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  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Familiarizes the student with the principles and techniques of sound leadership practices. Topics include: Characteristics of Effective Leadership Styles, History of Leadership, Leadership Models, The Relationship of Power and Leadership, Team Leadership, The Role of Leadership in Effecting Change. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) This course is designed as an overview of the Human Resource Management (HRM) function and the manager and supervisor's role in managing the career cycle from organizational entry to exit. It acquaints the student with the authority, responsibility, functions, and problems of the human resource manager, with an emphasis on developing familiarity with the real world applications required of employers and managers who increasingly are in partnership with HRM generalists and specialists in their organizations. Topics include: strategic human resource management, contemporary issues in HRM: ethics, diversity and globalization; the human resource/supervisor partnership; human resource planning and productivity; job description analysis, development, and design: recruiting, interviewing, and selecting employees; performance management and appraisal systems; employee training and development: disciplinary action and employee rights; employee compensation and benefits; labor relations and employment law; and technology applications in HRM. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Provides a student with an overview of the relationship of rank and file employees to management in business organizations. The nature of the workplace, the economic foundations of work organizations, and the history of the relationship between management and labor is examined. The course acquaints the student with the principles of developing positive relationships between management and labor within the context of the legal environment governing labor relations. Topics include: the nature of the American workplace; the economic history of business organizations, the historical roots of labor-management relations; adversarial and cooperative approaches to labor relations; the legal framework of labor relations; employee-employer rights; collective bargaining and union organizing processes; union and nonunion grievance procedures; international labor relations; and the future of labor-management relations in a changing economy. Case studies, readings, and role-plays are used to simulate workplace applications in labor relations. Prerequisite: Provisional admission Corequisite: Prerequisite: Provisional admission Corequisite: Prerequisite: Provisional admission Corequisite: Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Develops an understanding of how fostering employer/employee relationships in the work setting improves work performance. Develops legal counseling and disciplinary techniques to use in various workplace situations. Topics include: the definitions of coaching, counseling, and discipline; importance of the coaching relationship; implementation of an effective counseling strategy; techniques of effective discipline; and performance evaluation techniques. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Addresses the challenges of improving the performance and career potential of employees, while benefiting the student in their own preparation for success in the workplace. The focus is on both training and career and personal development. Shows the student how to recognize when training and development is needed and how to plan, design, and deliver an effective program of training for employees. Opportunities are provided for the student to develop their own career plans, assess their work-related skills, and practice a variety of skills desired by employers. Topics include: developing a philosophy of training; having systems approach to training and development; the context of training; conducting a needs analysis; critical success factors for employees: learning principles; designing and implementing training plans; conducting and evaluating training; human resource development and careers; personal career development planning; and applications in interpersonal relationships and communication. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Encourages students to discuss their perception of management practices which have been studied during the Management/Supervisory Development program. Topics include: current issues and problems in management and supervision and state of the art management and supervision techniques. Guest speakers will contribute to the seminar. Prerequisites: MSD 103 . Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) The focus of this course is to acquire the skills and concepts necessary to use accounting information in managerial decision making. Course is designed for those who will use, not necessarily prepare, accounting information. Those applications include the use of information for short and long term planning, operational control, investment decisions, cost and pricing products and services. An overview of financial accounting and basic concepts of finance provides an overview of financial statement analysis. Topics include: Accounting background, accounting equation, financial statements and financial statement analysis, budgeting and planning, applied analysis for management decisions, cost flow analysis in manufacturing with applications in process improvement, applications in product profitability, cost and pricing, client/server technology: computer software applications, payroll, income tax, inventory management, ethical responsibilities. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 3.00 Credits

    (3 credit/10 contact hours) Reinforcement of management, supervision, and employability principles in an actual job placement or through a practicum experience. Students are acquainted with occupational responsibilities through realistic work situations and are provided with insights into management and supervisory applications on the job. Topics include: problem solving, adaptability to the job setting, use of proper interpersonal skills, application of management and supervisory techniques, and professional development. The occupation-based instruction is implemented through the use of a practicum or internship and all of the following: written individualized training plans, written performance evaluation, and a required weekly seminar. Prerequisites: ENG 111 MKT 101 . Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the functions of business in the market system. The student will gain an understanding of the numerous decisions that must be made by managers and owners of businesses. Topics include: the market system, the role of supply and demand, financial management, legal issues in business, employee relations, ethics, and marketing. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
  • 5.00 Credits

    (5 credit/5 contact hours) Provides students with an overview of business ethics and ethical management practices, with emphasis on the process of ethical decision-making and working through contemporary ethical dilemmas faced by business organizations, managers and employees. The course is intended to demonstrate to the students how ethics can be integrated into strategic business decisions and can be applied to their own careers. The course uses a case study approach to encourage the student in developing analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills; an overview of business ethics; moral development and moral reasoning; personal values, rights, and responsibilities; frameworks for ethical decision-making in business; justice and economic distribution; corporations and social responsibility; corporate codes of ethics and effective ethics programs; business and society: consumers and the environment; ethical issues in the workplace; business ethics in a global and multicultural environment; business ethics in cyberspace: and business ethics and the rule of law. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Spring 2009 Course Availability
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