Management (MNGT)

MNGT811
Leading People and Projects

Description: Organizations are complex systems calling for a leadership process, including the leader, the follower, and the context to effect change. Gain an understanding of many of the basic concepts and generalizations about leadership, which relate to human behavior and interactions in organizations. Objectives and activities focus on understanding how leaders function in organizations and on one's leadership operations in the organizational setting. Participants will utilize concepts, generalizations, theories, and frames of reference to analyze organizations and leadership to understand and improve their functions. Topics covered include: Systems Theory and Organizational theory, the change process and the leadership process, roles in changing organizations, power and politics in organizations, congruence of individual and organizational ethics, and the behavioral concerns in project

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT817
Positivity for Managers

Description: An overview of most recent developments in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and positive organizational scholarship. Will focus on proven positive psychology practices to develop skills to promote flourishing in yourself and those around you. Emphasis on how positivity can be applied at an organizational level to improve leadership and employee engagement.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT818
Organization Designs for Competitive Advantage

Description: The process of developing organization designs to increase competitive advantage. Discuss live cases of organizations, evaluate how well their structures support the strategies the Top Management Team has devised, and the impact on overall organizational success.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT819
Strategies for Sustainability

Description: Provides an examination of the challenges affecting business as a consequence of the overuse of natural resources and our potential to do damage to the world's eco- and natural systems. Will examine these issues with an eye on how such challenges affect business in general, and some industries and sectors in particular.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT821
Identifying and Exploring Entrepreneurial OpportunitiesCrosslisted with ENTR 821

Description: Focuses on the management of new firms, including small businesses designed to be lifestyle ventures and firms destined to grow. Exposure to variety of growth opportunities including franchising, organic growth and expansion of smaller businesses or units within larger firms. Teaches how to manage a new business and exploit an entrepreneurial opportunity and manage resources to sustain the firm once the business is running. Learn through a variety of hands-on methods designed to enhance their critical thinking and practical business skills. Case study analysis and exposure to thought leadership in the field are part of the core learning methods.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT822
Entrepreneurship in Established FirmsCrosslisted with ENTR 822

Description: Established firms face a variety of challenges that often require entrepreneurial processes to be addressed. But established firms are not start-ups, and simply trying to act like a start-up may not yield desirable outcomes. Explore the opportunities and challenges associated with corporate entrepreneurship, which involves entrepreneurial principles and processes applied in established organizations. We will cover topics including corporate venturing, entrepreneurial culture, strategic tension, and others.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT823
Business Plan Development and Decision MakingCrosslisted with ENTR 823

Description: An in-depth look at the business planning process. Produce a business plan. Learn through business plan writing, through in-depth cases studies, by engaging in role plays and by interacting with business executives. Business plans are a critical part of any organization, thus, preparing to develop business plans for a variety of new concepts and ideas, whether inside an established firm or as part of the start-up new venture. Business plans are entered into the business planning competitions in which the University participates.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT828
Leadership in a Global Context

Prerequisites: MNGT 311 or MNGT 360; or permission.

Credit towards the degree cannot be earned in both MNGT 414 and 828.

Description: Taught from the perspective of US enterprises operating in the global economy. The manner in which cultural, economic, political, and social differences affect the management of business, governmental, military, and other enterprises is considered. Emphasis on problems of managing in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT840
Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Description: Understand, analyze, and problem solve around the array of decisions that, entrepreneurs, managers, and CEOs consider when determining where and how to grow. Learn and apply qualitative decision frameworks that enable more thorough decision analysis to your own company or a company that you work for, cases studies, and your own personal growth path

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT850
Management Information Systems

Description: Education or experience with computers and/or experience in administration. Consideration of kinds of information needed to support the full spectrum of decision making in private and public organizations. Techniques of measuring and reporting on outcomes of managerial decisions. The design of management information systems (MIS) with regard to the proper role of the computer, systems analysts, programmers, managers and users, data management technology, and kinds of computer hardware and software.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT859
Managerial NegotiationsCrosslisted with MRKT 859

Description: Designed to help managers and professionals deal with a broad range of negotiation issues. Provides an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiations and develops skills that can be used to negotiate in a variety of settings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT862
Labor RelationsCrosslisted with MNGT 462

Prerequisites: Junior standing; MNGT 360 or ECON 381.

