Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding (knowledge and understanding)
The course provides models and tools of strategic and operational management of
industrial and service companies. The features developed will refer to the best
practices in the design and management of business processes and enable students to an improvement in the decision-making process.
At the end of the course the student will have the knowledge acquisition described below and will be able to:
• to evaluate the external competitive environment;
• carry out a study of the sector;
• understand the prevailing trends in the development of business strategies;
• understand the role of resources and skills in the competitive success and as a
basis for formulating the strategy;
• understand the role of different business functions and the interrelationships
between them;
• Know the principles of organizational design and the main organizational
innovations, which have characterized the evolution of the modern enterprise.
b. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding (applying knowledge and
understanding)
At the end of the course students will have a complete view of the problems of management of business activities both in manufacturing and in services.
The ability to apply the knowledge will be developed through the teaching method of
the analysis of case studies and guided by discussion of selected articles from the
teacher and group work designed to systematize the business testimonials.
d. Communication skills (communication skills)
The involvement of the students from the beginning of the course by the teacher-led
discussions, which involve active participation and even critics of students, will
provide a significant contribution to the improvement of communication skills,
interaction and work in groups. In fact, the final phase of the learning process
includes the presentation by the students of group work focused on case studies,
which are another important moment of development of communication skills.
and. Learning skills (learning skills)
At the end of the course students will have developed the ability to select the best
sources of professional development. The network also allows the web today with a
limited amount of resources a continuous and constant professional, an
improvement in knowledge and in reference to both aspects of method of
competitive environment.
Metodi
Prerequisites
Course unit content
The course aims to make known the fundamentals of management.
The course aims to provide concepts and models to analyze and understand the
competitive mechanisms, formulate strategies and manage business processes. In addition, the course aims to provide answers to the following questions: How to study an industry? What are the most important management models? What are the main stages of development of the managerial
culture?
The course is organized into sections. The first has the objective to provide the conceptual tools that allow the analysis of the competitive environment of reference. In the first part the characteristics of management models is analised
with regard to industrial and service companies. The second section focuses on the presentation of the main tools of business management and pays particular
attention to the management of processes.
The third has the objective to provide the conceptual tools that allow the analysis of the competitive environment of reference.
At the end of the program the students who attended will be able to conduct a Industrial sector study.
Full programme
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Bibliography
FONTANA F. E CAROLI M. (2017), ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE IMPRESE. V EDIZIONE, McGraw Hill
Teaching methods
Acquisition of knowledge: lectures
Acquisition of the ability to apply analytical methods: active presentations
Acquisition of judgments: active presentations.
Acquisition of learning skills: During the lessons will be introduced the basic theoretical concepts and models of economics and business management, with particular attention to the sector context. One of the problems today is the presentation of changes in business and managerial models due to the digital revolution. The lessons will favor the participation of the students and the critical discussion of the main topics examined.
Acquisition of technical language: Students will also be stimulated to an active learning by the study of cases, by reading scientific articles and by the vision of films having as their object the application of the theoretical knowledge discussed during the lessons to practical problems. Each student will have the opportunity to choose a case study or a scientific article to be presented in small groups. During the presentations, the teacher will facilitate the discussion by the rest of the classroom, making presentations an active and participatory part of the course.
Assessment methods and criteria
To test the knowledge and understanding skills, the ability to apply knowledge, the autonomy of judgment and the ability to learn, the ability to communicate with an appropriate technical language, will be carried out, through written exam, by 3 questions with a score from 0 to 10 each.
The written exam will allow to ascertain both the understanding of the subject from a theoretical point of view, and the ability to reason and apply the theory to practical and real cases.
The grade of the exam will be published on the ESSE3 portal.
As an alternative to the ordinary examination, two partial examinations will be held during the lessons (the first will be held approximately halfway through the course, the second at the end of the course). Each partial test will consist of three questions (one of which will focus on the topics covered by the company witnesses hosted during the course). The final mark will be calculated by averaging the marks achieved in the two partials.
Finally, there will be group work that students may carry out on a voluntary basis. The group work will be graded from 1 to 10 points. This mark will be added to the exam grade, replacing one question in the test (ordinary or intermediate).
More details on group work will be provided during the course.
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