MGT 5501      International Business Environment
The aim of this course is to provide a broad introduction of the international business environment. Students will develop understanding of different economic, cultural political and legal environments affecting international business activities. They will further explore why international trade and government interventions occur among and across countries and how world financial institution have developed historically. Prerequisites: Completion of introductory coursework in accounting, economics, statistics and finance.
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5502      Leadership in Organizations
This course focuses on how organizations work and how leaders can help them work better, Its goal is to provide ideas, tools, and tactics that will help students become more effective leaders. The course is designed to challenge students conceptually through readings, discussions, and developmental assessments, and to challenge at the level of self-awareness and action through teamwork, reflective activities, role plays, case applications, ad ""leadership challenges"".
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5503      Leadership Residency
This course introduces students to fundamentals of business and effective leadership practice by looking at two different academic areas. Team and Community Building focuses on the fundamentals of collaborative teamwork and basic concepts in the program's leadership curriculum. The other area, Financial Decisions and Societal Goals, overviews approaches to management strategy rooted in financial modeling and analysis. Prerequisite: Admission to Executive MBA Program
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5504      Immersion in Legal and Ethical Managment of the Enterprise
This course will introduce students to some of the common legal and ethical issues that confront entrepreneurial businesses and non-profit organizations. Students will be exposed ti the major differences between U.S. and international approaches regarding these issues. Working individually and in groups, students will be asked to solve problems regarding business formation, employment, intellectual property, contract formation and dispute resolution. Students will demonstrate their understanding by writing about real-world examples involving the legal and ethical concepts covered in the course. Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5505      Organizational Behavior
A study of individual, group, and organizational behavior and processes.. This course examines social and behavioral sciences methods and theories which apply to the understanding of administrative social systems. Classroom activities will utilize lectures, laboratory training, and clinical cases.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5506      Contract Negotiation And Dispute Resolution
This course surveys the conceptual framework for negotiating legally binding contracts and examines contemporary institutions and processes for resolving contractual disputes. Particular attention will be given to identifying and appreciating strategies, practices, and specific rules by which binding contractual rights and duties are determined in the United States and in international jurisdictions. Working independently and in teams, students will assimilate the legal rules and negotiation strategies and apply them to common business transactions and disputes.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5507      Human Capital Management
This course seeks to provide managers with knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively manage human capital in organization of all sizes. It presents an overview of the theory, research, and practices used to strategically align HR policies and practices with the organization's overall business goals. The course highlights how HR policies and practices can support business objectives in a diverse, global environment while supporting ethical principles. Within a strategic HRM framework, functional areas of staffing, training and development, performance management, total rewards (compensation and benefits), and managing employment relationships are covered. Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5508      Law Of Business Associations
Working individually and in teams, students study the legal rules that govern most common business relationships. These include the rules for creating and managing agency and partner relationships, LLC and other new joint ventures, as well as public and closely-held corporations. Student teams follow local public companies as they prepare and conduct their annual meetings and conduct mock negotiations to form a new business venture.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5510      Legal And International Environment Of Business
This course provides an essential introduction to the domestic and international environment of business. Particular attention is given to the comparative historical development, cultural, economic, legal and political context for the conduct of business in the U.S. and abroad. Topics include international trade; international management; alternative modes of international operations; international finance and exchange rates; international marketing; international human resources; international business strategy and protection of property interest, including worldwide protection of intellectual property, private contracts, multilateral agreements, dispute resolution systems and the influence of government trade.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5513      Economic Policy And Managerial Control
Students will study the analysis of the industrial foundations and economic institutions of modern times; the politics of industrial control, including power relationships in economic nationalization and planning and theory of managerial industrialism and business enterprise.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5516      Leading Teams
