3403711: Management of projects and research

Description

Brush-up Project Management

• Integrated Project Management
• Project Planning
• Techniques and Processes for Project Management
• Guidelines for Efficient Project Work

• Planning and Completion of a Visualisation
• Media and Design Elements for a Visualisation
• Fundamentals of Rhetoric
• Preparation and Completion of a Presentation
• Dealing with Feedback
• Structuring
• Introduction into the relevant IT applications (Word, Excel, Gretl, Eviews, DataStream)

• Moderation Preparation and Procedure
• Moderation Aids
• Moderation Methods

Learning Outcomes

• Structuring of scientific projects
• Applying fundamentals of visualisation and presentation
• Comparing and selecting diverse techniques for visualisation
• Organising presentations
• Integrating rhetorical skills
• Differentiating between basic approaches to moderation
• Formulating and justifying ideas within the framework of project management
• Basic knowledge of Word, Excel, DataStream and Eviews applications

Lectures Method

The academic literacy section of this module trains skills in:

• academic writing
• academic discourse and
• doing a presentation.

Literature

Required reading:

• Saunders, M./ Lewis, P./ Thornhill, A. (2003). Research Methods for Business Students (Third Edition). Prentice Hall, Harlow.

• Seifert, J.W. (2005). Visualisieren, Präsentieren, Moderieren. Offenbach: Gabal-Verlag.
• Seifert, J.W./Holst, C. (2004). Projekt-Moderation. Offenbach: Gabal-Verlag.
• Jenny, B./Burch, S. (2007). Projektmanagement. Zürich: Vdf Hochschulverlag.

Materials

Lecture slides will be available on the moodle