Quality of life

  • Credits: 6
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 1, 2
  • Faculty of Economics and Finance

Teachers

Included in study programs

Applied Economics

Finance and Taxes

Management of Public Policies

Teaching results

By attending this course, students will acquire the following professional competencies in the field of quality of life and the possibilities of its formation:
1. They will have an overview of problems in the theory and methodology of the quality of life as well as they will know level of the quality of life in the Slovak Republic, EU countries, or selected countries and will know what tools can be used to form it.
2. They will gain information about the new concept of the social quality and its relationship to the quality of life, they will have knowledge of its individual components, which are conditional factors, constitutional factors and normative factors, and they will know how it can be implemented.
3. They will learn to perceive the quality of life as a global phenomenon, which includes the living standards, the way of life, the value orientations, the quality of working life, etc., they will be able to respect the development rules of individual components and their interconnectedness in its formation.
4. They will gain knowledge about consumer models of the quality of life, evolution of the living standard and ways to measure it and will be able to use this knowledge in the process of forming the socio-economic conditions of our society.
5. They will be able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the transformation process and identify changes in the quality of life in the intentions of the learning society, the knowledge society, the creative society and gain skills for their management (implementation) at the organizational level.
6. They will gain information about the way of life and lifestyle and approaches to quantify them, and at the same time they will gain skills for their formation at the national level.
7. They will be able to perceive the importance of values and value orientations in shaping the quality of life and will be aware of the need for changes in the social structure.
8. They will deepen their skills in field of the quality of working life and acquire skills in the implementation of the social quality at the organizational level.
9. They will gain an overview of the processes of industrialization as well as the main directions in the quality of life, which they will be able to use in its formation at the macro level.
10. They will gain the ability to harmonize differences in quality of life at the regional level.
They will increase the following knowledge:
1. They will give information about the new concept of the social quality and its relation to the quality of life.
2. They will learn to perceive the quality of life as a global phenomenon, which includes other sub-categories as: living standard, lifestyle, value systems, quality of working life, over work time and leisure time.
3. Students acquire knowledge about patterns of consumption, evolution of the standard of living and also approach to measure it.
4. They will be able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the transformation process and to identify changes in quality of life.
5. They obtain information about way of life and lifestyle and their quantification.
6. They will be able to perceive the importance of values and value orientations in process of forming the quality of life and will know the tendencies in changes of the social structure.
7. Will deepen their knowledge of the quality of working life and receive information about implementation of the social quality on the level of organization.
8. Will gain insight into the processes of industrialization as well as the main changes in the quality of life.
9. Will obtain own opinion to the regional disparities in the quality of life at the regional level.
They will gain the following skills:
1. Students will strengthen their skills in making theoretical and methodological framework as well as applying of primary and secondary analysis from individual parts of the quality of life (the standard of living, the way of life, the value orientations, the quality of working life).
2. They will be able to consider world trends in quality of life and their positives and negatives.
3. They will gain experiences in solving problems of the quality of life in which they will be able to apply acquired skills in developing people, of the strategic management as well as the management of change.

Indicative content

The goal of course is to gain for students the professional competencies in the field of theory, methodology and empiricism of the quality of life and have enough skills to form this phenomenon, with respecting of the fundamental principles and connections. To know the structure of the quality of life and its motivational function within the context of the socio-economic development. Also to deepen abilities to perceive the complex of this phenomenon, also in the frame of globalization and first of all in relation to the social quality.
Students:
1. Will gain abilities necessary for a deeper perception of the quality of life, its individual structural elements and determinants, on international, national and regional levels. They will be able to create your own as well as theoretical and methodological framework of the phenomenon and analyze it in chronological form.
2. Will get to know about new form of society, which is the social quality, they will know its structural components, which are conditional, constitutional and normative factors, and they will have an overview of its formation and implementation (management) in individual EU countries.
3. They gain insight on the living standards, structure of needs and forms of their saturation.
4. They will pay more attention to the value orientation of population and also to way of their creation.
5. Will evaluate the quality of life in the three spheres: the work, the over work time and the leisure time, as well as in regional disparities.
6. Will have the ability to create a systemic approach to the quality of working life and will be able to apply its identification and operationalization at the macro level as well as in specific organizations and institutions.
7. Will also consider the way of life and lifestyle of selected groups of population and judge the quality of whole process at macrolevel.
8. Will have an overview of the transformation process in Slovakia from a central economy to a social market economy.
9. Will get information about megatrends in the quality of life and about the consequences of individual waves of civilization according to H. Toffler and A. Toffler.
10. Will get acquainted with various forms of the social structures in society and with various forms of their social inequalities.
11. Will reconsider the perception of globalization and its impact on the quality of life today.
12. Will know about the specific features of the quality of life in the learning society, the knowledge society, the creative society and the processes of their formation and management.
13. New challenges for the quality of life in the 21st century.
During the seminars, they will address specific components and areas of the quality of life with emphasis on their empirical basis. Within the seminars, there will be applied new methods of education, such as case studies, exercises to solve methodological frameworks of the quality of life or specific problems in the Slovak Republic, the EU, or in the world. Students will be acquainted with the traditions, customs of individual regions of Slovakia and EU countries.

Support literature

1. ANTALOVÁ, M. – LALUHA, I. – PŘÍVARA, A. 2013. Kvalita života. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2013. ISBN 978-80-225-3596-0.
2. ANTALOVÁ, M. − BEDNÁRIK, R. − LALUHA, I. − TKÁČIKOVÁ, J. 2010. Kvalita života. Teória, metodológia, empíria. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-225-3043-9.
3. ANTALOVÁ, M. 2010. Sociálna kvalita a kvalita pracovného života. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2010. ISBN 978-80-225-3088-0.
4. LALUHA, I. 2010. Kvalita života. In Stanek, V, a kol.
Sociálna politika, Bratislava : Sprint, 2010. ISBN 978-. 92-79-14884-2.
5. NAISBITT, J. − ABURDENOVÁ, P. 1992. Megatrendy 2000. Bratislava : Bradlo, 1992. ISBN 8071270504
6. TOFFLER, A. − TOFFLEROVÁ, H.1996. Utváranie novej civilizácie. Bratislava : Open Windows, 1996. ISBN 80-85741-15-6.

Requirements to complete the course

Final test: 70%
Middle test: 10%
Preparation of semester work in Power Point: 10%
Presentation of semester work: 10%

Student workload

Total student load: 156
Attendance at lectures: 26 hours
Participation in seminars: 26 hours
Preparation for seminars: 13 hours
Preparation of seminar work: 13 hours
Preparation for the middle test: 26 hours
Exam preparation: 52 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 07.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 13.11.2023