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Management
MGT101 - Fundamentals of Supervision
Course examines techniques involved in supervising people and the responsibilities of a supervisor. Content includes analysis of methods to increase employee output and decrease costs motivation, training, communications, discipline, grievances, safety and employee appraisal.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT105 - Understand and Applying Business Skills
Course provides a basic understanding of business and the skills employers want most regardless of specific academic background. Content includes the basics of personal development planning, supervision and teamwork, quality, bookkeeping, sales and marketing, customer service, and planning and goal-setting. Focus is on developing basic knowledge and skills that would be expected of a new employee.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT106 - Time and Stress Management
Course presents basic principles and theories of time and stress management teaching how small adjustments can reap rewards in personal and professional effectiveness.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT117 - Human Relations in The Workplace
Course increases awareness of the people skills essential for career success. Content includes challenges of diversity in understanding conditions which produce differences valuing diversity diversity, discrimination and biases in the workplace intercultural relations positive self- and professional image ethics, human relations skills, personal appearance and social and business etiquette.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT118 - Effective Management Communications
Course integrates concepts and research from several disciplines including business communication and organizational behavior. Content includes examination of methods protocol and appropriateness of various forms of communication for business decision making strategies and styles of managerial communication writing for managerial communications oral presentations interviewing, group dynamics and meetings networking, teleconferencing, email, and other methods of modern business communications. Individual and team writing and delivery of oral presentations. Recommended: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT121 - Principles of Management
Course covers scope of management philosophy. Content includes principles of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in modern business.Recommended: Placement in EGL 101 hands-on experience using word processing, the Internet, and e-mail.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT126 - Introduction to Green Business
Course is an overview of how the green movement is impacting the marketplace and how businesses, nonprofits and government agencies can profitably adapt to the trend. The course will explore the current challenges and opportunities associated with greening existing operations developing new products and services for the green market initiating green purchasing maintenance and building programs and gaining a competitive advantage by demonstrating social and environmental responsibility.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT127 - Green Policy, Law and Government Regulations
Course presents evolving green legal and regulatory issues. Topics include: the role of the law and regulation in green industries and the emerging impact on business, the public sector and society. The course will be of interest to anyone involved in business management and marketing, public administration, building design construction and maintenance, education, healthcare, real estate, and many other industries impacted by evolving environmental requirements.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT130 - Purchasing Management
Course provides a general background of fundamental purchasing concepts. Content includes specific studies for those in business and industry, who wish to expand their knowledge of purchasing management, such as price cost and value analysis purchasing research forward buying purchasing systems legal aspects of purchasing make or buy decisions and electronic data processing as it relates to the purchasing function.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT140 - Supervisory Development
Course builds on the principles of supervision. Content focus is on training and development for current supervisors or those whose intention is to be supervisors. Recommended: MGT 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT155 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
Course integrates the concepts, principles, problems and practices of operations management and supply chain management. Content includes: supply chain and operations strategies, quality control, process choice and layout, managing capacity, forecasting, source decisions and purchasing, logistics, project management, just in time/lean production, global channel management, and managing inventory throughout the supply chain.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT156 - Introduction to Transportation, Warehousing and Logistics
Course covers business logistics concepts including the management of transportation, inventory, packaging, warehousing, materials handling, order processing, facility location, and customer service.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
Fee: $25
MGT160 - Small Business Management
Course presents the principles and problems of organizing a small business. Content includes analysis of entrepreneurial qualifications and skills capital resources and requirements forms of ownership and financial analysis and planning. Focus is on tax and legal considerations staffing and learning to identify profit opportunities using market analysis bringing products to market through effective advertising, personal selling and distribution methods and practices. Includes franchises, availability of government assistance through the Small Business Administration (SBA), evaluation of an existing business for purchase and special opportunities granted to small businesses in selling to government agencies.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT165 - Human Resources Management
Course covers essentials of human resources management principle sand practices in business and industry. Content includes reengineering employee benefits pension funds selection testing, placement, orientation, employee evaluation wage determination counseling, employer relations (morale and motivation), promotion, transfer, training, state and federal legislation (disabled and handicapped, ADA), discrimination, and harassment. Recommended: MGT 121 or employment in the human resources field.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT170 - Training and Development
Course introduces the field of training and development. Content includes identification of skills necessary to design and implement a training program roles and responsibilities of trainers, and unique characteristics of adult learners. Current trends and career opportunities addressed. Intended for those who have responsibility for training or human resources development within their organization, or for those exploring training as a career. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT205 - Organizational Behavior
Course develops skills and competencies needed by managers and professionals to effectively contribute to an organization. Content focus is on individual behavior in an organization impact of work teams within an organization and organizational systems. Recommended: MGT 117.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT210 - Business Etiquette