Description: Interdisciplinary approach to labor-management relations with emphasis on collective bargaining and grievance administration. Appreciation of collective bargaining process gained through actual negotiating of a labor-management contract. On-going union-management relationships explored.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT863
Compensation Administration

Prerequisites: MNGT 360 and 361

Description: Design and administration of compensation systems. Deals with determinants of general level of pay, pay structures, wage and salary surveys, job analysis, job evaluation, performance evaluation, benefit plans, and financial incentive systems.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT864
Talent Acquisition and Staffing

Prerequisites: MNGT 360 and 361

Description: This course will explain the process by which organizations forecast employment needs, recruit potential employees, select high potential candidates from applicant pools, assess job performance levels, give feedback, train and develop existing employees, and deal with voluntary and involuntary turnover. Students will be provided with examples of tools used by HR professionals in the staffing process. Students will also be expected to evaluate and suggest improvements to real HR recruiting and selection systems based on the information learned in the classroom.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT866
The Regulatory Environment for Employment and LaborCrosslisted with ECON 485, MNGT 466, ECON 885

Prerequisites: Junior standing

Description: Government regulation of employment and labor relations. Includes laws and agencies relating to employment practices, pay, hours, equal employment opportunity, labor relations, safety, health, pensions, and benefits. Social and economic implications of governmental regulation considered.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Groups:Labor Economics

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT871
Nonprofit Management

Description: Provide an overview of the management skills required by leaders of nonprofit organizations Discuss the purpose or mission of a nonprofit organization and its place in society. Examine the importance of an organizational vision of success, and how that can lead to a well-developed strategic plan.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:FALL/SPR

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT899
Masters Thesis

Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser

Course details
Credit Hours:1-10
Max credits per semester:10
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-10

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MNGT905
Research Design and Methodology

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Research designs appropriate for basic and field research, including methodology for implementing such designs. An analysis of various statistical methods for evaluating research data. Includes prospectus and manuscript writing and submission; critical review of various research currently published.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT932
Business History

Description: History of business of the leading nations with emphasis on the United States, including the effect of environment upon business, the development of entrepreneurship and management, and the impact of business upon the community and nation. Case histories and entrepreneurial-managerial appraisals.

Course details
Credit Hours:2-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:2-3

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MNGT960
Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Human behavior within organizations. Research findings and the contributions of behavioral science.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT969
Organization and Management Theory

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Major historical perspectives and some of the current competing paradigms in the field of organization theory. Classical management theory, human relations theory, the technology-structure and structure-environment contingency perspectives for organizational design, strategic human resource management, organizational culture, institutional theory, and such current topics as organizational demography and groups in organizations. Critiquing the theoretical perspectives on both conceptual and methodological dimensions as well as developing comparisons and contrasts between the perspectives. Critical elements of theory building in the organizational sciences and the frameworks for examining organizational theory.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT971
Strategic Leadership

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: The effect of leadership throughout organizations on successful development and execution of organizational strategies. Strategic leadership in organizations and its relationship to domains such as top management teams, board leadership development, organizational visions and cultures, and organizational effectiveness. Relevance of strategic leadership theory and practice to organizational change and/or transformation, strategic alignment, organizational, adaptability, global organizational systems, and authentic organizational decision-making and cultures.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT980
Seminar in Interpersonal Processes in Organizations

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Field of organizational behavior at the individual level. Two specific features of human behavior: understanding how individuals interact with their environment to explain behavior and performance; and how individuals interact with other actors in their work environment to both facilitate and evaluate attitudes and behavior. Students read existing research literature-to learn the "classic" studies that serve as the foundations for significant organizational behavior theories, and to understand the current conceptual trends, hypotheses, and methodologies involved in advancing these theories.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT981
Seminar in Labor Relations
Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT982
Seminar in Human Resource Management
Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT983
Seminar in Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Capstone seminar in the organizational behavior track. Reflection, perspective and the future of topics in the field of organizational behavior including research methodology, social learning theory/organizational behavior models, managerial activities/behaviors, cross-cultural/international research, and leadership.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT985
Seminar in Strategic Management and Business Policy

Prerequisites: MNGT 876 and GRBA 853, or equivalent

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT989
Seminar in Organization and Management Theory

Prerequisites: Permission

Description: Current paradigms in the field of organizational theory. Transaction cost economics, agency theory, strategic choice and decision-making, resource dependency, power, population and community ecologies, and interorganizational networks. Current topics in organizational theory. Critiquing the theoretical perspectives on both conceptual and methodological dimensions as well as developing comparisons and contrasts between the perspectives. Ethical code of conduct and other issues involved in publishing in the organizational sciences.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT990
Seminar in History of Management Thought

Description: Development of management thought from the ancient civilizations of Sumer and Egypt, through the Middle Ages, to more recent developments. Scientific Management School, the contributions of Henri Fayol, and the Hawthorne research. The evolution of management as a body of knowledge.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3

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MNGT994
Seminar in Selected Topics I

Prerequisites: Management department permission

Course details
Credit Hours:3-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:3-6

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MNGT995
Seminar in Selected Topics II

Prerequisites: Management department permission

Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

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MNGT996
Directed Reading or Research
Course details
Credit Hours:1-6
Max credits per semester:6
Max credits per degree:24
Grading Option:Graded

Credit Hours:1-6

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MNGT999
Doctoral Dissertation

Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair

Course details
Credit Hours:1-24
Max credits per semester:24
Max credits per degree:99
Grading Option:Grade Pass/No Pass Option

Credit Hours:1-24

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