Programme blocs

Economics, Accounting, Organization and Human Resources Management, Finance, Operations Management, Management Control and Information Systems, Marketing, Strategy and International Management, Legal Aspects of Business Activity and Business Project

Subject	Number of hours
Semester1
Economics	135
Accounting	135
Organization and Human Resources Management	135
Semester2
Finance	135
Marketing	105
Operations Management	80
Management Control and Information Systems	80
Strategy and International Management	80
Legal Aspects of Business Activity	15
Business Project	100
Total	100

Block 0
Preparatory Course in Business English and Mathematics
The purpose of this module is to go over key phrases in the English language relating to the free market economy and business and to familiarize the students with mathematical and statistical terms used in MBA courses.

Team-building session
The course -due to a range of elements (integrative games, team progress tracking, analysing team roles)- prepares the students to work effectively in groups.

BLOCK 1
Economics
The course is divided into three sections, the first one dealing with the analysis of the firm in the market environment, the second with the macroeconomic environment and the third with the international environment. Through their involvement in the school, the course teachers have developed their teaching material in the light of Polish experience.

BLOCK 2
Accounting
Often referred to as "the language of business", accounting is a registration, measurement and communication discipline. The course concentrates on two areas of accounting: financial accounting and managerial (cost) accounting.

BLOCK 3
Finance
The course is an introduction to financial decision-making. The first part of the course is concerned mainly with making decisions on what assets to buy, and the second part is concerned with the ways to pay for the assets. Other subjects include equity portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, international financial management, and financial institutions.

BLOCK 4
Marketing
The course is designed to give an introduction to strategic marketing covering the identification and definition of the market space in which competition takes place, selection and change of competitive actions over time, and adjustment of competitive action from segment to segment. Weight will be given to the evaluation and design of managerial processes in marketing concerned with diagnosing, planning and implementing change ahead of competition, as well as methods for forecasting patterns of reaction of the market-place and within the marketing organization.

BLOCK 5
Organization and Human Resources Management
In the course are presented and discussed models that help in designing formal structures and relevant management systems as well as help in choosing the appropriate basis and degree of differentiation and the appropriate mechanism of integration within the corporate culture. Issues such as human motivation, individual and group behaviour and negotiation will also be covered. Personal Development Programme.

BLOCK 6
Strategy and International Management
Examining strategies through environment and industry analyses, the course builds on the concepts of value chains and business systems and explores potential generic strategies such as cost leadership and differentiation. At the corporate level the problems under review are: Does a company have to concentrate on one industry or manage a portfolio of diverse businesses? Should it operate regionally, nationally or internationally? Does it have to develop its activities alone or enter a strategic alliance?

BLOCK 7
Operations Management
The objectives of this course are to enable the student to understand how operations management contńbutes to the way a firm competes in the market place and achieves commercial results. Business operations are understood as the levels of activity connecting daily operations to business investments. Topics treated in the course are: production and project management, logistics, quality assurance and the economics of variety.

BLOCK 8
Management Control and Information Systems
The topics covered in this course are: cybernetic view of control systems, management control (from the functional and the value chain perspective), improvement of management control through information systems examining corporate and divisional reporting systems, changes in planning and forecasting systems, and the ability to perform ad hock analysis, as well as the significance of managerial behaviour in the design of management control systems.

BLOCK 9
Legal Aspects of Business Activity
The subject encompasses the most important, i.e. from the point of view of the functioning of a market company, basic legal aspects. Special attention is placed to issues connected with contracts and the companies law. The specific features of the Polish law and of the law of the European Union is considered as well.

BLOCK 10
Business Project
Final projects function as an expertise solving a manager's problem in a chosen company. They are conducted in groups of a few people. The choice of the subject and the company belong to the students. Upon some consultations with the project mentor, professor Alastair Nicholson and the drawing-up of the project, it is officially defended, which forms an opportunity to present a method of solving the problem and to discuss that with council members.