A) EVALUATION REGULATIONS:

1. Evaluation conditions: It is forbidden to access the exam room with any device that allows communication with the outside and/or storage of information.

2. Identification of the student: The student must bring and show his/her ID card or passport the day of the exam in accordance with current regulations.

B) TYPES OF GRADINGS:

1. "No presentado" grading: Corresponds to the student, when she only participates in evaluation activities weighted less than 20% on the final qualification, regardless of the achieved qualification.

2. Students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption of waiver attendance: the evaluation will be done with the same contents and criteria as full-time students. At the beginning of the course, these students will address to the teachers of the subject to agree on a schedule of actions in order to enable the realization of the evaluation activities.

C) GRADING OPPORTUNITIES:

1. First opportunity: The evaluation of the first opportunity will be completely continuous based on a multiple choice test (70%) and the completion of the supervised work (30%). The teacher will explain in detail the main facts of continuous evaluation - contents, dates - at the beginning of the course. In the case of multiple-choice test, the date of realization will be the official day settled for the first opportunity. The presentation of the supervised projects will be during the lecturing period, according to the dates settled by the teachers of the subject. To pass the course it will be necessary to get a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the overall calculation of the assessment, however it is a sine qua non condition to get 5 points out of 10 in the multipe-choice test. If this minimum is not reached in the test, the subject cannot be passed and the grade will be that of the exam.

2. Second opportunity: Regarding the 2nd opportunity in July, the evaluation will be carried out based on the multiple choice test and the supervised project applying the same weights as in the 1st opportunity, taking into account the following: 1st) those students who attended at the first opportunity and failed, the grades obtained in the supervised project will be recovered, 2º) those students who did not attend at the first opportunity and did not realiced the supervised project, they will be able to do it. In order to do this, the student will contact the professor in advance to shjow his/her desire to do the work, which must be presented and delivered before the date of the official date fpr the second opportunity. As for the 1st opportunity, to pass the subject, it will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the overall computation, but it is also a sine qua non condition to obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the multiple choice test. If this minimum is not reached in the multiple choice test, the subject will be failed, and the grade will be the one obtained in the test.

3. Advance call: Students who take the exam in the advance call, the evaluation will consist in the realization of a test exam and to pass the subject the students must reach a minimum of 5 points out of 10.

D) OTHER EVALUATION OBSERVATIONS:

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
To understand and critically assess the representation of the company for Neoclassical Economics To understand and critically assess the representation of the company for the New Institutional Economics	A2 A3 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9	B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B9	C1
To understand the existence of various goals within the company To identify the most relevant problems in business management caused by the separation of ownership and control To know and assess the different mechanisms for solving corporate governance problems	A1 A2 A3 A4 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13	B1 B2 B3 B4 B6 B7 B8	C4 C5 C6 C7 C8
To understand the fundamentals of the company's organizational structure To know the main typologies of organizational structures and to know how to identify these typologies in real-world companies To understand why certain organizational designs are more efficient than others	A1 A2 A3 A4 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13	B1 B2 B3 B4 B6 B7 B8	C4 C5 C6 C7 C8

Topic	Sub-topic
UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ECONOMICS	1.1. Business economics: the conception of the firm in the neoclassical theory 1.2. Business economics: the conception of the in the New Institutional Economy
UNIT 2. MANAGERIAL BEHVAVIOR AND GOVERNANCE	2.1. Company objectives: from profit maximization to the existence of multiple and conflicting goals 2.2. Managerial behaviour: separation of ownership and control and agency costs 2.3. Corporate governance: internal and external mechanisms of corporate governance
UNIT 3. ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRM	3.1. The organizational structure of the firm 3.2. Typology of organizational structures 3.3. Design of organizational structures and transaction costs

