115-0318/01 – Social Manners (SPOLPROT)
Gurantor department | Department of Management | Credits | 3 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Kateřina Mokrá, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Kateřina Mokrá, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2010/2011 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1. To understand cultural variety in business and social relationships.
2. Orientate in social contacts and relationships (business activities, enterprise social activities and opportunities including out of work events).
3. To acquire information and concrete social skills for negotiation and behaviour in multicultural work as well as social environment.
Teaching methods
Summary
Students will acquire information and skills connected to social conventions, rules, norms, traditions, unwrittend laws that determine usual and acceptable mechanisms of our behaviour in the society.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Historical development of Etiquette
- current level of social behaviour
General rules of the social intercourse
- social communication
- art of speaking and public performing
Body Language
- verbal communication
- nonverbal communication
Business Activity
- business meetings organization
- conference organization
- preparation of the foreign guest visit
- ordinary professional calls
- business trips
- practical advice
Social and business opportunities
- organizational arrangements
- Basic forms of social enterprise
- Food & Beverage
- rules of dining
- social accident
Professional dress code
- clothing culture
- choice of clothing depending on the occasion
- Jewellery and bijouterie
- hair styles, perfume
- cosmetics
Spare-events and opportunities
- visits to cultural events
- death, funerals, condolences
- flowers
- wedding, engagement, religious ceremonies
Looking for job
- how to apply for a job
- preparing for the job interview
- passing the job interview
National mentality
- What can be understood as a national mentality
- selected countries and regions, commercial practices in Asia, Europe, U.S.
Disabled persons
- disabled persons in our neighbourhood
- employment of disabled persons
- way of communication with these people
Diplomatic Protocol
- the establishment of diplomatic relations and missions
- duties and rights of diplomatic representatives
- consuls and consular offices
- Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction