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MGT 330 Managing for Excellence | An increasing emphasis on quality demands knowledge of quality concepts and the ability to apply the quality tools. This course examines the role of quality in achieving performance excellence and introduces the statistical tools used to measure quality. The course utilizes frameworks such as the Balanced Scorecard and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Criteria to analyze quality initiatives. |
MGT 331 Legal Environment of Business | This course introduces the overall legal system with a particular emphasis on business law. Students will explore constitutional and administrative laws, contract and tort laws, product liability, environmental law, intellectual property and copyright laws, and cyber and e-commerce laws. Case studies will be used to examine these issues in the context of corporate strategies and managerial decision making. |
MGT 332 Corporate Financial Management | Building on their knowledge from financial and managerial accounting concepts, students will study the financial decision making process utilized by management to maximize shareholders’ wealth. Short term as well as long term corporate finance and managerial decisions of firms will be examined. The economic model of financial risk and the time-value of money as well as capital structure and budgeting will be explored. Using case studies as framework, this course will attempt to explain corporate finance and financial decision making with a balance between theory and business application. |
MGT 333 Marketing Management | Marketing Management presents students with a framework of pertinent strategic and tactical consumer marketing issues faced in today’s economy. It goes beyond the basics of marketing and focuses on important marketing functions and tasks coordinated by managers within the overall strategic framework of the organizations. Students explore market research and analysis, market and product development, pricing decisions, promotional strategies, and issues related to ethics, e-commerce, and global and cross-cultural marketing. |
MGT 335 Information and Communication Technology | This course explores the important role information and communication technology (ICT) plays in enabling companies to increase market share, become more efficient, and innovate. Students examine various information systems firms use for planning, implementing, and control of their operations and activities, and the challenges and opportunities emerging from increased convergence of many technologies. |
MGT 340 Managerial Economics | This is an economics course for managers which will cover applied microeconomic theory as it relates to the firm and its managerial decisions. Topics will include optimization techniques, general demand theory, forecasting, production theory, risk, firm strategy, capital budgeting, shareholder wealth maximization, and governmental regulations. Students will benefit from the quantitative management case study as a preparation for the business environment. |
MGT 355 Supply Chain Management | This course examines the importance of managing value chain throughout the production and/or operations process of a manufacturing and service business in today’s global environment. The course is designed to teach students how to analyze processes, ensure quality, create value, and manage the flow of information and products, while creating value along the supply chain. Students will have a foundational understanding of both qualitative and quantitative operations management processes related to service or manufacturing sectors. |
MGT 401 Human Resource Management | Case materials and contemporary theory are used to help define the role of the Human Resources Manager and to develop the skills and perspectives necessary to successfully function in this capacity. Topics will include employee training and development, selection, job evaluation, disciplinary cases, compensation programs, wage and salary administration, labor relations, federal regulations in the workplace, motivation, and safety and security. |
MGT 404 Management Internship/Fieldwork | The internship will provide the upper-level student with opportunities for practical application of classroom knowledge, concepts, and learning in business management. This placement is designed to provide the student with an exposure to business professionals and practices as well as expectations in the contemporary workplace. The student is required to work a minimum of 120 hours during the semester at the assigned business. Students may not use current or self-employment for internship credit. |
MGT 420 Entrepreneurism | The conception, initiation, organization, and management of the small business will be investigated. Topics will also include production, staffing, financial control, and managing growth. Market research, acquisition of capital, and forms of business ownership will also be discussed. |
MGT 430 Organizational Behavior and Change Management | This course examines organizational behavior and the basic elements of organizational dynamics at individual, groups/teams, and organizational levels. Individual applications will focus on emotional intelligence, personal values and focus, and motivation, while inter-group processes such as group dynamics, role clarification, decision-making processes, work design, horizontal structures, communication patterns, and channels and motivation within the group will also be explored. A third focus of the course will be organizational culture. Models of highly effective organizations will be considered. Organizational elements including strategy and structure, organizations as systems, open systems, systems thinking, organizational design, ethics and social responsibility and power and politics will be studied. |
MGT 490 Strategic Management Capstone | This capstone course for B.S. degree in business management examines the strategic process in today’s business and corporate environment. Main component of strategic management including environmental assessment, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and control through a strategic-audit framework are examined. Case studies are utilized as learning tools to further examine strategic management process in contemporary businesses, and critical relationship strategic management process has with business and functional areas of an organization |