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Management Essentials - engl. (Sommersemester 2024)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Eric Kearney (Gastdozenten oder Dozenten der Uni-Potsdam)

General Information

Weekly Hours: 2
Credits: 3
Graded: yes
Enrolment Deadline: 01.04.2024 - 15.04.2024
Examination time §9 (4) BAMA-O: 03.05.2024
Teaching Form: V (Block)
Enrolment Type: Compulsory Elective Module
Course Language: English
Maximum number of participants: 30

Programs, Module Groups & Modules

IT-Systems Engineering MA

Data Engineering MA

Digital Health MA

Cybersecurity MA

Software Systems Engineering MA

Professional Skills
- HPI-PSK-ML Management and Leadership

Description

This course offers an overview of the main topics of management. We will first cover the basics of management of organizations (strategic leadership) and will then turn to management in organizations (people management). With regard to the latter, the topics include leadership and motivation, employee satisfaction, personnel selection, training and development, and employee evaluation and compensation. Management knowledge is essential for all those who at some point wish to start their own companies or strive to occupy leadership positions in organizations.

Learning goals:

The students learn about the most important aspects of managing organizations and of managing people in organizations and how to apply this knowledge to concrete challenges.

Conveyed competencies:

Knowledge-related competencies: strategic management; methods in management research; personnel selection; job and work design; training and development; motivation; satisfaction; leadership; personnel evaluation; personnel compensation.
Methodological competencies; case study analysis; presentation techniques.
Social competencies; group work and discussions.

Requirements

none

Literature

Laloux, Frederic (2014). Reinventing organizations. (recommended, not mandatory)

Learning

Lecture; discussions; presentations by students.

Examination

The grade will be calculated on the basis of a group presentation (30%) and a written assignment (70%). Both the group presentation and the written assignment will focus on management aspects in organizations that the students select themselves. Further details will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Dates

19.04./20.04.2024 and 03.05./04.05.2024
Hours: 10:00 to 16:00 on each of the above dates
Room: H-2.57/58
Contact: kearney(at)uni-potsdam.de

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