Overview of Courses
Graduate and Undergraduate
MBA 6213
Management of Organizational Behavior
The student will be able to:
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Identify how individual (e.g., personality, culture, motivation, job attitudes, moods), group (e.g., surface and deep diversity, size) and organizational (e.g., structure, culture) characteristics interact to influence behavior in organizations.
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Identify and solve problems that occur in the communication processes between individuals and within organizations.
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Define and apply the various leadership and motivational models that may be used to improve individual and organizational performance.
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Evaluate the ethical aspects of alternative approaches to decision-making and conflict resolution.
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Explain the concept of an organization’s corporate culture and its effects on the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations.
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Synthesize information (e.g., individual performance data, team performance data, knowledge of organizational behavior theories/models, skills, experiences) to select appropriate responses for solving contemporary workplace issues.
MGT 4308
Managerial Leadership
The student will be able to:
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Deliver effective verbal and nonverbal communication.
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Demonstrate interpersonal leadership concepts including but not limited to power, negotiations, and motivation.
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Participate in experiential exercises that involve leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities such as teamwork, ethics, and decision-making.
BA 3305
Entrepreneurship
The student will be able to:
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Realize his or her potential to manage a small business
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Investigate business opportunities with knowledge of skills needed to establish a new firm.
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Understand how to market products or services, how to manage the human and fiscal demands of a business operation, and how to meet the organization’s social responsibility to its community.
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Understand a business plan.
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Build an effective and persuasive case for the feasibility of a business concept chosen.
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Acquire a basic understanding of how to finance a business venture.