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 managers 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 Macrostructur
Management, eficiency and effectiveness
Managerial role
II. BRIEF HISTORICAL VIEW OF MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
Calssic theories:
Cientifica management
Classic Theory
Burocratic Theory
Behavioral theories
Human relation theory
Behavioral theory
Organizational development models
Pragmatic theories
Neoclassic theories
Management by Objectives
Sistemic theory
General theory of systems
Contigecy theory
New management aproaches
III. Systems: Individual, group and organizational
Motivation theories
Comunication
Lidership theories
Negotiation strategies
Corporate social responsability
IV. Planing, strategy and decision making
Why planing, levels of planing
Contigency aproach and the incertanty levels
Planing: main elements
Strategic Management and planning
Strategic planning process and its human dimention
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, PowerPoint presentation and videos, to communicate in order to reinforce the issues lectured contributing this way for a more efficient acquisition of knowledge.
In order to develop competencies such as critical analyses, diagnostic and problem solving, case studies, role-play and simulation games are used. To consolidate the knowledge acquired in this course in a final stages the students are asked to develop a group class Project.
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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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