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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides a framework for negotiation skills and conflict resolution approaches for more effective organizational leadership. Students will learn to identify solutions to workplace conflict and develop negotiation skills to create a collaborative environment. Topics emphasized include: reaching practical agreements, achieving objectives, strengthening relationships, and ultimately increasing productivity.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the concept of data analytics and its applicability to organizations. Students will learn how to apply critical thinking skills and analytics to enhance data driven decision making essential to today's leaders. Students will use the latest software to evaluate and apply data to enhance business performance. Students will learn how to organize and interpret data, conduct analysis, and develop visually appealing and informative reports. This course will enhance leadership performance for analytical problem solving and decision making in today's dynamic business environment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students learn personnel procedures and practices. Topics include equal opportunity, personnel planning, employee selection, employee incentive systems, and performance appraisal.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students learn the fundamentals of risk management and the appropriate application of insurance. The course stresses the nature of risk as well as the purpose and use of insurance in risk management.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to major issues and creative problem-solving in managing customer relationships. Important strategies necessary to maintain high quality relationships with customers in a competitive, challenging, and complex environment are developed. Current trends in the industry will be reviewed, and students will develop the ability to interpret these trends and will develop the skills necessary to achieve excellence in managing customer relationships in a dynamic marketplace.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the dynamic relationships between sports, culture, society and the issues and challenges within this framework. We will look at sports as a microcosm of the larger society and as a field in which to test various sociological theories. The foundation of this course is based on the understanding of approaches and theories within the global perspective of the sport industry. Students will study sports in the context of the economy, diversity, demographics, politics, media, the ethical and legal environments and additional important topics. This knowledge will allow students to think critically about the interlocking of sports and the external environment. Thus, enabling them to create valuable policies and programs in the sport industry. This course keeps pace with industry trends and is aligned with topics outlined by the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA).
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will provide students with a strong foundation to become excellent leaders and effective managers in the sport industry. The course is organized around the central management functions-planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. This fundamental approach, will help students apply concepts as sport managers, demonstrate the skills of creative problem solving, strategic planning, and develop the ability to lead, organize, and delegate. This course keeps pace with industry trends and is aligned with topics outlined by the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). The following topics will be explored: team development, communications, motivation, facilities and event management, ethics, legal liability, social responsibility, sports culture, diversity, conflict management.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course emphasizes the complexities of business decision making within an ethical framework. After identifying the wide variety of ethical issues facing individuals in business and the moral philosophies which can be applied, the course will develop an ethical decision-making framework. Both the role of the individual and of the organization in influencing ethical decision-making will be emphasized as will the impact of cultural influences on international business ethics. Managing ethics will be proposed as an essential part of the function of organizational leaders.
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course students will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to grow into a supervisory position in a business environment. The course will provide the students with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge gained in the basic business courses and to refine the basic supervisory and management skills learned in these courses. The course includes topics relating to the role of the supervisor in the management process in a business environment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will introduce students to key aspects of contemporary project management. Through hands-on exercises and case studies, students will learn the project planning process in detail, culminating in the creation of a baseline plan and budget using a state-of-the-art project management tool. Topics addressed will be project scope and objectives, deliverables, milestones, tasks, work breakdown structure, responsibility and authority, project network, critical path analysis, costs, resource allocation, and auditing.