Course detail

Modern Management

FAST-BVA022Acad. year: 2020/2021

This course is specialized on basic conceptions of leadership and Management in city engineering.
It deals with identification of principles managing methods.
The communication, decision making, control processes and effective managerial habits are defined.
The course respect sequencing and creating synergy in teamwork the same as the current questions in management and fellow-worker leading in construction companies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

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.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

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.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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

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

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-MI Bachelor's 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Syllabus

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.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Syllabus

1. The Introduction to the exercises, the criterions for the projects and the teamwork system. 2.–12. The content of singles exercises is the work of every team on its own project, sequential realization or presentation and the feedback from the participants and the teacher. 14. The handover of the closing reports and the credits.