Introduction to Governance   

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

1 acknowledging students with problematics of management, it’s basic methods and tools
2 acknowledging students with theoretical aspects of project management: concept of project and project work, project cycle and instrumentary of classical project tools
3 practical application of theoretical knowledge by means of project exercises: development of project management skills
4 analysis of best project management practices. Presentation of relations between accumulated knowledge and its practical application in the case of project work
5 training of soft skills in management. Leadership and power
6 acknowledging students with principles of building creative teams, with focus on the role of leader and solving crises
7 practice of building creative teams
8 acknowledging students with methods of creative thinking applied in business

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Student:
a) has basic knowledge of society, state and law,
b) can search for information in various sources and studies,
c) seeks to expand knowledge about social life and pass it on to others,
d) understands the importance of such knowledge in scientific and professional work.

Syllabus

1. Management and project - preliminary issues. Notion of management and other branches of knowledge, functions of management. Project, project method, conclusion, project cycle, project’s structure, types of projects, project management - systematics of techniques. Analysis of subject preparing project. Choosing project groups, specifying project’s concept; profile of organisation; SWOT analysis; result-oriented and conversive strategy.

2. Analysis of environment. Analysis of problems, analysis of project goals, tree of problems and goals, rules of problem description, SMART principle and goals of project. Project fundraising and funding of projects. Sponsors, project contests, grant documentation, funding rules, application form, project realisation agreement - legal aspects of projects.

3. Project actions and methods. Design of actions and methods, table of actions and methods, target group, direct and indirect beneficiaries, Gantt’s chart, cirtical path, project partners.

4. Results / measurement of results: product, result, impact - principles for constructing indicators, table of indicators.

5. Filling in project application: logical framework of project, standard elements of project application, aid principles, European values, project rhetoric.

6. Implementation of project. Construction and management of project team, presentation of project, media strategy, monitoring.

7. Conditions of creativity in business. Meaning of creativity in business, creative thinking management in business, barriers of creative thinking, case studies.

8. Techniques of creative thinking (lateral vs. vertical thinking, coloured thinking hats, synectics, functional morphology, technique of random stimuli, lotus flower, brainstorming, brainwriting, questioning, negation, deformation, incompetence, association, inversion).

9. Leadership and power in organisation (essence of leadership, sources and kinds of power, styles of management).

Reading list