Management (MGMT)

This course will give students a realistic look at the demands of starting a viable business and help students evaluate their own skills, talents, and potential role in the entrepreneurial eco system. Concepts highlighted in this course include: networking, building the right team, legal business structures, venture funding options, and planning for growth.

Covers the managerial functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling within the framework of a rapidly changing and increasingly diverse global community. Presents a mix of knowledge, skills and abilities needed for managers to succeed in today’s complex work environment in four domains: professional effectiveness, relationship management, business acumen, and analytical intelligence.

Effective management is fundamental for the successful operation of all types of enterprises. The course will present the principles, techniques and concepts needed for managerial analysis and decision making. Functions highlighted include planning, organizing, staffing and controlling.

Introduces students to the special aspects of managing a company in the global environment. Issues involved in understanding and applying the international and cross-cultural dimensions of the traditional management functions, such as organization, control, motivation, human resources and labor relations; and organization theory are studied. Lectures, readings, exercises and cases will be used.

The course includes an in-depth exploration of topics such as communication, group dynamics, group roles, team building, power and politics, leadership, and negotiation and conflict resolution. In addition, issues of organizational culture and diversity are examined. Through readings, discussions, class activities and projects, students learn how to be effective organizational communicators, team members and leaders. Students also gain an understanding of culture and diversity issues, and how to effectively manage them.

This is a course in organizational politics--power, influence, conflict and conflict management. It has two goals: first, to develop students’ skills in recognizing politics and conflict situations; and second, to teach students to use negotiating to achieve personal organizational goals. Through readings, discussion and role-plays, a wide range of conflict and negotiating contexts will be considered. These include situations in interpersonal, interorganizational and union-management relationships.

This course surveys the roles, policies and procedures of human resource management (HRM) in organizations today. Students learn the steps to staff and motivate a workforce, and appreciate the role of quantitative and qualitative decision making in HRM. Course materials deal with environmental impacts on HRM, equal employment opportunity, human resource planning, selection, performance evaluation, wage and salary administration, training and other relevant topics.

This course is a comprehensive survey of production and service operations management, topics and functions. Topics include methods and work measurement, materials management, plant location and layout, production planning and control, maintenance, quality control, "Total Quality," Japanese management styles, "Systems Approach;" and decision tools such as PERT, linear programming, queuing theory, sampling and simulation. Service-delivery applications and activities are also highlighted.

Covers descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics, as well as big data concepts and tools. Presents data visualization as an essential complement to business analytics that greatly facilitates managerial understanding and decision-making. The course emphasizes practical challenges involving complex, real-world data and includes several case studies and hands-on exercises with data analysis and visualization software.

This course will heighten awareness and broden the participant's knowledge of leadership theory, trends and applications, with a strong focus on ethical leadership. The course encompasses leadership/management theories, techniques, organizational applications, managing ethical gray areas with intergrity, and intergrating leadership skills into daily work practices, Students will review organizational structure/functions, leadership styles, managerial processes, strategic planning, and change-oriented ethical leadership and consider the impact of public policy.

From opportunity finding to launch, this course provides students the opportunity to apply concepts that cover all major elements of entrepreneurship in the role of the venture creator. Concepts used in the exploration of a venture opportunity include: customer identification and development, business model development and testing, proof of concept evaluation, and pursuing appropriate funding opportunities.

This course is designed for senior management majors, and integrates and extends concepts learned in other upper-level management courses. The dynamic nature of management is emphasized through reading, analyzing and discussing recent literature in terms of the current business environment. Students examine topics including 21st-century career management; the role of education and technology in organizations; and future trends in management and organizations. The course includes individual and group readings, cases, and research projects that are presented as written and oral assignments.

In this course, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of business strategy and strategic decision-making. Students will demonstrate their functional knowledge of core business areas including: accounting and finance, management, and marketing, as well as product development and operations. The process and techniques of strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation are studied and applied as student teams operate competing companies in a computer-simulated business environment. This course builds on themes from the DEC Core.