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This course examines basic management concepts and principles, their historical development, and their application to modern organizations. Topics covered include planning, organizing, decision making, leadership, control, and organizational change. In addition, the course includes an introduction to business ethics and social responsibility, human resource management, organizational design and organizational behavior.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course is designed to introduce students to the Management Information Systems and its application in organizations. The course will present to the students the information systems role to support the various managerial activities, and to help the students identify and evaluate various options in Management Information Systems.

Prerequisites:
ISYS 101 or CIS 101
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course is designed to develop a students personal creativity and help a student identify the process of organizational innovation. The course is comprised of a combination of short lecture, in-class discussion of readings and videos, writing assignments, an elevator pitch and group activities.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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This course examines the effective management of the human resources of organizations. Topics include analyzing jobs and writing job descriptions; recruiting and hiring of applicants; complying with employment law; managing promotions, quits, and layoffs; employee training and development; evaluating job performance; determining compensation; and managing human resources in a unionized environment.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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This course focuses primarily on pre-startup venture activities starting with the idea generation phase. Students will learn to use customer feedback to develop innovative solutions leading to new business model concepts. This course will utilize the latest venture development tools and techniques that assist entrepreneurs in creating value for a diverse group of customers. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to engage with business professionals and entrepreneurs. All students are welcome and encouraged to enroll.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course engages students in the study of the operations management function in manufacturing and service organizations. Students learn how to apply the basic analytical models to operation decisions involving topics such as scheduling, production technology, inventory management, quality assurance, just-in-time production, and others.

Prerequisites:
ECON 207 or STAT 154
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course examines basic business concepts and principles and their application to modern and future agriculture industries. Agribusiness topics covered include commodities, supply chain, finance, sales, accounting, law, engineering, food safety, healthcare, data analysis, and technology. Professionals in the agriculture industry will be brought into class to explain how business knowledge and skills are essential to various sectors; including but not limited to: livestock, poultry, corn/soybeans, bio-fuels, engineering, and natural resources. Students will have an opportunity to broaden their thinking, understanding, and professional potential as related to the agriculture industry while interacting with industry professionals.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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Concepts, theories, and empirical research on organizational behavior are studied. Models and tools for diagnosing situations, individual behavior, group behavior, intergroup conflicts, supervisory problems and organizational change are analyzed.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course addresses business professionalism issues such as: work ethic, time management, civility, diplomacy, and planning career changes.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Curricular Practical Training: Co-Operative Experience is a zero-credit full-time practical training experience for one summer and an adjacent fall or spring term. Special rules apply to preserve full-time student status. Please contact an advisor in your program for complete information.

Prerequisites:
Permission of the Chairperson of the department; co-op contract; other prerequisites may also apply.
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

The course focuses on business problem-solving and technology connections to business practices. Students will be equipped with the tools to design, build, and deploy applications that could serve as building blocks that logically synthesize business functional areas. This newfound ability to apply business logic will equip students with the necessary skills to design and construct business applications that fulfill the needs of both businesses and their clientele. Furthermore, students will acquire a deeper understanding of management, finance, marketing, and accounting constructs, which will prove valuable in a broad range of careers. This is a course that builds real-world applicable business critical thinking skills while teaching the students the skill of business application creation.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 300
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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In this hands-on course, students will apply their skills to real-world consulting projects with small businesses. Working in teams, students will identify key challenges, analyze causes, and develop innovative recommendations to drive growth for their client company. Students will learn problem-solving methodologies, sharpen their analytical and creative thinking, and hone their communication and collaboration abilities. Guided by an experienced entrepreneur, students will gain practical consulting experience and valuable professional insights. The course will culminate in teams pitching their solutions to the client. Students will leave with a toolkit of best practices and a network of relationships to launch business careers.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Students learn how to hire the best talent available using sound professional methods. Students design and present legally defensible recruiting and screening techniques for jobs they have analyzed.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 340
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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The focus of this course is operating an effective, efficient, legal and responsible system for compensating one's employees. Includes the workings of labor markets, analyzing jobs, finding the market value for jobs, designing a pay structure, appraising performance, setting individual pay, determining benefits, occupations requiring special pay programs.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 340
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course focuses on startup and post-startup venture activities. Students who have achieved proof of concept with a venture idea will find this course helpful. Students will learn to evolve a business model concept into a sustainable, scalable venture in a variety of business sectors. Topics discussed include business operations, analysis, entrepreneurial finance, growth, and exit strategies. Students will also learn to present their venture ideas to interested stakeholders. The course will allow students to have the opportunity to engage with business professionals and entrepreneurs.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Students design and deliver training by assessing client needs, defining learning outcomes, choosing effective methods, training, and evaluating results.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Special topics as requested by students.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 230
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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This course focuses on connecting students to real-world entrepreneurs so that students can analyze current entrepreneurial issues.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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This course is designed to prepare students to design and develop personal computer based information systems for management control and decision making using end-user software including spreadsheets and data base management systems. Students will design and develop several information systems as group projects.

Prerequisites:
MGMT 230, MGMT 300
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Students will develop skills needed to initiate, plan, execute, control and close projects. The course will cover theories, techniques, group activities, and use of computer tools like Microsoft Project for managing projects.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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MGMT 481 is an integrative course for COB majors. Its emphasis is on understanding the role of a general manager, which should include an operations and international component.

Prerequisites:
FINA 362, MRKT 210, MGMT 230, MGMT 346
Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
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Students learn how to apply moral principles to analyze ethical dilemmas in business. Students also learn how to argue for or against government regulation of business. Topics covered include bribery, anti-competitive business practices, pollution, product safety, marketing ethics, employee rights, sexual harassment, discrimination and affirmative action, conflicts of interest, and insider trading.

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Business, Management, and Administration
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