Course: Economics & Enterprise Project Management

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Course title Economics & Enterprise Project Management
Course code UPEM/AFHP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pakosta Jaroslav, doc. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Introduction to project management, basic terminology. Project life cycle, project phases, types of projects. Analysis of organizational structures in project management. Project team, project manager, his responsibilities and ethics. Project planning, nature, substance. Project costs, project price. Project financing sources, financial decision-making. Financial analysis, financial planning process. Project implementation management and project work coordination. Project control and monitoring, methods. Specifics of investment projects, restructuring projects, PPP projects. Investment decision-making, assessment of investment effectiveness, substance, methods. Feasibility studies and other methods of projects evaluation Specific cases of project management in enterprise.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with selected issues of the project management with a view to financial project management and teach them how to use modern methodical instruments in realization of the financial project management. Students will be able to solve selected project management issues in terms of the specificity of the project management in the public sector. Furthermore, they will understand the nature, advantages and disadvantages of alternative sources of the project financing and they will know how to choose and apply adequate methods of the project financing in consideration of the EU sources. They will also know ho to justify these methods in the discussion.
A student will obtain the necessary knowledge and management skills within management of project-based company. In addition to the field of principles, methods, procedures, techniques and programs supporting project management the student handles activities related to projects financing, management costs, economic requirements for efficiency and quality output. Furthermore, activities related to its project management processes at the time, coordination, communication, motivation and effective management of conflicts and risks.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

The condition for completing the subject is to obtain assignment in a proper term, active participation in seminars, written or oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • KOLEKTIV:. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Third Edition. (PMBOK Guide). PMI. PA: Newton Square, 2004. Upper sadle River: Prentice-Hall, 2001.
  • MOOZ, H., FORSBERG, K., COTTERMAN, H.:. Communicating Project Management. New Persey. Wiley and Sons, 2003.


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