This course is designed to enhance the student's understanding of designing, forming, developing, leading, and evaluating high-performing teams in traditional and virtual organizations. In-class projects will facilitate students' assessment and application of their own talents to the arts of member selection, coaching, and trust building to engage team members in productive and ethical group processes to achieve successful outcomes. Cases will be used to diagnose and potentially solve team difficulties considering intra-team, organizational, and extra-organizational factors. Prerequisite: MGT 5505 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5517      Leading Through Influence and Persuasion
This course challenges students to think about power dynamics in organizations and the array of influence approaches leaders develop and use to build support for their ideas and strategies. Using reading, case studies, and self-reflection tolls, this course engages students in critical thinking about business scenarios that require a variety of leader influence strategies beyond traditional ""command and control"" approaches. Through exploration of concepts such as mapping the terrain, building social capital, and managing across, students develop a toolkit of ethical strategies for enhancing their organizational credibility and influence. Prerequisites: Leadership in Organizations (Core MBA Course)
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5518      Leadership & Motivation
The course explores leadership as a relationship between leaders and those they are leading that enables people to work together in the service of shared goals. The course focuses on five basic tasks of leadership: (1) diagnosis-understanding what's happening; (2) shaping purpose and values; (3) enlisting and engaging people (including coaching, building high-performance cultures, motivating and inspiring); (4) sustaining momentum; (5) reflection and assessment.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5519      Conflict Management and Negotiation Strategies
This course explores the nature of successfully managing conflict in organizational settings, as well as the skills needed to be an effective negotiator. In this course, students will learn the difference between functional and dysfunctional conflict, how to stimulate functional conflict, various styles for managing conflict, ways to identify the desired outcomes of conflict, how to prepare for negotiations, various dispute resolution techniques, and the characteristics of effective negotiators. The course uses a variety of tools - readings, case studies, videos, and guest speakers - to engage students in real business scenarios related to managing conflict and negotiation strategies. Prerequisites: Leadership in Organizations
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5520      Strategic Benefits Management
This course provides a foundation for understanding how benefit plans can be strategically designed to attract, retain, and motivate workers. In addition to traditional health and welfare, and paid time off benefits, offerings related to work/life balance, wellness, benefit flexibility, and organizational culture will be included. Regulatory issues, such as tax and statutory compliance will be discussed. Prerequisites: Human Capital Management.
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5521      Building Human Capital
This course presents strategies managers can utilize to enhance workers' knowledge, skills, and abilities in order to provide the talent needed to achieve the organization's mission and goals. Included are effective performance management techniques, training and development systems, and methods of effective supervision. Prerequisites: Human Capital Management.
Credits: 1.5 hours
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MGT 5531      Leadership, Strategy and Human Resources
Focuses on the leader as a catalyst in developing high-performance, market -based cultures and as a human resource strategist in marshalling the workforce. Geared to the general manager, the course presents ideas and tools for building, bonding, and linking the workforce to accomplish the organization's mission. Topics include ideas and tools for identifying, recruiting, and retaining talent; developing and coaching subordinates; appraising and rewarding performance; and delegating to balance control and risk. Prerequisites: Admission to Executive MBA program
Credits: 2 hours
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MGT 5533      Leading and Managing Change
This course provides students with analytical skills and insights to more effectively manage and lead change, especially within those organizations characterized by complexity and/or uncertainty. Using a variety of vehicles-including case studies, articles, and speakers-the course engages students in timely, real change scenarios and associated management challenges, such as adaptation in changing markets; turnarounds in troubled businesses; integrative change in acquisitions, and process change in stable businesses. Prerequisites: Leadership in Organizations (Core MBA course)
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5537      Competitive Strategies
Study of the processes of formulating and implementing competitive management strategies. Analytical techniques appropriate to the firm, the market or the industry will be emphasized. Major individual and/or group papers analyzing existing organizations will be required. Prerequisites: Must be taken in the student's final semester of the program.
Credits: 3 hours
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MGT 5538      Stategic Management
The study of the formulation and evaluation of strategy, including industry analysis, strategic positioning, and the boundaries of the firm. Students address the capacity of executive leadership to create and communicate a clear direction for a company's future. Prerequisites: Admission to the Executive MBA Program
Credits: 2 hours
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