module name
course name
Business Economics
Organizations: theory
and practice
Organizational Behaviour
1
Different cultures,
different language :
POLISH
Dealing with numbers:
descriptive statistics
ECTS
points
6
6
6
6
6
form of course
Course description
workshops
The course is designed to cover the most significant economic problems influencing the
environment in which modern companies operate. The course will be conducted in a
lecture/workshop form. The main part of classes will be dedicated to acquaint students
with key economic and business terms, theories and problem. The classes will include
exercises, economic experiments and (if time permits) games intended to enable
students to get a better understanding of the theoretical material.
workshops
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with major ideas in contemporary
organization theory and to show organizing as a process allowing people use to
coordinate their actions to obtain something they desire or value—to achieve their goals.
Organizational theory is the study of organizational designs and organizational
structures, relationship of organizations with their external environment in which they
operate. The course focuses on inter-organizational processes and managers’ roles in
organizations and also covers the economic, institutional and cultural contexts that
organizations must face.
workshops
The Organisational Behaviour course provides students with the theoretical and practical
implications of organizational behavior that will help them to gain a better
understanding of human behaviour in organizations and of the behaviour of
organizations. This course will focus on the analysis and application of individual
differences in organisation, communication, motivation theory, leadership concepts,
team work, decision making, stress, and conflict resolution. The main purpose is to guide
students to becoming better managers. Because the focus is on conceptualization and
acquisition of skills, we will engage in lots of exercises designed to help you develop
these skills. We will also think deeply about organizational issues.
workshops
workshops
The course corresponds to the A1 level according to the classification system “Common
European Framework of Reference for Languages”.
During the semester all four language skills, with the accent put on speaking and
understanding, are developed systematically.
The program for the course contains a variety of activities that allow students to practice
common expressions in everyday situations. After completing the course students are
able to understand familiar words and basic phrases concerning themselves and their
surrounding and they can communicate about simple and routine tasks.
Cultural Course is an introduction to the History of Polish Culture and Civilisation
The course covers foundations of descriptive statistical analysis. Participants will learn
statistical theory and its applications in real life examples. The aim of this course is to
introduce the tools that could help students analyse information about the social and
economic phenomena stored in the international data bases, and available from internet
resources and new media.
The course will have a form of workshop with elements of lecture and seminar.
year of
studies
1 year spring
Ethics in Business
General Business Knowledge
seminar
3
Content of the course:
• The role of ethics in business
• 'Social responsibility' and moral integrity: conceptual similarities and differences.
• Corporate loyalty
• 'Team playing'
• Whistle-blowing
• Corruption in corporations and the moral perspective of the employees
• Management by integrity and management by results: which one is more optimising?
• The role of power in practical ethics
• Mechanisms of generation and maintenance of power in corporations
• Power and empathy
• Personal and professional identity: a problem of distinction?
• Structural violence in corporations
• The concept of corporate virtue
• The role of emotions and rational judgement in moral action
• Are there specific emotions that ought to make up corporate virtue?
The goal of this course is to:
planning;
Brands and brand
management
seminar
develop the necessary critical thinking skills for appropriate implementation of those
strategies;
general core principles associated with branding.
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International Financial
Regulations
3
seminar
The first part is an introductory discussion of regulation as such. Before analyzing
regulation of (international) finance, one must realize what regulation is
in general and how it relates to spontaneous order and economic freedom. Basic issues
to be discussed here are at least: the necessity of regulation (?), types of regulation,
(uncertain) effects of regulation and its costs. Thus, in this part students will relate the
issues of regulation to their previously acquired knowledge of economics – both
pertaining to operation of markets and of
institutions (in the sense given to them in the New Institutional Economics).The second
part looks at the sphere of finance in its domestic settings (in general and in selected
countries). It starts with a repetition and then goes into extension of student’s
knowledge in the areas of banking and securities markets. A particular stress will be put
on technical characteristics
and proper understanding of relevant financial instruments used by the financial players.
The interplay among those players will lead us to the issue of regulation of finance and
the workings of the domestic regulatory agencies.
