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Basics of Business Administration (15 cr)

Code: 3011392-3004

General information


Enrollment

01.06.2019 - 17.09.2019

Timing

03.09.2019 - 10.12.2019

Number of ECTS credits allocated

15 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Business

Teachers

  • Maija Nolvi
  • Tapio Jaakkola
  • Hilkka Bergman
  • Nicolas Le Grand
  • Minna Björkberg-Suominen
  • Kari Juhala
  • Olli-Pekka Lehtisalo
  • Heli Söderlund-Laihinen
  • Katja Repo
  • Pirjo Kavander-Agge

Groups

  • PLIITS19
  • PLIITS19A
    PLIITS19A
  • PLIITS19B
    PLIITS19B
  • PLIITS19C
    PLIITS19C
  • PLIITS19D
    PLIITS19D

Objective

The student is able to
- use the basic terminology of business administration
- interpret the interactive relationships between the organization's economic process and the interest groups and their impact on profitability
- present the main characteristics of modern marketing thinking
- give examples of issues that have an effect on buyer behaviour and explain how the marketing mix can be used to reach target segments
- compare company forms businesswise
- explain the main characteristics and functions of the Finnish legal system
- explain the legal rules of conclusion of an agreement
- apply the basic sources of legal information in problemsolving
- utilize business plan as a tool

Content

- basic concepts of business administration
- economic process of an organization
- profitability and calculation of profitability
- financing of business start
- risks and risk management
- organization and management
- company forms
- modern marketing thinking
- marketing environment
- buyer behaviour and segmentation
- marketing mix
- main characteristics, norms and sources of law in the Finnish legal system

Evaluation scale

H-5