Course detail

Modern Management

FAST-MV002Acad. year: 2023/2024

This course is specialized on basic conceptions of leadership and Management in city engineering.
It deals with identification of principles managing methods.
The communication, decision making, control processes and effective managerial habits are defined.
The course respect sequencing and creating synergy in teamwork the same as the current questions in management and fellow-worker leading in construction companies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Entry knowledge

Before going on this course student must manage basic knowledge of economics and must be oriented in construction company management. The important ability is to understand, speak and write by given language.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Obtaining knowledge about basic principles and relations in management and basic managerial habits.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

LINKESCHOVÁ, Dana. Educating Leading Managing. Brno: CERM, 2005. ISBN 80-7202-052-1.  (EN)
LINKESCHOVÁ, Dana. K otázkám managementu ve stavebnictví. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2005. ISBN 80-7204-396-x. https://intranet.fce.vutbr.cz/pedagog/predmety/opory.asp  (CS)
PLAMÍNEK, Jiří. Vedení lidí, týmů a firem: praktický atlas managementu. 3., aktualiz. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2008. Manažer. ISBN 978-80-247-2448-5.  (CS)

Recommended reading

LINKESCHOVÁ, Dana a Dagmar HRABINCOVÁ. Management a právo ve stavebnictví. Brno: CERM, 2005.   (CS)
ROBBINS, S.P., COULTER, M. Management. Grada publishing, a. s., 2004. (EN)
SINEK, Simon. Nekonečná hra: jak dosáhnout dlouhodobého úspěchu v podnikání. Přeložil Aleš DROBEK. V Brně: Jan Melvil Publishing, 2021. Žádná velká věda. ISBN 978-80-7555-136-8.  (CS)
WHEATLEY, Margaret. Vědomý lídr: jak být v dnešním světě vůdčí osobností, která přispívá k obnově zdravého rozumu. Přeložil Kamil C. PINTA. Praha: Maitrea, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7500-492-5.  (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-MI (N) Bachelor's

    branch MI , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Function and importance in management work in city engineering

2. Efficiency, principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm

3. Effective habits of leaders

4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, decision making and freedom of choice

5. Leading and management, principles of personal leadership, directivity centre, remittent, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims

6. Leading, 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 mutual dependence

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, sensation and understanding, principles of efficient presentation

11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, brainstorming, analysis of force field

12. Basic dimension of leader personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning

13. Today actual questions of management and leadership

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Dana Linkeschová, CSc.

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.