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This course introduces the student to management concepts and strategies used by modern businesses. The course is designed to familiarize student with the accepted standards, procedures, and techniques employed by top, middle, and supervisory level managers. Further, the course provides students with an understanding of the role of management and how to develop plans and execute strategies in pursuit of organizational goals.

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This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the “management of strategy” in the business enterprise. A case-oriented format has been adopted to focus attention on what a firm should do in an actual business situation, and to provide students with numerous opportunities to develop and exercise their analytical and decision-making skills.

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This course provides students with a hands-on class experience in starting a side business that can add to a student’s income stream or grow into a full-time business. Students will learn to: identify income producing opportunities, develop business and promotion plans, and fund, launch, refine their business and make a profit. Emphasis will be placed on experiential learning, taking action and the iterative refinement process needed to start a new business.

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This course provides an introduction of the key topics concerning sustainability in business. In particular, an examination of business potential as a significant economic force to provide solutions to global environmental, social and economic challenges in the 21st century. The course will focus on how innovation can drive sustainable business activities.

This course examines the special case of detailed planning and implementation of management decisions in strategic business units. Attention is focused on three areas: developing action plans and implementation strategies; developing awareness of the contingencies to be considered in taking strategic actions, and investigating how different academic disciplines interpret the leadership phenomenon. This course highlights key criteria used in assessing the viability of an organizational action plan, and the role of leadership in managing constructive change processes.

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Human resource management encompasses those activities designed to provide for and coordinate the human resources of an organization. This course is fashioned to emphasize both the theoretical and practical aspects of human resource management. Topics of special interest include equal employment opportunity; staffing the organization; training and developing employees; employee compensation; understanding unions; and organizational maintenance, communication, and information systems.

This course reviews procedures and strategies for determining benefits and compensation in contemporary organizations. Considering both traditional and modern methods, the need for strategically focused benefits and compensation processes is addressed. The course examines the related variables that impact employee motivation and performance in a variety of organizations. Special attention is given to benefit planning & negotiation, health & welfare, retirement plans, compensation surveys, non-economic rewards, and legal issues including ERISA impact. Students will learn how to make sound compensation and benefit decisions and how to administer benefit programs.

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Managerial negotiation, a feature central to labor-management relations, is a common everyday activity that most people use to influence others and to achieve personal objectives. This course integrates theoretical research from the field of social psychology, the literature on collective bargaining from the arena of labor relations, and the “how to do it” writings of popular works on negotiations, and applies them to managerial negotiation. Of particular interest are the areas of persuasion and attitude change, power, conflict management, and justice in organizations. A variety of experientially-based role plays, simulations, questionnaires, and cases are adopted to highlight key aspects of the negotiation process.

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This course provides an introduction to the voluntary process of sustainability reporting in business and other organizations. The Global Reporting Initiative will be highlighted as a key model for a business to build sustainable practices into its operations. Items such as team building, sustainability indicators, tracking and reporting are the areas of concentration. Students will be able to develop a beginning sustainability report for a chosen business.

This course provides an overview of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) as they relate to corporations and nonprofit organizations. Students will learn processes to build contemporary sustainability goals into the corporate culture and business model of conventional organizations. This course takes a global perspective, touching on various aspects of the global capitalist economy.

This course provides an introduction to the varied elements of social sustainability and examines what role business should play. Socially responsible leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, activism and changing policies, social impacts on communities, the world’s food systems, global fair trade and impact entrepreneurs will be used to highlight the increasing attention on the need to align of business practices with essential societal needs.

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This course navigates the current business environment and identifies the key legal challenges that an entrepreneur faces in starting and operating a business. It is ideal for business majors and for students who have an interest in starting their own businesses. The following topics are explored: basic legal concepts, dispute resolution, tort liability, contracts, managing risk, employment law, agent liability, legal form of business ownership, legal challenges with marketing, and intellectual property law.

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This course provides an overview of how firms use distribution intermediaries to gain a competitive advantage in local and global markets through the integration of logistics and supply chain management. The management of the physical flow of products and information throughout the entire supply chain is examined, including physical distribution, transportation, warehousing, customer service, materials management, third-party and global logistics, systems planning, and operations and management of the supply chain.

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The class provides an overview of the alternative modes, systems, rates, services, and regulations in global transportation. Transportation systems and providers will be examined including ocean, air, and surface carriers, as well as intermodal and special carriers.

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This course is an overview of the entire supply chain and its key elements. Students are exposed to concepts, models, and terminology used in demand planning, inventory planning, material planning, distribution planning, fulfillment planning, and related components of a supply chain are examined.

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Introduces concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing and service operations. The course examines operations and the coordination of product development, process management, and supply chain management. Students are exposed to topics in the areas of process analysis, materials management, production scheduling, quality management, and product design.

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This course introduces students to the fundamentals of procurement. Students will learn how to improve a company’s profitability through key concepts such as negotiation, supplier sourcing and qualification, outsourcing and make-or-buy analysis. Students will learn the various steps of the order process from the generation of the purchase requisition through receiving. Students will also learn to maintain effective purchasing records, manage budgets and explore career opportunities in the Supply Chain Industry.

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This course introduces students to the essential elements of project management and team leadership. Emphasis is placed on managing resources, and creating control mechanisms that minimize risk in the world of logistics and supply chain management. Students will explore the context of building effective project teams and maintaining stakeholder relationships. Students will learn and apply basic project management concepts including budgeting, planning, scheduling, work breakdown structures, monitoring and project control to move goods and services across the globe.

This course introduces students to Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS). Earned Value Management Systems is a technique that combines measures of scope, cost and schedule for evaluating project progress. EVMS utilizes defined metrics and visual analytics to help track cost and schedule performance. This course will introduce how EVMS measures accomplished efforts against the plan for management to effectively make risk assessments. EVMS are utilized on a sundry of projects in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and high-tech industries.

This course introduces an enterprise resource planning system such as SAP software (“Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing”) and how it is used in a procurement office to record the day-to-day purchasing activities at major corporations. Through case studies and the review of major business processes, students will learn how SAP software records the transaction including sales, procurement, invoices, MRP (Materials Requirement Planning) and payments.