Organization and management

The content covers the following contemporary key topics from organization, management and organizational behaviour: key definitions (firm, organization, business, business model), determinants of individual behaviour in organizations (personality characteristics, motivation, knowledge, skills, interpersonal interactions), fine-grained look at the elements of the business model (value proposition, scarce resources, business activities, and profit formula), analysis of the business model (identifying the business model, evaluation of the business model, diagnosis of the problems of the business model, strategic options approach to the identification of solution for the problems).

Daft Richard L. and Marcic Dorothy: Understanding Management: Seventh Edition. Mason, Ohio: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2010, 672 pages.
Izbor temeljnih in sodobnih znanstveni članki s področja managementa, aplikativne psihologije in sociologije (a selection of fundamental and contemporary scientific articles from the field of management, applied psychology and sociology).

The objective of the course is to present to students key topics from the field of organization and management, which will enable them to successfully perform in management roles in enterprises and government institutions.
To reach this objective the following student competences need to be developed:
students have to acquire the knowledge from key topics of organization and management,
students need to learn how to examine and solve organizational and management issues in enterprises and government institutions,
students need to understand the interconnectedness of organization and management issues with information system deployment and change issues.

Knowledge and understanding:
The students will gain a thorough understanding of key topics in organization and management.
Application:
The students will be able to examine and solve organizational and management issues thus enabling them to occupy management positions.
Reflection:
The course will enable students to critically evaluate their work as well as what is expected of them in a managerial role in enterprises and government institutions.

Transferable skills:
The students will gain a broader view and understanding about the needed person-organization fit, needed alignment in enterprises and government institutions between business and organization on one side and information system on the other.

Lectures, exercises with group discussion, role playing, simulations or real world situations, case studies, team project work on seminars with required presentation of the results.

Continuing (homework and laboratory exercises)
Final (written and oral exam)
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

HOVELJA, Tomaž, VAVPOTIČ, Damjan, ŽVANUT, Boštjan. A balanced scorecard-based model for evaluating e-learning and conventional pedagogical activities in nursing. Assessment & evaluation in higher education, ISSN 1469-297X, 2016, vol. 41, iss. 8, str. 1254-1268, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 1537677252]
VRHOVEC, Simon, HOVELJA, Tomaž, VAVPOTIČ, Damjan, KRISPER, Marjan. Diagnosing organizational risks in software projects : Stakeholder resistance. International journal of project management, ISSN 0263-7863. [Print ed.], Aug. 2015, vol. 33, iss. 6, str. 1262-1273, graf. prikazi, tabele. [COBISS-SI-ID 2946794]
HOVELJA, Tomaž, VASILECAS, Olegas, VAVPOTIČ, Damjan. Exploring the influences of the use of elements comprising information system development methodologies on strategic business goals. Technological and economic development of economy, ISSN 2029-4913. [Print ed.], 2015, vol. 21, no. 6, str. 885-898, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 1536512963]
MAHNIČ, Viljan, HOVELJA, Tomaž. Teaching user stories within the scope of a software engineering capstone course : analysis of students' opinions. International journal of engineering education, ISSN 0949-149X, 2014, vol. 30, no. 4, str. 901-915. [COBISS-SI-ID 10756948]
HOVELJA, Tomaž, VASILECAS, Olegas, RUPNIK, Rok. A model of influences of environmental stakeholders on strategic information systems planning success in an enterprise. Technological and economic development of economy, ISSN 2029-4913. [Print ed.], 2013, vol. 19, no. 3, str. 465-488, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 10183252]
VAVPOTIČ, Damjan, HOVELJA, Tomaž. Improving the evaluation of software development methodology adoption and its impact on enterprise performance. Computer science and information systems, ISSN 1820-0214. [Print ed.], Jan. 2012, vol. 9, no. 1, str. 165-187, ilustr. [COBISS-SI-ID 8880212]
MAHNIČ, Viljan, HOVELJA, Tomaž. On using planning poker for estimating user stories. The Journal of Systems and Software, ISSN 0164-1212. [Print ed.], Sep. 2012, vol. 85, no. 9, str. 2086-2095, tabele. [COBISS-SI-ID 9127764]