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MGNT 5653 Financial Decision Making
Students are introduced to principles of
accounting for economic events and the use of basic financial statements. The business finance component presents
an overview of financial analysis, budgeting, asset management and
financial strategy in business decision-making.
MGNT
5773 Managerial Decision Making
Introduces the application of probability and statistics
to business decision making; including descriptive statistics, probability,
normal distribution, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing,
and simple linear regression. The
production/operations topics include productivity, competitiveness,
strategy, product and service design, process selection, capacity planning,
facility layout, work system design, and location planning. This course also introduces the student
to the study of human behavior in organizations. It explores management and organizational
behavioral practices which lead to human resource development and
organizational effectiveness.
MGNT
5873 Strategic Environment of
Business
An overview of economic theory with an
introduction to the impact of fiscal and monetary policies, and consumer
and business decision-making. The
marketing component explores buyer motivation, organizational and
individual decision-making, changing buyer behavior, and market positioning
and segmentation. The legal
component introduces the fundamental legal and regulatory parameters that
define, promote and limit business activities. Topics include constitutional law, torts,
intellectual property, contracts, business organizations, employment law,
agency law and antitrust law.
MGNT
6000 Managerial Accounting
This course deals with the procedures and
concepts of computing and allocating costs for reporting, pricing, planning
and control, and internal decisions making.
It will focus mainly on the principles and techniques dealing with
merchandise and manufacturing costing, job order and process costing,
standard and conventional costing, and make or buy decision-making.
MGNT
6001 Management Communications
Effective communication skills are essential for
managers in high technology environments.
This course will emphasize skill building in writing, oral
presentations, interpersonal communication, and research.
MGNT
6002 Corporate Finance
Prerequisite:
MGNT 5653
This course includes a review of capital budgeting
and ratio analysis, making further extensions in the areas of
probability-dependent project analysis, co-varying risks and optimal
capital structure. Other topics
include working capital management, insurance, and hedging strategies.
MGNT 6004 Service
Production Operations Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management
A survey of service and
production operations management.
Topics include productivity, forecasting, competitiveness, operations
strategy, product & service design, process design selection, capacity
planning, facility layout, design of work systems, and location planning.
MGNT 6005 Managerial Economics
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in statistics
Managerial
economics focuses heavily on applied microeconomics issues. At its core is a value maximizing
objective for the firm. Included in
the course work will be traditional topics associated with
microeconomics. Analysis of demand,
production, cost, market structure, pricing and capital budgeting.
MGNT 6008 Marketing Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an
undergraduate course in Marketing Principles
This course will present the logic and common
sense associated with sound marketing management principles under changing
global conditions. The student will
be able to apply these principles, not only to specific managerial
environments, but also to understanding events occurring on a daily basis
in today’s dynamic global marketplace.
Through cases and projects students examine strategic and tactical
planning and decision making for marketing situations.
MGNT 6010 Management of Information Technology
A
comprehensive study of the application of information technology within
organizations. Includes focus on
data generation, retrieval, analysis, and utilization in managing and
decision-making activities.
MGNT 6015 Technology and Innovation Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior
This
course emphasizes innovation and creativity, and evaluation and analysis of
new technology. The objective is to
learn how to evaluate new technologies (either hard or soft) in order to be
able to determinate the whether or not to make a significant investments in
them.
MGNT 6020 R&D Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 6015
A
systematic examination of product innovations ranging from planning and
research to development and commercialization or implementation of new
product technology. Topics include
pertinent business policy and strategic management issues, the process of
innovation, concepts and interconnections between product and process
creativity management, technology transfer, and relevant marketing
issues. Students will analyze cases
and do a project.
MGNT 6022 Sales Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an
undergraduate course in Marketing Principles
Sales management will highlight the differences
experienced by a sales manager from those of a manager geographically
located with his or her subordinates.
The “arms length” supervision requirements of sales management will
better equip the student to manage and motivate any group in a business
environment. Emphasis is also placed
on hiring skills needed to maintain and expand a sales force.
MGNT 6024 Business-to-Business Marketing
Prerequisite: MGNT 5873 or an
undergraduate course in Marketing Principles
This course focus on the buying patterns
practiced in the industrial marketplace.
This course builds a foundation for the student to better understand
the underlying conditions that govern an industrial marketing transaction
beyond the immediate product or service that is being sought. The role of technology and its importance
in the development of industrial products is explored along with the critical
role of services and their interrelation to the products with which they
are connected.
MGNT 6025 Managing Professionals
Prerequisite: MGNT
5773 or an undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior
This course examines the working
relationship between management and professional employees in high
technology organizations. Using
management theory as a foundation, the course emphasizes experiential
learning in order to develop effective leadership and team building skills
which students can apply immediately.
Learning methods include case studies, team exercises, role playing,
individual and group presentation, experiential and group discussions.
