Course Catalog 2006-2007

TETA-4027 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CASES, 4 cr
Business Management Cases

Courses persons responsible
Ulla Niemi-Ylänen

Language of Instruction
The course will be conducted in English only if there will be at least 10 international students who fulfill the entry level criteria.

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture 2 h/week - - - - -
Exercise 2 h/week 2 h/week 1 h/week - - -
(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
The primary objective of the course is to learn to analyze and solve real life problems in business management. Other objectives are to develop teamwork and presentation skills, to practise justifying one's own point of view and network building.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Problem solving       
2. Teamwork skills       
3. Presentation skills       

Requirements for completing the course
Students are expected to attend all classes and to produce acceptable case reports.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Grade (1-5) will be based on completing the case assignments. The emphasis will be on student's performance during the case sessions.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Prerequisites
    Code Course Credits M/R
    TETA-1016 TETA-1016 Basics of Industrial Management 4 Recommendable
    TETA-1106 TETA-1106 Corporate Organisations and Leadership 3 Recommendable
    TETA-1200 TETA-1200 Business Economics 4 Recommendable
    TETA-1306 TETA-1306 Marketing Management 4 Recommendable
    TETA-1406 TETA-1406 Operations Management 5 Recommendable
    TETA-1506 TETA-1506 Technology Management 3 Recommendable
    TETA-2100 TETA-2100 Leadership and Human Resource Management 4 Recommendable
    TETA-2200 TETA-2200 Management Accounting 5 Recommendable
    TETA-2406 TETA-2406 Quality Management 4 Recommendable

    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    PREREQUISITES for international students: You should have completed courses in most of the following areas: Accounting, Business Strategy, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Marketing Management, Production Management or Operations Management, and Quality Management, or in equivalent topics

    Remarks

    The students who wish to apply for the course will take a pretest to show their background knowledge in different fields of business management. Further information will be given at the opening lecture.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
    - The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 25 %
    - Distance learning: 0 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 75 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 6
    Exercises 100
    Total sum 106

    Principles and starting points related to the instruction and learning of the course

  • The learning is mainly based on student's uncompelled study. Problem solving skills develop and improve through repetition.

    • Correspondence of content
    TETA-4026 Business Management Cases

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    Last modified 20.03.2006
    Modified byUlla Niemi-Ylänen