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Company competitiveness

ECTS: 4

Year/Semester: 3 . years, 5 . semester

Total hours: 30

Lecturers

Lect. Zvonimir Repač

Course objectives

To bring closer the understanding of the complexity of the concept, the significance and the role of competitiveness in business. To cover all the important components that influence competitiveness and its improvement in a highly competitive domestic and global entrepreneurial environment. At the same time, the course emphasizes the need, in addition to focusing on achieving profit as the ultimate result of competitiveness, to take into account sustainable development and the balance of meeting the needs of the company, employees and the wider community, which is the primary task of management and a characteristic of good management as a whole.

The goal is, among other things, to train students to identify business opportunities and set up business models that, with the use of adequate management tools and the selected form of management, will permanently create the prerequisites for competitive business.

Learning outcomes

To bring closer the understanding of the complexity of the concept, the significance and the role of competitiveness in business. To cover all the important components that influence competitiveness and its improvement in a highly competitive domestic and global entrepreneurial environment. At the same time, the course emphasizes the need, in addition to focusing on achieving profit as the ultimate result of competitiveness, to take into account sustainable development and the balance of meeting the needs of the company, employees and the wider community, which is the primary task of management and a characteristic of good management as a whole.

The goal is, among other things, to train students to identify business opportunities and set up business models that, with the use of adequate management tools and the selected form of management, will permanently create the prerequisites for competitive business.

LIFE ON VERN'

Studying at VERN' University is much more than just dry learning of theory. Students further develop theoretical knowledge from lectures through project assignments in collaboration with successful companies, thus developing skills for the business world and building relationships. In addition, they have the opportunity to engage in a variety of extracurricular activities - from playing sports through the VERN' Sport program and absorbing cultural content through the VERN' Culture program, to getting involved in student initiatives, organizing various events, attending seminars and workshops, and visiting the most important conferences and business-educational events.

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