Microeconomics

Course: Management of Organizations

Structural unit: Faculty of Economics

Title
Microeconomics
Code
ОК 1.10
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
PLO 4. Demonstrate skills to identify problems and justify management decisions. PLO 10. Have the skills to justify effective tools to motivate the employees of the organization. PLO 12. Evaluate the legal, social and economic consequences of the functioning of the organization.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know the content of the main economic disciplines. 2. Be able to prepare presentations. 3. Have basic skills of public speaking.
Course content
The conceptual bases of company functioning, market relations and consumer behavior are disclosed. The production activity of economic subjects is analyzed taking into account consumer demand, income, preferences, utility, production theory and consumer choice theory. The following main topics are considered: behavior of economic actors and decision-making mechanism for limited resources and alternative uses of resources; theories of marginal utility and consumer behavior; demand, supply; microeconomic model of the enterprise; factor variation and optimum of the producer; production costs; markets of perfect and not perfect competition; general market equilibrium and welfare economy; Institutional aspects of market economy.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Мікроекономіка: Підручник / За ред.. В.Д. Базилевича. – 2-ге вид., перероб. і доп. – К.: Знання, 2008. – 679 с. 2. Мікроекономіка: практикум: навч. посіб. / За ред.. В.Д. Базилевича. – 2-ге вид., перероб. і доп. – К.: Знання, 2010. – 491 с. 3. Базилінська О. Мікроекономіка: навчальний посібник. – К.: Центр навч.літератури, 2019.- 352 с. 4. Веріан Г.Р. Мікроекономіка: проміжний рівень. Сучасний підхід / Пер. з англ. С. Слухая – К.: Лібра, 2006. – 632 с. 5. Слухай С. В. Словник-довідник базових термінів та понять з мікроекономіки. – К.: 2015. – 256 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Information-innovative: lectures with the use of distance technologies, seminars, independent work, consultations, analysis of practical situations, performance and presentation of individual creative tasks, trainings: "Analysis and evaluation of the monopolization level of the goods market (based on analytical research of the confectionery market in Ukraine)"; "Microeconomic analysis of supply and demand on the goods market (based on statistical data on prices and volumes of supply and demand on a certain goods market)".
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment: 60 points maximum / 36 points minimum 1. Test work on the content module 1: LO 1.1.— Max. 10 points / Min. 7 points. 2. Test work on the content module 2: LO 1.2, LO 2.1, LO 2.2 - Max. 10 points / Min. 6 points. 3. Presentation of research work: LO: 1.1, 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. - Max. 10 points / Min. 5 points. 4. Express control: LO1.1, LO 2.2, LO 4 - Max. 10 points / Min. 8 points Final assessment in the form of an exam.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oksana Yaroslavivna Kovalenko
Department of Economic Theory, Macro- and Microeconomics
Faculty of Economics

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Economic Theory, Macro- and Microeconomics
Faculty of Economics