This course main objective is to provide the students with an overall overview of a diversity of key issues that are relevant on the various areas of management. And this way providing the students with knowledge on the following areas: Management and its objectives, the manager’s role in an organization, historical overview of management though and practices, coordination between planning, strategy and company’s structure.
This course proposes to invest the students with competencies in the following areas: identification of key success factors in today’s management, innovative problem solving and critical analysis of alternative solutions.
I. Organizational management, main concepts
Organization and its objectives
Organizational Macrostructure
Management, efficiency and effectiveness
Managerial role
II. BRIEF HISTORICAL VIEW OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
Classic theories:
Behavioral theories
Pragmatic theories
Neoclassic theories
Systemic theory
General theory of systems
Contingency theory
New management approaches
III. The systems: Individual, group and organizational
Motivation theories
Communication
Leadership theories
Negotiation strategies
Corporate social responsibility
IV. Planning, strategy and decision making
Planning, why planning, levels of planning.
Contingency approach and the uncertainty levels
Planning: main elements
Strategic Management and planning
Strategic planning process
The human dimension to the strategic planning
V. Organizational structures
Selection models
On a first stage the teacher transmits the key ideas on the subject opening the way to an open dialog with the students wherein their relevant personal experiences and points of view are explored.
The teacher uses a diversity of media such as text, power point presentation and videos, to communicate in order to reinforce the issues lectured contributing this way for a more efficient acquisition of knowledge.
Kreitner, R. (2009) Management, Houghton Mifflin Company, 11th Edition
Teixeira, Sebastião (2010) Gestão das Organizações, McGraw-Hill, 2ª Edição.
Freire, Adriano (2008) Estratégia, Sucesso em Portugal, Verbo, 12 Edição
Chiavenato,I. (2011) Introdução à Teoria Geral da Administração, Elsevier, 8ª Edição
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