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Trends in Modern Management

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Course Unit Code115-0345/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KIR30doc. PhDr. Iva Kirovová, Ph.D.
MIK90doc. Ing. Marie Mikušová, Ph.D.
HAS70prof. Ing. Petra Horváthová, Ph.D., MBA
PAP30Ing. Marcela Papalová, Ph.D.
MAT073Ing. Lucja Matusiková, Ph.D.
ZEL089Ing. Kateřina Stanovská, Ph.D.
KLI0213doc. PhDr. ThDr. Lucjan Klimsza, PhD.
Summary
The aim of the subject is focus on critical factors of business included in Conception "7S" American consultant firm McKinsey. This conception, with world's reputable, connects access based on assessment, mutual conditionality and integrity meaningful factors success in managerial work too. Students will study these factors and discuss them. They are: strategy, structure, systems steerage, staffs, shared values, style of managerial work, skills and symbols, that comprises this conception. Organization culture is “nub” of integrity these factors.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1.To analyze and evaluate present and future trends in development single factors of managerial work and management of companies.

3.To discuss the trends from experiences of companies - to state cases of companies, which determine trends in world's management development.
Course Contents
1.The McKinsey 7S approach
2.Trends in organizational culture
3.Trends in strategic management
4.Trends in organizational structure
5.Trends in management systems
6.Trends in leadership
7.Trends in personal management I
8.Trends in personal management II
9.Trends in personal management III
10.Trends in personal management IV
11.Trends in business
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
BERGER, Lance A. a Dorothy R. BERGER. The talent management handbook: creating organizational excellence by identifying, developing, and promoting your best people. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN 0-07-141434-7.
KIRTON, Gill a Anne Marie GREENE. The dynamics of managing diversity: a critical approach. 3rd ed. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. ISBN 978-1-85617-812-9.
JOHNSON, Meagan a Larry JOHNSON. Generations, Inc.: from boomers to linksters - managing the friction between generations at work. New York: AMACOM/American Management Association, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8144-1573-3.

DĚDINA, Jiří a Jiří ODCHÁZEL. Management a moderní organizování firmy. Praha: Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-6996-7.
HORVÁTHOVÁ, Petra. Talent management. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7357-665-3.
HORVÁTHOVÁ, Petra, Jiří BLÁHA a Andrea ČOPÍKOVÁ. Řízení lidských zdrojů: nové trendy. Praha: Management Press, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7261-430-1.


Recommended Reading:
CANNON, James a Rita MCGEE. Talent management and succession planning. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84398-173-2.
DELCAMPO, Robert G. Managing the multi-generational workforce: from the GI generation to the millennials. Farnham: Gower, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4094-0388-3.
ÖZBILGIN, Mustafa, Ahu TATLI a Karsten JONSEN. Global diversity management: an evidence-based approach. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave, Macmillan Education, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-33435-0.
HORVÁTHOVÁ, Petra, Jiří BLÁHA, Martin ČERNEK, et al. Základy managementu. 2. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2017. ISBN 978-80-248-4102-1.
HORVÁTHOVÁ, Petra, Marie MIKUŠOVÁ, Jiří BLÁHA, Iva KIROVOVÁ, Lucjan KLIMSZA, Lucja MATUSIKOVÁ, Marcela PAPALOVÁ a Kateřina STANOVSKÁ. Trendy v managementu. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2019. ISBN 978-80-248-4337-7.
MUŽÁKOVÁ, Karina. Diversity Management: jeden z klíčových faktorů určující úspěšnost manažerských činností v současném globálním a turbulentně se měnícím prostředí. Ostrava: Key, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7418-229-7.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit35 (35)18
                Zápočtová písemkaWritten test35 18
        ExaminationExamination65 (65)33
                Písemná zkouškaWritten examination65 33