Courses

Business Administration

General

Course Contents

  1. Businesses – Organizations and Economic environment. Business Organization.
  2. Legal forms of business activities in Greece.
  3. Business and competitiveness, the contribution of production factors to business activity, SMEs and business environment.
  4. Large companies and international action of companies.
  5. Business planning and business strategy, competitiveness models and business extroversion.
  6. Management and its functions, Management support systems, Manager characteristics, types of Managers.
  7. Productivity, Efficiency, Economy, Management Systems and the Greek reality.
  8. Productivity and Organization, Organizational theories, structures and control.
  9. Evolution of the scientific theories of Management. The classic proposal.
  10. The administrative proposal in Management, the bureaucratic proposal, psychotechnical proposals.
  11. Neoclassical proposals in Management.
  12. Decision-making, organization of production processes, Organizational behavior, forms of operational authority.
  13. Leadership, motivation and motivation of human resources. Theories of motivation and organizational leadership.

Educational Goals

The general aim of the course is to initially analyze the role of the business world in the development of countries’ economies, how they should develop comparative competitive potential in the various economic environments, and finally, how tomorrow’s business executives should make individual and collective decisions (in collaboration with Management and employees) to achieve the strategic goals of the business. The theoretical lectures are supplemented with practical exercises, in order to understand issues of establishment, operation and development of actions of the various corporate types in Greece.

Also, by assigning written assignments to the students, to motivate them to come into contact with daily issues of business operation, but also with issues of timeless development of the science of Management. As tomorrow’s executives, students are obliged to contribute to the effort to shape the basic potential and skills of employees in businesses and organizations. The effort to form basic competencies and skills for businesses and their employees must be based on understanding the role of the business leader and the motivation mechanisms of employees. For this reason, a strategic planning is necessary, both at the operational level and at the departmental level (human resources, supply of raw materials, etc.). Strategic planning is based on a strategic plan, which must be drawn up based on the actual capabilities of the business.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Get familiarized to the interesting world of businesses (small, medium and large) and to understand the operating mechanisms of the business process.
  • Distinguish the main advantages, but also the weaknesses mainly of SME businesses and to propose ways to improve their competitiveness in the market.
  • Design and implement business plans based on the potential of the business and its objectives, in an uncertain economic environment.
  • Handle and elicit from their partners their intangible potential (abilities, skills, knowledge), which they will put at the service of the
  • implementation of the company’s objectives.
  • Develop skills in Strategic Human Capital Management (recruitment, recruitment, development) and formulate elementary strategies and policies for the needs of mainly SME businesses.
  • Develop abilities to acquire, analyze and synthesize information from secondary sources (or even primary), analyze them, compare them with other successful ones and make rational decisions.
  • Support the actions of businesses and entrepreneurs in the direction of extroversion, the rational use of resources and sustainable competitiveness.

General Skills

  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology.
  • Team work.
  • Working in an competitive environment.
  • Decision-making.
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Teaching Methods

  • In the classroom, face to face.

Use of ICT means

  • Basic software (windows, word, power point, the web, etc.).
  • Support of learning process through the electronic platform / e-class.

Teaching Organization

ActivitySemester workload
Lectures26
Practice works13
Assignment (Essay writing)20
Independent Study66
Total125

Students Evaluation

Written final exams that may include:

  • Judgemental questions.
  • Short answer questions
  • Comparative evaluation of theory elements.
  • True/False and multiple choice Questions.
  • Application exercises.

In each question, corresponding evaluation points are specified.
Optional assignment (Essay writing and presentation) corresponds to 40% of the final grade.

Recommended Bibliography

  1. Μαντζάρης Γ.: «Σύγχρονο Management Επιχειρήσεων και Οργανισμών, Τόμος Α, Εκδόσεις Λογισμός, 2017.
  2. Montana P., Charnov B.: Μanagement, Κλειδάριθμος, Αθήνα.
  3. Robbins Stephen P., Decenzo David A., Coulter Mary, Διοίκηση επιχειρήσεων, Έκδοση: 2η/2017, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΕ.

Related Research Journals

  1. Journal of Management.
  2. European Management Journal.
  3. International Studies of Management and Organization.
  4. Journal of Small Business Management.
  5. Journal of Management & Organization.