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech	B2 B1 B3 B6 B7 B8 C5 C6 C8	17	0	17
Case study	A1 A2 A3 A4 A11 B4	21	53	74
Document analysis	A6 A7 A12 C4 C7	4	5	9
Supervised projects	A3 A5 A8 A9 A10 A12 A13 B5 B9 C1	4	16	20
Multiple-choice questions	A3 A4 A8 A10 A12 B1	2	18	20

Personalized attention		10	0	10

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech	Presentation in the classroom of basic conceptual items
Case study	Applied case studies
Document analysis	Use of different types of documents (articles, news ...) that address relevant aspects of the subject with activities designed for their analysis
Supervised projects	Group essay applying the theoretical concepts explained
Multiple-choice questions	Multiple choice test

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Multiple-choice questions	A3 A4 A8 A10 A12 B1	Multiple choice test	60
Supervised projects	A3 A5 A8 A9 A10 A12 A13 B5 B9 C1	Based on the choice of a real company, an analysis of different aspects related to corporate governance and internal organization will be carried out. The work, in addition to being delivered in writing, will be presented orally in class towards the end of the class period of the subject, according to the calendar set by the teacher.	40

Assessment comments
A) EVALUATION REGULATIONS: 1. Evaluation conditions: It is forbidden to access the exam room with any device that allows communication with the outside and/or storage of information. 2. Identification of the student: The student must bring and show his/her ID card or passport the day of the exam in accordance with current regulations. B) TYPES OF GRADINGS: 1. "No presentado" grading: Corresponds to the student, when she only participates in evaluation activities weighted less than 20% on the final qualification, regardless of the achieved qualification. 2. Students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption of waiver attendance: the evaluation will be done with the same contents and criteria as full-time students. At the beginning of the course, these students will address to the teachers of the subject to agree on a schedule of actions in order to enable the realization of the evaluation activities. C) GRADING OPPORTUNITIES: 1. First opportunity: The evaluation of the first opportunity will be completely continuous based on a multiple choice test (70%) and the completion of the supervised work (30%). The teacher will explain in detail the main facts of continuous evaluation - contents, dates - at the beginning of the course. In the case of multiple-choice test, the date of realization will be the official day settled for the first opportunity. The presentation of the supervised projects will be during the lecturing period, according to the dates settled by the teachers of the subject. To pass the course it will be necessary to get a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the overall calculation of the assessment, however it is a sine qua non condition to get 5 points out of 10 in the multipe-choice test. If this minimum is not reached in the test, the subject cannot be passed and the grade will be that of the exam. 2. Second opportunity: Regarding the 2nd opportunity in July, the evaluation will be carried out based on the multiple choice test and the supervised project applying the same weights as in the 1st opportunity, taking into account the following: 1st) those students who attended at the first opportunity and failed, the grades obtained in the supervised project will be recovered, 2º) those students who did not attend at the first opportunity and did not realiced the supervised project, they will be able to do it. In order to do this, the student will contact the professor in advance to shjow his/her desire to do the work, which must be presented and delivered before the date of the official date fpr the second opportunity. As for the 1st opportunity, to pass the subject, it will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the overall computation, but it is also a sine qua non condition to obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the multiple choice test. If this minimum is not reached in the multiple choice test, the subject will be failed, and the grade will be the one obtained in the test. 3. Advance call: Students who take the exam in the advance call, the evaluation will consist in the realization of a test exam and to pass the subject the students must reach a minimum of 5 points out of 10. D) OTHER EVALUATION OBSERVATIONS:

Basic	Douma, S., Scheruder, H. (2013). Economic Approaches to Organizations. Pearson Cuervo, A. (2008). Introducción a la Adminsitración de Empresas. Thompson Civitas Mintzberg, H. (1988). La Estructuración de las Organizaciones. Ariel Economia Brickley,J. Smith, C., Zimmerman, J. (2005). Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture. McGraw Hill
	Ivancevich, John M & Robert Konopaske,R. (2011). Organizational Behavior and Management Mc Graw-Hill  Bateman & Snell (2013) Management  Kinicki & Williams (2011) Management
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