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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
6036 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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