Economy and Management

Code:

MEMG0013

Acronym:

EGE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics, Management, Organization, Project

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEMG	5	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	2	-	4	42	108

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This course aims at providing students with an introductory contact with the management process, concepts and tools. This course covers the management process, the main management functional areas, and some introductory concepts of strategic management.
The course will join a strong theoretical basis with an applied component, through the use of case studies and group work.

Program

1. Management and its context
1.1. Fundamental concepts of management
1.2. The management context
2. Management functional areas
2.1. Marketing
2.2. Financial management
2.3. Operations management
2.4. Human resources management
3. The management process
3.1. Planning
3.1. Decision making
3.2. Strategic planning
3.2. Organizating
3.3. Controlling

Mandatory literature

Gomez-Mejia, Luis R.; Management. ISBN: 0-07-111131-X
Gerry Johnson, Richard Whittington and Kevan Scholes; Exploring Strategy: Texts and Cases, Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-273-73202-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching of this course is supported by the following components of complementary activities:

A1. LECTURES
Lectures will focus on the fundamental management concepts and tools, which provide the basis for the applied work.

A2. CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
The pratical classes will focus on case study analysis and dicussion, as well as small team works, with an emphasis on the application of the management concepts and tools.

A3. GROUP ASSIGNMENT: analysis of a company's use of technology in management. This group project consists in an analysis of the use of technology in a company's functional management areas and strategic management, identifying potential improvements.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	52,00
Case study preparation	Trabalho escrito	8,00
Group assignment	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Exame	2,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study	Estudo autónomo	14
Exam preparation	Estudo autónomo	12
	Total:	26,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to complete a group assignment on the study of technoloy use in a company's strategic management. This group assigment will have two evaluation moments:
1. Oral presentation and intermediate report (10% of final grade)
2. Oral presentation and final report (30% of final grade)

Minimum classification of 37,5% in each of the evaluation components.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final grade= 0.05* (component 1 of continuous assessment) + 0.1* (component 2 of continuous assessment) + 0.25* (component 3 of continuous assessment) + 0.6* grade of the exam

Students have to reach a minimum grade of 37.5% in every assessment components.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students with special status who cannot attend classes have to:
1- perform an individual assignment set by the professor.
2- attend an oral exam about the theme of the assignment and other themes that professors think are necessary to be mentioned.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students who cannot attend all classes can fulfill the distributed component of the evaluation through the following procedures:
1.Individual assignment defined by Professors
2. Intermediary and final presentation of individual assignment on predfined dates.
3. The two presentations are mandatory.
4. Working students should contact the course professors to define the work assigment

Classification improvement

The classificatio improvement of the exam follows FEUP'S regulations.
The classification improvement of the distributed component can be done at the same time as the practical assignments in the following academic year.