Subject objectives
- Introduce the students to business management, providing them an overview of business and challenges faced by the management.
- Identify the elements of the organization.
- Understand the complexity and the content of the managerial area: roles, skills, decisions.
- Understand the factors that affect the organization, both external and internal.
- Understand the importance of planning to achieve the objectives of the organization and control.
- Understand the issues that affect to design of organizational structure.
- Show the importance of people and the need to manage them properly.
Contents
1.- The firm from the organizational perspective.
2.- Fundamentals of planning and controlling.
3.- Fundamentals of organizational structure.
4.- Motivation, leadership and communication.
5.- Human resources management.
6.- Foundations of individual and group behavior.
Basic and complementary bibliography
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
ROBBINS, Stephen; COULTER, Mary (2018). Administración (13º edición). Pearson – Prentice Hall.
CURTO RODRÍGUEZ, Eduardo; GARCÍA CHAS, Romina; CASTRO CASAL, Carmen (Coord.) (2016). Introdución á dirección de empresas. Pearson.
CURTO RODRÍGUEZ, Eduardo; GARCÍA CHAS, Romina; CASTRO CASAL, Carmen (Coord.) (2012).
Fundamentos de Dirección de Empresas. Pearson.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
ROBBINS, Stephen; DECENZO, David (2017). Fundamentos de Administración. Conceptos esenciales y aplicaciones. Pearson.
FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, Esteban (2010). Administración de Empresas. Un enfoque interdisciplinar. Paraninfo.
GOMEZ-MEJIA, Luis; BALKIN, David (2003). Administración. McGraw-Hill.
Specific bibliography for each lesson will be provided by the teacher.
Competencies
Degree competences to which contributes the course:
- The theoretical foundations of decision making.
- Basic theory of the firm.
- Business management.
- Capability to business management
Specific competences of the course:
- Capability to understand the firm from an organizational perspective.
- Capability to identify and understand the contextual factors that affect businesses and organizations.
- Capability to know and understand the basic functions of management process and their interrelationships.
- Capability to link theory with practice.
- Capability to apply techniques and make decisions in the field of management.
- Capability for critical thinking.
- Capability to analysis and synthesis.
- Capability of argumentation and communication.
- Capability to teamwork.
Teaching methodology
The lessons of the subject will be divided into expository and interactive. The expository sessions will be used to introduce the basic contents of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing the especially relevant aspects and the relationships between them. In the interactive sessions it is a question of the students applying the theoretical concepts. To this end, cases will be analyzed, readings of texts and articles will be commented on, or issues raised by teachers will be discussed. Additionally, students must prepare a group work and present it orally in class. With all this it is intended to stimulate cooperative work and develop the skills of argumentation and communication.
The teachers of each group will monitor the attendance of students and their participation in the sessions.
During the course, the virtual classroom will be used for communication, teaching and evaluation tasks.
In the tutorials, the teachers will guide the students and help to solve the doubts and problems that the students face in the learning process. Tutorials will be conducted in person and virtually (asynchronously through the virtual campus and/or email).
Evaluation system
The assessment system will be the following:
a. Continuous evaluation: 30% of the grade. The continuous assessment will include the grade derived from all the activities developed by the students (active participation in the analysis of cases, debate and commentary of readings, articles or press releases, presentation and presentation of works, tests, questionnaires, etc.) (15%) as well as the realization and defense of group work (15%). In order to be able to carry out and defend the group work, a minimum attendance of 50% is required for the interactive sessions of the subject.
* Students who took this subject and did not pass it in the immediately preceding course may request that their continuous assessment note be retained, through the mechanisms explained in the presentation of the subject and/or communicated through the virtual campus.
b. Face to face final exam of contents: 70% of the mark.
In order to add the continuous assessment mark, it is necessary for students to obtain at least a 3 out of 7 in the final test. The aggregate mark must be equal to or higher than 5 points out of 10 to pass the subject.
This evaluation system will be applied both at the first opportunity and in the recovery.
Students who are granted the class attendance waiver (following the Instruction No. 1/2017 of the General Secretariat on the class attendance waiver in certain circumstances), will be evaluated with a specific final exam that will involve 100% of the rating.
"For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and the review of qualifications will apply."
Studying time and personal work
This is a 6 ECTS credit course (150 hours).
The total work is distributed in the following way:
– Presence time (expositive, interactive, tutoring and assessment): 60 hours.
- Students individual work 90 hours. The distribution of students' personal work is distributed as follows:
- Study on an individual basis or in group: 45 hours.
- Writing exercises, conclusions or other work: 20 hours.
- Further reading, library or similar activities: 15 hours.
- Preparation of oral presentations, debates or similar: 10 hours.
Subject study recommendations
No previous knowledge is required to study this subject.
To maximize learning, it is convenient for students to carry out all the activities proposed by the teaching staff, regularly attend the expository and interactive sessions, and use tutorials.
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