Introduction to Management

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

This course is lectured in theoretical-practical classes, using examples showing real life situations. In some parts of the course audio visual techniques are use for better exposure of the material covered. The dialogue between students and professor is stressed, through the discussion of the topics of the program that deserve a special attention. 

Learning Outcomes

Overall objectives: To give a global view of the organizations and management characteristics and to emphasise the importance of the general context for the surveillance of the company. 

Specific objectives: It is expected that they understand the dynamics of the management process and can visualise the different functional areas in a company. It is also expected that they can understand the importance of the external context and the internal factors that contribute for the competitiveness of the company.

Generic competencies: It is expected that the students acquired a body of competences that allows them to identify both the main factors that affect the regular company activity and a set of fundamental concepts to allow them to understand more advance courses of the management program.

Specific competencies: The students should be able to identify the context of the organizational activity, structural forms, and to become familiarized with basic management vocabulary.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - General features of  a company

1.1    Definition and objectives

1.2    The preliminary phases

1.3    Life cycle

1.4    The source of funds

2 – Organizational theories

2.1 The classic organizational approach

2.2 The human relations movement

2.3 TQM

3 – The organization and the environment

3.1 The external environment

3.2. Ethics and social responsibility

3.3 The  international dimension

4 – The structure of the organizations

4.1 The standardization

4.2 Structural forms

4.3 Informal and formal organizational

5 – Organizations and strategy

5.1 Strategy fundaments

5.6 SWOT analysis

5.7 The different strategy levels

5.8 Business strategies.

6 ‒  Accounting information and organization management

6.1 Fundamental concepts of financial accounting

6.3 Balance sheet and income statement

7 – Basics of financial calculus

7.1 Capitalization and discount

7.2 The present value of an annuity

8 – The management of non-profit organizations

8.1 Similarities and differences. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Patrícia Carla Gama Pinto Pereira da Silva de Vasconcelos Correia

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information : 100.0%

Bibliography

  INTRODUÇÃO à gestão de organizações. Dir. e coord. João Lisboa [et al.] ; org. António Martins. 3ª ed.. Porto : Vida Económica, 2011. [BP 658 INT]

ROBBINS, Stephen P. ; COULTER, Mary - Management. 6th ed.. Upper Saddle River : Prentice-Hall, 1999. [BP 658 ROB]

 

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