Program Overview

University Program Details

The university offers a comprehensive range of courses in management, including:

Management Courses

• MGT 310: Managing Organizational Behavior
  • Examines and analyzes the organization and the organizational environment as a social system
  • Topics include individual differences, perceptions, attitudes, emotions, motivation, performance, job design, culture, innovation, change, strategy and structure, and leadership
  • Enrollment requires completion of at least 48 hours of college level coursework
• MGT 330: Business and Managerial Communication
  • Application of business and managerial communication skills necessary for leadership and success in organizations
  • Students will examine features of organizational communication processes and verbal
    onverbal communication
  • Construction and evaluation of written communication in business contexts, social media, and oral presentations with an emphasis on analysis, data representation, and evidence-based arguments will be practiced
• MGT 371: Social Responsibility and Ethics: Corporate and Public
  • Theories and applications of social responsibility and ethical issues related to the corporate, governmental, and nonprofit sectors
  • Areas covered include consumerism, ecology, labor relations, diversity, government regulations, philanthropy, and stockholder/stakeholder relations
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
• MGT 390: Topics in Management
  • Each topic covers a different managerial concept and may include an intensive workshop
  • May be repeated for an indefinite number of hours, but particular topics must differ
• MGT 422: Negotiation
  • Theories and applications of negotiation as related to conflict resolution between individuals within organizations
  • Examines how people think about, approach, and behave in negotiations
  • Examines common biases in planning and negotiation behavior and decision making, issues negotiating interpersonally between groups vs. between individuals, methods of influence used in negotiations, and best practices
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
• MGT 431: Human Resource Management
  • Theories and applications of the leadership and development of people in organizations
  • Topics include human resource planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, training, career development, performance appraisal, compensation, incentives, union-management relations, ethics, diversity, and succession planning
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent or graduate level standing
• MGT 444: ECCE: Work, Family and Community: A U. S. Perspective
  • This course is designed to examine and debate critical challenges facing individuals, families, employers and communities in managing the changing demands of work, family and life
  • Gender, socio-economic, legal public policy, corporate and individual perspectives will be considered
• MGT 461: Organization Theory
  • Theories and applications of organization theory relative to the design of organizational structure
  • Topics include organizational analysis, structure, culture, technology, organization size and life cycle, mechanistic and organic organizations, organizational effectiveness, measuring organizational performance, conflict, power, politics, external environment, ethics, and diversity
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
• MGT 471: Human Resources Planning and Staffing
  • Addresses organizational analysis, job analysis and its impact on other HR functions (i.e. recruitment, and selection, performance appraisal, compensation)
  • Determining employee staffing levels, recruitment processes and sources to maximize the number of qualified applicants for positions, and effective selection techniques
  • Prerequisites: MGT 431, or instructor approval
• MGT 472: Compensation and Benefit Strategies
  • Exploration of total compensation in support of organizational strategy
  • Evaluation of components of total compensation with respect to whether they appropriately influence behavior in light of four questions
  • Prerequisites: MGT 431 or instructor approval
• MGT 473: Employee Appraisal and Development
  • Examines processes by which organizations and managers provide feedback and develop employee talents to their maximum potential
  • Topics include needs assessment, employee performance appraisal, career planning, and training
  • Prerequisites: MGT 431 or instructor approval
• MGT 474: Leadership and Motivation
  • Major leadership theories, characteristics of leaders, leadership styles, delegation, decision-making, communication, and subordinate development examined
  • Motivational methods and techniques studied as potential tools for those assuming leadership roles
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
• MGT 475: People Analytics
  • Identify insights from HR data/analysis
  • Review HR data, explore fundamental questions that drive the analytical process, utilize basic statistical techniques for analyzing HRM data
• MGT 485: International Management
  • Gives a perspective of the global marketplace, compares the management of similar companies in different nations, analyzes public/private sector relationships, and examines the social and economic impact of various internal and external cross-border issues
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
• MGT 488: Strategic Management: The Capstone
  • This course integrates concepts from CBM core courses to study key issues facing top managers and management teams
  • Students will analyze industry environments, evaluate sources of competitive advantage and develop business and corporate level strategies using case studies
  • Prerequisites: All college core courses and within 12 hours of graduation or during the student's last semester
• MGT 490: Topics in Managerial Concepts and Skills
  • Each topic covers a different managerial concept and includes an intensive workshop
  • Prerequisites: MGT 310 or equivalent
  • May be repeated for an indefinite number of hours, but particular topics must differ
• MGT 499: Tutorial In Management
  • Intended to supplement, not supplant, regular course offerings
  • Students interested in a tutorial must secure the consent of the faculty member concerned before registration and submit any required documentation to him or her
  • May be repeated to a maximum of 4 hours

