Base Knowledge
N.A.
Teaching Methodologies
N.A.
Learning Results
Acquire skills on organizations and evolution of management.
Identify the processes underlying the organization of companies.
Introduce the concept of general management and analyse the fundamental functions of management and its interdependence.
Identify the various management levels and the main tasks of managers.
Describe the organization process and the various types of departmentalization.
Establish the concepts of authority and delegation, responsibility, centralization and decentralisation and their relations with the various organisational structures, advantages and disadvantages and options to be taken.
Analyze how the structure type of an organization is determined by several variables, such as the strategy, its age and size, the technology, the environment and the existing forms of power and control.
Analyze the main theories about motivation.
Analyze the various studies on leadership.
Describe the communication process.
Program
1. MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS
2. THE COMPANY AS AN ORGANIZATION-THE COMPANY AND THE MANAGEMENT
3. HISTORICAL MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE – Management evolution; Management theories.
4. FUNCTIONS OF PDCO MANAGEMENT: Planning, direction, organization and control
5. BUSINESS FUNCTIONS
6. The ORGANIZATION – process, organisational structures
7. PLANNING: Strategic planning in the management process.
8. LEADERSHIP and BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT: Motivation, leadership and communication
Grading Methods
- - 1 written test - 35.0%
- - Group work - 30.0%
- - 1 written test - 35.0%
- - Written test - 100.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
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