Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

MBA 610 or MBA 710

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Students explore the nature of careers in the new economy. They learn how individual career strategy relates to the business strategy and competitiveness of employer firms. They also investigate possibilities for inter-firm career mobility and how individual enterprise, learning, and networking can influence industrial and economic prosperity.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This highly interactive and experiential course will help you to develop your creative skills for business and life success. Corporate leaders consider creativity to be an essential skill for the twenty-first century workforce. However, according to a recent Conference Board study, college graduates lack the creativity and innovation skills needed to succeed in the workplace. The Council on Competitiveness warns that "companies that do not embrace innovation (and creativity) as a core business value will fall to global competition." We will discuss profoundly important "meaning of life" issues that will serve to clarify your thinking and help you align your values and belief-systems with what you do on a daily basis at work and throughout your life. A substantial body of evidence indicates that people tend to be more creative when working on projects that interest them, and most creative when passionately immersed in their endeavors. We will focus on enhancing creativity in the workplace to achieve defined organizational needs, to add economic value to the organization; and to create social value as well. We will also focus on helping you to understand and apply a wide array of creative processes and tools to develop your creative competencies and skills. We will use breakout groups, role plays, experiential exercises, and discussions to facilitate your learning. Since we assume that your life is a work of art and you are the artist, this is an invitation to you to explore and define what you want to create in your life.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites

MBA 610 or MBA 710

Course Credits

3.00

Description

For practitioners and students interested in understanding the roles and skills involved in human resources management. The course brings students up-to-date on the role and focus of human resources as well as provides an understanding of the relationship between human resources and other management functions.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

The purpose of this course is to teach specific skills and behaviors needed to manage in the multicultural workforce of the 2000s and beyond. The topics covered will include: (1) the definition and importance of valuing diversity; (2) the changing composition of the workforce; (3) differences between equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and managing diversity; (4) cultural awareness sensitivity; (5) management strategies for dealing with workforce changes; and (6) international as well as domestic cultural differences. The issues are demonstrated through a series of excercises, videos and cases.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites

MBA-610 OR MBA-710

Course Credits

3.00

Description

In recent years, the practice of management consulting has been expanding because of the growing complexity and specialization of management problems. Whether internal or external, the consultant serves a valuable role by facilitating organization advancement and renewal in addition to providing a detached perspective to the complex problems that face organizations. This course has a dual focus, examining the ways the prospective consultant can develop successful client relationships and develop his or her intervention skills, and the ways organizations can optimize the use of management consultants.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Strategic Management,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course emphasizes the theory and skills of win-win negotiation. Students assess their own negotiation styles, analyze the process of negotiation, and apply theory-based skills for integrating problem solving approaches to negotiation. The course utilizes a mix of teaching tools, including readings, lectures, cases, exercises, videotapes, and role-playing.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

MBA 610 or MBA 710

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course takes multiple approaches to the exploration of leadership. Emphasis is put on individual self-awareness as a critical precursor to leadership success. A wide range of activities, exercises, cases, and simulations are used to develop understanding of the dynamics of leadership. Team building, both as an activity and a topic for study, is used as the model to develop, practice, and improve individual leadership skills.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites

MBA 610 or MBA 710

Course Credits

3.00

Description

In this applied and experiential course, students will learn how to lead change efforts by collaborating with a community organization to address a change dilemma(s) they face. To do this we will explore the defining conceptual frameworks of change management. We will eaxmine the dynamics of envisioning change, assessing the need for change, developing intervention strategies, implementation considerations, understanding and managing resistance, and assessing the impact of change on the organization , it's members, and other key stakeholders. In addition, students will learn, apply, and receive constructive feedback on their application of the methods and technologies used in the practice of leading change agents through service learning in community organizations. They will frame organizational issues and identify how to enter into, diagnose, and intervene in dyanmic organizational settings.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course brings to light one of the most important yet vastly unmentionable topics of management: Failure. We will examine various aspects of failure from a sense making perspective at the organizational and individual levels, within emphasis on the latter. Examples of course questions include: What is failure? How do I usually handle it? Can I change if I want to? How? We will adopt an action learning pedagogical perspective so that students may enjoy the difference between mere knowing and understanding of material, on the one hand, and acting upon their understanding, on the other hand, to detect and possibly correct their frameworks for personal groundings, meaning-making, and failure handling strategies. There are no formal academic prerequisites for the course, except a desire for personal mastery and a white belt mentality.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior,MBA Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

A comprehensive analysis of timely special issues in the field of behavior in organizations. Specific topics are announced when the course is scheduled.

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior

Prerequisites

Course Credits

3.00

Description

Term Offered

Course Types

MBA Organizational Behavior