MGTK - Management

This course provides an in-depth demonstration of the skills and techniques essential to effective leadership, including applications of goal setting, team building, negotiations, communications, and emotional intelligence. Course materials illustrate transformational leadership, forms of influence and motivation, the roles of trust and charisma, cultural diversity, ethics, and servant leadership. NOTE: This course replaces BUS 340 and HOS 444 in previous curricula. 4 quarter hours

What makes for a highly functioning workplace? This course introduces students to the fundamental principles, theories, and concepts regarding organizational design and development , which are critical to creating highly motivated and effect ive employees, teams, and organizations. Management topics include organizational culture, team dynamics, aspects of communication, training and efficiency, and change and risk management. Productive, healthy work environments are emphasized through applications of workplace psychology. Case studies include cross-c ultural and dispersed work settings. Prerequisite: BUS 324 NOTE: This course replaces HOS 333 in previous curricula.

Managers in any area of a business need to be equipped to analyze and explain the metrics, results, and numbers of the business. In this course, students evaluate a company's strenghts and weaknesses through financial statement analysis, as well as perform forecasting functions such as regression analysis and pivot tables. Students will learn how to convert data to information by combining various data sources, spotting trends, prioritizing details, and grouping and highlighting information most pertinent to business decisions.