Course Details

Modern Management

Academic Year 2025/26

BVA022 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-MI Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Gabriela Kocourková, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289935

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Function and importance in management work in city engineering.
  • 2. Efficiency, principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm.
  • 3. Effective habits of leaders.
  • 4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, decision making and freedom of choice.
  • 5. Leading and management, principles of personal leadership, directivity centre, remittent, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims.
  • 6. Leading, planning, organisation and time management, priorities, delegation of authorities and responsibility.
  • 7. Human resources, creating and transformation of relationships, creating teams.
  • 8. Increasing of organisation effectiveness through fellow workers, paradigms of mutual dependence.
  • 9. Principles of mutual advantage, interpersonal leadership, types of interpersonal interaction, dimension of win-win behaviour, supportive systems and processes.
  • 10. Fundamentals of effective communication, empathetic listening, sensation and understanding, principles of efficient presentation.
  • 11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, brainstorming, analysis of force field.
  • 12. Basic dimension of leader personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning.
  • 13. Today actual questions of management and leadership.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. The Introduction to the exercises, the criterions for the projects and the teamwork system.
  • 2.–12. The content of singles exercises is the work of every team on its own project, sequential realization or presentation and the feedback from the participants and the teacher.
  • 14. The handover of the closing reports and the credits.