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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Essentials of Management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 545-0067/01
Abbreviation ZMNG
Course title Essentials of Management
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michal Vaněk, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1st Defining the essentials concepts of management, characteristics of managerial work, managerial characters and skills, a brief historical development of management.
2nd Corporate ethics and corporate culture.
3rd System approach to management.
4th Meetings and principles of their leadership.
5th Managerial functions planning: definition, characteristics of different types of plans, the planning process. Management by objectives (MBO).
6th Strategic planning and management: definition of terms corporate vision and mission, the process of strategic planning.
7th Strategic Analysis: SWOT analysis, Porter’s model, PEST analysis; basic types of strategies and strategic alternatives.
8th Managerial decision-making functions: definition, risk, decompose of time of the decision-making process, decision-making group, fundamental types of decision-making methods.
9th Decision-making methods: decision analysis, decision trees, modelling and simulation, crisis management.
10th Managerial functions of the organization: definition, process organization, basic types of organizational structures and their classification, organizational and legal form of business.
11th Managerial functions of leadership: definition, basic effects on employee performance, motivation and motivation theories, motivational factors, the importance of working groups and the factors affecting their performance and efficiency, the development phase of the team.
12th Managerial control functions: definition, classification review process, recommendations for the implementation of control activities, the trend of development control activities.
13th Communication and presentation skills of manager.
14th Integrated management.

Literature

ROBBINS, S. P., COULTER, M. K. Management. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Pearson, 2016. ISBN 978-1-292-09020-7.
CERTO, Samuel, C. Modern Management. 9. vyd. New Jersy, USA: Prentice Hall, 2003. 595 p. ISBN 0-13-067089-8.
KOONTZ, Harold; WEIHRICH, Heinz. Essentials of management. Fifth edition. McGraw-Hill, 1990. 529 p. ISBN 0-07-100776.

Advised literature

DRUCKER, Peter F. The essential Drucker. In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management. New York : Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 2001. 368 p. ISBN: 006093574X .