Course detail

Management Theory

FAST-V42Acad. year: 2020/2021

This subject is concentrated to key practices and skills that manager needs to know to be able to lead people in the company and to manage the whole civil engineering firm (or its part).
This course offers to students basic principles to be applied for both strategy issues and daily problems, resulting in quality, productivity, profit ability and "win - win" relationships. Those principles gives them the security to adapt, to change and power to take advantage of the opportunites, that constant change creates and to solve their personal and professional problems in their management practice.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Guarantor

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Orientation in organization of construction firm.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1.– 2. Basic terms of management, methods and processes of management.
3.– 5. Information, classification of information, efficiency of information, informational systems.
6.– 8. Decision-making and decision making processes.
9.– 11. Control processes.
12. Organisation of management, organisational structures.
13. Leadership and management of people.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To get 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

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Bateman T. S., Snell S. A.: Management, Building compatitive advantage. Chicago, Irwin 1996
Donelly J. H. jr., Gibson J. L., Ivancevich J. M.: Fundamentals of management. Chicago, Irwin 1995
Linkeschová: Educating Leading Managing. Konvoj 2003
Linkeschová, D.: K otázkám managementu ve stavebnictví. CERM Brno 2005
S. R. Covey: Principle centered leadership. New York, Simon & Schuster 1991

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Syllabus

1.– 2. Basic terms of management, methods and processes of management. 3.– 5. Information, classification of information, efficiency of information, informational systems. 6.– 8. Decision-making and decision making processes. 9.– 11. Control processes. 12. Organisation of management, organisational structures. 13. Leadership and management of people.