Project Management and Teamwork

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

Teachers

Included in study programs

Finance, Banking and Insurance

Teaching results

Students will acquire basic knowledge, skills and competencies in the fields of project management and teamwork. They will be able to apply basic methods of project management. They will learn to work in a team on a semester project that they have chosen. They will be able to solve and present partial tasks within the semester project in an electronic form. They will be able to present the results independently/in a team to the faculty management/members and to the public. Students will be able to create, manage and participate in projects as part of their jobs in the future.

Indicative content

Project Management and Teamwork. The educational process is focused on the following areas:
Lectures
• Management, functions of management
• Organizing and creating organizational structures
• Leadership and motivation of people, leadership styles
• The role of projects in the development of the national economy and individual economic
entities
• Project process and its phases
• Project staffing
• Teamwork and its importance for the success of the project
• Project time schedule
• Project financing
• Risks in the project
• Success and sustainability of the project
• Final work in the project
• Presentation of project results
Seminars
• Project manager as a profession, decision-making in managerial work
• Flexible organizational structures suitable for project management
• Discussion: Leadership and motivation of people, leadership styles
• Discussion: Examples of successful projects in practice
• Teamwork: Discovering a project idea
• Teamwork: Name and goals of the project
• Teamwork: Building a project team
• Teamwork: Project time schedule
• Teamwork: Project financing
• Teamwork: Project marketing
• Teamwork: Project implementation
• Teamwork: Final work in the project
• Teamwork: Presentations of project results

Support literature

Watts, A. (2014). Project Management. Victoria, B.C.: BCcampus. Retrieved from https://open[1]textbc.ca/projectmanagement/.
Horine, G. M. (2017). Project Management: Absolute Beginner´s Guide. Que Publishing.
Heagney, J. (2018). Fundamentals of Project Management. HarperCollins Focus.
Belbin, R. M. (2010). Team Roles at Work. Routledge.
Armstrong, M., & Taylor, S. (2020). Armstrong´s Handbook of Human Resource Management. Kogan Page.
Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute.

Requirements to complete the course

Active participation in the educational process according to the regulations at the FNE UE in Bratislava – individual work and work in teams on assignments/projects during the semester. Written exam
Evaluation of partial assignments within the project – 40 %
Written exam – 60 %

Date of approval: 06.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 29.03.2021