Management (MGMT)

This course introduces key management concepts and practices in modern organizations. Students will explore the roles and functions of managers, examine decision-making processes, and analyze the impact of organizational structure, culture, and environment on managerial effectiveness. Topics include planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, as well as ethical considerations and global management challenges.

Provides students from all disciplines the knowledge and practice of how entrepreneurship works through the identification of opportunities and turning ideas into innovations to create value for society.

Current, real-life experiences from operations and supply management disciplines are applied in the study of effective management of organizational operations, supply chain execution and enhancement, and leadership behavior. Topics include planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. Management topics include organizing, leadership, automation, labor relations, and social responsibility. Interrelationships between operational needs, the global supply chain, and the management/supervision of people are examined.

This course is an examination of issues facing women in organizations, ranging from consideration of occupational choice, obstacles encountered in the workplace, and strategies for helping women succeed in their careers.

This course is designed for students aspiring to lead and grow organizations. This course equips students with the skills necessary to identify and evaluate new business opportunities, acquire and leverage essential resources, and drive organizational growth. Students learn how to attract financing, build effective teams, manage change, and negotiate successfully with resource providers. Emphasis is placed on managing and scaling the company while also understanding strategies for harvesting and collecting value when appropriate.

This course provides students with an understanding of the complex dynamics underlying sustainable business as a global phenomenon. Sustainable business is about using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to wicked problems. Students will study how organizations and entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, combine and mobilize resources, trigger positive organizational and systemic change, and build sustainability.

This course includes a study of the place and function of the human resource management department in business and industry. Topics include introduction and background of human resources, acquiring human resources, training and developing employees, compensation and benefits, and employee well-being and labor relations.

This course explores leadership in organizations, including historical and current research. This course connects leadership theory and practice.

Focuses on supplier relationship management (SRM). Explores the relationship between business and its network(s) of suppliers in product and service industries. The course builds on the foundation of business processes in previous course work and the integration of all those processes internally and externally with customers and suppliers. Provides a deeper understanding of the supply management processes of forecasting, sourcing, purchasing, logistics, cost accounting, technology, and warehousing. Elements of this course include business ethics, negotiating, quality, and performance improvement.

This course explores and analyzes established and current techniques for resolving business disputes and constructive conflict through conflict management and negotiation skills.

This course is designed to provide students with the essential business analytics skills to support management decision making. Students will do business analytic modeling with relevant business applications. Topics are visualization & data issues, regression & forecasting, data mining, optimization & sensitivity analysis and simulation.

Manufacturing operations expands the knowledge of processes that create products and services in companies. It includes product or service design, change management, production processes, production control, safety, technology, and decision making. Impact of human relations policies and union agreements are studied. Explore Six Sigma quality and operations management concepts.

Study the development of appropriate strategies for new ventures and multinational companies in a global marketplace that poses new challenges for managers. The global environment and cultural context for international management will be examined along with worldwide developments.

Study of global supply chain management and the logistical functions and tools involved in the movement of goods and services. Explores the impact of international trade and trade agreements.

Students will examine the strategic value and competitive advantage of project management in the business environment. Students will gain a first-hand understanding of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing out a project. Students will develop an understanding of the strategic, tactical, technical and management issues of project management.

Selected topics, announced as offered, covering various themes. Students may repeat the course if on a different topic.

This course is centered on experiential learning in the field. Students work on consulting projects, feasibility studies, internships and other projects that interface with the business and entrepreneurial community.

This course examines human behavior in the work environment at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Emphasis areas include group behavior/dynamics, theories for motivation, leadership, decision-making process, corporate culture, organizational behavior in the global setting and values and attitudes affecting work behavior.

The course integrates a student's overall business coursework into a capstone experience. Using theoretical and practical applications in business strategy, students will work to develop skills and competencies as business professionals. Focus areas include strategic analysis tools, strategic communication, critical thinking and problem solving, evidence-based reasoning, and team effectiveness.