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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
- w:IQ ( Intelligence Quotient )
- w:Emotional intelligence
- w:Social intelligence
- w:Cultural intelligence
Other stuff:
Competence and leadership
- w:Managerial grid model - 1960's
Contingency theories
- w:Fiedler contingency model - relationship oriented vs. task oriented
- w:Leader–member exchange theory
- w:Path–goal theory
w:Charismatic authority vs. w:Transformational leadership
w:Transformational leadership builds on w:Transactional leadership
Motivation
- w:Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- w:Two-factor theory
- w:Job enrichment
- Emotional needs theory
- w:Equity theory
- w:Expectancy theory
- w:Goal setting theory by Locke et al.
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