Introduction to Business Administration

Μάθημα: Introduction to Business Administration
Course Number: ECO0009
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COURSE OUTLINE

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
LEVEL OF STUDIES 7
COURSE CODE ECO0009 SEMESTER 7th
COURSE TITLE INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits.		 TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and exercises (4) 5
     
     
Please, add lines if necessary. Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.    
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 Specialization
PREREQUISITES:

 

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TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: Greek
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: Yes (in English)
COURSE URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/OPE01204/
  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Please describe the learning outcomes of the course: Knowledge, skills and abilities acquired after the successful completion of the course.
Upon the completion of the course the students should be able to;

·        Develop professional skills for business communication and management.

·        Conceptualize the linkage of business planning, organizing, leading and controlling.

·        Build business managerial plans and innovative ideas in product development.
General Skills
Name the desirable general skills upon successful completion of the module
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information,

ICT Use

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Working in an international environment

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas

 Project design and management

Equity and Inclusion

Respect for the natural environment

Sustainability

Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning
§ Project preparation

§ Data Survey, synthesis, record and presentation of the finding with the assistance of information systems

§ Innovation and original thinking

 

  1. COURSE CONTENT
·        Definition, content, objectives of business administration

·        The economic, political and social environment of business.

·        Categories of economic units.

·        Definition of management. Historical development of science and practice of management.

·        Key areas of business. The management of personnel and human relations.

·        The functioning of the Organization of Enterprise. The functioning of the Directorate of Operations.

·        The function of the Control of Business.

·        Decision making in business.

·        The financial enterprise.

·         SMEs.

·         International MANAGEMENT.

·        Corporate social responsibility.
  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.		 Face to face, Distance learning via Microsoft Teams Platform
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students		 §  Power point

§  e-class Platform

§  Communication via email
TEACHING ORGANIZATION

The ways and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory Exercise, Field Exercise, Bibliographic research & analysis, Tutoring, Internship (Placement), Clinical Exercise, Art Workshop, Interactive learning, Study visits, Study / creation, project, creation, project. Etc.

 

The supervised and unsupervised workload per activity is indicated here, so that total workload per semester complies to ECTS standards.
Activity Workload/semester
Activity Semester workload

 
Lectures 39
Project 26
Individual study 60
   
Course total

(25-hour workload per credit unit)

  

125
Written exams at the end of the semester both on theory and exercises

 

  
Student Evaluation

Description of the evaluation process

 

Assessment Language, Assessment Methods, Formative or Concluding, Multiple Choice Test, Short Answer Questions, Essay Development Questions, Problem Solving, Written Assignment, Essay / Report, Oral Exam, Presentation in audience, Laboratory Report, Clinical examination of a patient, Artistic interpretation, Other/Others

 

Please indicate all relevant information about the course assessment and how students are informed 

 

Written exams at the end of the semester both on theory and exercises

Essay Report

 
  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. Ross, R. Westerfield, J. Jaffe, B. Jordan Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est) 4th Edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name): Eleni Zafeiriou
Contact details: ezafeir@agro.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1) Yes
Evaluation methods: (2) Written Assignment/Oral Examination via eclass platform
Implementation Instructions: (3) The subjects of the exams will be provided through a file that will be uploaded in the field projects for a specific time period according to the program of exams.

The answers by the students will be provided by the students through multimedia files.

Each exercise will be graded while the exam contribution will be 100%,

The exam is simultaneous for all the students

The participation in the exams can be done with the use of their institutional account.