MPBKMSK Managerial Skills

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Šárka Zapletalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Šárka Zapletalová, 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
  • 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. Time management techniques
    13. Performance Management , Commercial contacts
    1. Management and personal development
    Personal development. Reflective assessment on dimension of managerial success.
    2. Manager´s profile and work
    Manager´s work, general principles and character. Manager´s competencies. Personality preconditions of manager´s success. Managerial responsibility and role.
    3. Testing abilities, personality and motivation of a manager
    Abilities tests. Personality tests. Motivation tests.
    4. Managing career
    Definition and criteria of a career. Personal and professional criteria, career progress. Conditions for development of a career.
    5. Managing stress
    Types of stress, techniques and strategies that could help in face of distractions and perceived failures.
    6. Leadership skills
    Power and authority. Characteristics of styles of leading people. Principles of manipulation techniques for leading people. Positive and negative tactics. Tactical pitfalls and tactical strategies.
    7. Chairing meetings
    Meetings - preparation, importance and benefits of meetings, course of meetings, principles of chairing meetings, common mistakes and drawbacks.
    8. Delegating power and responsibility
    Centralisation and decentralisation of decision-making, advantages and disadvantages of delegating. Procedure and problems of delegating.
    9. Team work
    Stages of development of a working collective. Conditions of effective team work. Forms, development stages and success factors of team work. Team member roles.
    10. Negotiation Skills
    Conflict and process of development of conflict situations. Strategy of coping with conflicts. Skills required for negotiating a satisfactory resolution of differences.
    11. Time management
    Importance of time for a manager, time review. Setting goals and their priorities. Time planning and plan inspection, planning techniques.
    12. Time management techniques
    Time aspects of work with written information, filling, arrangement of work environment, meetings strategies, delegating.
    13. Performance management, commercial contacts
    Performance management, providing feedback and rewarding. Phases of business negotiation and their importance. Types of media and their importance.
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
  • COLLINSON, CH., PARCELL, G. Knowledge Management. Brno: Computer Press, 2005. ISBN 80-251-0760-4. info
  • 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
  • CLARKE, A. Learning Organizations. What They Are and Know to Become One. Leicester: NIACE, 2001. ISBN 1-86201-116-8. info
  • BELBIN, M.R. Management teams - why they succeed or fail. Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1996. ISBN 0-7506-2676-3. info
Teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
One-to-One tutorial
Laboratory work
Skills demonstration
Students' self-study
Assessment methods
Written test
Credit
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 12 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
Seminar paper (creation of managerial profile), presentation of team work (case study solving), 2 continuous tests and written exam.
ActivityDifficulty [h]
Konzultace6
Ostatní studijní zátěž74
Seminář6
Zápočet30
Summary116
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2013.
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