152-0494/03 – Advice for Managers and Entrepreneurs (PMP-A-K)
| Gurantor department | Department of Business Administration | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Blanka Poczatková, Ph.D.,MBA,LL.M. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Blanka Poczatková, Ph.D.,MBA,LL.M. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2011/2012 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
1. To know the basic theoretical findings about consultancy and a consultancy firm
2. To understand the basics and roles of the consultant and the consultancy firm
3. To appoint main and partial goals of consultancy
4. To assess the already known stage, evaluate main factors of change of the present stage and knowledge of consultancy, propose concrete procedures for effective developments of the consultancy firm
5. To handle and understand the basics of economic managing, economic decision making, leading and process controlling in the consultancy company
6. To apprise of the theory and consultancy experience in the Czech republic, apply theoretical findings to practical suggestions and recommendations of a fictive consultancy firm (in the semestral task)
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The emphasis in this course is put on the support of entrepreneurship by means of professional consultancy for businessmen and managers. In tutorials students learn to be well versed in given problems through skilled discussion, written reports and seminar papers and learn to work with special literature as well i.e.: management consulting in perspective, the consulting process and potential, consulting in various areas of management, managing a consulting firm, developing management consultants and the consulting profession.
Compulsory literature:
- Kubr, M. Management Consulting. A guide to the profession. 3rd edit.
International Labour Office. Geneva – ILO, 1997
- Prokopenko, J. – Kubr, M.: Management Development: A trainer’s Guide. 3rd
edit. International Labour Office. Geneva – ILO, 1996
- Fudalinski, J. – Markiewicz, P.: Intangible Assets as a part of the competitive
Potential of an Organization. 1st edit. Repronis, Ostrava, 2003
- Mikoláš, Z.: Entrepreneurship, Theses and Questions at the Beginning of the
Third Millennium. 1st edit. Victoria, Krakow, 2002
Recommended literature:
According to the trainer's instructions.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
a) preparation of semester projects
b) credit of exercise
c) oral examination
E-learning
Written support of lecturers and trainees (including a list of current sources) + moodle.
Other requirements
treatment semester work and midterm test
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Curriculum:
The concept of advice for entrepreneurs and managers as a profession
Typology advice
consultancy business - culture and ethics
The basic techniques of consultant - communication and access to client
Verbal and nonverbal communication with the client
The issues of work organization advisor
interpretation to mastering five basic stages of the counseling process
specifics in selected segments of business and management
Consulting as a business process activities
consulting projects and the setting of fees
International factors Consultancy in Business and Management
Professional Growth Advisor
Current knowledge of counseling practice
Support and guidance for the enterprise
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction