MGT 06601 - Strategic Planning for Operating Managers (3 credits)

• This course prepares the operating manager for the responsibilities of strategic planning. The course will identify what goes into and how strategic planning is performed. Strategy formation and evaluation will be assisted by computer decision models and management games. The interrelationships of organizational units and proactive management posture with respect to environmental forces will be stressed. This course may not be offered annually.

MGT 06521 - Leadership Theory and Practice (3 credits)

• Course content will cover the theories of leadership and practice. The focus of this course will be on how leadership influences organizational concepts and practices from a variety of perspectives in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle, and lower levels inside organizations. Students will be able to perform analysis of the dark side of leadership, destructive patterns of leadership behavior, and multiple intelligences. Students will be able to understand the psychology of leadership, including the role of personality, employee motivation, and dealing with difficult people, importance of ethics, empowerment of employees, managing diversity in the work culture, the theory of creating a powerful vision, helping employees through change and burnout prevention, leadership in negotiation and alliances, leading and developing teams, and understanding professional performance and sustaining discipline. By the end of the course, students will be able to effectively diagnose the complex dynamics of leadership, provide execution for organizational success, use effective theory, alignment, and prioritization in organizational environments and take action as leaders to improve individual and organizational performance and profitability.

MGT 06530 - Sustainable Commerce (3 credits)

• Students will examine the notion of “sustainable business” in this course. Students will learn about different types of ‘green’ and sustainable businesses and evaluate many case studies of businesses that have been successful in improving their environmental and social performance while also remaining profitable. Students will gain an understanding of social venturing and continue to develop their entrepreneurial skill set and mindset. Students will develop their own approaches to evaluating the sustainability of a business while also learning about emerging norms and frameworks. Students will examine sustainability as a concept impacting all aspects of a business, from operations and product design to finance, marketing, and human resources management. The impacts of “green” industries, products, and business practices are also examined. This course may be offered online.

MGT 06531 - Sustainability Assessment (3 credits)

• Students will learn different approaches for setting sustainability goals, measuring progress towards sustainability outcomes, and managing so-called “sustainability transitions.” Students will learn about the increasingly important role of sustainability officers in different firms and gain exposure to concepts and practices in sustainability reporting for both shareholder, regulatory, and scientific purposes. This course may be offered online.

MGT 06532 - Topics in Sustainability, Innovation and Problem Solving (3 credits)

• Students in this seminar/practicum type class will study the implementation of sustainability transitions in the context of current events and emerging ideas related to sustainability studies. Students will identify industries and/or societal challenges that could benefit from sustainability thinking and develop plans for implementing a new product, system, or structure. This course may not be offered every year. This course may be offered online.

HRM 06605 - Strategic Human Resource Management (3 credits)

• Strategic Human Resource Management consists of planned organizational activities designed to increase organizational effectiveness and equity. This course outlines the transformation of HRM from a clerical function to an important strategic partner of top management. It focuses on the ability of HRM to provide a source of competitive advantage to forward-thinking organizations.

MGT 01510 - Professional, Legal and Managerial Responsibilities (3 credits)

• In that business leaders have become personally and professionally responsible for the legal and ethical behaviors of the individuals within their organizations, the need for formal training in ethical and legal decision-making is essential. In this course students will learn how to effectively apply a variety of legal and ethical frameworks within the global marketplace. Students will also learn appropriate and effective legal and ethical issue reporting practices, principles and responsibilities.

MGT 06502 - International Business and Society (3 credits)

• This course addresses numerous aspects of the increasingly global business environment and implications for business organizations and key stakeholders. Frameworks for comparing political, legal, social, economic, and governmental differences across nations are utilized. Macro issues include trade theories, trade regimes, roles of governments and global institutions. Strategies and structures adopted by various types of international firms and functional approaches to international finance, management, and marketing are also included.

MGT 06599 - Special Topics in Management (3 credits)

• Students will study advanced level topics in management. The exact topics to be covered will change over time. Contact the MBA office or Management Department for details.

MGT 06603 - Process Analytics (3 credits)

• This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Process analytics introduces a different domain of quantitative analytics in understanding, improving, and creating processes, and it is critical for managers and business professionals to use the knowledge and tools to create competitive advantage. This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge on process analytics – including process data acquisition, analysis, matching and models in modern process analytics.

MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics (3 credits)

• This course builds a thorough understanding of how our processes and products can be continually improved through organization-wide quality management. The course will cover customers, outputs, processes, inputs, stake and stock holders, and decision-making functions as they relate to enhancing the vitality of organizations to make them customer focused. The focus is on developing and implementing "soft" and "hard" tools to deliver the "best net value" to customers. In this course, students will investigate the aspects of forming organizational alliances and consensus thinking; deriving functional synergies; using quality analytics such as Six Sigma, Design of Experiment, Control Charts, etc.; developing customer orientation, facilitating teamwork, and getting a real-world perspective.