Management (MGTX)

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.

This course is an introduction to labor/ management relations. It acquaints students with current problems encountered by management in the negotiation and administration of labor relation agreements.

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 examines the nature and problems of organizational design, development, and change in complex organizations. The application of organizational theories in the treatment of technological, economic, and behavioral problems confronted by the practicing manager is examined. Theories of organizational growth, change, and development and their impact on organizational outcomes are explored.