Course detail

Managerial Skills

FAST-CV17Acad. year: 2012/2013

Group and team work in sequential teams are typical for industry branch as Building realization.
This Course deals with extensional leading and managing operations of workgroups in building engineering and follows progress and dynamics of the teamwork. Main aim of this course is to gain company manager knowledge and experience managing techniques, leading of working teams, communication and individual development. Ability to manage leading position in construction company.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

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 during building realization.
The quidance 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

The ability to understand, speak and write by given language. Basic orientation in organization of construction firm.

Co-requisites

Leadership and management of the group. Basics 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.

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 question 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 oral exam is to prove deeper understanding of the issue.

Course curriculum

1. Basic leading techniques and skills, meaning of theory of management and leading of people, prognostication, basic notions and literature.
2. Management according to aims. Motivating and methods of positive stimulation, pyramid of needs, consideration and appreciation, interestingness of work, responsibility and dependence, theory X and Y, the two factors theory – motivational hygienic.
3. Planning (methods, how to reach to aim, finding of alternatives, rate of participation, building-up creativity, generating instruments of ideas). Defining of tasks, identification of aims and objectives, distribution of general objectives to particular ones.
4. Training and its functions, fundamentals of efficient speech. Communication and coaching of organization and individuals.
5. Control and management, meeting managing, managing in organizations, methods of control, management systems.
6. Decision, evaluation of results, considering consequences, deciding and evaluating of team efficiency, evaluating and training of individuals, questioning, people selecting and reporting, self-valuation.
7. Organisation, organizing 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 parts and functions in groups. Characteristics of roles, their types, conflicts of roles and role of leading worker.
11. Mutual needs in group lifetime, their basic demonstrations. Needs and function of leading and its basic categories (instigation, regulation, information, assistance, evaluation, etc.).
12. Processes in group life time (formation, agitation, standardization = solidarity building). Team rules and procedures (deciding, reactions to authority, conflict and getaway, defensive mechanisms). Teams in teams, relation management between teams. Teams and team work, sequential teams in building industry, establishment and up keeping of high duty teams. Leading styles, leader and his basic liabilities. Actual questions of leading and management.
13. The specification of behaviour in other countries, basic ceremony.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Improving ability to manage the manager work in building engineering company from the point of view of leading and human resources management.

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, the group etc.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Y.Faerber, CH.Stoewe: Vedení lidí v praxi. Grada Publishing, 2004. (CS)
Linkeschová, D.: K otázkám managementu ve stavebnictví. CERM, 2005. ISBN 80-7204-396-X. (CS)

Recommended literature

A.Bradbury: Jak ovlivnit druhé ( manažerské dovednosti ). Computer Press, 2001. (CS)
V.Khelerová: Komunikační a obchodní dovednosti manažera. Grada Publishing, 2007. (CS)
Jiří Plamínek: Vedení lidí, týmů a firem. Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2448-5. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch R , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch R , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Function and importance of decision making in management work
2. Principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm
3. Effective habits of leaders and managers
4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, Frankl and model for freedom of choice
5. Leadership and management, principles of personal leadership, centre of intention, Mission statement, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims
6. Managing, 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 interdependence
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, understanding, principles of efficient presentation
11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, creativity, brainstorming, analysis of force field
12. Basic dimension of leaders personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning
13-14. Today current questions of management and leadership

Exercise

26 hod., 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.