Required Management Course
MGT 599 FAST START WORKSHOP
The Fast Start Workshop provides students with the perspective and the essential learning skills for maximizing their MBA experience. By clarifying faculty's expectations of both the program content and students' performance, students realize that they are partners with the faculty in determining successful completion of their MBA program. As effective team participation is an integral part of many of our MBA classes, a simulation is utilized to demonstrate team dynamics and to identify individual team member development needs. Strategies for accomplishing identified team development goals are explored.
MGT 602 LEADING FOR PERFORMANCE
Examines leadership as "the ability to influence others in the absence of positional power." Through an interactive process of experiential learning, students develop an understanding of what leadership is, as well as insight into their individual personal styles and/or preferences in the area of group dynamics, team building, problem-solving, and conflict resolution. This course explores a variety of concepts ranging from the interrelationship of trust and power to the situational and contextual aspects of leadership and influencing. Emphasis will be placed upon work-life integration through the creation of a personal commitment plan for holistic personal, professional and academic growth both within as well as outside of the MBA program.
MGT 610 LEADING STRATEGIC CHANGE
This course offers a top management perspective of corporate strategic change issues and innovative job design principles needed to support organization strategy. Key course objectives include defining the strategic management process, analyzing growth patterns and organizational configurations of global organizations, exploring core concepts, issues, and models associated with value networks and strategic change management, identifying key business processes, aligning organization processes and job goals with strategy, and exploring ways to improve business processes and innovation.
MGT 615 APPLIED STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
Examines strategy and policy from the executive point of view. Studies the objectives, environmental forces, institutional resources and social values involved in the determination and implementation of strategy and policy. Faculty-guided projects involve students in a variety of community organizations and businesses. It is the capstone course in the MBA curriculum integrating all areas of study in the MBA program
Management Electives
MGT 600 CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT
For graduate students only. Prerequisite: written permission of the department chair.
MGT 626 HUMAN RESOURCES STRATEGY FOR EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF PEOPLE
This course is organized around the concept of an integrated Human Resource Management (HRM) system, comprised of multiple managerial activities, designed to influence a set of critical employee behaviors. Students will critically evaluate support subsystems from a cost-benefit and legal perspective and learn to align HRM solutions with business strategy and the realities of labor markets.
MGT 635 LEADERSHIP BY DESIGN SEMINAR
This interactive seminar course investigates the role of leaders, using organizational design concepts to build systems and processes that align people in the organization with the vision, mission, and goals of the organization. Students will develop a realistic, applied understanding of how leaders use organizational design to lead their organizations, construct decision models, and develop processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Students gain insights into how to use design tools to analyze and solve complex business problems. Emphasis is on leadership through design, implementation and evaluation.
MGT 689 CREATING AND LEADING NEW VENTURES
This course helps students develop the managerial and thinking skills that underlie successful entrepreneurship. The major project for the semester is the creation of a business plan and subsequent entry of the plan to a regional business plan competition. Students write the plans in teams and include sufficient detail that local venture capitalists would be able to evaluate the plans for their feasibility, competitive insulation, value creation, and commercial viability.
MGT 340 HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Analyzes the acquisition, development and maintenance of human resources to accomplish the organization's objectives efficiently and economically. Studies the role of management and unions in society.