Prevention and Organization Management

Code:

MESHO103

Acronym:

GOP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EESHO	13	Plano oficial de EESHO 2005	1	2	6	-
MESHO	10	Plano oficial de MESHO 2005	1	2	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

CHAPTER 1 - COSTS OF THE SAFETY
- To esteem the basic elements of economic evaluation: investments, costs and market;
- To make economic evaluation of projects, in atmospheres progressively more complexes;
- To calculate costs and benefits of the implementation of systems of occupational safety and occupational hygiene.
CHAPTER 2 - MANAGEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AND OF THE PREVENTION
- To identify the main characteristics and contingencies associated to the management of the organizations;
- To know the different roles of a manager and to place them face actual challenges and practices of the management;
- To develop competences of team work;
- To define the management models of Safety, Hygiene and Health Occupational.
- To give to know the normative environment of the Systems of Management of the Safety and Health occupational.

Program

CHAPTER 1 - COSTS OF THE SAFETY
- Costs of the work accidents;
- Introduction to economic theory;
- Methods of decision for investments;
- Cash-flow, Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value;
- Investments with own funds;
- Investments with external financing.
CHAPTER 2 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AND OF THE PREVENTION
- The administration and the manager's paper. Management concept. The functions and the manager's role. The manager's capacities.
- Theories of the organizations: Classic model and Taylorism. Behaviour perspective. Systems theory.
- Management process: Planning, Organization, Leadership and Control
- Planning: Definition of the Mission and objectives. Management for objectives. Strategic Management.
- Structures of the organizations: Factors that influence the drawing of the structures of the organizations. Types of structures of organizations.
- Motivation: The nature of the motivation. Theories of the Motivation. The pyramid of Maslow and the higiénicos Factores of Herzberg.
- Leadership: The leader's capacities. The leader's role. Leadership styles. Theories of the leadership.
- Management of Teams : kinds of groups. Action of the groups. Characteristics of the work groups. Phases of groups development . conflicts management.
- Control: control and its role on the organizations management. Development of control Systems of management .
Change's Management : The nature of the management of the change. The process of the management of the change. Key elements of the administration of the change in the organizations.
Activities organization in safety, hygiene and health of the work .
Management systems of the safety and health of the work.
Safety Audits
Legislation and applicable normalization.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam