Course detail

Modern Management

FAST-MV002Acad. year: 2018/2019

This course is specialized on basic conceptions of leadership and Management in city engineering.
It deals with identification of principles managing methods.
The communication, decision making, control processes and effective managerial habits are defined.
The course respect sequencing and creating synergy in teamwork the same as the current questions in management and fellow-worker leading in construction companies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

♦ Understanding and getting knowledge about basic principles and relations in company management in construction engineering.
♦ The guidance for application of basic managerial habits.
♦ Basic conceptions of Leadership and Management.
♦ The communication, decision making and control processes are trained.
♦ Application of principles leadership and managing methods.

Prerequisites

Before going on this course student must manage basic knowledge of economics and must be oriented in construction company management. The important ability is to understand, speak and write by given language.

Co-requisites

Leadership and management of the group.
Basic of project work from the creation to the closing report.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit, lessons, exercises, projects, presentations and the closing reports.
They are specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. The course is taught through lectures, practical classes and self-study assignments. Attendance at lectures is optional, but attendance at classes is compulsory.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Active participation in exercises and the quality of teamwork is evaluated.
Knowledge of theory is proved in written test and the application by oral exam.
Written exam - series of questions oriented in general knowledge and their application. Limits for each grade of evaluation will be set. The limit for oral exam approval is 50%.
Oral exam is the supplement to written exam. The objective of the oral exam is to prove deeper understanding of the issue.

Course curriculum

1. Function and importance in management work in city engineering
2. Efficiency, principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm
3. Effective habits of leaders
4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, decision making and freedom of choice
5. Leading and management, principles of personal leadership, directivity centre, remittent, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims
6. Leading, planning, organisation and time management, priorities, delegation of authorities and responsibility
7. Human resources, creating and transformation of relationships, creating teams
8. Increasing of organisation effectiveness through fellow workers, paradigms of mutual dependence
9. Principles of mutual advantage, interpersonal leadership, types of interpersonal interaction, dimension of win-win behaviour, supportive systems and processes
10. Fundamentals of effective communication, empathetic listening, sensation and understanding, principles of efficient presentation
11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, brainstorming, analysis of force field
12. Basic dimension of leader personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning
13. Today actual questions of management and leadership

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Obtaining knowledge about basic principles and relations in management and basic managerial habits.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

The advantage (not an obligation) is an experience with the real work of the people, in the company, leading of any group, children and young people etc.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-MI (N) Bachelor's

    branch MI , 4. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Function and importance in management work in city engineering
2. Efficiency, principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm
3. Effective habits of leaders
4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, decision making and freedom of choice
5. Leading and management, principles of personal leadership, directivity centre, remittent, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims
6. Leading, planning, organisation and time management, priorities, delegation of authorities and responsibility
7. Human resources, creating and transformation of relationships, creating teams
8. Increasing of organisation effectiveness through fellow workers, paradigms of mutual dependence
9. Principles of mutual advantage, interpersonal leadership, types of interpersonal interaction, dimension of win-win behaviour, supportive systems and processes
10. Fundamentals of effective communication, empathetic listening, sensation and understanding, principles of efficient presentation
11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, brainstorming, analysis of force field
12. Basic dimension of leader personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning
13. Today actual questions of management and leadership

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. The Introduction to the exercises, the criterions for the projects and the teamwork system.
2.-13. The content of singles exercises is the work of every team on its own project, sequential realization or presentation and the feedback from the participants and the teacher.
14. The handover of the closing reports and the credits.