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=== Organizational analysis ===
=== Organizational analysis ===
* [[w:SWOT analysis]] ( Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats )
* [[w:SWOT analysis]] ( Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats )
* [[w:PEST analysis]] ( Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis ) known as PESTEL in course slides
* [[w:PEST analysis]] ( Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis ) known as PESTEL ( PEST + Environmental + Legal )in course slides
 
=== Corporate communications ===
=== Corporate communications ===
Before: only [[w:Public relations]]  
Before: only [[w:Public relations]]  

Revision as of 12:20, 6 October 2012

Problem-based learning

Much of the course is taught using the w:Problem-based learning ( w:fi:Ongelmalähtöinen oppiminen ) pedagogical approach/method.

Developing professional is aware of the patterns and dynamics of w:organizational behaviour.

Psychometrics

Follwing psychometric personality tests are taken on course:

Communication

w:Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of w:nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time

w:Intrapersonal communication is language use or thought internal to the communicator and w:Interpersonal communication is defined in a number of ways by professionals.

w:Marshall McLuhan - communication theorist who coined the saying "World has become a village." in 1960.

In sociology, w:social stratification is a concept involving the "classification of people into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions ... a relational set of inequalities with economic, social, political and ideological dimensions."

w:Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups in social position over time.

Organizational analysis

  • w:SWOT analysis ( Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats )
  • w:PEST analysis ( Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis ) known as PESTEL ( PEST + Environmental + Legal )in course slides

Corporate communications

Before: only w:Public relations Now: w:Integrated marketing communications

w:Media richness theory, sometimes referred to as information richness theory, is a framework to describe a communications medium by its ability to reproduce the information sent over it.

Learning styles

We did the learning styles survey developed by w:David A. Kolb who also contributed much to the theory of w:Experiential learning.

Forms of intelligence


Other stuff:

Competence and leadership

Contingency theories

w:Charismatic authority vs. w:Transformational leadership

w:Transformational leadership builds on w:Transactional leadership

Motivation

Organizational structure and culture

Conflict

w:Social conflict and w:Armed conflict

Economics

  • w:Milton Friedman - the economist of Thatcher and Reagan
  • Teacher has prediction projecting global GDP summed will rise by 50% to $90T