Management

Learning outcomes:

The student should be able to:

Knowledge:

• Explain the importance of and manager responsibility in taking proper decisions on behalf of organizations and their stakeholders, both social and non-social.

• Describe traditional management theories including scientific and administrative management theories, behaviorism, and organizational environment theory.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the newer management perspectives and concepts within ethics, responsibility, sustainability, change and crisis management.
• Identify social, environmental and economic challenges and issues related to management.
• Outline principles of leadership at the individual, group, organizational, inter-organizational and community levels.

Skills:

• Analyze management issues in practical examples and cases, and propose viable solutions.
• Apply relevant theories to interpret practice-relevant issues.
• Find, evaluate, and correctly reference relevant professional literature to support management practices.
• Assess organizational environments in practical examples and recommend management perspectives that enhance organizational outcomes, both individually and in teams.
• Can select and use appropriate management tools to navigate in internal and external organizational environments in practical examples provided by guest lecturers and cases.

General competence:

• Integrate relevant management theories and tools to contextualize and manage complex management issues and situations.
• Communicate central subject matter, including theories, problems, and solutions, effectively in writing, orally, and through digital interactions.
• Demonstrate critical reflection on management practices and theories.
• Engage in discussions with peers to exchange views and contribute to the development of good management practices.
• Plan and execute tasks and assignments related to professional management issues, both independently and in groups.
• Utilize English proficiency to discuss and analyze management topics in an international context.