Academic year/semester: 2026/27/1

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 2
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: Prof. Dr. habil Péter Karácsony

Faculty: Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, 1084 Budapest, Tavaszmező utca 17.

Course Description:
This course aims to impart the basic management knowledge, and skills to the students so as to enhance their managerial capabilities and enable them to apply
in the practical field. The main objective of this course is, on the one hand, to provide students with the basic concepts of management, including specific
areas of operations and human resources management. And, on the other hand, the course provides a practical part designed to develop students\\\\\\\' managerial
competence with efficiency, effectiveness and ethics. On successful completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate a basic knowledge of
management in terms of concepts, theories, authors, models, tools, etc.

Competences:
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Topics:
1. Introduction. Business organizations: concept and types.
2. History of management, classical and modern theories.
3. Analyzing the environment of business organizations.
4. Managers: functions, roles and skills.
5. Leadership theories.
6. WRITTEN TEST 1
7. Organization structure and change.
8. Organizational culture.
9.
Conflict management.
10. Motivation of human resources.
11. WRITTEN TEST 2
12. Presentations by students
13. Presentations by students
14. Summary of the course.

Assessment: Attendance of least 70%, active participation in teamwork during lectures and practical work, 2 written exams, presentation. Grade: Final grade is determined according to the total number of points that the student accumulates during the semester. 100 – 87 points: excellent (5); 86 – 75 points: good (4); 74 - 63 points: fair (3), 51 – 62 points: weak (2), 50 -0 points: fail. (1)

Exam Types:

Written Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1. Robbins, S.P., Coulter, M.: Management. (8th ed.), Prentice Hall, 2005 2. Bannerjee, S.: Principles and Practice of Management, Oxford and IBM Publishing Co, New Delhi, 2011 3. Mullins, L. J.: Management and Organizational Behavior. (9th Edition). London: Pearson, 2010 4. Kreitner, R.: Management. (9th edition). Boston, MA: Houghton Miffin Company, 2010 5. Daft, R.L.: New Era of Management. (10th edition). New Delhi: Cengage Learning, 2012

Recommended bibliography: 1. DuBrin, A.: Management Essentials. (9th edition). New Delhi: Cengage Learning, 2012 2. Hitt, M. A., Freeman, R. E., & Harrison, J. S.: Handbook of strategic management. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001 3. Tidd, J & Bessant, J.: Managing innovation : integrating technological, market and organizational change, 6th edition, Wiley, 2018

Additional bibliography: -

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