Course detail

Management

FP-MmanKAcad. year: 2017/2018

Achiving knowledges of the term management. Core of the topic is structuralization of management according to the functions. Detailed explanation of individual functions. Planning, organisation, leadership and control.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will have a clear idea of modern approaches in management and its functions of planning, organising, leadership and control.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching consists of lectures, which consist of an explanation of discipline, content, terms, structure and methods. The exercises are aimed at the practical side of the lectured topics.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Conditions of awarding the course-unit credit is active participation in exercises during presentations followed by discussion over seminar work.
Activities are evaluated by points.
Students have an opportunity to acquire points for:
- individual semester work
- team semester project
- elaboration of tasks related to the case studies
- test
- elaboration of partial tasks

Students will be penalised by negative points for:
- late submission of an individual semester project
- late submission of a team project
- late delivery of an individual or a team project
- late delivery of resit – supplementary individual project – term is set by the seminar teacher.

If the student does not achieve sufficient number of points, he/she may use up to supplementary – resit individual project.
These ways of resit can be accepted only if the student have already tried to achieve points at least in one individual semester project!

Conditions for passing an exam: Knowledge of taught topics and their practical application.
Form of examination: written and oral.Oral examination is is applied if the result is inresolute. About application of oral examination decide teacher.Oral – presentation of acquired knowledge and own opinions expressed in the seminar work, knowledge of taught topics, knowledge of textbooks and recommended literature. The course-unit credit awarding is a necessary condition for passing an exam.
The exam is classified according to ECTS.
Requirements for completion of the course (weight):
The conditions for get credit - 50%.
Final exam - 50%
Total - 100%

Course curriculum

1. What is management
2. Planning
3. Organizing
4. Types of subjects
5. Leadership
6. Control
7. System approach
8. Management of innovations
9. Process approach
10. Decision making
11. Change management
12. Risk management

The contents of the exercises is to practice recited around topics, processing and presentation of seminary work and case studies (individually and as a group).

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the course is to provide students with knowledge of fundamentals of management, its terms, content, structuralization and methods.

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

Check the results of term paper, the results of solution of case studies, the results of the processing and presentation topics, check the results of the knowledge test.
In case of excused absence from seminars, the teacher can set an additional condition if appropriate, usually elaboration of partial written task.


Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Donnelly, J.H. - Gibson, J.L. - Ivancevich, J.M.: Management. Praha, Grada Publishing, 1997. 821s. ISBN 80-7169-422-3
Robbins, S.P. – Coulter M.: Management. Praha, Grada Publishing, 2004. 600s. ISBN 80-247-0495-1
Weihrich,H. - Koontz,H. : Management. Praha, Victoria Publishing 1993. 659 s. ISBN 80-85605-45-7

Recommended reading

Gerber, M. E.: Podnikatelský mýtus: proč většina malých firem do roka zkrachuje a co proti tomu dělat. Praha, Management Press, 2004. 223 s. ISBN 80-7261-092-9

Classification of course in study plans

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

16 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer