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Programs of
Study
Management
Course Descriptions
— Management
- MGT 251 — Legal Environment of
Business — 3 credits
- The nature, sources, formation, and applications of
law. Judicial function, court system, litigation and other methods of resolving
disputes. Legislation- law from judicial decisions, law by administrative
agencies, regulation of business activity, antitrust law, consumer protection,
environment, and pollution control. Tort, criminal and insurance law, property
rights for both personal and real property. Business organization, principle of
agency, partnership and corporation.
- MGT 351 — Principles of
Management I — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: junior standing) Survey course examines key aspects of organizations and their management – dynamic environments, organization design and structure, roles/functions of managers, managing technology and change, global management, and alternative types of organizations. This course examines the expanding role of the manager from planning, organizing, controlling and directing, to the knowledge and skills involved in managing and working with a diverse workforce.
- MGT 352 — Principles of
Management II — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351) Course explains the functions of a human resources division or department – including job descriptions, labor demographics, recruitment and hiring, turnover and mobility, interviewing, aptitude and other employee testing, performance evaluation, disciplinary procedures, employee health and safety, wage and hour administration, government regulations; and the handling of absenteeism, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
- MGT 361 — Human Resource
Management — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351) Course explains the functions of a human resources division or department – including job descriptions, labor demographics, recruitment and hiring, turnover and mobility, interviewing, aptitude and other employee testing, performance evaluation, disciplinary procedures, employee health and safety, wage and hour administration, government regulations; and the handling of absenteeism, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
- MGT 362 — Employee-Management
Relations — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351) This examines employee-management practices in contemporary society, employee participation in unions, and their spill-over effect on nonunion settings. Course topics include unions, the collective-bargaining process, wages and benefits, seniority, grievance procedures, and arbitration. Discrimination in employment and equal-employment opportunity will be discussed, as well as future issues in union and nonunion settings and international employee-management relations.
- MGT 455 — Business Policy and
Strategy — 3 credits
- (Prerequisites: senior standing, Fin 351, OIM 352, Mgt 352, Mkt 351) This is the capstone course for all Business majors. Concepts and skills developed in the prerequisite courses are integrated and applied to the overall management of an organization. Topics will include setting objectives, designing strategic plans, allocating resources, organizational structuring and controlling performance.
- MGT 460 — Organization
Theory — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351) Study of the forces both
within and outside the organization that determine the structure and processes
of an organization. Topics to be covered will include technology and size-
influences, conflict, boundary roles, matrix structure, political factors, and
sociotechnical systems.
- MGT 461 — Managing Through
Systems and Quality — 3 credits
- (Perquisite: MGT 351) Systems theory provides a
powerful way to understand work organizations: as interacting, inter-dependent
systems. Managing effectively through systems involves working with vision,
with empowered, growing people with a customer orientation, with good measures
and analysis, and with a continuous improvement culture. This course will focus
on these quality management approaches that form the underpinning of
tomorrow’s management practices.
- MGT 462 — Project Management in
Organizations — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351) This course will examine
advanced project-management concepts from all phases of the project lifecycle
(from requirements- specification through post-project assessment). Special
emphasis will be placed on understanding projects within the context of complex
organizational settings by utilizing an open-systems perspective. Linkages with
more permanent administration structures within the organization will be
reviewed. (OIM 462 and MGT 462 are offered jointly.)
- MGT 471 — Group
Dynamics — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351 or permission of instructor)
Survey of constructs, research and applications of small group phenomena in an
organizational contest. Examines theories, research measurements and
observational methods used in studying groups. Students will be able to explore
their own behavior in groups by participating in various groups and/or by
observing others in group experiences. The course will prepare students to be
effective in groups.
- MGT 473 — Organizational Social
Responsibility — 3 credits
- (Prerequisite: MGT 351 or permission of the
instructor) This course introduces students to basic concepts underlying the
social responsibility aspect of the management process. The role of pluralism
is examined in the societal system to provide an understanding of the evolving
relationship between organizations and society as a whole. The managerial
approach is explored in the light of the increasing importance of societal
impact on the organization.
- MGT 474 — (D) Managing a
Multicultural Workforce — 3 credits
- This course addresses the skills and knowledge managers must develop to deal with an increasingly culturally diverse workforce. Specific topics to be covered include diversity in ethnicity, nationality, religion, culture, gender, age, sexual orientation and disability. The course will help students interact and work with people different from themselves and to understand their own cultural values, biases and behaviors.
- MGT/IB 475 — International
Management — 3 credits
- (Prerequisites: ECO, MGT 351) Focuses on functional strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), structure and control-systems of MNCs, and comparative management. Specific MNC strategies to be covered include entry, sourcing, and marketing, finance, human resources and public affairs. Study of structure and control systems includes corporate structure, headquarters-subsidiary relationships. Study of comparative management systems focuses on nature of management systems and practices in different cultures.
- MGT 495 — European Business
Experience — 3 credits
- (Prerequisites: MGT 351, MKT 351, ECO/IB 351) Students will have an opportunity to participate in lecture-discussion sessions with top-level executives from various multinational corporations, local business firms, and government agencies in a number of different countries in Europe. Participants will gain a basic understanding of the issues prominent in international business today. Course involves travel to Europe. (Also listed as IB 495 and MKT 495.)
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