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3.00 Credits
The demands of business today require a range of decision-making and team-leadership skills. Topics include conflict management, creativity, communication, giving professional presentations, problem solving, group roles, power, and team dynamics. Students practice, assess, and reflect on their skills as potential managers, learning their strengths and weaknesses in these key areas. Prerequisite: MGT 310 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The human resource (HR) function is being asked to contribute directly to the success of today's organizations worldwide. This course discusses the changing roles of human resource management in bringing about this leadership through strategic thinking. In addition to strategic aspects, students learn fundamental HR practices, such as job analysis, performance appraisal, and interviewing techniques. The complex legislative, judicial, international, and demographic issues that impact HR systems are also presented. Applications in the use of information technology to complete HR tasks are demonstrated. Students analyze cases and practice human resource techniques through projects and discussions. Prerequisite: MGT 310.
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3.00 Credits
Today's workers frequently change jobs and careers. A variety of careers are available today that were unknown a decade ago. To face this reality, students need information and skills to understand the global workplace, to assess their own skills, and to select employment wisely. Each student is expected to engage in an in-depth self-assessment and develop a career plan. Students also learn about techniques, including databases and interactive systems, used by managers and career specialists to develop employees' careers. Prerequisite: MGT 310.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores many issues and questions dealing with what is right, proper, and just for leaders and managers. Students analyze ethical dilemmas using a variety of conceptual frameworks in order to recommend specific management action. Prerequisite: MGT 310.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis and presentation of an empirical, theoretical, or practical area of management. Students are expected to make presentations and be responsible for segments of the class activity. Prerequisite: MGT 310.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of historical and contemporary theories of leadership. Its primary goal is to equip students with selfawareness and leadership skills for individual, team, and organizational contexts. The course integrates theory and practice through the use of readings, lecture, online discussion, video cases, targeted reflection papers, experiential activities/ simulations, contact with local leaders, and practice of leadership skills. At the end of the course, students create their own theory of leadership, assess their skills in relation to it, and set personal leadership-development goals. Prerequisite: MGT 310. Corequisite: MGT 360 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the issues and dynamics related to diversity in the workplace. It includes the impact of gender, ethnicity, race, culture, and other dimensions of diversity on management and organizational life at the individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels of analysis. Prerequisite: MGT 310 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical foundations and practical skills used in resolving differences and negotiating mutually satisfying outcomes are addressed. Skills are developed through case analyses and simulated negotiations in a variety of contexts. Topics are the nature of negotiations, different negotiating styles, distributive vs. integrative bargaining, power, conflict, labor negotiations, mediation, and intercultural bargaining. Selfreflection, giving and receiving feedback are key aspects in developing negotiation skills. Prerequisite: MGT 310 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the basic principles that are at the core of the philosophy of continuous improvement. Attention is also directed at understanding how the application of this philosophy has led to the transformation of many work environments during the last two decades. Throughout the course, process and project management tools and techniques are demonstrated in class and then used in field projects to integrate theory with practice. Prerequisites: MGT 320, MGT 360, and senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
This is a capstone course in which students learn how leaders formulate and oversee the implementation of strategies that span the various functional areas of an organization. Emphasis is placed on how managers formulate strategy in external environments that are increasingly global, dynamic, and technologically complex. Students practice the skills critical to these processes through team projects, case analysis and solutions, and oral and written reports. Prerequisites: MGT 310, MIS 211, MKT 310, FIN 310, and MGT 320.
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