Study Guide

Content

Course Objectives / Learning purposes and outcomes:
Work environments are changing; the importance of the benefit of workspace for individual and organizational performance is more and more important.
This course is intended to give you a first look at the Workplace Management environment. Workplace Management provides you a combination of engineering, economics, management and communication. Workplace Management enables you to cooperate with people of different professional, social and cultural backgrounds.
During the term, first we will define concepts related to Work Place Management and cover the dimensions and forces of the global and local Work Place environment. Second, we will discuss the theories underlying Work Place Management. Third, we will examine and do Cases in real Business environment.

Materials

At Optima

Teaching methods

Online learning, Individual pre –assignment, Individual assignments, Collaborative assignment,

Exam schedules

at Optima

International connections

Online learning

Student workload

1-2.. Individual pre-assignment 10% English
3. Collaborative assignment 1-5 20 % English
4. Individual assignment 1 1-5 40 % English
5. Individual assignment 2 1-5 30 % English or Finnish

Content scheduling

Year 2019 Workplace Management themes are: Go-working, Well-building and Active workplace.
The course will be opened 16th September 2019 and is closed end of November.
This online course contains the following tasks:
1. Define Workplace Management concepts
2. Discuss theories underlying Workplace Management with others
3. Examine real Business environments in Case studies

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

1-2.. Individual pre-assignment 10% English
3. Collaborative assignment 1-5 20 % English
4. Individual assignment 1 1-5 40 % English
5. Individual assignment 2 1-5 30 % English or Finnish

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Course is not accepted, if Part of Assignments are missing or tasks are incomplete. Deadlines are gone.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Grade 1 Acceptable
Student:
Is able to find information and explain Workplace Management concept.
Perform all the tasks as instructed.
Is able to operate in a multicultural environment.
Is able to utilize information and communications technology in one’s subject field.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Grade 3-4, Satisfactory
Student:
In addition
Is able to apply knowledge and skills in practice.
Is capable of taking responsibility for collaborative learning and sharing knowledge in teams.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Grade 5 Outstanding
Student:
In addition
Is able to combine different kind of data and use appropriate methods.
Is able to analyze information and evaluate it critically.
Is capable of creative problem solving and development of working methods.