Graduate Courses

• MGT 531: Acquiring and Developing Talent
  • Beginning with a strategic overview of the organization, this course will use concepts and tools involving organizational analysis, job analysis, workforce planning, recruitment strategies and selection techniques to effectively acquire and develop talent
• MGT 532: Performance Management
  • Examination of key human resource concepts and tools that enhance organizational performance
  • Topics covered include: performance management, employee training and development, employee and labor relations, managing diverse organizations, total compensation, and risk management (occupational health, safety, and security)
• MGT 534: International Human Resource Management
  • This course explores culture, sourcing HR for global markets, international training and development, compensation and benefits across countries, international organizations and their structures, international assignment management, and the legal and regulatory considerations faced by global organizations
  • Prerequisites: BUS 551
• MGT 535: Organizational Change and Development
  • This course explores organizational design and development
  • It also includes the change management process and how specifically human resource professionals play a role in organizational change
• MGT 536: Human Resource Analytics
  • This course examines tools and techniques for data analysis to inform human resource management (HRM) decision-making
  • Conceptual models and statistical techniques for HRM data analytics will be applied to core HRM areas including workforce recruitment, selection, training, employee engagement, performance management, and interventions for evidence-based HR strategies
  • Prerequisites: ECO 213 and MGT 551
• MGT 537: Labor Relations & Resolutions
  • This course explores the history, laws, and current environment of labor relations in the U.S.
  • Students will also learn about employee rights and engagement, as well as how labor relations negotiations and conflict resolutions work to ensure a balanced relationship between the union and management to ensure employee productivity
• MGT 538: Strategic Human Resource Management Closure
  • Beginning with the process of aligning human resource and business strategies, this course considers the overall design of the human resource management infrastructure to enable optimal employee performance relative to the strategic goals of the organization
  • Topics considered include globalization, outsourcing, change management, leadership, team building, and communication skills
  • Prerequisites: MGT 431 or BUS 541 or equivalent
• MGT 539: HRM Strategy Continuing Enrollment
  • MGT 538 is the graduate closure course consistent with campus policy on completion of a master's degree
  • This policy requires that students not completing MGT 538 must continue to enroll in MGT 539 (zero credit hours, one billable) each subsequent semester until the course requirements are met
  • Credit/No Credit grading only
  • Prerequisites: MGT 538 must be taken during the student's final semester before graduation
• MGT 550: Entrepreneurship
  • This course focuses on how opportunities are created, discovered and recognized
  • Students are introduced to the concepts of "entrepreneurial thinking" and entrepreneurial decision making in both pre-venture stages and also in established firms to build a foundation of study in the area of entrepreneurship
  • Prerequisites: BUS 501 or equivalent
• MGT 551: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
  • Operational approach to managing people at work, drawing from behavioral sciences
  • Builds on the concept of reconciliation and integration of worker-organizational interests through supportive situation-oriented leadership by both line and staff managers
  • Focuses on emerging issues and concepts relating to management of human resources of an organization
• MGT 555: Small Business and Family Business Management
  • This course explores the role of small business and family businesses (including franchising) in the economy
  • Topics include: distinctive characteristics of managing small business, issues in marketing finance and sustaining the growth of small business, unique characteristics of family business, family business succession and nurturing entrepreneurship beyond the first generation
  • Prerequisites: BUS 501 or equivalent
• MGT 572: Managing Compensation and Benefits
  • Exploration of total compensation in support of organizational strategy
  • Evaluation of components of compensation and benefit systems with respect to how they influence employee behavior
  • Examines different philosophies of motivation and valuation of human capital
  • Prerequisites: MGT 431 or BUS 551 or equivalent
• MGT 575: HRM Information Systems
  • Examine HR information concepts, systems, technologies, & practices in organizations, including systems security, privacy & legal implications
  • Apply HR systems to performance management, compensation/benefits, planning/recruiting, employment relations, talent management, & enterprise computing needs
  • Needs analysis, selection, evaluation & implementation to choose an appropriate solution will be examined
  • Prerequisites: BUS 551