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• BUS 212: Introduction to Sport Management

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course explores the sport industry environment and introduces classic business and management concepts as they apply to this specific setting. Students are exposed to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling strategies and skills with special emphasis on how they are applied in an organization operating within the demanding context of modern sports industry.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Discuss the management skills functions and approaches applicable to a sports industry. Describe the sports industry environment from global ethical and social perspectives. Apply the decision making process within the sports industry including definition goal setting evaluating alternatives and implementation. Verbalize the strategic planning process as it applies to the sports industry. Articulate the key strategies utilized in event, facility, time and scheduling management. Describe organizational design and function as it applies to the development of an innovative, flexible and diverse internal culture. Enumerate the legal, social, collaborative and motivational aspects of human resource management within a sporting environment. Describe the application of management control tactics to promote quality, productivity and integrity within a sports organization. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 213: Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course presents both theoretical and practical aspects of the leadership functions needed to develop an effective and productive workforce. Students will examine leadership skills, values, and behaviors as well as leadership through changing times and circumstances.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Differentiate between leadership and management roles and responsibilities. Demonstrate why ethical and diverse leadership and management are important to companies and countries. Discuss how a leader attains goals through followers. Compare and contrast power and influence and why they are important. Articulate and examine important leadership skills, values, and behaviors. Describe how leaders can influence and motivate employees. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 214: Organizational Behavior

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to the study of human behavior in organizations. The purpose of this course is to increase the student's understanding and awareness of individual, interpersonal, group and organizational activities and events, as well as to increase the ability to manage change and create policy. The course emphasizes principles, concepts and theories applicable to organizations of any type. Such knowledge will help students develop skills to manage successfully and influence today's workers, teams and organizations.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Describe the relationship among individualsA values, attitudes, behavior, and job satisfaction and performance management. Discuss the major theories of motivation. Explain the importance of groups and teams and how communication, conflict, and decision-making affect creativity and performance. Explain the importance of leadership and communication skills in effective management of employees. Discuss the effects of power and politics on organizational effectiveness. Identify how individual differences in values, attitudes, and social perceptions affect organizations and diversity management. Describe organizational culture, change, mentoring, and stress management and how they affect employee and organizational success. Analyze the role managers and leaders play in contributing to organizational success. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 215: Human Resource Management

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course offers an in-depth study of the principles of human resource management. This course presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of the broad human resource functions which managers must understand in order to develop an effective and productive workforce. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Describe the major human resource functions. Identify and explain the provisions of the major laws and regulations that influence human resource management including Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Programs. Describe the importance of the interaction between business planning and human resource planning. Describe an effective performance management system. List the major theories of motivation and explain the central components of each theory. Explain the importance of training and development in maintaining and developing an effective workforce. Define compensations and benefits and explain why benefits are important to both employees and employers and how they tie to risk management and global workforce management. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 216: Training & Development

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course introduces students to the importance of training and development in today's organizations. As more organizations restructure and initiate strategic changes, training and development becomes more important. Training and development programs range from improving employee productivity to leadership development. The course will focus on training and development as an integrated strategic system comprised of the assessment of training needs, design and implementation of the training program, and evaluation. The legal and ethical considerations of training will also be discussed.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Describe the benefits of using a human resource development perspective in training strategy. Identify the major factors in employee performance and their relationship to training. Describe the methods and the cost/benefits of evaluating training programs. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different training methods. Describe the importance of management development programs and how they are influenced by changes in organizational strategy. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 217: Compensation & Benefits

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to compensation and benefits issues in today's organizations. It is a practical approach to the systems, methods and procedures to establish and manage an organizational compensation program. The course will provide students with the concepts, principles and theories used in the design and implementation of compensation systems in all types of organizations. Compensation and benefits systems will be discussed as a means to improve recruitment, motivation, and employment retention.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Explain the different compensation philosophies used in organizations. Discuss the legal issues involved in compensation and benefits administration. Outline the process used in building a compensation system. Explain the job evaluation process and discuss the methods used in performing a job evaluation. Discuss methods of conducting and analyzing market pay surveys. Explain the importance of health-care and retirement benefits. Discuss benefits communications and flexible benefits considerations in benefits administration. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 218: Labor Relations

