The graduates of the Faculty of Management and Economics with direction the Management of Health and Welfare Unit, following the completion of their studies, will the following:
Knowledge:
- Basic principles for the Business Administration of the private and public sector, Business Economics, Accounting, and Financial Administration.
- Elements of Marketing, Management of Human Resources, and Corporate Law.
- Principles of Administration and Organisation.
- The law and the financial context governing the primary and secondary health units.
- Tools for business administration, such as elements of Statistics, Operational Research, and IT Management Systems.
- Methodology for the conduct of scientific work, the analysis of the problem, the search into and collection of literature and good practices, the evaluation of the results of the research and the presentation of results.
Skills:
- Effective use of modern management tools for the rational redesign of the procedures and structures, for strategic and operational programming, for monitoring, control, and assessment of managerial actions, for providing incentives to personnel, and for ensuring the quality of the services rendered.
- Financial analysis of businesses.
- Registration, control and assessment of procedures in a business.
- Understanding of the flow of information in IT systems and drawing of the necessary information from them.
- Use of methods of operational research in order to take decisions.
- Analysis of an operational problem and conduct of the necessary research.
Competences:
- Immediate adjustment to a business environment, since they will have fulfilled a six-month internship in a business during their studies.
- Competences of analysing a research subject, composing strong theories and tools in order to resolve it and finally, presentation thereof.
Learning Outcomes:
The graduates will:
- be familiarised with the basic concepts of financial science that are necessary for the understanding of the financial environment;
- be familiarised with the concepts and methods of quantitative analysis and shall have the basic skills for the use of these methodologies, in order to support decisions and ensure the measurability of the administrative action;
- have the necessary knowledge and skills for the use, adjustment and contribution, in terms of the end user, to design of modern IT systems;
- know the environment of the health and welfare services, provided by the public and private sector;
- be specialized on issues of organising, programming, and evaluating the structures of health and welfare, as well as of managing the human resources of these structures;
- have in depth knowledge of the national and European legislation, which governs both the structures and the methods for the provision of health and welfare services, while having specific knowledge on the legislation of health that governs directly the activities of the health and welfare structures;
- be knowledgeable about the operations of the accounting, fiscal and financial management of the resources of the structures of central administration with regard to the health and welfare services, as well as to the accounting operations and the financial management of the structures of the private sector about the respective services.
The basic objective of the programme of studies is for the graduates to be able to successfully work in an internationalised environment, while obtaining the necessary tools in order to conduct scientific research and analysis.