Management

Courses

MAN 3025: Principles of Management

Course Description:

Examines intrapersonal, interpersonal, group/team, organizational, and environmental (both stakeholder and societal) factors influencing the management task.

Course Objectives:

  • Provide foundational information about the role of management.
  • Provide students an awareness of their own management style and skill level.
  • Introduce students to some of the basic tools needed to be an effective manager.
  • Introduce students to a broad range of management topics such as ethics, diversity and social responsibility.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

  • Understand the basic theories, concepts and effective behavioral practices that form the foundation of modern management thought.
  • Demonstrate the ability to apply key management concepts.
  • Begin to understand the ethical and legal responsibilities of organizations as they pursue economic goals and objectives.

MAN 3240: Organizational Behavior Analysis

Course Description:

Organizational Behavior (OB) is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychological, social psychology, and anthropology. It studies and explains the way individuals and groups interact within and toward an organization.

Course Objectives:

This course seeks to provide the students with a broad exposure to new approaches, techniques, and future trends in managing people in the work place.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

  • Understand the challenges organizations face in integrating individuals with different personalities, cultural values, and abilities into the organization.
  • Recognize the importance of business ethics in establishing and enhancing an effective organization.
  • Understand the role that values, attitudes and emotions play in maintaining and/or enhancing employees' satisfaction and commitment to the organization.
  • Understand the role values, motivation, perception, and attribution theory play in motivating employees.
  • Understand the role ever-changing technology, creativity and continuous learning play in obtaining higher and more productive performance.
  • Understand how government, environment and economic forces interact to impact organizational behavior.
  • Learn how effective communication can significantly enhance motivation and employees' commitment to the organization.
  • Understand the importance that creative and effective leadership is in improving an organization.

MAN 3301: Human Resources Management

Course Description:

To develop a broad exposure to new approaches, techniques, and future trends in the management of personnel. A study of the major functions in the field of human resources, including job analysis, manpower planning, selection, performance evaluation, training and wage and salary administration.

Course Objectives:

Insight into the evolving role of strategic HRM in today's organizations, and the strategic role of HR functions. We will trace the historical development of HR from the beginning to the present, and how technology, especially the role of HR Analytics, has changed the duties and functions of the HR field.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

  • Understand the evolving role of strategic HRM in today's organizations, the strategic role of HR functions, and the impact of technology, including HR Analytics and global competition.
  • Recognize the importance of business ethics in HRM.
  • Know and apply the myriad of "testing" procedures involved in the selection and hiring process.
  • Know the important role governmental laws and institutions play in the HR field (staffing, safety, training, etc.)
  • Learn how significant federal and state court decisions impact the HR field.
  • Create a training and development program for employees.
  • Understand the Federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Procedures
  • Demonstrate an understanding of job analysis, human resource planning, recruitment (including Internet recruiting), and selection.
  • Acquire a working knowledge of performance appraisal and its role in performance management.
  • Appreciate how compensation and benefits programs are formulated and administered.
  • Understand safety and health factors as they affect the firm's profitability.
  • Understand employee and labor relations.

MAN 4063: Management Ethics

Course Description:

Examines moral and ethical responsibilities of managing organizations at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational level

Course Objectives:

The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the importance of ethical business behavior which is the capacity to behave responsibly, honestly, respectfully, fairly, and compassionately within the modern business environment.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this class in Management Ethics, a student should be able to:

  • Delineate the ethical issues a manager will encounter in the every course of doing business.
  • Identify and classify the stakeholders involved in ethical dilemmas.
  • Recognize the consequences of the actions of a manager in making business decisions.
  • Analyze the relationship among the facts, issues, stakeholders and the ethical consequences of making a business decision.
  • Develop what is known as "moral awareness" to be able to anticipate the existence of ethical issues.
  • Begin to understand the ethical and legal responsibilities of organizations as they pursue economic goals and objectives.

MAN 4282: Organizational Assessment

Course Description:

The analysis and measurement of factors which influence organizational effectiveness and the quality of work life. Data based cases will be used by students to assess managerial and supervisory skills and to measure organizational functioning and work design.

Course Objectives:

The primary purpose of this course is to familiarize students with new business models being used that reflect the complexity of the new business models by focusing attention on the concept of organizational effectiveness in the broader environment of business, and on contemporary methods of assessing organizations.

Learning Outcome:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: understand the concept of organizational assessment and recognize organizational assessment issues.

  • understand the concept of organizational assessment and recognize organizational assessment issues
  • understand how the changing environment affects the way managers design and change organizational structure to increase organizational effectiveness
  • identify and recognize the relationship between organizational ethics and organizational goals
  • understand and discuss the role of government forces (i.e. regulations) and their impact on organizational goals and effectiveness
  • understand and discuss the role organizational culture plays in organizational structure and design.

MAN 4441: Negotiations and Conflict Management

Course Description:

Provide the students with a broad exposure to new approaches, techniques, and future trends in the management of conflict and how to improve and maximize their negotiation skills in current organizations' environment.

