Schedule and resources

Meeting 1 (4 X 2018, 12:00-13:30, C306)

• Introduction and overview of the class.

Meeting 2 (11 X 2018, 12:00 - 15:45, Aula B)

• Topic 1. Managerial roles (paper 1)
• Topic 2. Managing operations
  • History - Scientific management (paper 2)
  • History - Administrative management and Bureaucracy

Meeting 3 (18 X 2018, 12:00 - 13:30, C306)

• Topic 2 (cont.). Managing operations
  • Current interests - Business Process Management (paper 3, Sections 1.1; 1.2; 1.4; Exercise 1.7 (pages 28-29))

Meeting 4 (8 XI 2018, 8:15-12:00, C105 )

• Topic 3. Organizational behavior
  • History - The Hawthorne Experiment (paper 4)
  • Current interests - Modern Human Resource Management Techniques and Challenges (paper 5, paper 6)

Meeting 5 (22 XI 2018, 8:15-12:00, C105 )

• Topic 4. The systems approach
  • Systems dynamics (paper 7)

Meeting 6 (6 XII 2018, 8:15-12:00, B106)

• Topic 5. Decision-making
  • History of decision-making (paper 8)
  • Traps in decision-making (paper 9)
  • Tools for decision-making (website)
• Presentations 1 (4 groups)

Meeting 7 (10 I 2019, 14:00 - 15:30, A207)

• Presentations 2 (4 groups)

Meeting 8 (24 I 2019, 12:15 - 13:45, A207)

• Presentations 3 (4 groups)

Study form (MS Word)(PDF)

Presentations topics

1. The versatile manager – a story of success (topic 1).

2. Excellence in process management – the case study (topic 2).

3. The failures of process/performance management (topic 2).

4. How the bureaucracy changed in the XXI century (topic 2).

5. Modern Human Resources Management techniques in use (topic 3).

6. The darker side of corporate Human Resource Management (topic 3).

7. The challenges of managing virtual teams (topic 3).

8. Managing Generation Z (topic 3).

9. Shifting the burden – the corporate story (topic 4).

10. Drifting goals in quality management (topic 4).

11. Making right decisions in the difficult times (topic 5).

12. The biggest corporate decision blunders (topic 5).

Presentation guidelines

• Each team (3 students) is required to present one case study.
• The presentation should be based on a real organization.
• Case studies are meant to illustrate management concepts presented to you during lectures.
• The form of presentation depends on you. You have a wide range of possibilities: a classical presentation, „drama”, different forms of interactive presentations. Presentation should take 25-30 minutes + 5-10 minutes for discussion.
• Every presentation should include:
  • Short introduction: the topic and main problem described in the case study.
  • Description of an organization under investigation – general information.
  • Main part: specific information about the topic based on your organization.
  • Short conclusions + discussion.
• You will deliver the presentations during the last three meetings (6 XII 2018, 10 I 2019, 24 I 2019).
• Presentations will be delivered in the order presented above.