Business Administration: Organization and Management course is first and foremost about organizations, people and their behaviors at work, with the aim of making a firm or organization more competitive. The course is focused on the theme that a company achieves sustained success depending on its organizational design, decision making and management processes and organization members behavior at work influenced among other aspects by leadership, motivation and team work. This course offers a theoretical and practical approach integrated on the foundations of business management. The main organization and management theories are explained, business organization and design fundamentals, the main elements of decision making and theories related to managerial skills, leadership, motivation and communication.

This course is a continuation of the subject of the same name that is taught in the first semester of the first year of the degree.

The goal of this course is to introduce students on these topics mentioned above, with a conceptual and practical view. The challenge of the course is to sharpen the students’ ability to lead a team project and motivate their peers, to improve communication ability and to learn how to work on teams in an effective way. Thus, the competences and learning results for this course are:

- Sharpen the students’ ability to lead a team project

- Gain consciousness on self motivation and improve the ability to motivate their peers,

- Improve communication skills, written and oral.

- Increase awareness on decision making results

- Improve negotiation skills and conflicts resolution

- Learn how to work on teams in an effective way.

PART 1: THEORICAL FUNDAMENT

Lesson 1: Management Fundamentals

Lesson 2: Basic Organizational design



PART 2: PRACTICAL FUNDAMENT

Lesson 3: Organization of business activity

Lesson 4: Business management and decision making



PART 3: MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Lesson 5: Leadership

Lesson 6: Theories of motivation

Lesson 7. The communication within the company

Lesson 8. Work teams management

Lesson 9: Conflict and negotiation

The course methodology is basically base on continuous learning and evaluation. This includes the following activities:

• Students are expected to read each assigned chapter of Robbins et al (2010) textbook prior to attending class.

Each chapter will be explained at the classroom through the interaction among the lecturer and students. The lecturer will underline the most important ideas and principles and make leading questions about each topic.

After each chapter explanation, the students will work out individually and on team basis in the following exercises: Chapter discussion questions (DQ) and critical thinking exercises (CTE) as case readings.

• Students will have to work on a team project that will be presented at the end of the course and discussed with their peers.

• This course will contain a Written and oral Components. Written components are based on the required team project report, essay questions on each examination. The oral component will include the participation on DQ, the presentation of one CTE individually and the team presentation of the team project report.

In order to follow continuous learning and evaluation methodology, attending to the class is compulsory. Only exceptionally, the student will be excluded from attending and he/she will follow a no-continuous evaluation based on “last exam” evaluation.

If the sanitary conditions prevent the realization of face-to-face teaching and/or evaluation, a non-face-to-face (or online or bimodal) teaching modality will be activated. If this is the case, the students will be informed promptly.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 10
  • Individual works (%): 5
  • Team projects (problem solving, project design)) (%): 20
  • Exhibition of works, readings ... (%): 15
  • Pruebas escritas (%): 50

The students that have followed continuous learning and evaluation methodology, attending to all the classes (minimum 80%), will be graded according to:

- Practical individual work (exercises, case studies & problems set)............15%

- Team work (problem solving, project design)...................................20%

- Exposition of work, readings, etc.............................................15%

- Final written exam (0-10 scale)...............................................50%



Class attitude and participation is part of the grading system. Student participation involves a number of variables, including, but not limited to the following: willingness to participate in all class activities; cooperation during group- and pair-work; and respect and positive attitude toward your peers and toward your instructor.



No-continuous evaluation

Final written exam (0-10 scale).......................................................100%.



The final evaluation system is based on a final exam (0-10 scale). The ordinary exam call will be hold in the official date.

The students on continuous evaluation system will have to take the written exam which will count the 50% of their last mark. If the student does not take the final exam, the final grade of the subject will be “not presented”.



The students on no-continuous evaluation system will have to take the written exam to pass the course (graded as 100% of their last mark).



In the evaluation tests of the final evaluation system will not be allowed to use materials, resources or technologies of any kind, beyond a conventional pen or other similar writing element endowed with indelible ink.

In the evaluation tests of the continuous evaluation system, the use of all types of materials, resources or technologies, respecting the explicit guidelines for ethics and honesty in academic activity defined by the UPV/EHU and the usual academic practice will be allowed.



If the sanitary conditions prevent the realization of face-to-face evaluation, a non-face-to-face (or online or bimodal) evaluation will be activated. If this is the case, the students will be informed promptly.

If the student fails the subject in the so-called Ordinary exam call, he/she will have to take the Extraordinary exam (rated on a 0-10 scale). The exam call will be on the official data.



In the evaluation tests of the final evaluation system will not be allowed to use materials, resources or technologies of any kind, beyond a conventional pen or other similar writing element endowed with indelible ink.

In the evaluation tests of the continuous evaluation system, the use of all types of materials, resources or technologies, respecting the explicit guidelines for ethics and honesty in academic activity defined by the UPV/EHU and the usual academic practice will be allowed.



If the sanitary conditions prevent the realization of face-to-face evaluation, a non-face-to-face (or online or bimodal) evaluation will be activated. If this is the case, the students will be informed promptly.

The material is available in the so-called Reprography service of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Donostia. University Campus Gipuzkoa. The text books included in the bibliography are in the library of the UPV/EHU.

Basic bibliography

Robbins, S. P., Judge T. A. and Campbell, T. T. (2010): Organizational Behavior, 4e, Prentice Hall, Pearson.



Hindle, T. (2008): The Economist Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus. London: The Economist.

In-depth bibliography

Several Authors (2007, 2008 eta 2009): Brief Cases in OB and HR Management, Harvard Business Publishing, Cambridge, USA.

Journals

- Harvard Business Review

Web addresses

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/
https://www.euskalit.net/es/
https://www.adegi.es/adegi/
https://www.bicgipuzkoa.eus/
https://hbr.org/