Warsaw, Poland

Management and Leadership

Zarządzanie i przywództwo

Bachelor's

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⇑Management and Leadership at SWPS

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why study Management and Leadership at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS

Why study it:

Programme: four pillars of modern management
Specialisation: two specialisations after the first year
Placements: internships built into the curriculum
After graduation: roles open to graduates

Management and Leadership is a three-year, full-time bachelor's programme taught in English at SWPS University. It suits people who want to lead teams and organisations by combining business tools with insight from psychology, sociology and economics.

Programme: four pillars of modern management

The programme rests on four pillars. Management provides the methods and techniques needed to run organisations, psychology explains how individuals and teams work and how to build environments that support collaboration, sociology adds research methods for evidence-based decisions, and economics helps you follow global trends and analyse risk.

Learning is experiential: you take part in workshops and business simulations and work on real projects with business partners. Along the way you build skills in management methods and tools, self-management and leadership, communication and negotiation, setting up and funding a business, designing social innovations and analysing business data. The first year covers how organisations work and how to use data in decisions, the second moves on to sales, customer relations, change management, finance and innovation, and the final semester focuses on sustainable development, people management and team psychology.

Specialisation: two specialisations after the first year

After the first year you choose one of two specialisations. Start-ups is for those who dream of launching their own venture: you learn to develop and verify business ideas, win clients, identify funding sources and shape a business strategy. Project Management is for future project managers: you work with both traditional and agile methodologies, planning and monitoring tools, and learn to communicate with teammates and stakeholders.

Placements: internships built into the curriculum

Business internships start in the first year and are part of the curriculum, alongside a community project, an organisation development project and an organisation improvement project run for business partners. In the third year you compile a professional graduation portfolio instead of a customary bachelor's thesis.

After graduation: roles open to graduates

The programme prepares you for roles such as:

Project Manager, coordinating projects and teams with agile and Scrum methods
Start-up Founder, developing a product or service and a growth strategy
Business Development Manager, spotting growth opportunities and new markets
Product Owner, guiding product development towards user needs and business goals
Business Analyst, analysing trends and formulating recommendations
Agile Coach, helping organisations adopt agile practices

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Leadership

Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints, contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) United States versus European approaches. U.S. academic environments define leadership as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Leadership seen from a European and non-academic perspective encompasses a view of a leader who can be moved not only by communitarian goals but also by the search for personal power.

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Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.

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Leadership

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.

Bernard Baruch, as quoted in his obituary, New York Times (21 June 1965)

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Management

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men.

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management. p. 2

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Management

Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement. Mission has an eternal quality. Goals are time bound and once achieved, are replaced by others.

Patrick Dixon (2005) Building a Better Business - the key to management, marketing and motivation. p. 66

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