Basics of Management - GVXMA1QBNE

Academic year/semester: 2024/25/1

ECTS Credits: 3

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 1
Seminarium:0
Practice: 1
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: Bianka Parragh, Dr.

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
Managament as a scientifical discipline (theories and waves). Content of the managerial
activity, skills and tasks. Decision like the centre of the managerial activity. Decision theories.
Relationship of the leader and employees. Leadership styles and typology of the leadership. The
organizations, structures (organogram) and characteristics. The successfull and effective
managers. Fields of management: strategical-, project-, innovation-, and marketing
management, TQM. Envorinmentally friendly management. Deal and handle the problems,
conflicts, crisis management. Goals for the Human Resource Management (recruitment and
selection). Corporate culture and identity. Self management, communication skills, personality
tests. Creation, creativity techniques. Case studies from the fields of decision, responsibilty,
emotions, moral. Recruitment and selection, demontsration of a job interview.

Competences:
Knowledge of the concepts and tools of economics and environmental economics, project and environment management in environment protection. Able to participate in project and proposal implementation and audit tasks based on their knowledge. Able to carry out management duties subject to sufficient professional experience. Able to cooperate with engineers involved in the development and application of production and other technologies to develop the given technology in terms of environment protection. Able to take part in environment expertise, advisory, and decision preparation work. Collaboration with civil organizations engaged in environment protection, but willing to argue in order to develop optimal solutions. Open to professional cooperation with specialists related to their profession but involved in other areas. Efforts to improve knowledge by on-going self-education and continuously update their knowledge of the world. Efforts to solve tasks and make management decisions by being aware of the opinions of the colleagues supervised, possibly in cooperation therewith. Sharing experiences with colleagues, thus promoting their development. Performing environmental tasks individually and managing special environment protection work independently even in unexpected decision making situations.

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Final Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1. Dr. Bianka Parragh (2011): “Management” – digitally available textbook of theory and practice, Obuda University, VMI 2. Montana P. J. – Charnov B. H. (2008): Management, Barron\'s Educational Series

Recommended bibliography: 3. Manfred Kets de Vries (2006): The leadership mystique – Leading behavior in the human enterprise, Prentice Hall 4.Derek Rowentree (2006): The manager’s checklists, Pearson Prentice Hall

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