Gaining knowledge about the concept of management and its various interpretations. The core of the subject is familiarization with the individual functions of management, which they are arranged in the usual structure: planning, organizing, leadership and control. A detailed explanation is given to the individual functions. Attention is further focused on the interpretation of important approaches applied in the current practice of organizations, such as e.g. systematic approach, process approach, management change and risk management.
1. Management, its meaning, definitions of management used by the main representatives.
2. Some current approaches to management analysis - management science, managerial roles, 7S, contingency approach, contingency variables, The Deming cycle.
3. Functions in management - planning, Henri Fayol, view of management in terms of functions, planning - definition, hierarchy of plans, priority planning, types of plans.
4. Planning Procedure - Koontz, management by objectives, practice of setting objectives, conflicts between objectives, areas for determining objectives.
5. Organization, definition, superior and subordinate relations, delegation of authority, organizational structure.
6. Organizing - rules of bureaucratic administration, organizational dimensions, division of labor, scope of management, principles of organizing.
7. Leadership, definition, management vs. management, managerial roles, managerial personality, characteristics, skills.
8. Leadership - European standard of managerial competences, stimulation and motivation.
9. Controlling, the importance of control as a managerial function, steps of the control process - measurement, comparison, measures, types of control - preliminary, concurrent, subsequent.
10. Decision-making, types of problems, programmed and non-programmed decisions, decision-making process, evaluation of alternatives, approaches to decision-making, decision making styles.
11. Process approach, definition, management system, principles of quality-oriented management.
12. Process approach - process model, essentials of process management, process measurement, metrics - area of implementation and customer processes.
13. Change management, situation for implementing change, awareness of urgency, coalition for change, transformational vision and its communication, delegation, use results.