In the third part we will move beyond national borders and discuss regulatory
challenges that result from international character and progressing globalization of
finance. The attempts to regulate transnational banks, transnational capital markets and
transnational institutional investors will be described. In particular, we will scrutinize
institutions that regulate (already existing, those being phased-in and those planned for
the future), their mode of operation, the
content of regulations, and the great difficulties (technical, political, ideological, and
other) encountered in designing, phasing-in and enforcing financial regulations on both
national and supra-national level.
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Democracy and
democratisation
3
seminar
The course is divided into two parts. The first one discusses basic concepts, paradigms
and elements of democratic theory, theories of democratisation and democratic
consolidation (it provides ‘democratic vocabulary’). It also covers the issue of empirical
analysis of democracy and democratisation (with a special focus on the latest, third way
democratisations). The second part discusses the diversity of modern democracy,
primarily referring to institutional and historical differences.
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International trade and
its institutional
environment
4
seminar
The goal of the course is triple: (i) to familiarize students with actual
characteristics of international economic flows (with a particular stress on trade); (ii)
make them see the connection between these flows and the international institutional
ramifications (IOs); (iii) provide them with appreciation of the theory that may offer
some explanation of the magnitude and directions of the international economic flows
(mostly trade flows).
2 year spring
Game theory and
decision making analysis
in business and politics
World Politics
seminar
3
Game theory is used to help understand strategic thinking and behavior. Even though
traditional game theory was developed as a mathematical tool to help understand
economic behavior, currently it is commonly used in international relations, political
science, business administration, management, biology and many other fields.
The course is supposed to help students understand how different agents make decisions
(whether having contradicting, mixed or common interests). The course will focus on the
application of game theory in business, politics but also examples of everyday use will be
presented. During most classes after a theoretical introduction of topics, students will
participate in experiments and games presenting the practical use of introduced
concepts.
TOPICS
1. Introduction. Global balance of power. Multipolar world and the rise of the South.
Distribution of the presentations.
2. BRICS, IBSA, BASIC, G20 and beyond. BRICS as an economical and political grouping
since 2009. BRICS´ Development Bank. We are going to watch a video “Beyond the
BRICS” by CFR.
3. The Pirates of the Caribbean – emerging powers and regional cooperation in Latin
America. MERCOSUR, ALBA, CELAC, Bank of the South
4. Documentary “South of the Border”.
5. Brasil- the giant.
6. Documentary “BRICS: the new world order”.
7. The rise of China. China in Africa and Latin America.
8. Russia – (re)emerging? The strategic political use of hydrocarbon resources. Ukrainian
crisis.
9. The missing bricks: India and South Africa.
11. South-south cooperation. ASEAN and SAARC in Asia.
SADC in Africa.
12. BRICS as a global trade power. BRICS at WTO. WTO Doha Round in light of the
shifting global balance.
13. Reconfiguration of the elites in the South. Scores for participation.
Emerging powers and
their impact on
international politics and
economics
seminar
Introduction to European
integration
lecture
This course introduces the politics, policy and developing polity of the European Union by
surveying the historical evolution of the EU and examining the theories scholars have
used to explain the integration process. The course will draw on this historical and
theoretical background to analyze the governing institutions of the Union and to explore
how the EU develops its policies.
lecture
TOPICS
1. How to define international relations?
2. The Pre-Westphalian Period, part I: Greece and City-State System, Roman Empire
3. The Pre-Westphalian Period, part II: The Middle Ages
4. The Emergence of the Westphalian System
5. Colonization: the colonial powers and their strategies.
6. Mid-term exam
7. Two World Wars and their impact on global balance of power
8. The origins of the Cold War and building a new world order
9. Cold War and its major confrontations.
10. Decolonization in Africa and Asia and its impact on relations between new-born
states and their ex-imperial powers.
11. The fall of Iron Curtain in Europe.
12. The World at the turn of the centuries.
13. Global relations in the second decade of XXI century: China, India: new emerging
International Politics 1
6
A history of international
relations
Theories of international
relations
International Politics 2
seminar
6
English in international
relations
workshops
The selections we will be reading have one main focus. They seek to provide with a
conceptual framework that enables to analyze international relations and foreign policy
at three, at least, levels: system, state level, and organizational levels. However, before
main theories of international theories will be a subject of examination, some classes
introducing the topic are needed. They will consider a role of ethics and norms in
international relations, states behavior, a question of sovereignty and territory. A
question of power and international relations must also come under scrutiny.
