Course Details

Firm’s Management

Academic Year 2025/26

NVA069 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd 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/296020

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Function and importance of decision making in achitectur and management work in a construction company
  • 2. Principle of growth and change, effectivity, paradigm
  • 3. Effective habits of leaders and managers
  • 4. Positive activity, importance of self- awareness, range of influence and sphere of action, Frankl and model for freedom of choice
  • 5. Leadership and management, principles of personal leadership, centre of intention, Mission statement, identification and confirming of individual roles and aims
  • 6. Managing, planning, organisation and time management, priorities, delegation of authorities and responsibility
  • 7. Human resources, creating and transformation of relationships, creating of teams 8. Increasing of organisation effectiveness through fellow workers, paradigms of interdependence
  • 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, understanding, principles of efficient presentation
  • 11. Synergy as a principle of creative cooperation, appreciation of diversity, creativity, brainstorming, analysis of force field
  • 12. Basic dimension of leaders personal development, equilibrium in force renewal, continuity of learning
  • 13.-14. Topical questions of nowadays management and leadership of personnels

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. The Introduction to the exercises, the criterions for the projects and the teamwork system for architect and constructions managers.
  • 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.
  • 13. The handover of the closing reports and the credits.