Module Aims
The module aims

• To provide the students with the management context in  companies  of transition economies.
• To consider peculiarities of  and correlation between macro, micro and meso - factors of business environment in transition economies.
• To present organizations and its separate parts and management objects? Describe their main features and peculiarities, define ways of mobilizing organizational resources.
• To consider processes  and methods  that help in making management  decisions  in achieving objectives and goals , to demonstrate the capabilities of modern  technology in  management decision-making. 
• To describe management  functions – peculiarities and content.
• To teach students to set goals  and define the system of objectives  that an organiztion should achieve during strategy development and implementation.
• To teach students to choose the management structure depending on a company's business-processes  and business environment
• To familiarize  students  with organizational change  and its correlation with corporate culture and values.
• Consider and analyse the typical mistakes in  management and organizational mistakes that hinder a company's development  in transitional  economies.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the module students should be able:

• Understand organizational context in transition economies
• Understand  the correlation  of business medium factors in transition economies
• Know the fundamentals of organization theory, objects of management
• Be able to  use  the methods of  mobilization of organizational resources
• Know  peculiarities  and content of management functions
• Be familiar with methods and ways of  organizational change
• Understand processes and methods of management decision-making
• Be able to set goals while developing and implementing  strategy
• To choose the type of management structure depending on  the business-processes of a company  and its  system of goals and objectives
• Be able to identify  the most common management mistakes   that hinder a company's development in transition economies

Indicative Syllabus Content

1. Introduction. Modern business environment trends. Globalization. Management trends  in the 21st century. Functional view of management.
2. External and internal  business environment . Micro and macro environment.  PESTEL model and its application for transitional economies.  Key industry indicators.  Competition landscape.  Industry attractiveness,  organizational status analysis. Modern  methods of analysis  of business context. Stakeholders. Business processes.  Organization and organizational culture.
3. Organization as an object of management.  The role of the organization in society.  Efficient organization.  Horizontal and vertical division of labour.  Divisions and subdivisions.  Organization as an open system. Adaptation to external environment.  Models of organization.  Human resources  in emerging markets.
4. Management as a process.  Necessity of management.  Goals and functions of management.  Management styles.  Division of functions. Eveluation of management efficiency.
5. Manager in an organization. Roles and styles. Competences.  Leadership on organizations.  System of values, attitude towards changes,  interpersonal orientation, thinking patterns.  Specificity of management in emerging markets.  Management mistakes, organizational pathology,  manipulations.
6. Management decision-making. Definition of a problem  situation.  Participators  in the  decision-making process.  Stages of making a decision.  Repetitiveness. Methods of analysis of problem situations.  Consult-technology of decision-making. OPERA method. Other methods and technologies.
7. Organizational structures and  mechanisms of management.  Evolution pf management systems.  Types of  organization management. Choosing  the right type of management structure. Matrix systems. Decentralized systems.   Span of control.  Life cycle of an organization.  Models of organizational life-cycles.  Management structures at different stages of life-cycles.
8. Organizational development.  Regular menegement of change management.  The process of organizational development.  Organizational changes.  Resistance ot chamges and reasons for  resistance.  Real-time strategic changes.  Evolution of  management paradigms.  MBI, MBO and MBL.

Recommended reading:

• Ichak AdizesHow to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis, Prentice Hall Press; Revised edition (1999)
• Ichak Adizes: Managing Corporate Lifecycles
• Ichak Adizes:  Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family Life, Business and Society
• Management: Individual and Organizational Effectiveness: Michael H. Mescon, Michael Albert, Franklin Khedouri.
• Competing for the Future , Gary Hamel, CK Prahalad