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Public Management

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Course abstract

During professional practice students have to apply their theoretical knowledge and develop the professional skills necessary for successful professional career of the manager of external relations unit. Students acquire knowledge of the organizational structure and operation of the institution or the enterprise, the laws and normative documents regulating their operation, directions of entrepreneurship, management of the institution or the enterprise and develop practical skills of drafting and drawing up of documents, organizing the work of an archive, preparing business trips.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

After completing the course students will have:
• knowledge – of the EU and Latvian legislation, entrepreneurship, marketing, communication psychology, public management, personnel management, record keeping, languages.
• skills - students have acquired practical skills in the professional sphere: they are able to evaluate and analyze the operation and the achieved results of the institution or the enterprise, address possibilities of cooperation at various levels, make decisions according to their competence, work with diverse sources of information; they have acquired the skill to advertise the institution or the enterprise and its services or products; they have developed skills of organizing the archive of a legal person, preparing business trips and organizing meetings with foreign partners; students have improved their skills in drafting and drawing up of documents, as well as presentation, computer and language skills.
• competence - students have managerial competence.

Compulsory reading

1. Forands I. Biznesa vadības tehnoloģijas. Rīga: Latvijas izglītības fonds, 2007. 330 lpp. ISBN10: 9984955826
2. Forands I. Personāla vadība. Rīga: Latvijas izglītības fonds, 2002.190 lpp.ISBN10: 9984955818
3. Herbsts D. Komunikācija uzņēmumā. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2007. 120 lpp. ISBN 9789984400839
4. Ivans U., Ruskule S. Vadīšanas pamati. Malnava: LLU, 2006. 502 lpp.

Further reading

1. Herbsts D. Sabiedriskās attiecības. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2006. 184 lpp. ISBN10: 9984374106
2. Ķestere I. Lietišķā etiķete. Eiropas pieredze. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2007. 272 lpp. ISBN:9789934015373
3. Reņģe V. Mūsdienu organizāciju psiholoģija. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2007. 215 lpp.ISBN10: 9984379142

Periodicals and other sources

1. Kapitāls: žurnāls lietišķiem cilvēkiem. Rīga: Lietišķās informācijas dienests. ISSN 1407-2505.Pieejams arī elektroniskā formātā: www.kapitals.lv
2.Dienas Bizness: nedēļas laikraksts: Latvijas biznesa avīze. Rīga: Diena: Dagens Industri, 2005-. ISSN 1407-2041. Pieejams arī elektroniskā formātā http://www.db.lv
3. Žurnāls „Business Ethics”.