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  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an intermediate course in Management Science. It is a survey of analytical techniques used by modern management to formulate and solve problems. Some of the topics covered are Linear and Integer Programming, Transportation Models, Inventory Theory, and Game Theory. Prerequisite:    MGT200 AND MATH110 AND MATH120 OR MATH130
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course presents the tools and techniques of organizational strategic planning, including internal organizational analysis of strengths and weaknesses and external scanning of the stakeholders and trends in the environment that the organization inhabits. Students will practice strategic analysis and the formulation of appropriate strategies through comprehensive real organization and/or simulation cases in this capstone course that integrates all the functional areas of management. The course concludes with a consideration of strategy implementation issues and techniques. Prerequisite:    MGT200 AND MGT204 AND MGT211 AND MGT225 AND MGT301
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course presents traditional (trait and behavioral theories) and contemporary (contingency, participative, charismatic, transformational) models of leadership. The course considers the sources and uses of power and influence as well as the phenomenon of leader emergence. The course includes leadership skills assessment and training exercises. Cases of effective and ineffective leadership will be utilized extensively throughout the course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the individual and group behaviors that impact organizational performance. Individual processes and attributes such as perception, learning, personality, emotional intelligence, ethics, motivation, and stress are examined in organizational settings. Team processes such as communications, decision-making, power, conflict, and negotiation are also considered. The course concludes with a consideration of the organization-wide processes of learning, change, and structural design.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The class provides an overview of key logistics and supply chain management processes, concepts, and methodologies. Emphasis is given to the framework for supply chain management, the analysis of logistics cost, and service trade-offs among inventory, transportation, and warehousing activities, the strategic role of information technology in supply chains, the use of third party logistics providers, and the methods of measuring the value of logistics performance. Instruction is based on problem-based learning pedagogy. Prerequisite:    MGT200 AND MGT201 AND MATH130 AND MGT351
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an understanding of employment relations in international settings, examining the role of politics, ideas, pay and remuneration in multicultural organizations and international human resource practices. Prerequisite:    MGT200 AND MGT352
  • 3.00 Credits

    This advanced course in entrepreneurship is designed as a capstone in the Entrepreneurship concentration. It builds on MGT 363 by preparing students to deal with potential and actual problems/issues they may face in their efforts to launch and establish their new businesses. Specific topics include choosing an appropriate legal form of organization, exploring intellectual property documentation, developing prototypes, facilitating customer acquisition, developing production and operations, identifying financial and investment issues, and exploring marketing and accounting and tax issues. Prerequisite:    MGT363 AND MGT301 OR MGT315 AND MGT353 OR MGT375
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course is a detailed study of the human resource management function of compensation and benefits design and implementation. This course will help students to learn both the underlying concepts as well as current best practices. After finishing this class, students will understand the many factors that need to be addressed in order to design and implement an effective total compensation and benefits program. Prerequisite:    MGT200 AND MGT352
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course surveys legal fundamentals of Human Resource Management (HRM). Students will learn the common law and statutory law governing the employer-employee relationship. The course spans the entire employment process, from the creation of the employment relationship through the recruitment/hiring process, to the management of a diverse workforce, to establishment of pay, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment, to the termination of employment, whether of an individual or multiple employees in a workforce reduction. Prerequisite:    MGT225 AND MGT352
  • 3.00 Credits

    The marketing research alternatives of reliance upon existing secondary data sources (publications, data bases) versus development of primary sources (surveys, observations, and experiments) is considered. Data analysis techniques including hypothesis testing, association testing, correlation and regression, discriminant, canonical, factor, and cluster analysis are presented. The course concludes with the traditional, contemporary, and emerging applications of marketing research. Prerequisite:    MGT204 AND MGT370 AND MATH110