Course detail

Business Management

FP-RpmDAcad. year: 2011/2012

The aim of the course is to deepen and widen studens knowledge of management and acquaint them with contemporary management methods incl. Japanese management system. The attention will be also paid to the holding company system and business competition.
The course focuses especially on the following topics: Joint stock and cooperation types of companies, holding organization, merger of companies, Stimulation and motivation. Signification types and control. Japanese system, struggle for perfection, L. Iacocca management examples. Decision-making, its objectivisation and procedures.
structures. Applicable business units

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students be made familiar with the modern approach to and application of management including development connections and possibilities of stimulation of employees, control, comparison and the use of successful management in the world, objectification and managerial procedures.

Prerequisites

Knowledge acquired in the course Corporate Management I”.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Conditions of awarding the course-unit credit:
1. Active participation in exercises during presentations followed by discussion over seminar work
2. Successful completion of a credit test.
3. Successful elaboration of semester work in preset deadline.

Total number of points is 100; the minimal number of points necessary for awarding the course-unit credit is 70.

Students have an opportunity to acquire points for:
- individual semester work
- team semester project
- elaboration of tasks related to the studies
- elaboration of partial tasks
- control test

Students will be penalised by negative points for:
- late submission of an individual semester project (i.e. within 6th and 10th week of the semester)
- late submission of a team project – after 5th week of the semester
- late delivery of an individual or a team project (after 10th week of the semester)
- late delivery of resit – supplementary individual project – term is set by the seminar teacher.

If the student does not achieve sufficient number of points, he/she may uset up to 3 following supplementary – resit means he course-unit credit acquirement:
- up to three supplementary – resit tests
- supplementary – resit individual project
- supplementary – resit team project
Note: these ways of resit can be accepted only if student has already tried to achieve points at least in one individual semester project!

Conditions for passing an exam: Knowledge of taught topics and their practical application.
Form of examination: Oral – presentation of acquired knowledge and own opinions expressed in the seminar work, knowledge of taught topics, knowledge of textbooks and recommended literature. Three students are examined at the same time. The course-unit credit awarding is a necessary condition for passing an exam.

Course curriculum

Organising – holding organisation
Merges of companies
Trends of development
Motivation and stimulation
Control
Modern approaches to management
Modern approaches to management – practical experience
Struggle for perfection
Japanese management system
Economic competition
Management of L.Iacocca, P.Drucker

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will modern approach to and application of management including development connections and possibilities of stimulation of employees, control, comparison and use of successful management in world, objectification and managerial procedures.The aim of the course is to develop students theoretic basis terms,content,structuralization and methody management and practical application.Another goal of the recommend approaches necessary tasks on a corporate level.The course is a follow-up to Corporate Management I

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

Active participation in seminars regarding presented topics, participation in discussion, quality
Presentation of semester work on given topic, knowledge test.

Attendance at lessons and exercises 13x 4 hours 52 hours
Continuous preparation for seminars (individual study of literature)
Case study solution
Semester work elaboration
Preparation for final exam
Final exam and discussion over semester work
In case of excused absence from seminars, the teacher can set an additional condition if appropriate, usually elaboration of partial written task.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Němeček,P.- Zich, R. : Podnikový management 1 díl. Brno, CERM 2004.60 s.ISBN 80-214-2779-5 (CS)
Weihrich,H. - Koontz,H. : Management. Praha, Victoria Publishing 1993. 659 s.. ISBN 80-85605-45-7 (CS)

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DSP Doctoral

    branch DSP-ŘEP-V , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme DSP-KS Doctoral

    branch DSP-ŘEP-KS-V , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer