Organization and Business Management

Verbal methodologies (say), making use of pedagogical resources Exhibition, Explanation, Dialogue, Debates

Intuitive Methodologies (show), making use of pedagogical resources Demonstration, Audiovisual and Written Texts;

Active methodologies (to do), making use of pedagogical resources Groupwork, Team and Project, Case Studies

Introducing the concept of management generates and analyses the fundamental functions of management and its interdependence;

Identify the various levels of management and the main tasks of managers;

Visualize the company as a social organization with its own characteristics;

Describe the organization process and the various types of departmentalization used in defining the organizational structure of a company;

establish the concepts of authority and delegation, responsibility, centralisation and decentralisation and their relations with the various organisational structures, advantages and disadvantages and options to be taken;

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;

Analyze the main theories about motivation;

Analyzing the various studies is high on leadership;

Describe the communication process.

1 – Organisations and management

1.1 – The study of organizations: Concept and scope of organization.

1.2- The individual and organizations: management and managers.

1.3 – The evolution of Management; the theories of the administration

1.4 – Types and models of organization

1.5 – Management functions: Planning, Organization, Leadership, Control

2 – Organization and process

3 – The structure of organizations

4 – Coordination and control

5 – The company as an organization

5.1 – Business concept

5.2 – Company objectives

5.3 – Company resources and capabilities

5.4 – The company and the environment

5.5 – Classification of companies

5.6- Structuring aspects of the company

6 – Analysis, formulation, planning and strategic management.

7 – Motivation, Leadership and Communication

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