is the supplement to written exam. The objective of the oral exam is to prove deeper understanding of the issue.

1. Function and importance in management work in city engineering
2. Efficiency, principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm
3. Effective habits of leaders
4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, decision making and freedom of choice
5. Leading and management, principles of personal leadership, directivity centre, remittent, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims
6. Leading, planning, organisation and time management, priorities, delegation of authorities and responsibility
7. Human resources, creating and transformation of relationships, creating teams
8. Increasing of organisation effectiveness through fellow workers, paradigms of mutual dependence
9. Principles of mutual advantage, interpersonal leadership, types of interpersonal interaction, dimension of win-win behaviour, supportive systems and processes
10. Fundamentals of effective communication, empathetic listening, sensation and understanding, principles of efficient presentation
11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, brainstorming, analysis of force field
12. Basic dimension of leader personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning
13. Today actual questions of management and leadership

Not applicable.

Obtaining knowledge about basic principles and relations in management and basic managerial habits.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

The advantage (not an obligation) is an experience with the real work of the people, in the company, leading of any group, children and young people etc.

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Linkeschová: Educating Leading Managing. Konvoj Brno, 2003. ISBN 80-7202-052-1. (EN)
Linkeschová,D.: K otázkám managementu ve stavebnictví. CERM, Brno, 2005. ISBN 80-7204-396-X. (CS)
Veber,J.a kol.: Management. Management Press, Praha, 2004. ISBN 978-80-7261-200-0. (CS)

Donnelly, Gibson, Ivancevich: Fundamentals of Management. Irwin, 1995. (EN)
Jiří Plamínek: Vedení lidí, týmů a firem. Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2448-5. (CS)