Course code

069

Course title

MANAGEMENT

General Information

Program

Undregraduate program

Year

2.

Course holder

Zdravko Zekić, Ph.D.

Course status

x

Core

Elective

Credits and Teaching

Winter semester

Summer semester

ECTS credits / student workload

6

Hours/ semester

60

Course objectives

Study the theory and practice of Croatian and world management. Educate and train students to become successful managers in companies and institutions.

Correspondence and correlation with other programs

Poslovna fakulteta Maribor, Slovenia; Sad Diego State University, USA; Universita' Bocconi, Torino, Italy

Course content

Introduction: Management definition and characteristics; system approach to management; management vs. entrepreneurship, manager as a person and levels of management; roles and activities of managers, managerial skills; development of management theories (conventional and non-conventional); contemporary trends and modern approaches to management (BPR, TQM and learning organization; management and business ethics; management and sustainable development; international management; forms of international business; strategic alliances; change management and organizational development; Planning: Nature and purpose of planning; types of plans; SWOT analysis, Porter’s model of generic strategies, BCG matrix; hierarchy and types of strategies; decision making, Organizing: Organization and its contents, organization structure modeling, types of organizational structures, classical and modern organizational forms, modern trends in organizing, organizational culture; organizational conflicts; Human resource management: Prediction of needs, recruitment and selection, career management, performance appraisal, education and development of managers, organizational development, creation of excellent managers, salaries and compensations; Leadership: Definition, leader, leadership skills, leadership elements, power and authority, leadership styles, approaches to leadership, motivation theories, motivation techniques, leader of tomorrow; Control: Process of control; phases of control; systems and techniques of control.

Modes of instruction (mark in bold)

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Exercises

Independent work

Multimedia and the Internet

Distance learning

Consultations

Laboratory work

Tutorials

Field work

Development of general and specific competences, knowledge and skills

Acquisition of general competences in managing corporations and organizations in general.