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  For organizations to be successful today, the relationship between managers and employees must be handled effectively. Whether or not employees are represented by unions, issues such as employee health and safety, working conditions and security must be addressed. This course will discuss the development and application of policies and procedures in addressing employee rights issues. The course will focus on union/management relations in the union organizing, collective bargaining and grievance-arbitration processes. The course provides students with an understanding of the legal, ethical and practical issues in union/management relations.Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: Explain employment-at-will and identify three exceptions to it. Discuss employee rights issues associated with access to employee records, free speech, workplace monitoring, investigations and drug testing. Apply the appropriate laws related to union/management relations. Identify labor relations strategies and how they affect operational and tactical labor relations. Describe the three major phases of union/management relations: union organization, collective bargaining and contract administration. Discuss the rights, responsibilities and ethics of union/management relations. Prerequisite:    Prerequisite: Successful Placement Test Scores or (ENG 050 and REA 050) or ENG 099* or REA 075 (*may be taken concurrently).
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• BUS 220: Elementary Statistics

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  Introduction to the use of probability and statistical inference for business decision making. Various distributions and techniques are presented to prepare the student for parametric estimation and testing. The basic concepts of frequency and probability distributions, measures of central tendency and variance as well as hypothesis testing of means, variances and goodness of fit are presented. There is also brief discussion on non-parametric methods, regression analysis, correlation and price indices. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Discuss the principles of descriptive and inferential statistics. Compute probabilities using discrete distributions, continuous distributions and counting theory. Investigate concepts in sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem. Develop and interpret simple and multiple regression equations and their correlation coefficients. Construct interval estimates for population means. Conduct hypothesis testing for one or two samples. Conduct simple variance testing using ANOVA F distribution principles. Calculate simple index numbers. Execute elementary goodness of fit testing using the chi-squared distribution. Prerequisite:    MAT 100 or MAT 121 or MAT 128 or MAT 135 or MAT 136 or MAT 140 or MAT 141 or MAT 150 or MAT 151 or MAT 152 or MAT 160 or MAT 161 or MAT 200 or MAT 210 or MAT 230 or MAT 260 or MAT 261.
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• BUS 221: Elementary Statistics Laboratory

  1.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  An elementary statistics lab to supplement BUS 220, providing students with the basics of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis as well as utilizing the statistical capabilities of Excel. This course is intended for students whose transfer institution requires four credit hours of Statistic I, that is BUS 220 (3 credit hours) and BUS 221 (1 credit hour). NOTE: Prerequisite or corequisite: BUS 220. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate a comprehensive command of the statistical capabilities of Microsoft Excel. Produce statistical graphics, including scatter diagrams, and cumulative frequency polygons in Excel. Calculate parameters using the uniform, binomial and normal distributions. Develop and interpret simple and multiple regression equations and their correlations coefficients. Construct interval estimates for population means. Conduct hypothesis testing for one or two samples. Conduct simple variance testing using ANOVA F distribution principles. Calculate simple index numbers. Execute elementary goodness of fit testing using the chi-squared distribution. Corequisite:    BUS 220.
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• BUS 230: Principles of Marketing

  3.00 Credits

  Delaware County Community College

  
  This course provides an examination of the goals of financial management within an analytical framework. Emphasis is given to techniques and methods used to manage the money supply by a business organization. Financial analysis and planning is explored. Techniques for managing working capital in a risk-return context are considered. Capital budgeting and related valuation concepts and long-term financing methods are included. Upon successful completion of this course, students will: State the goals and functions of financial management. Use financial ratios to evaluate chance for business success. Prepare projected statements for financial planning. Demonstrate how operating and financial leverage enables management to maximize profits. Determine optimum operating levels of working capital. Prepare calculations involving the time value of money to assist in making investment decisions. Measure financial risk through quantitative methods. Describe how financial managers decide to use debt and equity instruments for long-term financing. Prerequisite:    BUS 100.
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