Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

he students learn the basic needs which affect an employer’s behaviour and how those needs affect the work motivation. The students learn to identify positive and negative stress, burn-out and depression and the factors in the working community which may lead to them. The students know what tasks management includes. The course focuses on the tasks and tools of management on a site. The students learn the most commonly used organisation structures as well as management systems and models, for example team work.

Content (course unit)

The students learn communication skills and each student takes part in a management personality test. 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). The course also covers the main points of labour legislation and collective labour agreement. The students also learn site management through practical examples.

Assessment scale

0-5