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Management Roles and Responsibilities

Code: 100523
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Labour Relations OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Ricardo Crespo Baquero
Email :
ricardo.crespo@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Elisabet Valle Alvaro

Teaching staff (external to UAB)

Ricard Crespo

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

The students of this optional subject will have to know some preliminary contents related to business organization which they will have cover previously in the study plan of the grade.

This subject will be taught from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Objectives

The subject aims at ofering an advanced and updated view of the main and most contemporary managerial tasks and competencies (managerial function) especially in the following areas:

Managerial function, ethics and CSR, management by objectives, management by competencies and performance appraisal; entrepreneurship; project and innovation management.

Learning outcomes

  1. Knowing the organisational forms, organisation and working methods.
  2. Knowing the accounting and social information system of a company.
  3. Students must be capable of planning and using the current indicators for the managing of human resources.
  4. Knowing the leadership tasks, competency-based management and executive skills. Applying them in factual assumptions.
  5. Understanding the strategic process and corporate governance.
  6. Introducing the business strategy in several factual contexts.
  7. Working autonomously.
  8. Organising and managing the available time.
  9. Students must be capable of deciding, sharply taking decisions and judging.
  10. Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
  11. Verbally communicating and defending a project.
  12. Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
  13. Working effectively in teams.
  14. Students must be effective in a changing environment and when facing new tasks, responsibilities or people.
  15. Students must be capable of recognising and guiding the needs of people from their immediate environment.
  16. Retain the ethical values and moral standards in decision-making.
  17. Maintaining a direction and performance that reflect the effort to do the tasks with efficiency and quality.
  18. Students must be capable of initiative, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
  19. Leading a group of people, by using the appropriate methods to guide individuals or groups towards the attainment of a goal.
  20. Students must be aware of the impact and implications of decisions and activities in other company areas.

Contents

1. Introduction to management function.


2. Management by objectives, management by competencies and preformance appraisal.


3. Entrepreneurship.


4. Project management.


5. Innovation project management



The weekly schedule with the course activities will be shown at Campus Virtual before the corresponding class sessions.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Practical class sessions 22.5 0.9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Preparation and study of theoretical and practical contents 90 3.6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Individual tutorial time 2.5 0.1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Theoretical class sessions 22.5 0.9 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

To achieve the objectives of the subject, the following teaching methodology will be used:

1. Lectures: In these sessions the teacher / s will develop the main concepts and fundamental concepts of the subject. To facilitate their learning and the necessary practical applications will be carried out.

2. Work sessions focused on exercises and / or discussion of practical cases: The methodology of the case will be used, mainly in working groups, to know more about the different theoretical concepts worked in the master classes.

3. Various support activities: In order to bring the student closer to the business world during the course, reading articles and / or specialized magazines will be proposed where news related to the concepts that are worked on to the subject.

4. On-site tutorials: The student will have a few hours where the teachers of the subject will be able to help him / her to solve the doubts that are presented to him in the study of the subject and in the resolution of problems.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Final exam 50% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Complementary work 35% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Course followment 15% 7.5 0.3 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

The final grade of the course will be formed by the weighted average of three grades:

1. Follow-up of the course. The correct follow-up of the course requires the attendance to class and the realization of the practical cases and activities programmed during the course for each one of the subjects. All these aspects will result in a grade that will represent 15% of the final grade of the course.

2. Complementary work. Throughout the course there will be a work on a topic that will be raised at the beginning of the course. The grade of the work will represent 35% of the final grade of the course.

3. Final exam. The student will be evaluated based on the overall contents of the subject and the grade of the exam will represent 50% of the final grade of the course. To apply the percentages of 15%, 35% and 50% mentioned above, it will be necessary to get a grade equal to or higher than 4 in this final test. If this is not the case, the student will fail the subject without the oportunity of recuperation.

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in the elaboration of the tasks. The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated by this technology, specify the areas, they will be indicated in a specific section in the bibliography, the prompts used to prepare the consultations and will include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The non-transparency of the use of AI in this evaluable activity is considered a lack of academic honesty and may entail a partial or total penalty in the activity grade, or major sanctions in serious cases.

For those students who in the continuous evaluation of the course have obtained a grade that is equal to or greater than 4 and lower than 5 there will be a recuperation. The professors of the subject will decide the modality of it. The recuperation grade will only have two possible options: Apt or Non-apt. If the student obtains an Apt (suitable) grade, it is considered that he/she has passed the subject with a maximum numerical grade equal to 5.If the student obtains a grade of No apto (Not-suitable), he/she will not pass the subject and the final grade will be equal to the grade obtained before of the recuperation.

A student can only obtain a \"Non Presented\" to the subject as long as he/she has not participated in the diferent evaluation activities. Therefore, it is considered that a student who performs some component of continuous evaluation can no longer opt for a \"Non Presented\".

Bibliography

RECOMMENDED

KERZNER H.D. et al. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling. John Wiley & Sons .10ª edición.

RIALP, A. (2003): Fundamentos teóricos de la Organización de Empresas: Un enfoque interdisciplinar. Madrid: Pirámide.

ROBBINS, S.P. (2004): Comportamiento organizacional: conceptos, controversias y aplicaciones. (10ª ed.). México. Prentice-Hall Hispanoamericana.

COMPOLSORY

VECIANA, J. M.ª (1999): La función directiva. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Servicio de Publicaciones de la UAB.

VECIANA, J.Mª. (2005): La creación de empresas. Un enfoque gerencial, Colección Estudios Económicos. Servicio de Estudios de La Caixa.

Software

No specific software is required, although knowledge of internet browsing tools, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation applications, and the use of artificial intelligence tools is recommended.

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 51 Catalan first semester afternoon
(PAUL) Classroom practices 51 Catalan first semester afternoon