MPPMSKA Managerial Skills

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Ing. Jarmila Duháček Šebestová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Žaneta Rylková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Ing. Jarmila Duháček Šebestová, Ph.D.
Department of Business Economics and Management – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Prerequisites
The course can be registered independently on other courses.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course is intended to follow up the theoretical findings mastered in the course Management and to offer students an opportunity to get acquainted with essential managerial skills, which they will utilise in management of people in different situations.
Syllabus
  • The course is intended to follow up the theoretical findings mastered in the course Management and to offer students an opportunity to get acquainted with essential managerial skills, which they will utilise in management of people in different situations. The course provides an insight into basic concepts, issues and theories of organization, management and leadership. In addition, useful tools for team work will be covered.
    Content Structure :
    1. Management and personal development
    2. Manager's profile and work
    3. Testing abilities, personality and motivation of a manager
    4. Managing career
    5. Managing Stress
    6. Leadership Skills
    7. Chairing meetings
    8. Delegating power and responsibility
    9. Team work
    10. Negotiation Skills
    11. Time management
    12. Performance Management , Commercial contacts
Literature
    required literature
  • ANCONA, D. Managing for the Future: organizational behavior & processes. Cincinnati : South-Western, 1999. ISBN 0-538-87546-1. info
  • CAMPBELL, D. J. Organizations and the Business Environment. Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998. ISBN 0-7506-2760-3. info
  • ORGAN, D. W. Organizational Behavior , 4th ed. Homewood: McGraw Hill, 1991. ISBN 0-256-06667-1. info
    recommended literature
  • MOLE, J. Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in a Global Europe. London: Nicholas Brealey Pub, 2003. ISBN 1-857-88314-4. info
  • ROBBINS, S. P., HUNSAKER, P. L. Training in Interpersonal Skills. Upper Saddle River : Prentice-Hall, 2003. ISBN 0-13-009054-9. info
  • WHETTEN, D. A., CAMERON, K. M. Developing Management Skills, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, : Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 13-091408-8. info
  • BELBIN, M.R. Management teams - why they succeed or fail. Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1996. ISBN 0-7506-2676-3. info
Teaching methods
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Students' self-study
Assessment methods
Grade
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Seminar paper (creation of managerial profile), presentation of team work (case study solving) and written exam.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2008, Summer 2009, Winter 2009, Summer 2010, Winter 2010, Summer 2011, Winter 2011, Summer 2012, Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Winter 2013.
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