Entrepreneuship and Management in Food and Beverage Production

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Course objectives

To conceptualize entrepreneurial project and propose implementation of management functions (planning, organizing, staffing, leadership and control) in food industry context.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

By completing this course student will be able to:
- shape alternative entrepreneurial project proposals
- evaluate and judge entrepreneurial project proposals
- asses company’s environment (organization)
- recommend flow for managerial planning
- conceptualize organizational structure through organization chart (organigram)
- determine approaches to human resources management
- assess work effects and compensations management
- prearrange leadership and employees motivation approaches
Develope proposition of managerial control process by using basic control methods and techniques

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

1st week: Introduction to business. Legal aspect of business (company, organization). Entrepreneurship and management terms.
2nd week: Models, approaches and determinants of contemporary entrepreneurship.
3rd week: Entrepreneurial incentives and risks. The forms of entrepreneurial support.
4th week: Introduction to management. Management functions. Entrepreneur management relationship.
5th week: Organizational environment. Environment analysis methods. SWOT and PEST analysis.
6th week: Business planning basics. Business plan types and content.
7th week: Nature of organizing. Working places and organizational structures.
8th week:Basic forms of organizational structures.
9th week: Introduction to stuffing. Work place description. Recruiting and employees selection.
10th week: Compensational management. Employees costs planning.
11th week: Basic determinants of leadership. Leadership in entrepreneurship and management.
12th week: Motivation and interpersonal relationship management.
13th week: Basic determinant of control. Term, process and control areas.
14th week: Entrepreneurial venture control.
15th week: Repeating and determining of course materia.
Seminars:
Organization and company, Legal aspects of business organizations, Food industry specifics, Business ideas generation, Business ideas evaluationg, Introduction to marketing aspect, Marketing aspect elaboration, Organizational aspect of business ideas (working places and organizational structure); Stuff planning in new business venture; Elaboration of selected financial aspects (for business ideas); Motivation for starting new business venture; Leadership; Presentation and discussion of elaborated business ideas; Repeating and determining course materials.

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Student responsibilities

Active participation in all activities: lectures, consultations, searching the literature.