MGNT 6028
Marketing Research
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Managerial Statistics
Marketing
Research enables the student to conduct an opinion research project to
better understand the underpinnings of a successful marketplace query. “Hand-on” experience in questionnaire
design, data gathering and analysis.
Student teams prepare both a written and oral presentation of the
results to experience the relationship between researcher and management in
the gathering and communication of research information. The statistics prerequisite enables the
students to effectively utilize SPSS for Windows to manipulate the gathered
data and stet it to support meaningful decisions.
MGNT 6032 System Analysis and Design
Prerequisite: MGNT 6010
This
course provides an understanding of the system development and modification
process. It enables students to
evaluate and choose a system development methodology. It emphasizes the factors for effective
communication and integration with users and user systems. It encourages interpersonal skill
development with clients, users, team members, and others associated with
development, operation and maintenance of the system. Topics will include object oriented
analysis, design, and use of data modeling tools.
MGNT
6034 Database Analysis, Design, and
Implementation
Prerequisite: MGNT 6032
This
course covers information systems design and implementation within a
database management system environment.
Students will demonstrate their mastery of the design process
acquired in earlier courses by designing and constructing a physical system
using database software to implement the logical design.
MGNT
6038 Advance Database Analysis,
Design, and Implementation
Prerequisite: MGNT 6032
This
course covers physical design, programming, testing and implementation of
the system. Implementations of object-oriented,
client-server designs using a programming environment.
MGNT 6040 Current Readings in Management of Technology
This course will examine how technology affects
public issues. The content of the
course will be based on the issues currently of concern and will range from
ecology to health care to telecommunications.
MGNT 6046 Quantitative Analysis
Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management, MGNT 6004
This course is a continuation of OPSM 6005. Topics include aggregate planning,
inventory management, quality assurance, materials requirement planning,
shop floor management, scheduling, performance measurement, just-in-time,
synchronous operations, and global enterprise operations.
MGNT
6048 Purchasing Management
Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Production and Operations Management, MGNT 5873 or
an undergraduate course in Legal Environment
Study of the activities, responsibilities,
relationships and system involved in the purchase of materials, services
and capital equipment. Topics
include identifying requirements; evaluating en selecting “best value”
vendors; techniques for planning and executing the purchasing function,
including fundamentals of negotiating, ethical and legal aspects of
purchasing; interactions with the engineering, quality, manufacturing,
materials management, transportation and legal functions and with
suppliers; and international aspects of purchasing. Purchasing responsibility for quality,
delivery, inventory, price and contribution to profit also are covered.
MGNT 6050 Project Management
Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior MGNT 5873
or an undergraduate course in Statistics
A study of the project planning, organizing,
control concepts and techniques.
Coverage will include projects and specifications. Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) the
Critical Path Method (CPM), the Program Evaluation and Review Technique
(PERT), Gantt charting, and time/resource management.
MGNT 6055 Total Quality Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an undergraduate
course in Management & Organizational Behavior
The
concepts of TQM will develop leadership and interpersonal skills along with
an understanding of planning and customer, satisfaction, in addition to
process analysis. The discussion
will focus on quality and how to use project teams, such as selecting a
project and choosing team members.
Topics will be covered concerning setting up meetings and guidelines
for productive meetings. Team
aspects and team building and activities will also be discussed.
MGNT 6060 Entrepreneurship
Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior, MGNT 5653
or an undergraduate course in Basic Business Finance, MGNT 5873 or an
undergraduate course in Marketing, and MGNT 6005
This course addresses the management challenges
associated with starting and successfully running a new venture. It provides students with an opportunity
to apply the theories and tools that they have learned elsewhere in the
curriculum to the venture creation process.
MGNT 6065 Issues in International Management
Prerequisites: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior, MGNT 5653
or an undergraduate course in Basic Business Finance, MGNT 5873 or an
undergraduate course in Marketing
This course deals with cultural, institutional,
economic, and financial environments characteristic of international
markets. It will focus on strategic
and operational plans that managers must undertake in formulating
international business activities.
MGNT 6070 Issues in Human Resource Management
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior
This course will cover employment practices and
employment law in unionized and non-unionized settings. The focus will be on decision making and
administrative issues for managers.
MGNT 6090 Strategic Management
Prerequisite: MGNT
Common Body Knowledge (CBK); MGNT 6001
Exposes the student to the process of strategic
decision-making. Emphasis is placed on the use of SWOT analyses in
development of the strategic plan and the determination of the long-term
character of the enterprise. Cases will be analyzed, and classroom
presentations will be made by distinguished industrial executives and
leaders.
MGNT
6091-6903 Special Topics
MGNT
7501-7503 Independent Research
Prerequisite: MGNT 5773 or an
undergraduate course in Management & Organizational Behavior
Course
covers special topics of interest to the students. Course credit and topic are arranged
between instructor and student.
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