Course Objectives:

Provide an insight into the dynamics of conflict resolution in today's organizations, and how acquiring and improving negotiation techniques can enhance peoples' abilities to solve problems in a meaningful and positive manner. We will explore different approaches in conflict resolution and the manner in which negotiations can achieve goals and objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

  • Understand the role that perception plays in developing/forming attitudes in negotiations.
  • Understand the concept of "power" and the role it plays in developing negotiating strategies.
  • Understand the different theories of negotiations and how and when they should be applied.
  • Appreciate the ethical implications of different negotiating techniques.
  • Learn how to prepare for negotiations and what you need to do prior to engaging in negotiations.
  • Learn the importance of understanding the role cultural differences play in effective negotiations.
  • Understand the difference in negotiations between short-term gains versus long-term gains.
  • Appreciate the importance of communications in resolving and/or avoiding conflict.
  • Appreciate the importance of establishing and maintaining long-term relationships.
  • Understand the role conflict-resolution and negotiation skills have played in resolving numerous conflicts in today's business world.
  • Understand the important role(s) work groups and teams play in helping the organization succeed.

MAN 4600: International Management

Course Description:

Examines the effects of international cultural differences on business practices within and outside the United States and provides methods to build synergies

Course Objectives:

The overall goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by business organizations in an era of globalization.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences and tolerance in cultural diversity.
  • Describe ethical reasoning in decision making in a global context.
  • Identify communication challenges across cultural differences and demonstrate ways to adapt in an International environment.
  • Identify important issues in negotiations in a multicultural environment.
  • Identify challenges in developing international strategies and entering foreign markets.
  • Recognize leadership differences and motivating employees in a global context.
  • Recognize human resource management challenges in an international context.

MAN 4631: Global Perspectives and Management Choices

Course Description:

A course designed to pull together the skills and knowledge accumulated in previous undergraduate work to provide a practical and operational approach to being a good manager/leader: critical thinking, focused analysis, people skills, communication skills and planning. The course takes a structured approach to analyzing and applying strategic planning, management, and response to current developments in national and international business. The course will be guided by four themes: globalization; the application of resource materials, including methods to find requisite information; the value of networking; and the art of questioning assumptions.

Course Objectives:

To gain confidence in proposing solutions to real-life corporate problems

  • To develop methodologies to devise plans that can be applied to both immediate challenges or to long-term goals
  • To place specific issues in a broader context that takes into account business realities, politics, trends in social behavior
  • To confront assumptions

MAN 4737: Integrated Management Applications

Course Description:

This course requires Management majors to integrate and apply the concepts taught in the four required courses in the Management major: Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior Analysis, Human Resources Management and Organizational Assessment into a capstone project resulting in a written report and presentation.

Course Objectives:

This is the capstone course for Management majors. In it the students will get the chance to apply what they have learned in the required classes.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Recommend managerial actions based on knowledge covered in required courses in the Management minor and major.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking and decision making skills by applying general knowledge to specific instances.
  • Utilize successfully presentation and report writing skills.

MAN 4940: Internship Course

Course Description:

A 3-credit hour course with the following prerequisites, at least 80 credits and a 2.75 GPA on business courses, MAN 3025 and any other upper level management course completed with a C or better. You may only take one internship course per major.

Course Objectives:

The expectation is that students will:

  • Grow and develop professionally.
  • Develop a portfolio of experience needed to succeed in business/industry.
  • Develop critical-thinking skills.
  • Develop communication skills.
  • Assess business situations using ethical knowledge and skills.

Learning Outcomes:

Component I: Academic component related to professional development
  1. Quizzes - Cover letter and Resume (CV), Interview Etiquette, and Workplace Etiquette.
    (Based on Landing the job - A Guide for Undergraduate Business)
  2. Resume - required to be reviewed by Business Center and revised by student.
Component II: On-site experiential learning
  1. Job Description and Contact Information of your Supervisor (1-2 pages).
  2. Internship Project - each component of the internship project is to be uploaded to canvas on the due date. Students are then required to hand in a hard copy of the entire project at the end of the semester to have it graded.
    1. Company Profile (1-2 pages): provide a summary of the company, its industry, its customer and suppliers.
    2. Experience Summary (2-3 pages): provide a summary of the projects, tasks or daily routines you encounter during your internship. What did you learn from them and how have they helped you develop skills that will benefit you one you complete your studies.
    3. Problem Solving/Organization Analysis Paper (5-10 page): identity one weakness or threat that the company is or will potentially experience. Through an organizational and industry analysis you will be required to offer potential solutions or opportunities for the company.
    4. Intern Evaluation by Supervisor (download evaluation form from Canvas): the internship organization will evaluate the performance of the student using a form developed by the College of Business. An unsatisfactory report by the internship organization will usually result in an unsatisfactory grade.