UMH - BUSINESS ORGANIZATION BASICS

BUSINESS ORGANIZATION BASICS

Course

Code: 1169

Degree: Bachelor's in Labor Relations and Human Resources

Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Elche

Year: Year 1 of Bachelor's in Labor Relations and Human Resources

Semester: Fall

Type: Core

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 3

Laboratory: 3

Hours: 150

Directed: 60

Shared: 10

Autonomous: 80

Subject matter: Business

Module: Economic-Business Perspective

Degree website

Department: Economics and Financial Studies

Area: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

The company as a system. Types of companies. Relationship between the company and its economic environment. Functional areas: production, investment, financing, and marketing.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
ESTRADA DE LA CRUZ, MARINA	■	■	■
VAQUERO SANCHEZ, MARIA ANTONIA	■	■	■

Professional interest

"Fundamentals of Business Organization" is a basic course of 6 credits, equivalents to 150 hours of work by the student, is given during the first part of the course of the Degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources of the UMH. Its main objective is familiarize the future graduates with some basic knowledge of the concept, structure and functioning of business organizations, within which - self-employed or employed - or for which, they will develop their professional future.
The program deals with basic aspects about the company reality, as well as about its entrepreneurs, to concentrate afterwards in the management and business administration work, as well as the environment in which that work is developed.
Besides, the different company subsystems are introduced, as well as the decisions made in them from a functional perspective, presenting the production functions, marketing and business financing.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Capacity to identify, interpret, formulate, and resolve problems and situations.
Capacity for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling systems and processes within a framework that guarantees respect for values, rights and basic principles of the legal system, business competitiveness, protection and conservation of the environment, and sustainable development.
Skills for the efficient application of tools that lead to the solution of problems.
Capacity to consolidate, expand, and integrate knowledge.
Disposition of methodologies and efficient self-learning skills for adapting to and updating new skills and scientific advances, as well as changing needs in order to adopt an aptitude for innovation and creativity in practicing the profession.

Specific competencies

Advise, diagnose, lend support, and make decisions regarding organizational structure, work organization, methods, and work time studies.
Interrelate the various disciplines shaping labor relations.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01Understand and distinguish the concepts of company, entrepreneur, businessman, and managerial work, its complexity, diversity and relevance.
02Analyze decision-making situations in business and grasp the systematic to act in situations of decision.
03Understand the business administration as an interactive process and distinguish between the different functions in it.
04Identify the planning and control functions, their processes, components and instruments to reach the objectives in the company.
05Identify and describe the most important organizational structures and the basic concepts related to Human Resources Administration, and to the Human Behavior Management in Organizations.
06Identify and explain the influence of certain external and internal environmental elements on the activities and results of the business organizations and especially on the discretionary management area.
07Identify the different strategic decisions leading to the production operation system design and the main tools of production management.
08Know the terms that allow the company to know its markets and the consumers¿ behavior in them and also distinguish the operative tools of marketing.
09Describe the company finance function and its financial environment. Express opinions about the economic-finance throwgh the knowledge and the analysis of the its main items.
010Identify and value the various available sources of finance, and apply useful criteria for the investment valuation.

Teaching units

Association between objectives and units

Objective/Unit	U1	U2	U3	U4	U5
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
010

Schedule

Week	Teaching units	Directed hours	Shared hours	Autonomous hours	Total hours
1	U1	4	0	5	9
2	U1	4	0	5	9
3	U1,U2	4	1	5	10
4	U2	4	0	5	9
5	U2,U3	4	2	6	12
6	U3	4	0	5	9
7	U3	4	1	5	10
8	U3,U4	4	0	5	9
9	U4	4	1	5	10
10	U4	4	0	5	9
11	U4,U5	4	2	6	12
12	U5	4	0	5	9
13	U5	4	1	5	10
14		4	0	5	9
15		4	2	8	14

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.
Learning agreement: Develop active learning through an agreement between the teacher and the student containing commitments for what will be learned, how monitoring will take place for that learning, the set period of time, and the evaluation criteria.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

The evaluation of the course will include the following components: Final assessment : - Making a final exam of the course , consisting of a type test on theory and practice on the course content taught during issues. The test exam will mean 85% of the final grade , whether the practices raised during the course (15 % ) , or 100 % if the student does not receive any ongoing evaluation are made. Continuous assessment : practical evaluation that will take place throughout the course, with the level achieved in the different activities scheduled for the same will be measured. case studies and exercises developed during classes, with which students can obtain up to 1.5 points of the final grade (equivalent to the practical part).

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