Management Skills (250720) – Course 2024/25 PDF

Syllabus

Learning Objectives

Subject to provide criteria, knowledge and reflection on the values and qualities of a good manager - Knowledge of criteria, knowledge and reflections on the qualities and values of a good manager . - Ability to discover, internalize and assess the impact of personal behavior as part of a team . The importance of value formation. The engineer in the current context. The manager: leadership, creativity, innovation , motivation and communication. Evolution of society . Current business perspective: responsability, ethics and commitment The subject Management Skills is an intense path of personal and professional transformation with the aim of preparing future challenges that students will encounter in any company of the construction industry and anywhere in the world. To this end, the subject trains and distinguishes the student in his leadership, organizational and management skills, working on his knowledge of the manager's values and ethics, and reinforcing his communication, leadership, negotiation, decision-making and communication skills and abilities. crisis management, motivation, people / team management, ...

Total hours of student work

		Hours	Percentage
Supervised Learning	Large group	25.5h	56.67 %
	Medium group	9.8h	21.67 %
	Laboratory classes	9.8h	21.67 %
Self Study		80h

Teaching Methodology

The teaching methodology is divided in three parts: - Face-to-face exposition sessions of the contents (master classes) - Face-to-face sessions of the practical coursework (practical classes and case studies) - Autonomous work of the study and realization of the exercises and the activities. In the master classes, the basic concepts of the course are explained. The supporting material is the general reference of the course, which will be complemented during the classes with additional information. The students will have complementary information available in the Digital Campus Atenea. In the sessions of the practical coursework, the Professors will guide the students to the application of the theory concepts to solve exercises, basing especially in the critical reasoning at all times. Exercises derived from real cases will be set, and the students will have to solve it in and outside of the classes, in order to foster the contact and use of the basic necessary tools for the resolution of exercises. The students will previously need to have been working at home to foster the understanding of the exercises presented. The students, in an autonomous way, will have to work the material provided by the Professors and the result of the sessions of the practical workgroup in order to assimilate and fix the concepts.

Grading Rules

The evaluation calendar and grading rules will be approved before the start of the course.

The regular assessment is carried out through various procedures: (1) individual submissions and reports (EI), in which the student must demonstrate their ability to apply the knowledge learned and develop problem-solving procedures; (2) a course project (TC), in which the student must present, in groups, a proposal to a problem that is transversal to the course contents and proposed by the teacher; (3) participation and performance during the course (RC), in which the student's participation in class activities, timely submission of short exercises and practices, and other activities proposed during the course to reinforce learning and self-assessment of acquired knowledge will be evaluated. Nfinal = 0.50 NEI + 0.40 NTC + 0.10 NRC Nfinal - final grade NEI - individual submissions grade NTC - course project grade NRC - course performance grade Continuous assessment consist in several activities, both individually and in group, of additive and training characteristics, carried out during the year (both in and out of the classroom). The teachings of the laboratory grade is the average in such activities. The evaluation tests consist of a part with questions about concepts associated with the learning objectives of the course with regard to knowledge or understanding, and a part with a set of application exercises.

Test Rules

Failure to perform a laboratory or continuous assessment activity in the scheduled period will result in a mark of zero in that activity.

Bibliography

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