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Crises Management

Course Code: 7024

Instructor: Dr. Mabrouka Alwerfalli

Description:

Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a sudden and significant negative event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders. This course offers students the basics in identifying, preventing, and controlling crises. Crisis management basics, from preparation to training and compliance are discussed, as are various stages of a crisis, and the need to establish a crisis management team. The course will typically focus on the analysis and discussion of particular cases. The course also helps students identify potential risks or situations that may precipitate a crisis or emergency and learn approaches on how to respond to such incidents. The importance of communication and making instant and effective decisions is also covered.


Total Quality Management

Course Code: 7109

Instructor: Mr. Neral Bughrara

Description:

Total Quality Management is one of the main courses at the Faculty of Business Administration. The course starts with giving general historical information about the development of the concept of quality and then moves to go deeper in explaining the components of Total Quality Management and its importance for creating competitive advantages.

The learning approach adopted in this course focuses mainly on students through online discussions, presentations, and assignments.

Weekly meetings are scheduled according to the time-table of lectures every week.

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management

Course Code: 7108

Course description.

The entrepreneurship course covers the foundations of entrepreneurship and new venture creation for the entrepreneur. Also, it combines a solid theoretical foundation with a practical step-by-step approach to the process of entrepreneurship. This course is delivered to students by lectures, presentations. But, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the necessity for social distancing, the course has been delivered on online means, these include: PowerPoint presentations that are being posted on the Moodle with audio explanation, Interactive What’s app groups and the like communication means for discussion after each class, and Project work.

The following topics are covered within the course: Introduction, Risk and an Entrepreneurial Behavior, Innovation, Opportunity and the creative pursuit of innovative ideas, Pathways to entrepreneurial ventures, strategic Entrepreneurial Growth, global Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, sources of capital for entrepreneurial Ventures, measuring performance for entrepreneurial ventures, developing a sustainable business plan, legal and regulatory challenges For entrepreneurial ventures, case studies: 50 examples of corporations that failed to innovate.




Organization Theory

Course Code: 7117

Instructor: Dr. Adel Mekraz

Description:

By the end of this course, students should be able to: Define organizational theories, vocabulary, definitions, and concepts, Comprehend different organization theories. Understand diverse organizational structures, Understand the role and effect of different organizational structures, Differentiate between different types of organizations and how they might be structured differently. Compare and contrast between different organizational theories, Collect information and evaluate the structures of Libyan organizations and institutions, and Propose the best structures for specific types of organizations.

Knowledge Management

Course Code: 7053

Instructor: Dr. Mailood Alabdly

   Knowledge Management module is issues in concepts and definitions of knowledge and knowledge management, organizational issues and knowledge management, management of intangible assets and intellectual capital; topics in managing organizational knowledge and knowledge processes; the complex nature of knowledge in organizations; developing skills to analyze, understand and implement knowledge management practices.

The course covers a wide range of relevant themes such as cultural issues- technology applications organizational concepts and processes- management aspects- and decision support systems. The Evolution of Knowledge management: From Information Management to Knowledge Management - Key Challenges Facing the Evolution of Knowledge Management - Ethics for Knowledge Management .

This course will be taught by case analysis, interactive exercises, assignments. presentation and assessments.


Leadership Theory

Course Code: 7115

Description:


Leadership is often referred to as the ability to influence people toward achieving a goal. The purpose of the course is to bridge the gap between the often simplistic popular approaches to leadership, and the more abstract theoretical approaches presented by numerous writers and practitioners in the field.  This course helps students to understand the terms and concepts related to leadership theories and to have a good knowledge of leadership types. Also, demonstrates the strategic role of leadership in creating and enhancing a firm’s competitive advantages,  how to build leadership skills needed for different institutions, Compare and contrast leadership styles in developed, developing and transitional countries , also builds evaluation and synthesizing skills in solving real-world leadership problems in different contexts.

Teaching strategies to be used to develop the required knowledge are lectures, so the students are given readings, discuss cases, have interactive assignments, case analysis, projects, and presentations.

Topics to be covered are an introduction to leadership, trait and skills approaches to leadership, motivation(Art or Science), behavioral approach to leadership, situational approach to leadership and contingency theories, the path‐goal theory of Leadership, leader‐member exchange theory, transformational and authentic leadership, servant & adaptive leadership, psychodynamic approach, ethics & team leadership, gender, culture and leadership.