In the second part of a seminar main theories of international relations will be debated.
Since political science is concerned with theory building, each of these books and
articles, given in Course readings, focuses on theories. As stated in the syllabus, the
search for theory is a search for rules to explain social science phenomenon (in this case
foreign policy behavior). Each author is developing a theory to explain the behavior of
states, not just one state, a system of international organizations, not just one. Can we
find universal patterns of activity, universal rules that can used to explain how any state
or any international organization behave?
Each student will be asked to assessing those theories and the evidence that supports
them. Now, since this is social science that deals with nations, we cannot run
experiments and neither we can invade a nation to see what their different reactions to
invasion might be. So you use historical data to test your theories. That’s what students
will be examining in their papers to test theories by case studies. Is the author’s
argument hold up when tested against the historical or experimental data?
The author might use terms that students are unfamiliar with, so they take some of these
basic notions and redevelop them
The main objective of the course is to upgrade language skills and simultaneously
broaden students’ knowledge about current problems of political affairs. The course will
focus on both terminology and discussion about politics, international strategies,
security and diplomacy issues, i.e topics which provoke meaningful debate. The course
will be held in computer classrooms in order to provide direct access to newly published
texts from Internet sources. Students will do some listening comprehension exercises
and English-English translations to improve the quality of their communication skills
The aims of the course are:
– to acquaint students with academic writing i.e.
– to teach them how to communicate in writing with others, especially when submitting
written texts
– to fill in tests and exams
– to write their own position paper, research paper and – finally – BA thesis
– to use the appropriate academic instruments for such texts (footnotes, graphs, tables,
endnotes, references, pagination etc)
– to structure are larger academic paper
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with knowledge about the political and
economic system of Poland: its origin, current constitutional and institutional design, as
well as its merits and limits.
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Academic writing
3
e-learning
x
The Political and
Economical Systems of
Poland
3
seminar
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Political Systems
2
lecture
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with basic knowledge about the
contemporary political systems of the world. First part of the course is dedicated to
theoretical and methodological issues related to political system concept. Second part
consists of case studies - several political systems (its constitutional and institutional
design as well as merits and limits of its functioning) will be introduced.
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Government and
Governance
2
seminar
TOPICS
6.1. Introduction. Presentation and discussion of matters concerning the mechanics of
the course. Modus operandi of the course and the requirements to pass it.
6.2. Theoretical introduction 1. The meaning of the government. Its various historical
and contemporary forms. Its relation do democracy/autocracy. Definitions and measures
of democracy, freedom and autocracy.
6.3. Theoretical introduction 2. The meaning of governance and Good Governance. The
components of Good Governance: Voice and Accountability; Political Stability and
Absence of Violence; Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; and
Control of Corruption.
6.4. PROJECT #1. Discussion and selection of topics for Project 1. Preparation and
presentations of Projects in class. Discussion of their content by all students and tips for
improving the work presented.
6.5. PROJECT #2. Discussion and selection of topics for Project 1. Preparation and
presentations of Projects in class. Discussion of their content by all students and tips for
improving the work presented.
Topics 6.1. – 6.3. will take at least 5 meetings. Project #1 & #2 – 4-5 meetings each.
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Managing cultural and
political differences
3
workshops
This course introduces participants into the various aspects of managing political and
cultural relations in a global business setting. It will examine the relationship between
culture and politics through a variety of perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies. Its
aiming at providing a systematic review of the work on the relationship between politics
and culture and to explore how cultural approaches can complement, enrich or replace
more common a-cultural political scientific and economic analyses of political processes.
3 year spring
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Democracy in America
1
seminar
A course aims at delineating major ideals, values and institutions of the American
republic. Among objectives to meet are following: to get to know the institutional
framework and understand the American democracy; to see how the American politics
evolves; to know how ideas and ideals set into motion social and political life in America.
The course is made up of three parts. The first one refers to basic ideas and ideals that
constitute the American republic: liberty, equality, individualism, democracy. A question
of the American exceptionalism, so many times considered and reconsidered, opens up
this part. The second one stresses the significance of the central institutions of American
politics – Presidency, Congress, federalism, and the courts. The last part of the lecture
deals with regularities of political and social life in contemporary America. The course
will end up with remarks on the position of America in the world.
elective course