Projects and their proper management are a part of every manager’s life. This course profoundly explores the processes leading to desired results after managing projects and guides the participants through fragmented project management constituents such as time, cost, human resource, and risk management and concludes with project closure and conclusion. Upon successfully completing the course, students will be well prepared to handle projects effectively in a realistic environment with all changes and risks involved.

Selling through the internet is essential for many businesses today and it undoubtedly brings many benefits, but it also requires quick reactions and adjustments from the side of the e-commerce specialists, such as when a crisis comes. The e-commerce specialists then need to be ready to react quickly and immediately develop and implement new strategies. This course addresses specific problems in managerial decision-making processes, planning the strategy in the areas of trade and internet-based promotion and exploration of the effects of a crisis on the e-commerce environment and develop new crisis strategies.

Managers must be prepared to react to changes that might affect the sales ability of a company. A global crisis can disable the main sales practices used by the company and the manager needs to know how to react and design a new sales strategy. The objective of this course is to show students the roles and important functions of Sales Management in a company. Students will learn how to build and implement sales plans, manage sales and achieve the set sales targets. Students learn the sales techniques and new strategies of closing sales, prospecting and negotiation in sales.

Strategic Management takes into account changing conditions outside and inside an organization. Students are prepared to master the tools and procedures for strategic planning and management and become familiar with methods of different strategic analyses using analytical techniques to define goals, formulate the strategy, implement it and perform subsequent monitoring and control. One of the core outcomes of the course is being able to develop a strategic crisis plan or explore the effects a crisis might have on a company.

The is course introduces participants to the many different types of risk as well as the concepts of managing financial and non-financial risks and addresses the whole process of identification, analysis, response along with risk control and. The course explores the methods of management, measurement, and control of these risks. It provides the opportunity to deal with the effects of the crisis on the solvency of clients, assess the actual vs. virtual damage caused by the crisis, or monitor the impact of the crisis on the client's portfolio.

Leading in crisis is different than leading in stable times. Leadership is often identified as the most critical role in an organization. But what is effective leadership and how do you cultivate it? This course covers the basics of leading yourself and others, the critical competencies and best practices for effectively leading today and in the future. Learn how to lead across differences and cultivate a more inclusive workplace; establish trust; build relationships up, down, and across the organization; lead change through agility and resilience.

The aim of the Crisis Management Course is to provide the program participants with a set of contemporary principles and functions of enterprise in unstable, challenging, turbulent conditions along with different anti-crisis strategies and business continuing models. Students will learn the classifications of crises, bankruptcy and restructuring. They will master the concepts of modern corporate governing procedures within unknown risks, crisis influences, along with human and market behavior with the goal to maximize the business competitiveness.

The aim of this course is to learn the most current methodological tools and procedures for the coordination and management of project teams. Success of project management depends on balanced combination of "hard" instruments with "soft" instruments that are supporting teamwork and to accept the required changes of the people.

Students will understand the principles of teamwork, research the tools enabling efficient communication with other members of the team as well as between the individual members of the team. The students will build upon the principles and rules of cooperation to reach the desired results. Students will learn to improve the performance of teams and / or working groups.

This course concentrates on human capital and its management as a key factor for the success of an organization. Students are encouraged to analyze and look into the processes of staff selection and adaptation, system of remuneration in correlation with an employee’s performance and an organization’s possibilities.

The next part is dedicated to employee evaluation system, training, education and career development, and also corporate culture and ethics. The last area is personnel audit, staff planning and outsourcing. Upon completion, the students will gain a insight into HR processes, which will enable them to predict and most of all be a part of the development in the area.

This course provides students with insight on both the macro and micro level of finance in an economy. The micro level is focused on the financial management of organizations and companies and its tools for measuring and managing business performance and the process of financial planning and budgeting along with defining interrelations between strategic objectives.

The Macro level covers financial markets, their segmentation and tools, principles of investment decision-making process and methods of evaluation of chosen financial instrument. Upon completion, students will be ready to support their dissertation research with the knowledge they have acquired from the area.