MGT 5035 Business Law for Management 3 Credits
This course introduces students to the contemporary legal environment of business. Comprehensive in scope, it examines the court system and the judicial process, as well as areas of substantive law such as torts, contract, criminal, constitutional, administrative, labor, employment, and environmental. Various forms of business organizations, as well as the arena of international law, are also covered.
MGT 5075 International Management 3 Credits
This course examines the International business environment, management practices outside the United States, and the interpersonal, institutional, and legal problems facing managers conducting business in more than one cultural context.
MGT 5085 Management Study Tour 3 Credits
A specially designed international tour to varying countries which offers students a unique opportunity to study international management -- its dimensions, participants, trends, and opportunities. Students will also experience the heritage, ambiance, and excitement of the world's great countries and cities.
MGT 5095 Research in Management 3 Credits
By Permission of Chair.
MGT 5235 Compensation Administration 3 credits
The focus of this course is on strategic compensation systems needed in a dynamic business environment. Both basic and advanced topics are reviewed, including job evaluation, wage and salary structures, gainsharing, and other pay-for-performance systems. Prerequisite : MGT 5015
MGT 5245 Negotiation Skills 3 credits
The purpose of this course is to provide opportunities for students to develop their negotiating abilities for use in organizational and other settings. The course is premised on the assumption that negotiating concepts are best learned through practice that is grounded in rigorous analysis and reflection. While theoretical principles and concepts from various reference disciplines ( such as social psychology, sociology, and economics) will be presented through lectures and readings, this course will focus primarily on improving practical skills. Students will not only learn to enhance their individual abilities in dyadic and group situations, but also to analyze contexts for the most effective application of these skills.
MGT 5255 Career Management in Organizations 3 credits
This course examines the basics of career development and how it fits into the organizational structure. It includes theory and practice of career/adult development, its delivery systems, and its target populations.
MGT 5265 Leadership in Modern Organization 3 credits
This course will explore what it means to provide leadership to others in modern organizations. Topics will include enhancing one's leadership capability, crisis periods of leadership, conflicts between the organization's leadership and one's personal leadership, and strategies for success in leadership positions. Additional themes of power, authority, and control will be examined in terms of the organization and the individual.
MGT 5275 Consulting for Management 3 credits
Through the completion of a consulting project in support of management in a local organization, agency, or corporation, this course develops students' consulting and change facilitation skills. The course explores a range of consulting methods, with emphasis on Client/consultant working as partners. By working with for-profit or nonprofit organizations, or local, regional, national, or international organizations, the course explores the importance of culture to understanding organizations and the successful implementation of change.
MGT 5295 Conflict Resolution 3 credits
Whether conflict is healthy or unhealthy for an organization is a function of an individual's ability to surface, work with, and resolve differences that inevitably arise in organization life between individuals and within and between groups and departments. This course examines the psychological and social dynamics which are connected to conflict and alternative dispute resolution, including power, leadership, personal needs, roles, communication. It also provides practical tools and skills development for dealing with conflict in a range of organizational settings.
MGT 5305 Managing Teams 3 credits
The focus of this course is on how to design, facilitate and manage work teams in a variety of settings. The course also covers interventions in team development including working with problematic organizations and with different types of teams.
MGT 5315 Topics in Human Resources 3 credits
This course covers topics of current interest in the field of human resources. The specific subjects and prerequisites will be announced in the course schedule. Prerequisites : MGT 5015
MGT 5325 Organizational Staffing 3 credits
An examination of traditional staffing functions (recruitment, selection, and orientation) is undertaken so that the process by which organizations and individuals are matched may be better understood. Always mindful of the legal issues that permeate these processes, this unique course will examine the staffing function at an advanced level. Issues such as labor supply and demand, HR strategy and planning, the regulatory environment, validity and reliability, job analysis, realistic job previews, assessment centers, honesty and ability testing and state of the art requirement and selection techniques will be explored in depth. Prerequisite : MGT 5015
