Objectives and competences
1. Understand the management as an integrating activity within organizations.
2. Understand the role of managers and management as a process incorporating socially responsible and ethical functioning of a company.
3. Define the core of the management problems in business and to be able to create solutions from the modern management viewpoints.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Modern management development trends;
How to define management problems;
How to define management solutions;
Management and ICT;
The nature and context of organizations;
Management as integrating activity and the role of a manager;
Corporate responsibility, ethics, culture and change.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Brainstorming
Small case studies
Readings
1. part (dr. Uršič): Carpenter, M., Bauer, B., Erdogan, B. (2009): Principles of Management. Flatworld Knowledge
2. part (dr. Duh): Selected topics from Mullins, L. J. (2010): Management & Organizational Behaviour. 9th Edition. Prentice Hall, Pearson.
Additional information on implementation and assessment 1. Part (dr.Uršič): oral exam and conversation about student’s final paper work 50%
2. Part (dr. Duh): written exam 50%