ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
Areas: Business Organisation
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To have a clear understanding of the structure of a business organization.
To assimilate the knowledge of what production management involves.
To acquire basic knowledge of business economics that allows to elaborate, manage and interpret: budgets, balance sheets, cost analysis, etc. And to know the techniques of cost control and marketing.
Subject descriptors:
Basic concepts and definitions of economics. Interpretation of balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, cost analysis, collections and payments, budgets, etc. Notions of business organization. Production management. Cost control. Marketing.
Subject sections:
1. Business organization. Basic concepts and definitions
2. The administrative function.
- Introduction to the management process.
- Planning
- Organization
- Leading
- Control
3. Notions of business organization. The functions of the organization.
- Financial function,
- Production function
- Marketing function
Basic bibliography:
Curto Rodríguez, E.; García Chas, R.; Castro Casal, C. (Coord.) (2012). Fundamentos de Dirección de Empresas. Pearson.
González Domínguez, F. y Ganaza Vargas, J. (Coord.) (2007). Principios y fundamentos de gestión de empresas. Pirámide.
Complementary bibliography:
Curto Rodríguez, Eduardo; García Chas, Romina; Castro Casal, Carmen (Coord.) (2016). Introducción a la dirección de empresas. Pearson.
Díez De Castro, J; Redondo López, C.; Barreiro Fernández, B.; López Cabarcos, M. A. (2002). Administración de empresas. Dirigir en la sociedad del conocimiento. Pirámide.
ROBBINS, Stephen; COULTER, Mary. (2018). Administración (13º edición). Pearson
ROBBINS, S. P.; DECENZO, D. A. (2017). Fundamentos de Administración. Pearson.
Moyano Fuentes, J.; Bruque Cámara, S.; Maqueira Marín, J.; Fidalgo Bautista, F. y Martínez Jurado, P. (2011). Administración de empresas. Un enfoque teórico-práctico. Pearson.
Teachers may recommend specific bibliography for each lesson.
Basic and general skills:
CG1 - Innovate in spaces and areas of the work field, demonstrating initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
CG3 - To value the responsibility in the management of information and knowledge in the field of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical research.
CG4 - Demonstrate ability to analyse, describe, organise, plan and manage projects.
CG5 - Use scientific terminology in the English language to argue experimental results in the context of the chemistry profession.
CG6 - Correctly apply new technologies for capturing and organising information to solve problems in the professional activity.
CG8 - To value the human, economic, legal and technical dimension in the professional practice, as well as the impact of chemistry on the environment and on the sustainable development of society.
CB9 - That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons behind them to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
CB10 - Students have the learning skills to enable them to continue their studies in a largely self-directed or autonomous manner
Transversal competences:
CT1 - Produce, write and publicly defend scientific and technical reports.
CT2 - Working in teams and adapting to multidisciplinary teams.
CT3 - Working autonomously and efficiently in the daily practice of research or professional activity.
CT4 - Appreciating the value of quality and continuous improvement, acting with rigour, responsibility and professional ethics.
CT5 - Demonstrate an attitude of respect towards the opinions, values,
behaviours and practices of others.
Specific competencies:
CE6 - Designing processes involving the treatment or disposal of hazardous chemicals.
CE9 - Value, promote and practice innovation and entrepreneurship in industry and chemical research
The expository sessions will explain the fundamental contents of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing the especially relevant aspects and the relationships between them.
In the interactive sessions it is a question of the students applying the theoretical concepts. To this end, case studies will be carried out, readings of texts and articles will be commented on, and issues raised by teachers will be discussed. The readings are intended for students to access relevant sources of information, especially journals of interest, who become familiar with prominent authors, know business experiences of interest to the subject and develop the ability to analyze, synthesize and argue.
In addition, they will have to elaborate a group work and present it orally in class. With all this it is intended to stimulate cooperative work and develop analytical skills, argumentation and communication.
During the course, the virtual classroom will be used for communication, teaching and evaluation tasks.
The personal work activities of the students include, in addition to the time dedicated to the study, the reading of the material provided by the teaching staff, the search for information and the elaboration of individual or collaborative works.
In the tutorials, the teachers will guide the students on the practical cases, readings, works and exhibitions; they will also serve to solve doubts and solve problems that students face in the learning process and as a feedback channel on the results of the same. Tutorials will be face-to-face and virtual (asynchronous via the virtual campus and email)
The assessment system will take into account all the activities developed by the students: resolution and active participation in the analysis of cases, debate and commentary on readings, articles or press news, presentation and exhibition of works, completion of questionnaires on theoretical and practical content, etc.
The assessment system includes:
a. Continuous evaluation: 45%. It includes: (1) Solving problems and practical cases (15%). Competences assessed: CG1; CG3; CG4; CG8; CT3. (2) Completion of written work and reports (10%). Competences assessed: CG1; CG4; CG5; CG6; CG8; CB10; CT1; CT2; CT3; CT4; CE9. (3) Oral presentation (works, reports, problems and practical cases) (10%). Competences assessed: CG1; CG4; CG5; CB9; CT1; CT2; CT5; CE9. (4) Continuous assessment of the students through questions and oral questions during the course (10%). Competences assessed: CG1; CG4; CB10; CT4; CT5;
"In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and for the Revision of Qualifications shall apply."
b. Face to face compulsory final exam. Weight in the final grade: 55%. Competences assessed: CG4; CG5; CG6; CG8; CB10; CE6.
The added mark must be equal or superior to 5 points out of 10 to pass the course.
The same assessment system will be applied both in the first opportunity and in the second extraordinary opportunity. Repeating students will be subject to the same evaluation regime as ordinary students.
In accordance with the USC Permanence Regulations for Bachelor's and Master's studies (art. 5.2), mere attendance and/or participation in any of the activities subject to evaluation will mean that the student's final grade will be different from Not Presented.
Following the Instruction Nº 1/2017 of Secretaría Xeral, students who are exempt from attendance in certain situations will be assessed with a specific final exam that will count for 100% of the grade (100%).
This is a 3 ETCS course and each credit is equivalent to 25 hours.
Hours will be distributed in the following way:
- Hours: 12 hours (expositive); 9 hours (interactive)
- Tutoring: 2 hours
- Work preparation: 18 hours.
- Students personal work: 36 hours.
In order to maximize learning, it is convenient that the students carry out all the activities proposed by the teaching staff, regularly attend theoretical and practical classes and use the tutorials.
Romina García Chas
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 881811712
- romina.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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