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[MFE05] Professional Communication
The course is focused on the development of those communication skills that are essential for effective functioning in the professional world. Students will study the process for analysis of different communication situations and will accordingly comprehend them. Among the themes that will be covered are communication in organization, interpersonal and group communication, oral presentations, interviews for employment, professional business letters and interpersonal skills including group dynamics and teamwork.
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[MFE09] Labour Market
The main aim of the course “Labor Market” is to provide second cycle students with basic and in-depth knowledge in the field of labor market theory and the mechanism of functioning of the market economy. The objective of the course Labor Market is to provide and teach students about categories, laws and basic principles through which the labor market functions. The course makes a detailed analysis of behavior pattern and the role that key agents play in labor market: individuals, companies and government. The analysis is based on two basic categories - labor demand and labor supply, which are applied in almost all the topics that are addressed in this course. The knowledge gained by the students from this course, serves as essential theoretical basis necessary to understand and grasp the different theories and policies that are applied in the labor market. The course teaches students to understand how labor markets distribute and use efficiently the rare factor of production- the labor. Lectures include knowledge about the concepts of labor demand and labor supply and their practical application; behavior of individuals in the labor market, in order to maximize their usefulness; behavior of companies in the labor market, aiming profit maximization; government's role in the labor market, the different structures of labor markets: labor market in full competition, monopoly in the labor market, the role of unions in the labor market, the bilateral monopoly in the labor market. Lectures and class discussions cover material that may not be in the book and some aspects of the material contained in the basic literature will not be discussed in class but are left for active studying of the student. Therefore, in order the student to achieve success in learning the course is to be present in lectures and workshops by participating actively in the discussion of various issues related to labor market.
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[MFE10] Philosophy of Social Sciences
This module covers information that will provide the learner to gain knowledge, skill and competence of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing), the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. This module offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences. It will focus on the central issues of the social sciences: Ethno-methodology; Evolution; Phenomenology; Rationality; Relativism; Scientific Methods; Textual Interpretations.
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• Understand the goal of social sciences.
• Tell the difference between explaining and understanding human behavior;
• To explain the different approach in explanation of the social sciences compare the natural sciences, the peculiarities about human beings and social phenomena;
• To understand the social structures, practices, norms, institutions, etc. The relationship between individuals and larger social structures;
• To explain the reliance not only on facts about individuals and their mental states, but also the cases in which social phenomena cannot be explained in terms of individual behavior;
• To understand the value-laden in a different way or to a different degree than natural science, the possibility to have a value-free social science, the possibility to have an objectivity in social science.
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[EM569] Project Management
On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- plan the activities necessary to implement the project, identify their interdependencies, their duration and costs;
- prepare the necessary reports and perform all the required communication between the project and the client, as well as among the team members and the other stakeholders.
- structure the project to its constituent activities;
- prepare a Gantt-chart and a network plan for the project and identify the shortest time needed to complete the project;
- use MS Project as a tool in the process of planning, implementation and review of the project;
- define the project, identify its scope and objectives and develop project specification;
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[MFE14] Protection of Human Rights
The purpose of this course is: to introduce students with the concept of international law on human rights, their implementation, influence of those rights in the creation of national policies; to encourage students to critically reflect on the relationship between international law and national law; make them aware of current international events, how they affect the daily lives of people in the world; encourage students to contribute in matters of drafting laws for the protection of human rights hoping that, the law makers will consult them same during the creation and implementation of state policies.
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[MFE01] Rhetoric
During its long history of 2,500 years, rhetoric was used to indicate many different things; but rhetoric nowadays is considered as the art of persuasion through language. Rhetoric marks the way that an individual is linked to a particular theme or idea in order to convince the others. Rhetoric is characterized by several distinguishing features.
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[EMPA-01] Managing Non-Governmental Sector
This course will examine theories and management practices, including strategic thinking and strategic planning as a framework. It has to do with important management issues, including: the framework of building strategies, leadership, organizational and design structure, as well as performance. The course includes the use of case management case studies in public institutions and civil society. An integral part of this course is managing changes as an inevitable part of management and dealing with the dynamics of changes in the environment, especially in terms of political, social, cultural, economic and technological developments in Macedonia and the SEE region.
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[EMPA-03] Project Management and Evaluation of Public Sector Programs
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with techniques for analyzing the effectiveness of organizations in the public sector. Students will gain skills in formulating evaluation questions, sampling, planning and collecting data, analyzing the results of the evaluation, designing a budget for evaluation, reporting and communicating evaluation results to various stakeholders, development of competencies related to ethical and political issues regarding evaluation.
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[EMPA-04] Legal Regulation of Public Administration
Through this course students will gain knowledge about the legal framework relations between the legal framework and administrative process, the competence of demarcation and designing modern mechanisms to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration, will acquire knowledge of their rights and obligations as employees in the public sector.
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[EMPA-05] Knowledge Management in the Public Sector
Meaning and information are not static but move around organizations in different forms. One of the ways to distinguish between knowledge-based leadership and information management is to identify processes and steps involved in both poles. The subject is focused on the plans and activities that must be performed and controlled by the notes respectively the information of the organization.
These activities are based on strategies and practices for identifying, creating, representing and mastering review and experiences. Review and experience contain knowledge but are found in certain cases or are built on organizational processes and their practice.
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[EMPA-06] Public Resources Optimization and Management
At the end of the semester students should:
• apply theoretical perspectives to practical problems in the field of HR;
• understand the role of HR in organizational development;
• explain the role of HRM in the observation of development and impact on achieving the objectives of the organization;
• analyze and define jobs for more effective functioning of the organization;
• define environment as a set of institutions, forces and factors;
• identify gaps in human resources.