711-0602/15 – Sociology of Management (SM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Petra Kowaliková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Petra Kowaliková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 1995/1996 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF, FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To acquire theoretic knowledge and skils in the sphere of management, planning and making decisions with accent on social conditions of these processes. To understand the connections of the influence and changes of the environment upon he organization, on planning of its strategy, structure and human resources with respect to its goals. To learn basic observatins from management, motivation and leading of people. To understand the issue of company culture, its dependence on the society culture, the role of an individual in an organization and to acquire the knowledge needed for diagnostics and implementation of changes in the company culture.
Teaching methods
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The sociology of management is based on the sociallly psychological prerequisites of management as well as on the roles of the manager. It accents the effect of human factor on planning, organizing and decision making in a company. It deals with managing, motivating and stimulating people in the organization. It focuses at the issue of company culture from both the macro and microperspective and presents possibilities of its diagnostics and changes.
Compulsory literature:
Handel, M.J. (ed.) (2003). The Sociology of Organizations, London:
Sage Publications
Herriot, P. (1992). The Career Management Challenge Balancing Individual
and Organizational Needs. London: SAGE
Recommended literature:
Clark, F. A.(1992). Total Career Management. Strategies for creating
management careers. London : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Limited
Grove, S. A.(1996). Only the Paranoid Survive, How to exploit
crisis points that challange every copany. New York: Random House
Thompson, P; McHugh, D.(1990/2002). Work Organizations, a critical introduction. Palgrave
Reich, R. B.(1991). Work of Nations.Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism. New York: Alfred A.Knopf
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
test
presentation
consultation
E-learning
Other requirements
Demands for the student are defined in terms of graduation.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Sociology of management as scientific discipline
2. Development of management theories – background of ideas of the present management
3. Strategic planning of a company
4. Organizing, organization and environment of management
5. Concept of social system of an organization
6. Motivation as an important tool of influencing the employees
7. Leadership as component of company management
8. Organization as an environment for formation, development and change of company culture (macroperspective, objectivistic paradigm)
9. Man as bearer of company culture (microperspective, interpretative paradigm)
10. I troduction to the studies of company culture
11. Company culture and its effect on the behaviour of an organization
12. The identification of company culture and the model of controlled change
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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