Management

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This curricular unit aims to provide an elementary understanding of the context, activities and tools of organizational management. It also seeks to raise students’ awareness of the need to learn how to manage the ambiguity and complexity inherent in management activities. Throughout this curricular unit students will have the opportunity to explore relevant aspects of the theory and practice of contemporary management,
deepening some topics addressing recent trends in this area. They should also understand the limits and contributions of the various scientific areas to the management knowledge body, distinguishing the theoretical body from management practices. Students should be able to make an approach to management as a field of study, exposing students to the main lines of research. Finally, it aims to develop an initial set of knowledge, skills and attitudes indispensable to the exercise of management positions.
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
– Know the theory and practice of contemporary management from the perspective of planning, organization, leadership and control functions;
– Apply the basic concepts of management, with main focus on the most relevant functional areas of organizations.
– Analyze the main functional areas of organizations, such as human resources management, productive, financial, quality, accounting.
– Describe the organization process and the various types of departmentalization used in the definition of organizational structure of a company.
– Analyze how the type of structure of an organization is determined by several variables, such as strategy, its age and size, technology, the environment and the existing forms of power and control.
– Establish the concepts of authority and delegation, responsibility, centralization and decentralization and their relations with the various organisational structures, advantages and disadvantages and options to be taken.

1 – Organizations and management.
1.1. The study of organizations: Concept, scope and objectives of the organization.
1.2. Management and managers.
1.3. The challenges of management – Main contributions of management theories in the study of Management.
2. The Company as a social organization.
2.1. Structuring aspects of the company.
3.2. Company resources and capabilities.
3. The functions of management.
3.1. Planning.
3.2. The Organization.
3.3. The Direction/Leadership.
3.4. The Control.
4. The role of Organization
4.1- The Organization Process – Departmentalization.
4.2. The Structure of Organizations.
4.3. Types and models of organization.
5. The control function.
5.1 Coordination and control mechanisms.
6. The planning function
6.1. Analysis, formulation, evaluation and Strategic control.
7. The Steering Function – Motivation, Leadership and Communication.

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