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Aims and objectives

Head of Departments,
Dr. oec. Viktor Chlaidze

To ensure the training of modern enterprise managers with the following qualitative features:

  • the ability to provide correct evaluation of the structure of market needs, to be able to study the needs and wishes of consumers, to determine which of those the enterprise can satisfy better, more efficiently and effectively in comparison with other enterprises; 
  • to perform the analysis of the development factors of an enterprise and to take corresponding decisions on creating new, improved structures; 
  • the ability to optimize the process of enterprise management, both the advantages for the consumers and own profitability by developing a market-oriented organization; 
  • ability to   carry out management, i.e. to set goals and organize the employees to achieve them, by creating the necessary stimuli.
    As a result of the specialization of the study program the graduate will as a qualified specialist in the field, acquire and be able to carry out corresponding planning and other creative activities for the specific sector or sub-sector of economy: 
  •  to understand the nature and the social meaning of a business administrator, the mission of a business administrator in the respective field of operation in Latvia and   internationally;
  • the ability to find their own ‘niche’ in the professional business administration;
  • to carry out general and functional analysis of enterprises; 
  • to develop long-term and short-term strategic and operational business plans;
  • to be ready to undertake the management of the employees and responsibility for it (to know and to be able to apply methods of democratic leadership, to consider different alternatives and viewpoints, to make management decisions, including in the crisis, and to be able to organize the work of the subordinates); 
  • to be ready methodically and psychologically to develop and evaluate alternative investment projects, to determine their selection criteria and economic efficiency. 
  • ensuring of social adaptation in the practical activities and in life within the vocational training of students
  • collective social development of the department, the higher educational establishment and the students’ community
  • training of students in correspondence with the profile of the Department ‘Business Administration’ and ‘Business Administration in Tourism’.  
  • methodology work in students’ training, developing instruction methods and training materials, applying information, computer and technical systems. 
  • research work in accordance with the profile of the Department, including the guidance of students’ research work


According to the mission, the Department is carrying out the following types of instructional work:

• supervision of Bachelor’s, Master’s and Diploma papers
• supervision of term papers
• supervision of training practice
• teaching of profile disciplines of the general module (part A)
• teaching of specialized disciplines (part B):
1.Tourism – 13 disciplines
2.Management – 10 disciplines.