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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) 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.
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) 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. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) 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 and 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. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Program admission, MSD 103) 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. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Program admission, MAT 1011) 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.
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) 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.
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) 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 cast study approach to encourage the student in developing analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. Topics include: 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. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission, SCT 100.) This course focuses on communication, supervision and organizations in the age of technology. It builds on the basic computer skills introduced in SCT 100 using computer-based technology to develop skills in applying information technology. The student will create written, verbal, and electronic communication applied to supervisory functions in the workplace. Topics include: word processing applications; spreadsheet applications; database applications; presentation technology and applications; graphical interface applications; interpersonal communications; and organizational communications. Applications come from communications, human resource management, and general business such as HR functions training plans with a database, tracking budgets with spreadsheets, construct a corporate newsletter on Publisher, set up corporate e-mail accounts, or develop a business web page on FrontPage. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) Develops a working knowledge of managing a retail business from a variety of perspectives with an emphasis on store management. The emphasis is on contemporary issues in retailing, particularly the process of supervising customer service and dealing with the changing demographics of retailing. An application focus on the use of information technologies, the internet, and electronic retailing is intended to give the student hands-on experience in retail management. Topics include: strategic retail management; store, non-store, and nontraditional retailing; retail human resource management; developing a customer-focused service strategy; managing customer service; retail operations and financial management; merchandise management; buying and inventory management; global, cataloging, and electronic retail management; information technology applications in retailing. [OL]
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5.00 Credits
(Prerequisites: Provisional admission.) Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a manager or entrepreneur to develop and implement a business plan. Topics include: business/community compatibility, introduction to cash flow and break even analysis, development of product/service idea, determination of market feasibility, determination of financial feasibility, development of marketing strategy, development of operations outline, and application of financial concepts. [OL]
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