MGT 502 Managing Innovation
Focuses on how managers initiate, lead, and support innovation within organizations. Concepts of creativity, design, and the conditions required for them to flourish are examined, along with the model of the “learning organization.” The course introduces students to the practice of collaboration, and it provides opportunities to analyze management of groups charged with advancing new products for practices in organizations. This is the capstone course for the M.S. in Management program. (3)
MGT 505 Creating Business Webs
An introductory course that investigates usability and the Web, concentrating on business Web sites. Students study current usability issues, such as navigational systems, site architecture, and communication methods. They then create and publish their own sites to demonstrate their understanding of these issues. (3)
MGT 506 Customer Relationship Management
Focuses on the behavioral science-based interpersonal skills and competencies for satisfying customers and/or consumers with quality products, services, and processes. Students develop models and strategies for identifying and measuring individual and group motives and perceptions to determine the real needs of consumers. (3)
MGT 507 Leadership
Enables students to become more aware of and thoughtful about leadership practices in addition to developing and expanding their existing capabilities. The course provides students with opportunities to examine and apply dynamics of creativity and design to organizational constructs and strategic thinking, to examine and assess leadership capability and readiness, and to integrate personal leadership philosophies and values into a reflective practice of leadership. (3)
MGT 509 Management Seminar
Examines major current issues affecting the management and development of the business enterprise. Topics are announced each semester. (3)
MGT 510 Functional Processes for Re-engineering Organizations
Focuses on the practical aspects of re-engineering organizational processes for immediate and long-range effectiveness. The impact of resulting change on human and technical systems is addressed. (3)
MGT 511 Business Essentials
Provides fundamental knowledge of the functional areas of business for non-M.B.A. graduate students within the School of Business Administration. The course exposes students to the constructs of economics, global business, business ethics, management, human resource management, marketing, information management, accounting, and finance. Students will be expected to integrate and synthesize their learning of these constructs by means of a comprehensive term paper. (3)
MGT 515 Principles and Practices of Group Performance
Provides conceptual understanding of the principles of group and team behavior and the influence of organizational culture and group processes on group and team performance. Examines impact of group and team management on organizational development. Offered fall and summer semesters only. (3)
MGT 550 Procurement and Contracting
Introduces the principles and concepts of managing major procurement programs, from planning through programming, controlling, sourcing, and contractual design for diverse acquisitions. Emphasizes federal procurement policy and compares it with procurement and contracting at state and local government levels and in the private sector. (3)
MGT 551 Negotiation Skills and Mediation
Focuses on knowledge of, and basic competencies in, negotiation and mediation. Applies the Harvard win-win negotiation model to progressively more challenging role-plays involving multiple parties and issues. Provides techniques for handling conflict, power, and ethical issues in negotiation and mediation. Students will also have an opportunity to practice writing durable agreements. (3)
MGT 560 Ethical Issues in Business and Society
Examines corporate governance, business-government relations, the impact of economic and social change, organizational ethics, and the political role of business. Considers the measures business may use to anticipate and provide appropriate response to changes in public and government expectations while defending legitimate business interests. (3)
MGT 561 Ethics in the Information Age
Engages students in the debate over the particular legal and ethical situations presented by the advent of the information age. Issues such as information privacy, consumer rights, data encryption, intellectual property rights, free speech issues, securities transactions, customer profiling, and others will be presented and debated in light of current and future information technology. (3)
MGT 585 Global Business Management
Examines the scope and nature of opportunities and problems in international business operations. Emphasizes the effect of culture and environmental differences and the skills needed to manage international businesses. Topics include the international business environment; multinational corporations as economic, social, and political institutions; strategy issues of control and coordination; and the operating issues of managing the workforce, other managers, and management systems. Offered spring semester only. (3)
MGT 595 Internship
The purpose of the internship is to provide graduate students with practical experience in work settings. Students are expected to perform meaningful work monitored by a supervising professional representing the company selected. (3)
MGT 596 Special Topics
Explores a contemporary topic relating to some aspect of management. (3)
MGT 599 Independent Study
Students investigate selected topics in the major areas under the direction of a faculty advisor and the dean of the School of Business Administration. The Independent Study allows the student to develop and demonstrate the ability to conduct independent research, perform independent studies in a specialized area, and present the results in writing of professional quality. Prerequisite: permission from the dean of the School of Business Administration. (3)
MGT 600 Thesis
Provides an opportunity for independent research appropriate for the master’s level, as arranged with the dean of the School of Business Administration. The results of the research are communicated in writing and critiqued by the faculty. (3-6)