Management Skills (3 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The students learn communication skills and each student takes part in a management personality test. The students learn to recognise the basic needs governing employees’ behaviour and their effect won work motivation. The students learn to recognise positive and negative stress, work exhaustion and depression and the well-being factors leading to them. The students understand the tasks of management and focus on the tasks and tools of management in a site. The students learn the organisation structures, the most important management systems and models (incl. team work) used today in the construction companies and the public sector. The course also covers the main points of labour legislation and collective labour agreement. The students also learn site management through practical examples.

Content (course unit)

Content of the basics of leadership, the course covers communication skills, motivation, well-being at workplace, self-management, organisation structures, management tasks in an enterprise and management tools. Of management skills, the course covers management systems and styles, team work and management tasks in a site (goals, organisation, decisions, supervision, staff development).

Prerequisites (course unit)

Kirjallisuus: Eero Suominen RTK 1992: Rakentajan johtamistaito.
Hokkanen, Skyttä, Strömberg, Opetushallitus, PainoPorras Oy,
Jyväskylä 1996: Johtamistaito, Työlainsäädäntö ja rakennusalan työehtosopimukset. Opintojakson aikana esitetty muu materiaali ja muistiinpanot. Opetusmenetelmä: luento, opetuskeskustelu, Opetuskieli: suomi.