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Managerial Skills

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Course Unit Code115-0506/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer 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 to teach students to twelve managerial skills like interpersonal communication, presentation, stress managing, conflict solutions, affecting another people, managing change etc., which depend on personal skills developed by experience and training. They will try even several managerial advancements and activities as authority delegating, action plans of employees motivation, group efficiency influencing and synergic effect creation in the team etc. and they will be solved the company case studies (Ishikaw diagram, Pareto analyses, Brainstorming, Field of force, SMART goals, SPIN, techniques GROW, STEER etc.).
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
1.To describe and explain the 12 key managerial skills that are used, albeit in varying degrees, all managers regardless of hierarchical position in the organization, to discuss the managerial competences required to manage business processes and the involvement of people in their improvement.
2.To diagnose own capacity to cope with managerial skills, which includes this subject, to develop their own capacity so that student can aspire to be a manager in a company to apply the knowledge gained through education and self-study modules of recommended literature for solving case situations to mimic the behavior of managers that students can, through tutorials, observe on the videos, which will be screened to them, to address the case studies of management practice.
3.To get an overview of the theoretical knowledge of the content of basic social and managerial skills and techniques that can facilitate and accelerate management processes, tools of managerial work in the form of record sheets, recommendations that transform the skill to practical implementation, methodological instructions describing the steps in the way of acting manager the management of activities and leadership in the workplace.
Course Contents
1. Managerial competence and roles
2. Self-perception and perception others
3. Supportive Communication
4. Assertivity, listening
5. Managing conflict
6. Making decision, solving problem creatively
7. Power and influence
8. Empowering and delegating
9. Motivation theory, using motivation theory in managerial work, motivating other
10.Managerial style of leading people, leadership, coaching
11.Managing teams
12.Management change
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.
ROBBINS, Stephen P.; COULTER, Mary K. a DECENZO, David A. Fundamentals of management. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-30732-9.
STERNAD, Dietmar. Effective management: developing yourself, others and organizations. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-352-00729-9.

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.
ROBBINS, Stephen P.; COULTER, Mary K. a DECENZO, David A. Fundamentals of management. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-30732-9.
STERNAD, Dietmar. Effective management: developing yourself, others and organizations. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-352-00729-9.


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.
VARNEY, Sharon. Leadership in complexity and change: for a world in constant motion. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. ISBN 978-3-11-071306-0.


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.
VARNEY, Sharon. Leadership in complexity and change: for a world in constant motion. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. ISBN 978-3-11-071306-0.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined