FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT
Faculty of Management is currently the biggest faculty of the Bialystok University of Technology and it is
rapidly developing. The compound of modern buildings with catering facilities and wireless Internet form the
faculty campus. In the academic year 2009/2010 there are almost 4000 students.
Faculty of Management offers:
- bachelor courses in the following fields: management, management and production engineering, tourism and
recreation, logistics and political science,
- master courses in the following fields: management, management and production engineering, tourism and
recreation.
Field of study - MANAGEMENT
Specialties:
· business management
· public management
· accounting and finance management
· foreign trade management
· business information technology
· marketing
A graduate in management is prepared to work as a specialist in management system, as a high and middle
ranking manager, adviser or consultant in public or business organization and also to run their own business.
Field of study - MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Specialties:
· eco-engineering
· modern technologies management
A graduate in management and production engineering possesses interdisciplinary knowledge which is a
combination of engineering preparation with managerial skills.
Field of study – TOURISM AND RECREATION
Specialties:
· tourist activity management
· space management graduate in tourism and recreation possesses necessary knowledge to operate in tourism
business, to organize and program tourist and recreation activities and to manage land resources.
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Field of study – LOGISTICS
A graduate in logistics is able to work in logistic centres, transport departments of big industrial companies and
in machine departments in middle and big enterprises.
Field of study – POLITICAL SCIENCE
Graduating from political science enables to work in public administration, local government, social and
business organization and international institutions and organizations.
SUBJECTS PROVIDED IN ENGLISH
SUBJECT
Human Resource Management
CODE
E250
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Detail program: Basic of HRM; Strategic objectives; Corporate culture; Culture management; Motivating
Human Resource; Leadership.
The corporate value, organizational climate and managerial behavior will exert a major influence on the achievement of
excellence. HRM is concerned with integration: getting all the members of the organization involve and working together with
a sense of common purpose.
Skills: Students should have knowledge about basic of management – history of management, basic principles, basic functions
and basic structures.
SUBJECT
Financial Management
CODE
E046
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: The student examines the general nature of global financial management, the taxes, and the major
financial decisions of corporations. Specific attention is given to present value and capital budgeting; risk and asset pricing;
financial analysis and forecasting; financial decisions and market efficiency; and capital structure. Problem-solving
methodology is used to illustrate the theories and tools in financial decision making.
Skills: Students will learn to: calculate selected financial ratios, common measures of investment performance. understand
future value of a present sum, present value, and present and future values of annuities; describe common features and types
of bonds.
SUBJECT
Tourism management
CODE
E272
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Planning, organizing, motivating and controlling. The research of tourist market. How to create tourist
business. Business plan/SWOT analysis. Human recourses in tourism. Financing in tourism. Different insurance in tourism.
The role of tourist NGOs. The new instruments of tourism managing. The quality in tourism. Marketing of tourist business
Skills: Students will be able to analyze changes on the tourist market. Students will be able to know how to manage tourist
entrepreneur, prepare business plan and what are the main sources of financing in tourism.
SUBJECT
Statistics
CODE
E105
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Descriptive Statistics: Definition of statistics; Population and sample; Descriptive statistics and inductive;
Tapes of variables; Graphic and tabular presentation of qualitative data; Measures of Location; Measures of Dispersion;
Measures of Asymmetry; Association of variables; Simple Linear Regression; Simple Linear Regression; Model parameters.;
The method of last squares; The least squares estimators; Measures of quality estimation.
Skills: Students examine the methods of descriptive statistics and can be used in economic studies. It can set the average
measurement, differentiation and asymmetry to the data grouped in the ranks of distribution. He can build a simple linear
regression models. He can interpret the calculated measure.
SUBJECT
Electronic Office
CODE
E053
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Security rules in laboratory. Transmission and receiving faxes. Using digital signature in office.
Configuration of VoIP phones and VoIP videophones. Using scanner in digitalization of information. Using microscanner. Using
different media to archive, secure and compression data. Using WiFi for LAN, Internet, VoIP connections. Using digital camera
in document digitalization. Using projector for multimedia presentation. Using webcam communicators and telework.
Skills: Getting a new skills in using electronic office devices e.g.: digital signature terminal, webcam, WiFi LAN modem, fax,
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scanner, handscanner, projector, digital camera, VoIP phone, VoIP videophone.
SUBJECT
Sociology
CODE
E010
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: The basis of social live: sex, gender, age, race; personality; social interaction; social position, social role,
the role’s conflict; anomie, stereotypes; discrimination. Classification of social groups: society – community; formal – informal;
close – open society, homogenic – heterogenic society. Social classes. Social mobility – world as a global village. Migration.
Postmodern society. Globalisation processes in contemporary world. „The new” social classes: white and blue collars; wired
workers; the metropolitan class; underclass.
Skills: understanding fundamental sociological terms, categories and phenomena; recognizing different types of social actions
and participations in the contemporary world; understanding the role of variety of macro- and microsociological factors
influencing social life.
SUBJECT
Basics of Marketing
CODE
E076
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Definitions of marketing terms, the development of the marketing concept; Marketing research:
quantitative and qualitative methods; Market segmentation; Products, branding and packaging: defining products, classifying
products; Pricing strategies; Distribution: channels of distribution, distribution’s strategies; Promotion: promotional forms
and tools; The application of marketing: the marketing of services, e-marketing, social marketing, green marketing.
Skills: The scope of the course is to introduce students to marketing as a vital philosophy of the modern business world.
Students should be familiarized with the latest marketing conceptions and marketing strategies.
SUBJECT
Microeconomics
CODE
E003
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Introduction to Economics (Economics as science, positive and normative economics, micro- vs.
macroeconomics, main streams of economics thought, tools of an economist), Market (supply, demand, equilibrium, minimal
and maximal price, elasticity), Consumer (budget constraints, preferences), Producer (enterprise and its functions in economy,
costs, revenue, profits), Market forms (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition), Production
factors markets (labour market, capital market, land market).
Skills: understanding of fundamental microeconomic terms and categories, recognising different types of participants in the
economic system of a country, understanding the main rules determining the behaviours of the participants in the economic
system of a country, understanding the influence of economic factors on the company management
SUBJECT
Macroeconomics
CODE
E024
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: National income (GDP, GNP, final and intermediary goods, added value, alternative indicators of national
welfare), Expenditures and output in economy (aggregate expenditures, equilibrium, money multiplier, paradox of thrift),
Money market (definition and functions of money, commercial banks, central bank, money creation process, money
aggregates, money supply and demand), Labour market (professionally active and inactive citizens, unemployment –
structure, types and costs), IS-LM model, Inflation, Economic growth.
Skills: Understanding fundamental macroeconomic terms and categories, recognising different types of participants in the
economic system, understanding the role of the state in influencing other participants of the economic system, understanding
the influence of macroeconomic factors on the household situation and company management.
SUBJECT
Forecasting
CODE
E527
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: The introduction to forecasting theory. The role of forecasts in business practice. Methods of business
data gathering and transforming. Time series decomposition. Various kinds of forecasts methods: naive method and its
modifications, moving average methods, exponential smoothing methods, Holt’s method, Holt-Winters’ method. Measuring
forecast accuracy. Time series forecasting. Advanced forecasting models. Forecasting versus foresight. Foresight methods. The
use of foresight methods in Polish and international practise.
Skills: The subject is designed to get the students acquainted with the modern knowledge of forecasting and its possible ways
of practical applications by managers.
SUBJECT
Project management
CODE
E266
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: Basic navigation in Microsoft Project. Defining task logic, milestones, summary tasks and recurring tasks.
Task relationships, constraints and advanced actions on tasks. Creation of project schedule. Critical path of project, project
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calendar. Defining project resources. Resource management and allocation. EVA analysis. Project baseline. Project tracking
and control. Customizing reports. Publishing project information. Customizing views, tables, filters and groups. Export and
import of project data.
Skills: Course contains software support for the critical concepts and theories project managers must master. It aims at
managing project through initiation, tracking, controlling, performance measuring and closing with Microsoft Project.
SUBJECT
Materials Science
CODE
E529
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: Basic properties of materials: extension, bending, squeezing, fatigue strength, electric and thermal
conductivity. Optical properties of transparent materials. Structure of materials: crystalline, amorphous, and multiphase
structures. X-ray diffraction, light scattering, and spectroscopy (covering IR, UV, and X-ray fluorescence). Metals and metal
alloys: steel, bronze, brass, aluminum alloys are shortly characterized and compared to ceramic materials, glass, metallic
glasses, composite materials. Natural materials: wood, cotton, wool, mineral wool. Polymers, plastics. Nanoparticles and
nanocomposites.
Skills: Students will possess knowledge about structure and properties of materials, their classification, methods of production
as well as principles of selection of the material suitable for particular application. They will distinguish between different
materials, and will know basic methods of characterization of material’s properties.
SUBJECT
Territorial Marketing
CODE
E530
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Role and a place of the territorial marketing in the marketing knowledge structure; Territorial marketing
origins; Theme, field and goals of the territorial marketing; Territorial marketing entities (territorial self-government
authorities, city dwellers, business associations and unions); Principal destination targets; Internal destination targets;
External destination targets; Territorial marketing- mix: city’s product (city as a mega-product, city’s life cycle, price,
distribution, promotion); Branding the image of the place.
Skills: The aim of the course is to introduce students the territorial marketing basics- theory being the starting point for the
self-government units managing market conception. Students should discover the role of the territorial marketing in the
forming local and regional entrepreneurship. Students should be familiarized with the possibilities of undergoing the
territorial marketing theory in the self- government practice.
SUBJECT
Knowledge management
CODE
E249
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: Students received theoretical knowledge with practical examples in field of knowledge management:
Introduction to Knowledge Management; The Knowledge Management Cycle; Knowledge Management Models; Knowledge
Capture and Codification; Communities of Practice; Knowledge Application; Protecting the Knowledge; Knowledge
Management Strategy; Measuring Knowledge Management
Skills: Students are expected to understand the complex nature of knowledge in organizations which will enable them to
analyze, understand and implement knowledge management practice in organizations.
SUBJECT
Financial Accounting and Reporting
CODE
E532
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer/winter
Subject description: This course focuses on accounting systems. It includes financial statements preparation and relationship
among the financial statements, reporting and interpreting sales revenue, receivables and cash, accounting for sales revenues
and discounts, reporting and interpreting liabilities, property, plant and equipment, natural resources and intangibles. There
is also analyzed classification of long-lived assets, measuring and recording accounting for repair, maintenance, and additions,
depreciating and amortization methods.
Skills: Students have practical knowledge how to account for assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, they understand the
annual report, management responsibilities for financial statements, structure, presentation and disclosure of the financial
statements. Interpretation and reporting of income and balance sheet accounts.
SUBJECT
Entrepreneurship
CODE
E026
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Entrepreneurship culture; developing the business plan and managing global expansion; family
businesses; options for organizing business; sources of financing enterprise. The entrepreneurship course is a general
management course in the sense that the case analyses, skill building exercises, and classroom discussions draw upon and
integrate multidisciplinary skills, concepts, and insights from many areas: finance, control, management, marketing, ethics.
Skills: Student will know how to create and manage emerging ventures . They will understand business ventures, have
awareness of the obstacles, challenges, and dilemmas inherent in business ventures. They will be equipped with tools,
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concepts and skills necessary to overcome the obstacles and challenges of global entrepreneurship.
SUBJECT
Managerial Accounting
CODE
E521
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: This course is a study of the fundamentals of cost accounting within an industrial organization. The
accounting functions relative to materials, labor, and factory overhead are treated in detail. Job order and process cost systems
are fully explored. Standard cost systems and managerial control functions are also discussed.
Skills: Student will understand the significant changes in the business environment and how financial, management and cost
accounting relate to each other; the primary factors determining organization’s strategies, why the firm’s strategies should
change and how accounting relates to organizational strategies. They will know the basic characteristics of product quality,
service quality and the types of cost. They will understand how costs are classified and why such classifications are useful.
SUBJECT
Public International Law
CODE
E467
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Public International Law is the law of the political system of nation-states. It is a distinct and selfcontained system of law, independent of the national systems with which it interacts, and dealing with relations which they do
not effectively govern. Since there is no overall legislature or law-creating body in the international political system, the rules,
principles, and processes of international law must be identified through a variety of sources and mechanisms.
Skills: Assumptions and aims of the subject: to teach of elements of functioning of the international; to teach right to acquaint
around: with functioning of the public international law in the international environment
SUBJECT
Ecology of Landscape Units
CODE
E490
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Introduction to Landscape Ecology and Ecosystems Management. Scale and hierarchy of Landscapes.
Introduction to land use and land use change. Social and cultural processes. Biodiversity and landscape management. Tourism
and ecology relations analysis.
Skills: Students will be able to analyze spatial heterogeneity of natural and seminatural landscapes and its influence on
ecological and biological processes affecting populations. Students will be able to propose the necessary workings for
biodiversity conservation and management.
SUBJECT
Production and Service Management
CODE
E158
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
summer
Subject description: Fundamental difference between production and services systems. Tangible and intangible aspects of
goods and services. The production function within the corporation. Industrial production process. Different types of
production. Facility layout. Operation scheduling and the main production plan. Just-in-time production system. Kan-Ban
technique. Inventory systems for independent demand. MRP I, the inventory system for depend demand. Lean manufacturing
and lean techniques. Design of the product. TPM (Total Preventive Maintenance). The nature of services. Different types of
services. Queue problems. Personal service, the moments of truth. Productivity in a service system and manufacturing.
Skills: To understand the essentials problems of production and service system. To provide skills to identify and analyse
operational management problems.
SUBJECT
International Economics
CODE
E534
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter/summer
Subject description: International division of labour, International complementarity of economic structures, Foreign economic
policy of a state, Instruments of the foreign economic policy, Gains from international trade in goods and services,
International flows of factors of production (capital, labour, knowledge), International organisations in International
Economic Relations, Currency exchange rate in International Economic Relations, Foreign Direct Investments, Globalisation
and integration processes in the world, Global challenges in the world economy.
Skills: Understanding of fundamental theories and tools of economics and finance and the functioning of the international
economic system and its actors.
SUBJECT
International Financial Institutions
CODE
E523
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter/summer
Subject description: Concept of money, functions of money, money standards, exchange rate, International Monetary System,
Foreign Exchange, Balance of Payments, the Capital Account, Exchange Rate Regimes and the Exchange Adjustment Processes,
International Monetary and Banking Institutions and Their Policies, World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, Other
Institutions, Economic Integration and Euro, International Financial Crises and Global Imbalances
Skills: Understanding of fundamental terms and concepts in international monetary relations, knowledge of the history of the
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XX cent. international monetary system; knowledge of the structure, aims and functions of key international financial
institutions, knowledge of the most burning issues in the contemporary international monetary setup.
SUBJECT
International Organisations
CODE
E466
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter/summer
Subject description: Genesis and history of international institutions, United Nations, Bretton Woods conference, Functions,
structure and policy of International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, Regional development banks, World Trade
Organization – functions and policy, Regional Integration, International non-governmental organisations, Global challenges
and international organisations
Skills: Understanding the origins of contemporary international system, Awareness of main global challenges faced by the
international community, Ability to assess the role of international organisations in the contemporary world politics and
economy.
SUBJECT
Sociology of Tourism
CODE
E524
ECTS
6
SEMESTER
winter
Subject description: Gender, sex, age, race; personality; social interaction; social position, social role, the role’s conflict; social
relations – social disintegration; anomie, stereotypes; discrimination.
Classification of social groups: community formal – informal; close – open society, homogenic – heterogenic society. Social
mobility – world as a global village. Migration. Tourism as a mass activity. World’s tendencies and future predictions
(UNWTO Barometer).
Globalization processes in contemporary world. Post-tourism according to John Urry. McDonaldization of tourism.
Skills: understanding fundamental sociological terms, categories and phenomena; recognizing different types of social actions
and participations in the contemporary world with the special input on touristic activity; understanding the role of variety of
macro- and microsociological factors influencing social life in terms of tourism.
Faculty of Management
Bialystok University of Technology
2, Ojca Tarasiuka Street; 16-001 Bialystok-Kleosin, Poland
Tel: (+48) 085 746 98 02; Fax: (+48) 085 663 19 88
e-mail: wz_pb@pb.edu.pl
website: www.wz.pb.edu.pl
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