Personal development II - NFPL065

• Title: Personal development II
• Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 2
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Jana Kalbáčová Vejpravová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

The course focuses on topics concerning team behavior and leadership. It aims to introduce key competences necessary for efficient team cooperation as well as for leadership. The lectures include theoretical and practical issues of team roles, motivation of human behavior, group decision-making and performance management. They implicitly include the issues of communication techniques used within internal communication in institutions. The topics are set within the context of the academic environment. The course will be using case studies, model situations and experiential techniques.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (12.05.2022)

The condition for completing the course is successfully passing the exam according to the requirements

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

1. KERZNER, Harold. Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. ISBN 978-1-119-58729-3.

2. MARKUS, Hazel Rose, Saul KASSIN, and Steven FEIN. Social Psychology. 11th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-0357122846.

3. MUMFORD, Michael D., and Sven HEMLIN. Handbook of Research on Leadership and Creativity. Northampton, MA.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1784715458.

4. SALAS, Eduardo, Ramón RICO, and Jonathan PASSMORE. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017. ISBN 978-1118909904.

5. SILVER, David. Managing Corporate Communications in the Age of Restructuring, Crisis and Litigation: Revisiting Groupthink in the Boardroom. Plantation, FL: J. Ross Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1932159882.

6. Relevant research articles and online materials.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (03.02.2022)

Active participation of students in the class is expected. The credit is based on short essay written by student on one of the topics covered within the course.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

1. Working group (group influence, group performance, group decision-making)

2. Team work, team roles and team behavior

3. Leadership - concept of leadership, leadership styles

4. Leader and his/her competences

5. Leadership influence on work motivation

6. Project management

7. Science and sustainability

8. Intelectual properties

9. Sex and gender dimensions in academia

10. Gender, socialization and moral development

11. Gender ethics in the workplace

12. Equality principles and measures