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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the dynamics of union/nonunion, labor/management relations in the contemporary organizational environment. Creation of internal policy, complaint systems, employee rights, performance appraisals, employee morale, health, safety and security issues will be examined. Labor/management behavior within the framework of applicable federal and statutory laws and regulations, administration of labor contracts, the mediation and arbitration process, legal aspects of collective bargaining and related practices, negotiation techniques and unfair labor practices will be addressed. The role of unions will be analyzed for applicability to the twenty-first century mobile, technology-educated workforce. Topical readings, case analysis, group projects, and a scholarly research paper will round out the class lectures and class assignment.
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3.00 Credits
Organizations face increasing challenges to design effective and efficient compensation programs to retain employees and motivate them to higher levels of performance and productivity in a globally competitive environment. There are increasing legal, legislative and regulatory reforms and constraints; workforce competition; labor cost reduction pressures due to outsourcing/offshoring and information technology infrastructures; and product competition and growth. There is also extraordinary tension between an organization's labor requirements and its ability to pay competitive wages within the dynamic of regulatory and competitive constraints. Part I of this course will expose students to compensation theories and administrative practices and provide them with the knowledge and techniques to make rational compensation decisions. In Part II of the course, the focus is on pension planning, that includes tax and legal requirements, defined contribution plans (profit sharing, savings, employee stock ownership [AESOP], 401[k], 403[b]), defined benefit plans, IRAs, Keogh plans, SEPs, SIMPLE plans, ERISA, and Employee Stock Compensation Plans. The intent is to educate students about available corporate employee incentive compensation packages other than competitive wages, some of which are participant-directed investing.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the evolving strategic, technological, practical, and legal issues confronting organizations and their staffing systems. It includes all applicable federal laws and practices as well as employee orientation, selection, recruitment, promotion, training and career development. This course will look explicitly at the corporate staffing ethics and why it is essential in today's business environment. The organizational staffing model will present the strategic approach from the organization's mission, goals and objectives, human resource and staffing strategies to staffing systems and retention management. Staffing systems management will include staffing functions, software, analysis and EEOC mediation programs. Recent case analysis will serve as an integral part of the class reading, discussion and final research paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the multi-faceted nature, concept, context and distinction between leadership and management as it is practiced and applied in the workforce. The approaches to several dimensions of leadership (transformational, charismatic, and transactional) as proposed and promulgated by theorists, researchers, scholars, and practitioners will be examined for applicability to twenty-first century organizations. Social, hierarchical, political and power relationships among leaders, followers and constituents are conceptualized and exposed to arrive at an articulated framework for understanding their dynamic interaction in the development of a strong corporate culture that builds high-performance human systems.
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3.00 Credits
This course employs historical and philosophical insights combined with theoretical knowledge and the practitioner's approach to securities analysis and investment management strategies and practices. Students will receive a thorough grounding in value investing, valuation techniques for equity securities, technical analysis, fixed income valuation, bonds with embedded options, time-value convexity trade-off and immunization, and investment strategy. Additionally, students will understand how to measure, manage and value companies.
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3.00 Credits
Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MAD) are vital business tools for enterprise growth and expansion to gain and sustain competitive advantages in industry sectors and in the marketplace. This is a high level course for the advanced graduate finance students who will gain a thorough understanding of contemporary finance theories and applications in the MAD arena. The course will consider the rationale and strategies underlying MAD activities; examine due diligence, valuation and financial accounting procedures and models; discuss the transaction terms, deal design, structure and dynamics; analyze the impact of legal, regulatory and governance issues; assess the external and internal behavioral effects on competition, employees and managers; and explore strategies for successful pre- and post-merger integration. Students will seek answers to fundamental questions: Do mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities create value for the acquiring company's shareholders? Are the expected synergies realized? Do acquirers systematically overpay? Are M&A deals a matter of survival in a consolidating or increasingly competitive industry? Case studies and industry experts will supplement lectures.
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3.00 Credits
Strategic management is an upper-level course that integrates the major business disciplines of economics, finance, investments, management, and marketing as well as statistics and quantitative methods. It is designed to give current and future managers, leaders, entrepreneurs, and others the tools and techniques they need to successfully formulate and implement organizational strategies (vision, mission, goals/objectives, action plans) to achieve a competitive advantage that yields superior financial performance while maintaining quality and providing excellent customer service. To be effective, the organization's stakeholders (particularly management and staff at all organizational levels) must buy-in and support the strategic management process from initiation to execution and implementation. Using case studies, current readings in strategic management, Internet and information technology resources, students will develop critical analytical tools to think strategically, conduct strategic analysis, craft and implement optional, integrated business strategies using sound managerial judgment based upon socially responsible ethical and organizational principles and behavior.
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3.00 Credits
MBA 800 is the terminal capstone course for the MBA program. It may be completed as a journal article of 25 pages, part of a group project (of recommended pages by the Business Research instructor), or a formal scholarly thesis of 75 - 100 pages. Students who plan to pursue a doctorate are urged to consider the thesis option. Regardless of the selected option, students will be academically advised during the capstone development, writing, completion, and defense (if a thesis option) stages. A formal thesis defense presentation to a committee of graduate and undergraduate professors is required. The journal article and group project are not defended. However, students will present the results of their research to their instructor and invited professors.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the concepts and methodologies of decision modeling and structured decision-making. Theoretical concepts will be developed and practical hands-on applications will be executed using a variety of spreadsheet and statistical software packages. The process of scientific enquiry using observation, testing, sensitivity analysis, and modeling principles will be employed to reinforce understanding of real-world decision-making process. Selected applications in production management, economics and finance will be used to illustrate various decision-making principles. Algebraic and structured problems will also be incorporated and form the basis of in-class and homework project assignments.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce theories and concepts of management. Organizational structures and processes, and modern management practices in a dynamic economic and social environment are analyzed.
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