Study Guide

Objective

Operating and costing environment
- Students are familiar with the different ways of organising and providing social and health services and the guiding legislation
- Students understand the importance of productivity and profitability of organizations and companies’ operations and are able to assess the costs and productivity of operations

Work community development
- Students understand and know the importance of development and quality in the production of a service
- Students are able to create new work practices and business ideas.

Entrepreneurship and business organization
- Students have the basic skills to start a business and they are also know how to utilize of the public advisory services in starting a business
- Students know the social significance of entrepreneurship as well as the relationship between the economics and business

Supervision and management
- Students understand the importance of management practices and personnel for the success of organization and the business
- Students identify general working life skills, responsibilities and work organization methods and adopt the entrepreneurial way of working

Content

- legislation, contractual practices and funding in the field of social and health services
- social challenges and impacts on service needs and production
- entrepreneurial attitude and skills
- productization, pricing, quality, branding and marketing of services
- starting a business from a business idea to a business plan
- different types of companies
- procurement procedures and tendering
- management skills and quality development in the operation of organizations
- working life skills and their importance in the operations of organizations and businesses: life management, communication skills, innovation capacity and digital skills
- collecting and using available information for operational development and management
- understanding client needs
- partnership networks as part of the success of the business and the organization

Location and time

Myllypuro campus:

Thu 18/1 at 8:30 - 11:45 MPA6017
Thu 25/1 at 8:30 - 11:45 MPC4013
Thu 1/2 at 8:30 - 11:45 MPA4008
Thu 8/2 at 8:30 - 11:45 MPA6017
Thu 22/2 at 8:30 - 11:45 MPA6017
In case we need, I will give additional teaching time/times!

Exam: Thu 29/2 at 9-11 MPB6007

Materials

Teacher will give the litterature to students before the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

Contact teaching and independent study material.

Exam schedules

Exam: Thu 29/2 at 9-11:30 MPB6007

Our re-exams for this course are the following ones:
SU202404 (Tue 23/4, enrollment 11/3 - 2/4)
SU202406 (Tue 11/6, enrollment 29/4 - 20/5)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students master professional concepts, and they justify their choices using the comprehensive knowledge base, based on the client’s needs. Students assess systematically the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.

Students act independently and professionally aiming at goals set to them in their operating environment as well as apply working methods appropriately and safely.

Students work according to professional ethics as well as commit themselves to the group, enhancing its functioning.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Students master professional concepts, and they justify their choices using the comprehensive knowledge base, based on the client’s needs. Students assess systematically the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.

Students act independently and professionally aiming at goals set to them in their operating environment as well as apply working methods appropriately and safely.

Students work according to professional ethics as well as commit themselves to the group, enhancing its functioning.

Assessment methods and criteria

An exam and a group work assignment, which can at most reduce or increase the grade of the entire course from the exam grade +/- 1.