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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course familiarizes learners with policy and legal issues that supervisors face on the job. Workplace issues such as discrimination, safety, worker's compensation, wage and hour issues, the hiring process, and employment contracts are discussed in this course.
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1.00 Credits
This course covers the basic programs and regulations set forth by OSHA, MPCA, and the DOT for maintaining worker safety and rules compliance in business and industry. Supervisory responsibility in safety training, industrial hygiene, motivation, and enforcement of policies are addressed. Other areas of study include accident investigation techniques and policy and program development.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides learners with an understanding of how managers might utilize and make decisions using budget and cost control techniques. Special emphasis is on interpretation of financial statements in relation to a strategic profit plan. Financial statement analysis and the strategic planning process are learned. This course is intended for current and future managers who want to sharpen their financial planning and control skills. The focus of the course is on fundamental concepts of budgeting and the all important activity of cost control.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides learners with the skills and resources to define and resolve organizational problems and make effective decisions. Techniques to improve creativity, group participation, and gain approval and support for successful implementation of solutions are taught. Opportunities are provided to practice techniques using actual problems from the workplace. Individual and group decision making is explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides learners with tools and techniques to keep pace with the rapid and dramatic changes in the workplace today. Learners are taught to be change leaders by effectively identifying and overcoming resistance to change by creating a work environment where change is expected and viewed as positive. This course also covers techniques for resolving conflict and negotiating collaborative solutions in workplace settings. Emphasis is placed on selecting and applying conflict resolution and negotiation strategies that are appropriate for a given situation. How to effectively confront conflict in its early stages and to negotiate solutions beneficial to all persons involved are covered.
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3.00 Credits
Because today's "do more with less" work environment requires thaeach employee offer optimal performance, those in leadership roles need to shift from a one way practice of managing to a two way process of coaching employees. Students learn to help employees discard undesirable behavior and adopt more effective performance. The focus of this course is on exploring the role of the coach and the nature of coaching relationships in the workplace. Mentoring, tutoring, counseling, and confronting performance in order to help employees become more committed to performance objectives and increase productivity is covered. Learners practice setting, communicating, and coaching performance expectations.
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3.00 Credits
A practical approach to managing resources, people, deadlines, and real world challenges required to bring any project in on time, on target, and on budget is taught in this course. Additionally, core analytical tools needed to achieve improved quality of products and/or services are learned.
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3.00 Credits
This course assists management learners in understanding the principles, policies, and practices related to procurement, development, maintenance, and utilization of human resources. The specific areas included in this course are human resource planning, recruitment, selection, and development, as well as motivation in the work environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares managers to value the various types of diversity in employees within their workforce. People in the workplace are diverse in culture, gender, age, race, skills, experience, expectations, and personality. This course focuses on the communication tools necessary to manage those differences. With this focus, the manager increases his/her effectiveness and employee satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on viewing differences as assets rather than liabilities in order to reduce turnover, enhance creativity, and increase productivity.
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3.00 Credits
This course guides the learner through an individualized education plan within the Supervisory Management program. The college shares authority with the learner over the development and direction of their degree plan. Guidance is given on the transferability of achieved credits as well as on prior learning experiences and existing skills that may be converted into college credits. Learners develop a portfolio, which is submitted to the Supervisory Management coordinator/advisor.
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