(in Polish) Principles of Management 1155-12-M12-PriMan

Detailed issues discussed during the lecture will be selected from the following ones:
1. Purpose and subject of management science – W1
interdisciplinary character of management science, subject of management science
2. Genesis of management science – W1
organisational experience concept, precursors of management
3. Basic perspectives in management sciences (scientific management, administrative management, behavioral management, quantitative management, systems perspective, contingency perspective) – W1
4. Definition of management and management process – W2
five categories of resources, general principle of rationality, The concept of performance in management (effectiveness, efficiency and economy), the management process
5. Basic management functions: planning – W4
the essence of planning and planning process, types of plans, purposes of goals, organization's hierarchy of goals, kinds of managers by level and area, the essence of strategic, tactical and operational planning
6. Managing decision making – W3
the essence of decision making and decision making process, types of decisions, decision-making conditions, classical model of decision making, administrative model of decision making, group and team decision making in organizations
7. Basic management functions: organizing – W4
the essence of organising, organization structure and design: job design (job specialization and its alternatives), departmentalization (the process of grouping jobs, functional, product, customer and location departmentalization) reporting relationships (chain of command, span of management), distribution of authority (authority, delegation), coordination; models of organization design (bureaucratic and behavioral approaches); basic forms of organization design (functional, divisional, conglomerate, matrix, hybrid designs)
8. Basic management functions: motivating and leading – W4
the essence of motivation and motivating; the motivational framework, approaches to motivating, Main contemporary approaches to motivating: the content perspectives (the needs hierarchy theory, the ERG theory, the two-factor theory of motivation, the theory of individual human needs) the process perspectives (the expectancy theory, the equity theory, the goal-setting theory, the reinforcement theory); the essence of leadership, leadership versus management, leadership traits and leadership behaviors (Likert model, managerial grid), situational approaches to leadership (the least-preferred coworker (LPC) theory, the path-goal theory, decision tree approach, the leader–member exchange (LMX) approach)
9. Basic management functions: controlling – W4
the essence of control and controlling, purposes of control, areas and levels of control, the control process, types of control, effective control systems, employees' resistance to control; operations controlling (example: quality control); strategic controlling (example: the balanced scorecard – BSC)