Content (Syllabus outline)

1. Management: definition and basic managerial functions
1.1 Basic concepts
1.2 History
1.3 Contemporary aspects

2. Planning and strategic management:
2.1 Basic concepts
2.2 Strategic management - formulation of strategies and their implementation to achieve competitive advantage
2.3 Business models in the bioeconomy (modern business models, BMI...)
2.4 Crisis management

3. Organizing
3.1 Basic concepts
3.2 Classical organizational structures
3.3 Modern organizational structures
3.4 Newer trends in organizing
3.5 Teamwork (its implementation through the seminar)
3.6 Process management
3.7 Organizational culture (global, digital society)
3.8 Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the bioeconomy

4. Leadership
4.1 Basic concepts
4.2 Management in the narrow sense
4.3 Motivating (motivational theories)
4.4 HRM in the bioeconomy
4.5 A competence model with an emphasis on the digital competences of key personnel and managerial digital competences in manufacturing companies
4.6 Development of digital leadership and personality traits and competencies (intergenerational differences (attitude to learning, attitude to changes...), communication with modern communication media, etc.)
4.7 Psychology of leadership (tools and techniques of encouragement (motivation), conflict resolution, mediation, leading the meeting, etc.)
4.8 Change management

5. Controlling
5.1 Basic concepts
5.2 Control function
5.3 Managerial aspect of digital transformation of business

The above content will be taught in the seminars mainly through case studies of companies and other economic entities (including collective organizations) in value chains in the bioeconomy (e.g., in the wood-forest and agro-food chains) and collective organizations (interested business associations, cooperatives)), emphasizing the specific knowledge and skills required for effective management of a company in the digital age. The seminar can also be conducted by students in the form of round tables or a similar format, preferably using modern digital tools and technologies.

Prerequisites

Conditions for fulfilling study obligations:
- Regular attendance at the exercises.
- The prerequisites for passing the exam are completed exercises and a completed seminar.