2024
Introduction to Management
Name: Introduction to Management
Code: GES02311L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Management
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This course major objective is to provide students with a basic structure of management knowledge in order to be able to understand management field and disciplines that will learn during his degree. Students are supposed to study basic management concepts and terminology, to know history of scientific management and acquire a broad view of management main areas and issues of study of management and their connections. They develop their capability to: understand global and changing environment and challenges that management and managers face in our days; have critical understanding of management disciplines and challenges that they are intended to address; realize importance of theoretical concepts through their application in practical situations. During the course an active and entrepreneur student attitude and behavior is promoted and encouraged and its importance is demonstrated through invited manager statements and experience.
Contents
Part One ? Fundamental concepts and challenges
? Key-concepts of organization, system, company and management
? Major challenges for management and managers
? Manager roles
Part Two ? Historical approaches of management
? Classical and structuralist approaches
? Human and Behavioral approaches
? Systems and contingency approaches
Part three ? Organizational legal, structures and dynamics
? Organizational structures
? Legal forms
? Management system and sub-systems
? Decision and organizational planning and controlling
Part four ? Behavioral dimensions of management
? Motivation and job satisfaction
? Organizational leadership
? Organizational Communication
? Organizacional culture, quality and excelency
Part five ? Management issues
? Enterpreneurship and innovation
? Ethics and social responsability
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? Key-concepts of organization, system, company and management
? Major challenges for management and managers
? Manager roles
Part Two ? Historical approaches of management
? Classical and structuralist approaches
? Human and Behavioral approaches
? Systems and contingency approaches
Part three ? Organizational legal, structures and dynamics
? Organizational structures
? Legal forms
? Management system and sub-systems
? Decision and organizational planning and controlling
Part four ? Behavioral dimensions of management
? Motivation and job satisfaction
? Organizational leadership
? Organizational Communication
? Organizacional culture, quality and excelency
Part five ? Management issues
? Enterpreneurship and innovation
? Ethics and social responsability
?
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodology includes presentations, cases, problems, group and individual work. Discussion is encouraged to develop student application capabilities. Group project is a characterization of a company activities, goals, values and strategic development areas, activities and tools of organizational subsystems. Two well known managers in two open classes present their life story and vision to reinforce the relevance of an active behaviour and knowledge for student personal and professional career.
Grading is based in two alternatives, continuous and exam evaluation. Continuous grading includes two written exams with 35 and 50% of final course grade. The third is the group project article which makes 15% of total grade. In the exam regime alternative there is only one written exam which makes 90% of student grade and the group project also mandatory counts with the remaining 10%. In both methods students are required to score a minimum of 10 out of 20 points in order to pass.
Grading is based in two alternatives, continuous and exam evaluation. Continuous grading includes two written exams with 35 and 50% of final course grade. The third is the group project article which makes 15% of total grade. In the exam regime alternative there is only one written exam which makes 90% of student grade and the group project also mandatory counts with the remaining 10%. In both methods students are required to score a minimum of 10 out of 20 points in order to pass.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