This course presents the fundamentals of business etiquette as they are applied to the modern multicultural and global business environments. The importance of the first impression, polite conversation, personal appearance, office politics, diplomacy, telephone and cell phone etiquette, proper oral and written communication, and the protocol of meetings both here in the United States and abroad will be explored. Students will participate in an off-campus formal dining experience.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
Fee: $99
MGT220 - Managing Effective Teams
Course presents theory and practical tools to become a more productive team member and leader topics include characteristics of high performing teams, leadership strategies, avoiding dysfunctional team dynamics, and managing diverse and virtual teamsPrerequisite: Recommended MGT 205
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT222 - Conflict Management
Course introduces a range of potential positive conflict management processes. Content includes active listening and communication skills principle negotiation various forms of mediation, arbitration and nonviolent action. Recommended: MGT 117.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT223 - Quality Systems Leadership
Course provides knowledge and skills to successfully implement quality management systems within an organization. Content includes development of the quality revolution various quality program implementation strategies current quality systems such as the Baldridge Criteria and ISO system. Focus is on understanding both human and analytical aspects of quality.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT225 - Effective Organizational Leadership
Course explores how effective leadership skills contribute to organizational effectiveness, employee motivation and success, and personal growth and development. Content includes current leadership models, with focus on identifying and developing workplace leadership skills development of action plan to illustrate and improve leadership skills.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT228 - Organizational Change Leadership
Course examines technical and behavioral aspects of change processes within an organization so that change strategies can be planned, implemented and evaluated. Content includes the relationship between strategy and organizational structure organizational restructuring and its outcomes leadership skills and behaviors associated with successful change creating a transition environment developing measures for evaluating the success of change effort dealing with resistance to change, and institutionalizing change.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT231 - Safety and Risk Management
Course examines concepts of safety management. Content includes strategies to create and perpetuate safe and productive environments for all stakeholders effects of sound decision making to diminish and control corporate and individual liability.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT232 - Managing Diversity in the Workplace
Course examines issues related to managing and being a member of a diverse workforce. Content includes diversity-related issues with management implications, such as social identity recruitment and selection work groups and team interaction sexual harassment workplace romance leadership, work and family accommodation of people with disabilities and organizational strategies for promoting multicultural equal opportunity.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT236 - Project Management
Course introduces principles of Project Management as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Content includes experiential exercises and team participation to gain experience with computer-based project management procedures, and to increase basic familiarity with state-of-the-art project management software. Credit cannot be received in both MGT 236 and CIS 236.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 1)
Fee: $10
MGT251 - Practicum
Course offers opportunity to earn credits in a directed work experience. Content includes required attendance at Management Seminars with other management interns to discuss and share on-the-job learning experiences, such as job problems and management case problems seminars involve guest lecturers speaking on topics of special interest to management personnel. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 12 hours of MGT courses.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 15)
MGT253 - Project Management Certification Preparation
Course offers an intensive review of project management concepts and the application of these concepts to various business scenarios in preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. Students cannot receive credit for both CIS 253 and MGT 253.Recommended: CIS236 or MGT236 or comparable knowledge or consent of instructor
2 Credit Hours (lecture: 2; lab: 0)
MGT266 - Employee Selection and Staffing
Course covers fundamental principles and practices of staffing. Content focus is on interdependence of effective organizational performance with proper hiring and assessment of personnel personnel staffing recruiting, and selection function involved in human resource management. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT267 - Compensation & Benefits Administration
Course examines scope of benefits administration. Content includes advanced theories, concepts, issues, techniques procedures and processes in the management of organizational compensation and benefit system knowledge of practices and functions of a compensation and benefits coordinator. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT268 - Human Resource Management Law
Course investigates federal and state legislative, judicial and administrative regulations of the employer/employee relationship in the private sector. Content includes equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, wage-hour law, labor law, employee pension benefits, workers compensation, unemployment compensation Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT271 - Cases in Human Resource Management
Course involves real-life human resource management situations. Content developed through case study approach, examining how a variety of companies have dealt with various human resource issues. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT280 - Human Resources Certification Exam Preparation
Course deals with the theories and concepts necessary to be successful on the PHR and SPHR exam. Content covers industry theory, practical application and test taking experiences. Recommended: Two years of human resources experience.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT285 - Negotiations
Course involves real-life management and personal negotiation situations. Content includes the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings including preparing, measuring, conducting and debriefing individual and group negotiations. Prerequisite: Recommended MGT117
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT288 - Strategic Management
Course is an integrative learning experience in strategic management focusing on concepts and their application to a variety of business functions. Content covers identifying problems, analyzing solutions, decision-making, and formulating a workable plan. Course is designed as a capstone for the management curriculum. Prerequisite: Twelve hours of MGT courses or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT290 - Topics in Management
Course meets special interest needs of Management students and local business organizations. Special topics will be offered for variable credit from one to four semester credit hours. Students may repeat MGT 290 up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic.
1-4 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-4; lab: 0)
