2026

Organization and Management

Name: Organization and Management
Code: GES08386M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

OBJECTIVES:
Organization and Management is a course of management science with the objective:
To give a general overview how organizations work nowadays;
To give a general overview about the methods and techniques of management;
To give an overview about the importance of the decision making process in the organizations.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Capacity of critical spirit
Capacity to team work
Capacity to communicate, orally and by script and aptitude in transmitting and receiving ideas and information;
Capacity to take decisions and solve problems in the management process
Capacity to interpret information and to make judges that put in evidence compreenhension and reflection about problems

Contents

1 – The Management and the theories of Organization
2 – The Object of Management
– Organization, Processes and Structures
– Methods and Techniques of organizational Intervention
3 – The Management Cycle
– Planning
– Organization
– Direction
– Control
– Decision Taking
4 – The Functions of Management
– Commercial and Marketing
– Production and Logistics
– Human Resources
– Administrative and Financial
– Information and Comunication
5 – The Management in a Changing Environment

Teaching Methods

Theoretical explanation of concepts, discussion of subjects that can help to consolidate the theoretical concepts, followed by the solution of real problems
The examination will consist of three parts:
(1) group work
(2) written exam
(3) resolution of pratical cases

Teaching Staff (2025/2026 )