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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students for the job search while exploring theoretical issues in career development over the life span.Theories of career development covered include: life stage and career stage models, aspects of politics that shape careers, issues of derailment, technical career paths, gender issues in careers, mentoring, and new career models, such as the boundaryless career, the protean career, and the kaleidoscope career.Students undertake a resume revision process, develop a sample cover letter, participate in workshops on Internet job searching techniques, and practice mock interviews.An in-class session with members of the Career Planning Center is included.Students may also receive credit for a job shadowing assignment, attendance at Career Fairs, and other career-related activities.(Prerequisites: junior standing; MG 240 or MG 235; or permission of the instructor) Three credits.
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This course raises student awareness of the problems, opportunities, policies, and practices of the small-business enterprise and its unique role in the free enterprise system.The small-business firm is examined from conception of the opportunity to operation of the firm, including the creative idea, feasibility studies, the development of the business and financial plan, launching the venture, and managing the firm.Participants study case problems of small-business firms.(Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course applies the knowledge students have acquired from previous management courses by examining integrative topics and issues in both domestic and global contexts.The focus of the course reflects traditional core concepts and their application to emerging critical issues in the field of business management.Case studies and experiential learning are used to enhance the classroom pedagogy.(Prerequisite: senior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of international laws, legal institutions, and the societal and cultural institutions that impact and regulate business activity throughout the world.The student is introduced to the risks of international business and how those risks differ from doing business domestically; the function and importance of public international law; the international commercial transaction and its potential problems; and the basic structure and principles of international trade law and negotiations for trade.Also discussed are the legal and ethical problems facing multinationals operating in a number of countries, including licensing and protection of international property rights, and a comparative analysis of host country employment laws.Special emphasis is placed on the developing countries and emerging markets, such as China, Russia, India, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Caribbean, with a comparative legal and cross-cultural perspective. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The notion of organizational culture is rooted in the assumption that organizations are greater than the sum of their material parts.Culture, therefore, is a means for close examination of the operation assumptions shaping organizational identity and behavior.Special emphasis is placed on organizational thinking, the presuppositions driving thinking, and the challenges that culture poses for substantive organizational change.(Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course builds skills in negotiating and managing disputes and explores various theories concerning negotiation styles, strategy and tactics, alternative dispute resolution, and the major legal and ethical issues in the field.The course strengthens negotiation skills, introduces the many formal and informal processes available for dispute resolution, and develops managers' ability to resolve and prevent disputes.The heart of the course is a series of experiential exercises that create opportunities to practice and develop the principles learned in the course.(Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways computer technologies may pose new kinds of ethical issues that call for fresh approaches to thinking ethically about business.The purpose of the course is to help students prepare to deal effectively with ethical issues of a technology they are likely to face in their careers.(Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers theories and practices for effective compensation management.Topics include strategic perspectives of compensation systems, determining pay structure, job analysis, and job evaluation, design and administration, external pay competitiveness, designing pay levels, employee contributions and individual pay, subjective performance evaluation and merit pay, alternative reward systems, employee benefits, government's role and compliance, pay discrimination, budgets and pay administration, and union role in wages and salary administration.(Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course recognizes the complexities of managing human resources in the global business arena.Modern-day business is characterized by the relentless pace of globalization, through formation of international collaborations, mergers, joint ventures, and the opening up of new markets such as China, India, and Eastern Europe.There has been a dramatic increase in virtual work teams across several countries, globally outsourced work, and cultural diversity in the workplace as more people move across national borders to work.As a result, human resource management practices like recruitment, training, compensation, performance management, and employee relations are more complex.Additionally legal and regulatory requirements of foreign countries, cultural differences, expatriate management, and workforce mobility become important considerations.This course analyzes these complexities along with in-depth study of the people-related issues in different countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Globalization, the internationalization of markets and corporations, has changed the way modern corporations do business.This course examines major themes and issues in the area of cross-cultural management.It focuses on three perspectives: the values, attitudes, and behaviors that are common to a cluster of countries, specific to one country, or specific to a major cultural subgroup or subgroups within one country.It explores what happens when cultures clash, and the need to under-stand different approaches to doing business in a diverse world. This course meets the world diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: junior standing) Three credits.
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