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Introduces the basic functions of management, team-taught by faculty from all
areas of the College of Business Administration. Examines academic choices and
career opportunities in business.
Examines the legal aspects of business transactions and business relationships
involving contracts and sale of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code, as
well as product liability and agency law.
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MGT 1350
Advanced Strategic Management
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4 QH |
Emphasizes the systems designed by managers to facilitate organizational change
and effective strategy implementation. Develops a framework for understanding
and managing the complex interrelationships that exist among strategy,
structure, culture, control systems, and management style, and their impact on
the organization's performance, through readings and case discussions. Includes
exploration of current strategic management issues, such as global expansion,
corporate renewal, quality assurance, innovation and technology, strategic
alliances, project management, and integrating functional perspectives, through
discussion of current and classic strategic management writings. Prereq.
MGT1450 and senior standing.
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MGT 1446
Managing Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues
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4 QH |
Focuses on the legal, ethical, social, and economic influences as well as
domestic and international cultural factors affecting business. Treats various
ways the manager can respond to these influences. Topics include the several
possible models of the business and society relationship; the foundations of
personal and managerial ethics; the business, government, and society
inter-relationships; ways the manager can address various stakeholder
interests; and strategic and corporate public-policy consequences of
management's responses to specific social issues. Prereq. Junior standing.
Focuses on corporate strategy and its elements, including an analysis of the
company, its resources, opportunities, environment, and decision makers.
Emphasizes decision-making and implementation of strategy while operating a
company in the context of a business simulation. Prereq. Senior standing.
Focuses attention on the strategies and techniques employed in the negotiations
process. Includes familiarization with related literature, student
role-playing, and interaction with professionals involved in private and public
sector negotiations.
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MGT 1580
Intercultural Negotiation and Conflict
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4 QH |
Focuses on effective management in multicultural environments and the need for
negotiating skills beyond basic bargaining tools. Considers such psychological
and sociological factors as stereotyping, discrimination, biculturalism,
intercultural conflict, cultural factors in negotiation, and cultural hegemony.
Provides the opportunity to apply these and related ideas to such practical
situations as negotiating relationships among intercultural groups, negotiating
across cultures, and understanding relationships between competing cultures.
Allows the student who has received approval to undertake independent study in
lieu of any course required in the various concentrations. Students present
proposals to an Independent Studies Committee for evaluation and approval.
Every proposal requires a detailed outline of the objectives and plan of study
and must be accompanied by a supporting statement from the supervising faculty
member under whose direction the study will take place. A copy of the final
report prepared by the student is presented to the appropriate Independent
Studies Committee. Further information about the Independent Studies Program
can be obtained from concentration coordinators.
Same as MGT1591.
Same as MGT1591.
Independent Study
Same as MGT1591.
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MGT 1803
Management and the Internet: Competition, Strategy,
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4 QH |
and Policy
Discusses the dynamics of cyberspace and what it takes to function effectively
in it as a manager and citizen. Focuses on the explosive global growth of the
Internet and cyberspace as well as how the new environment of cyberspace is
transforming corporate strategies in the global economy and in individual and
group relationships. Provides an opportunity to develop expertise in electronic
conferencing and techniques for Internet-based information discovery,
evaluation, and analysis by holding part of the seminar on-line. Explores a
wide range of state-of-the-art issues, including digital literacy, global
digital commerce, censorship, privacy, Internet policy, and the impact of
cyberspace on personal identity. Includes an opportunity to develop a
significant research project on a cyberspace topic of interest. Prereq. Honors
participation or instructor's permission.
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MGT 1820
Independent Study (Honors)
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4 QH |
Offers directed study toward fulfillment of Honors Program requirements and is
open only to students who have been accepted into the Honors Program.
Procedures for arranging the honors independent study are the same as those for
MGT1591.
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MGT 1842
World of Consulting (Honors)
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4 QH |
Focuses on providing an overview of the consulting world. Topics include the
structure of the consulting industry, covering the various types of consulting
organizations from large to small, with an emphasis on those specializing in
strategy consulting. Analyzes such corporations as Bain & Co., McKinsey, AD
Little, and Andersen Consulting, as well as the other `big six' firms, which
have in recent years become major players on the world consulting scene. Offers
students the opportunity to gain an appreciation of the importance of these
organizations in the global business arena, describes their various modes of
operation, and introduces career opportunities available in the field of
consulting. Prereq. Honors participation or permission of instructor.
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