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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Sociology of Management

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0602/12
Abbreviation SM
Course title Sociology of Management
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator PhDr. Anna Papřoková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Syllabus:
1. Management. Interdisciplinary nature, relation to other disciplines. Apllication in practice.

2. Theory and practice of management. – basic stages of the management development and management systems. Postmodern approaches. Management functions.

3. Theory of a firm. Company as a production, economic and social unit. Strategy, structure and cultural environment of companies. Designing and development of an organisation (classic and neoclassic).

4. Social system of an organization, Social potential, social structure, activities, activities, functions. Social and working group, team and organization. Components of social system: abilities, social and psychological needs, relationships, education possibilities, communication, variability of work.

5. Man in an organization. . Whyte´s organizational man, typology; personality features, , attitudes, values, motives of labor activity, job satisfaction.

6. Origin of an organization – goal and strategic tendencies. Grouping, integration and cooperation of activities,. Definition of the role, responsibility, competence. Hierarchic structures..

7. Personality, properties and role of a manager. Management pyramid and prevailing activities. Self-management and carrier.

8. Motivation, leadership, mission and goals of an organization. Theory of personality, groups, situation, transaction and transformation styles of leadership (Fiedler, Vroom, Bass). Coaching.

9. Creating of efficient teams – choice, leadership, evaluation methods, development of motivation, problem solving and making decisions. . Team cooperation.
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10. Project management. Structure of employees, recruitment and choice, process of integration into the organization. Adaptation, education, carrier.

11. Company culture, its elements (values, imaginations, approaches) and types. Relationship between strategy, organizational structure and company culture. Company culture of international companies.

12. Model of controlled change – strategic analysis, diagnosis, , categorization of powers, creation of a model of change. Innovation in the organizational architecture, strategic alliances, decentralization, slim structures.

13. Macroorganization and globalization. Postmodern organization (net and virtual) and their management.

14. Analyses of a social system (structural, dynamic).

Literature

Handel, M.J. (ed.) (2003). The Sociology of Organizations, London:
Sage Publications
Herriot, P. (1992). The Career Management Challenge Balancing Individual
and Organizational Needs. London: SAGE

Advised literature

Clark, F. A.(1992). Total Career Management. Strategies for creating
management careers. London : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Limited
Grove, S. A.(1996). Only the Paranoid Survive, How to exploit
crisis points that challange every copany. New York: Random House
Thompson, P; McHugh, D.(1990/2002). Work Organizations, a critical introduction. Palgrave
Reich, R. B.(1991). Work of Nations.Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism. New York: Alfred A.Knopf