Course detail

Legislation and management

FAST-V46Acad. year: 2020/2021

This subject offers to students knowledge and understanding of law and its principles relevant to the civil engineering industry. It starts with brief introduction to the basic of law, its disciplines and categories, including some history and relation to business ethics. Main effort is given to the present version of the Czech Commercial Code and laws relevant to civil engineering.
The course includes also fundamentals necessary to start and run a small business - like how to create a company, advantages of different legal structures, implications for taxation, etc. Questions related to management and corporate governance, responsibilities of owners, managers and their relations are also included. Final part of this course is dedicated to law in European Union, influence to our law system and possible consequences related to the civil engineering sector in our country.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Guarantor

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Knowledge basic principles and relations in management and basic managerial habits.

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. Leading ability and skills, meaning of theory of managemet and leading of people, history, basic notions and literature.
2. Motivating and methods of positive stimulation, piramid of needs, consideration and appreciation, interestingness of work, responsibility and dependance, theory X and Y, the two factors theory – motivational hygienic.
3. Definition of load, identification with aim and load, distribution of general to concrete. Planning (methods, how to get to aim, finding of alternatives, size of participation, building-up creativity, instruments of generating ideas).
4. Training and its functios, fundamentals of efficient speech. Communication and coaching of organization and individuals.
5. Control and management, meeting managing, managing in organizations, methods of control, managemant systems.
6. Evaluation, looking over results, deciding and evaluating of team efficiency, evaluating and training of individuals, questioning, people selecting and reporting, self-valuation.
7. Organisation, organisating of groups and sub groups, leading of leaders, organisation of organisation and their survey, factors of work groups size, organisation structure, dependence and delegation.
8. Self-example leading and team management, self-organisation, deciding in managerial work.
9. Characteristics of working groups. Individuals, work teams, organisations and communities.Group participation, communication and solidarity, atmosphere, standards, structure and organisation.
10. Basic role and functions in groups. Characteristics of roles, their types, conflicts of roles and role of leading worker.
11. Tied together needs in group life, their basic demonstrations.Needs and function of leading and its asic categories (instigation, regulation, information, assistance, evaluation).
12. Processes in group life time (formation, agitation, standardization = solidarity building). Team rules and procedures (deciding, reactions to authority, conflict and getaway, defensive mechanismes). Teams in teams, relation management between teams.
13. Teams and team work, sequential teams in building industry, establishment and upkeeping of high duty teams. Leading styles, leader and his basic liabilities. Actual questions of leading and management.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Obtaining knowledge of manager of company in leading of work teams, in communication and progress of individual. Ability to overmaster basic work of manager in company.

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

Obchodní zákoník, Zákoník práce, Stavební zákon apod..
Hrabincová, D., Linkeschová D.: Právo a management ve stavebnictví. CERM, Brno 2005
Linkeschová D., Fridrich J.: Legislation and Management in Construction Process. FAST VUT, Brno 2001
Šíma A., Suk M.: Základy práva. CH Beck 1997

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Leading ability and skills, meaning of theory of managemet and leading of people, history, basic notions and literature. 2. Motivating and methods of positive stimulation, piramid of needs, consideration and appreciation, interestingness of work, responsibility and dependance, theory X and Y, the two factors theory – motivational hygienic. 3. Definition of load, identification with aim and load, distribution of general to concrete. Planning (methods, how to get to aim, finding of alternatives, size of participation, building-up creativity, instruments of generating ideas). 4. Training and its functios, fundamentals of efficient speech. Communication and coaching of organization and individuals. 5. Control and management, meeting managing, managing in organizations, methods of control, managemant systems. 6. Evaluation, looking over results, deciding and evaluating of team efficiency, evaluating and training of individuals, questioning, people selecting and reporting, self-valuation. 7. Organisation, organisating of groups and sub groups, leading of leaders, organisation of organisation and their survey, factors of work groups size, organisation structure, dependence and delegation. 8. Self-example leading and team management, self-organisation, deciding in managerial work. 9. Characteristics of working groups. Individuals, work teams, organisations and communities.Group participation, communication and solidarity, atmosphere, standards, structure and organisation. 10. Basic role and functions in groups. Characteristics of roles, their types, conflicts of roles and role of leading worker. 11. Tied together needs in group life, their basic demonstrations.Needs and function of leading and its asic categories (instigation, regulation, information, assistance, evaluation). 12. Processes in group life time (formation, agitation, standardization = solidarity building). Team rules and procedures (deciding, reactions to authority, conflict and getaway, defensive mechanismes). Teams in teams, relation management between teams. 13. Teams and team work, sequential teams in building industry, establishment and upkeeping of high duty teams. Leading styles, leader and his basic liabilities. Actual questions of leading and management.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.