Bachelor and Single-cycle
University of Ljubljana SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

This course offers students knowledge about business communication and communication skills. They will learn about forms of business communication, cross-cultural communication and business etiquette.

In this course students will learn about definition and methodological approach for studying business environment of firms, methodology for analysing external environment of firms, competitiveness of locations, macroeconomic environment, microeconomic policy for competitiveness and technological environment. The course offers knowledge in competitiveness, organisation of markets in relationships between companies, international business environment, financial system, organization of a society, politics and economy, stakeholders and socialy and environmentaly responsive management and internal environment.

Students will learn that the consumer is a key to market success, study about consumers as individuals, buyers as decision makers, external influences in consumer behavior and consumer behavior, marketing and society.

The course introduces the role of corporate finance, the goal of the firm, stakeholders, time value of money, valuation of stocks and bonds, risk and return, the CAPM. Capital budgeting: cash flow estimation, cost of capital, risk, financial decisions: capital structure, leverage, payout policy, long-term financing decisions: common stock, long-term debt, lease and preferred stock financing, working capital: working capital policy and financing, cash cycle, cash and marketable securities, inventory, accounts receivable, accounts payable, short-term financing.

The subject includes: drivers for diversity management (demographic changes in developed world, other forces to extend one’s work life: increasing labor demand, the changing nature of work, financing retirement and the cost of social support programs, mass migrations and open labour market, gender diversity at workplace); drivers for diversity management on organizational level (am drivers on organizational level, gender issues, issues arising out of managing culturally diverse workforce); the am model: a systemic aproach towards older employees (changing mental models, human resource management in the light of older employees, knowledge management and succession management, health management (prevention and cure), managing working environment for employees of all ages, managing different generations at workplace); resolving gender issues at workplace (examples and effects of good practice (SLO, EU), integrated approach towards diversity management – the best practice); HRM in the light of culturally diverse workforce (making (cultural) diversity work, organizational communication regarding workplace diversity and inclusion)).

This course consists of chapters in History and evolution of the EU, International trade and the theory of comparative advantages, Microeconomic tools of economic integrations, Economic integration and preferential liberalisation, Effects of economic integration, Institutions and EU law; Principles of decision making in the EU, Criteria for the EU membership;
Slovenian accession to the EU, History of the EMU, European monetary union (EMU), Fiscal policy of the EU, Financial Framework of the EU, EU regional policy and funds and Current Slovenian economic problems and its position in the EU.

In this course students will gain knowledge in globalization, basics of international trade theory and glob. Students will understand and learn appreciation of glob, about future of glob, institutional framework of glob. Couse will cover global patterns of inequality, poverty, and economic development levels, multilateral trade liberalization and economic glob, economic glob. specifics, glob. of international flows, glob. and labour markets, economic glob. and development gaps. It will include and overview of potential national development strategy models, Slovenia in the global economy, some glob. challenges for small economies, Slovenia as the EU member, glob. and financial and economic crisis after 2008 and specifics of glob. in the EU.

Students will be able to recognize and understand the role and importance of employees' behaviour, will be able to structure, maintain, control and predict employee's behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will know and be able to manage interconnecting action agents, affected organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. They will have ability to use knowledge and skills of organizational behaviour in contemporary organizations. Students will learn active and critical evaluation and to reflect events of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization and gain critical evaluation skills and experiences of organizational behaviour in contemporary organization.