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Trends in Modern Management

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Course Unit Code115-0545/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionEnglish
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KAS348Ing. Kateřina Kashi, Ph.D.
Summary
The aim of this subject is focus on critical factor of business included in Conception "7S" American consultant firm McKinsey. This conception, with world's reputable, connect 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. Learned knowledge and skills, the students will used in problem solving of critical factors.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1. McKinsey 7S approach
2. Shared values
3. Typology of Company culture
4. Company symbols
5. Modern strategies
6. Lean organization and production
7. KAIZEN and Six sigma approaches
8. Style of managerial job
9. Human resource management
10. New form of managerial job


Course Contents
1. McKinsey 7S approach
2. Shared values
3. Typology of Company culture
4. Company symbols
5. Modern strategies
6. Company structures
7. Lean organization and production
8. KAIZEN a Six sigma approaches
9. Style of managerial job
10. New form of managerial job
11. Knowledge management
12. Human management potential
13. Company collaborations
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
CLEGG, Stewart; KORNBERGER Martin; PITSIS, Tyrone a MOUNT, Matthew. Managing & organizations: an introduction to theory and practice. 5th ed. London: SAGE, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5264-6009-7.
GUILLÉN, Mauro F. 2030: how today's biggest trends will collide and reshape the future of everything. Cheltenham: Cornwall: Flint, 2021. ISBN 978-0-7509-9802-4.
ROBBINS, Stephen P.; COULTER, Mary K. a DECENZO, David A. Fundamentals of management. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-30732-9.
CLEGG, Stewart; KORNBERGER Martin; PITSIS, Tyrone a MOUNT, Matthew. Managing & organizations: an introduction to theory and practice. 5th ed. London: SAGE, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5264-6009-7.
GUILLÉN, Mauro F. 2030: how today's biggest trends will collide and reshape the future of everything. Cheltenham: Cornwall: Flint, 2021. ISBN 978-0-7509-9802-4.
ROBBINS, Stephen P.; COULTER, Mary K. a DECENZO, David A. Fundamentals of management. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-30732-9.

Recommended Reading:
HACLEY, Chris. Qualitative Research in Marketing and Management. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-33221-8.
KAPLAN, Robert S. a NORTON, David P. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment. London: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. ISBN 9781422163559.
STERNAD, Dietmar. Effective management: developing yourself, others and organizations. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-352-00729-9.
HACLEY, Chris. Qualitative Research in Marketing and Management. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-33221-8.
KAPLAN, Robert S. a NORTON, David P. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment. London: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. ISBN 9781422163559.
STERNAD, Dietmar. Effective management: developing yourself, others and organizations. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-352-00729-9.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined