Business and Logistics English

Brief description

Topics:

  • Competition within industries
  • International trade
  • Entrepreneurship
  • International and strategic outsourcing: avoiding outsourcing pitfalls
  • The economic environment
  • Porter’s Five Forces
  • Theory of competition
  • Terms of economic convergence and divergence
  • Ways of fostering entrepreneurship
  • Government influence on the economic environment
  • The impact of signing a free trade agreement – reasons for and against from business and government perspectives
  • Operations Management
  • Production management
  • Manufacturing and engineering
  • Procurement and purchasing
  • Supply chain management and logistics
  • Lean management
  • Lean production
  • Quality
  • The work of a logistics manager
  • Globalization and economic policy
  • Reduction of carbon footprint
  • Sustainable logistics and warehousing
Oral language skills:
  • Writing effective emails
  • Writing business reports with an accurate structure and layout. Report types: assessment report, memo report, proposal writing, executive summary

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Lisboa, Martin and Michael Handford: Business Advantage. C1-C2. Student’s Book Advanced with DVD. Cambridge University Press. Latest edition.
Handouts from course lecturers.
Magazines: The Economist, Supply Chain Management, The Wall Street Journal, Logistics Management Magazine, Inbound Logistics.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Input, blended learning, discussion, online quizzes, pair and group work, presentations

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment (50 %): active class participation, assignments, vocabulary quizzes, presentations and mini research projects.
Online written exam (50 %): about the topics worked on in class and in self-study phases after the last class.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

European Framework of Reference for Languages: B2

Infos

Degree programme

Logistics & Strategic Management (Master)

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

English

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

1 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students are able

  • to describe, discuss and debate complex economic topics and issues in English,
  • to present these topics in English in a convincing and academically correct manner and express their opinion on them,
  • to write clearly formulated emails and business reports as well as executive summaries.

Course code

1392-21-01-BB-DE-10