Course: Management

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Course title Management
Course code UPEM/EMAN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Gyamfi Solomon, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Brodský Zdeněk, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic terms, basic managerial approaches. Development of management theories, schools of western management. New trends in management. Planning, its essence, aims, system of plans, strategic processes. Organization, its essence and aims, organization structures, organization documents. Human resources management, selection of people, their deployment and evaluation.Remuneration. Management, motivation, styles of management. Control, main principles and aims of control, styles, types and phases of control processes, feedback and feedforward. Decision making processes, its essence, aims and phases, risks and uncertainties, managerial games. Basics of internal communication in management.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 13 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 52 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 33 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide information, understand basic managerial functions and further prepare graduates for lower managerial positions in organizational units of production and administrative character.
A student who has successfully completed the course can: explain the basic concepts of management and the interrelationships between these concepts, individual management theories and compare them, characterize individual continuous and successive managerial functions, their continuity, interconnection, explain the basic issues of planning, organizing, human resources, leadership, control, decision making and internal communication. A student who has successfully completed the subject will be able to: orientate in individual managerial positions, use basic tools and methods of managerial functions, analyze and make decisions when drawing up a simple plan and on the basis of it to assess the suitability of using organizational documents, organizational structure, then orientate in the basic procedures of personnel management, leadership, to assign control functions to the plan. A student who has successfully completed the course is able to: take individual decisions in managing small work teams in case studies, communicate comprehensively and convincingly to professionals and lay people about the nature of professional problems and their own opinion on their solution.
Prerequisites
This course does not require previous special professional knowledge.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

The assignment: submission and acceptance of seminar papers and solved tasks. Examination: written or oral (with already the assignment). For SS 2019/20: Students send made up Homeworks from teacher via email/IS STAG. Students was informed via IS STAG or bulk email.
Recommended literature
  • AMASON, Allen C. a WARD, Andrew. Strategic management: from theory to practice. New York. 2021.
  • BATEMAN, Thomas S. a SNELL, Scott. Management: leading & collaborating in a competitive world. 11th ed. New York. 2015.
  • DAFT, Richard L. Management. 12th ed. Boston. 2014.
  • IACOBUCCI, Dawn. Marketing management. Sixth edition. Australia. 2022.
  • ROTHAERMEL, Frank T. Strategic management. Sixth edition. New York, NY, USA. 2024.


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