Basics of management 2103-L-D3PODZI
The seminar will present the management process with its features, functions and levels. The seminar presents the characteristics of contemporary organisations and their role and place in the environment. Topics covered include the presentation of traditional and contemporary trends in management, types of organisational structures, the construction of organisations and ways of describing them, organisational behaviour (motivations, group processes), leadership and leadership styles in organisations, decision-making in organisations, process, skills, techniques. Particular emphasis will be placed on the analysis of management doctrines and instruments that find their application in social policy entities.
Other topics include:
- social policy institutions - introduction, basic definitions, organisation, activities, financing;
- management of social policy institutions - selected areas of social policy;
- management of social policy institutions - global, international, national, regional and local dimensions;
- strategic management (essence, basic methods of strategic analysis).
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Term 2023Z:
non-applicable |
Term 2024Z:
The seminar will present the management process with its features, functions and levels. The seminar presents the characteristics of contemporary organisations and their role and place in the environment. Topics covered include the presentation of traditional and contemporary trends in management, types of organisational structures, the construction of organisations and ways of describing them, organisational behaviour (motivations, group processes), leadership and leadership styles in organisations, decision-making in organisations, process, skills, techniques. Particular emphasis will be placed on the analysis of management doctrines and instruments that find their application in social policy entities. NOTE: One issue may take up more than a single class. In turn, another may be discussed together with the preceding or following issue. Details in this regard will be communicated to students well in advance. |
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
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Type of course
Mode
General: Classroom | Term 2024Z: Classroom Remote learning | Term 2023Z: Classroom Remote learning |
Learning outcomes
Students will learn to understand the institutional and organisational foundations of social policy entities, including the principles of their management and financing (K_W09) .
Student(k)a is able to plan and organise his/her own work, as well as to build a task team and within it to cooperate actively with other persons in the field of preparing tasks connected with analysing the management system in public and private entities (K_U09).
Student(s) is (are) ready to:
- participate in the preparation of research projects and the creation of concepts for social programmes in the field of social policy, using the knowledge gained during the studies and being able to supplement it, including using the support of experts, as well as effectively cooperating with
cooperating effectively with others (K_K02);
- think and act in an entrepreneurial way, taking into consideration creating plans for development of social policy entities and planning their activities (K_K03);
- correctly identify and solve dilemmas related to performing managerial and management functions in social policy entities (K_K04 ).
Assessment criteria
A prerequisite for passing the course is:
- attendance in class and preparation for class;
- participation in class discussions and workshop exercises;
- preparation of a mini-project in a team;
- passing an exam.
More than 2 absences require a credit on the instructor's duty within two weeks after the absence. In the case of absence in more than 4 classes the student is not graded in the course. Failure to pass the third or fourth absence also results in failing the course.
The subject ends with a written assessment.
Practical placement
Non.
Bibliography
Basic literature:
Griffin R.W., Podstawy zarządzania organizacjami, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2005
Koźmiński A., Piotrowski W. (red), Zarządzanie. Teoria i praktyka., Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2013 (wydanie piąte zmienione)
Michalski E., Zarządzanie przedsiębiorstwem, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2013
Peszko A., Podstawy zarządzania organizacjami, AGH, Kraków 2005
Zakrzewska-Bielawska A. (red), Podstawy zarządzania. Teoria i ćwiczenia, Warszawa 2017.
Sierpowska I. (red. nauk.), Meritum Pomoc społeczna. Wsparcie socjalne, Warszawa 2022.
Supińska- Modzelewska J., Podmioty polityki społecznej: współzawodnictwo, współistnienie, współpraca, Warszawa 2003.
Stojecka-Zuber R., Wolska-Długosz M. (2017), Wybrane instytucje polityki społecznej, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, Kielce.
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Term 2023Z:
non-applicable |
Term 2024Z:
Basic literature: During the course of the semester, it is also possible to add other items to the reading list for individual classes (topics). Details in this regard will also be communicated to students on an ongoing basis well in advance. |
Notes
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Term 2023Z:
non-applicable |
Term 2024Z:
non-applicable |
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: