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MANAGEMENT STUDIES (MGTS)
Labovitz School of Business and Economics
Management Studies
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MGTS
3401
- Organizational Behavior and Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE cand or bus adm minor or @; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Introduction to organizations, management processes, and understanding human behavior at work. Covers the effects of the external environment, organizational structure, job design, teams, and leadership on employees? attitudes, motivation, and behavior.
MGTS
3411
- Honors: Organizational Behavior and Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-minimum 60 credits and instructor consent; A-F or Aud, spring, offered periodically)
Introduction to organizations, management processes, and understanding human behavior at work. Covers the effects of the external environment, organizational structure, job design, teams, and leadership on employees' attitudes, motivation, and behavior. Same as MGTS 3401, but with more depth, rigor, and challenging assignments. For high-ability students with excellent preparation.
MGTS
3491
- Independent Study
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-%; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
For students wishing to do special work in strategic, organizational, human resource, or marketing management that extends beyond, or in greater depth than, regular course offerings.
MGTS
3497
- Organizational Management Internship
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE cand, consent of internship director; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Work-integrated learning program providing practical experiences within students' major. Students participate in approved program within cooperating businesses, governmental agencies, or civic organizations. Requires minimum of 200 hours work experience, assigned written reports, and performance evaluations.
MGTS
3801
- Human Resource Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE cand or approved non-LSBE bus adm or @; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Introduction to theory and practice of human resource management in private and public organizations. Organizational, legal, and ethical influences on major personnel functions, including planning, staffing, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and labor-management relations.
MGTS
3897
- Human Resources Internship
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE cand, consent of Internship Director; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Work-integrated learning program providing practical experiences within students' major field. Students participate in approved program with businesses, governmental agencies, or civic organizations. Requires minimum of 200 hours work experience, assigned reports, and performance evaluations.
MGTS
3997
- Management of Community Projects
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-3401, 3801, LSBE cand, instructor consent; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Requires design and administration of community-related project involving volunteers. Interns identify project, contact appropriate persons, obtain approval, and submit written proposal. Requires completion of minimum of 100-300 hours, maintenance of weekly journal, oral presentation, and written analysis.
MGTS
4411
- Organizational Studies
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Survey of organization theories and their application to organizational structuring, coordination, control, job design, organizational decision making, leadership, and organizational development.
MGTS
4421
- Managing Change
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, LSBE cand or grad student or @; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Causes, goals, programs, and results of organizational change and employee responses to it. Assumptions, values, contingency factors, ethical considerations, models, and intervention strategies for organizational development. Role of managers as change agents.
MGTS
4431
- Leadership
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, every year)
A survey of the leadership literature aimed at the development of an understanding of leaders and the leadership process. An exploration of such questions as: Who as a person is the leader? How do people come to the position of a leader? What is the nature of leadership as a process? How do leaders influence others? What is participative leadership? What is charismatic and transformational leadership?
MGTS
4443
- Building and Leading Teams in Organizations
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE candidate, 3401 or #; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Examines effective design and management of a variety of groups in organizations, including work groups, task forces, self-managed teams and coalitions. Covers group composition, goals, processes, and effectiveness; includes leadership, managing external relationships, and performance measurement.
MGTS
4451
- Management Inquiry
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, 3801, approved LSBE cand or @; A-F only, spring, every year)
Methods employed by organizational specialists in conducting applied inquiry (research) to assist organizational decision making, coupled with an examination of a contemporary management issue. Preparation and written/oral presentation of research findings from student-conducted field, laboratory, or library research projects focused on contemporary management issues.
MGTS
4461
- Business and Society
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, 3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, every year)
Business as part of larger system--economic, political, social. Emphasis on external environment--economics, culture, government, technology, international relations, labor--within which business operates. Business ethics and social responsibility.
MGTS
4463
- Sustainability and Sustainable Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401 or instructor consent; no grad credit; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
This course will introduce students to the concepts of sustainability in a managerial context.
MGTS
4472
- Entrepreneurship
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, every year)
Seminar on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, the characteristics of entrepreneurs, and the life cycle of a new venture: creating and starting a new venture; financing the new venture; managing, growing, and ending the new venture.
MGTS
4473
- Management of Innovation and Technology
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, offered periodically)
Issues related to achieving maximum leverage from innovation competencies, skills, and resources. Factors distinguishing high-innovation companies, strategies for innovation, internal and external conditions, and market consequences of innovation. Integration of technology within the strategic management process.
MGTS
4474
- International Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, LSBE candidate or @; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Differences in culture, history, resources, etc. are explored in the context of managing global businesses and workforce. Students will reflect on their own managerial skills, and develop skills to become a global manager.
MGTS
4475
- Negotiations, Bargaining and Conflict Resolution
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE candidate, 3401 or #; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Combines analytical material on the negotiation process, with a series of negotiating experiences, to develop your understanding of, and skills in, negotiating and resolving conflicts in business. Covers topics and strategies appropriate for use between people, departments, organizations and countries, across a variety of industries.
MGTS
4481
- Strategic Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3401, 3801, Mktg 3701, FMIS 3301, FMIS 3601, 90 cr, LSBE cand or @; no Grad School credit; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Integration of basic functions of marketing, finance, production, and behavioral sciences. Emphasis on organizational environments and development and implementation of competitive strategies that respond to social, political, and economic conditions from perspective of top management.
MGTS
4483
- Cooperative Strategy and Strategic Alliances
(3.0 cr; Prereq-LSBE candidate, 3401, 4481 preferred or #; A-F only, spring, every year)
Introduces the concept that firms are engaged in cooperative as well as competitive relationships. Creates understanding for the nature of strategic alliances-forming, negotiating, operating, evaluating-in an international context.
MGTS
4495
- Special Topics: (Various Titles to be Assigned)
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-LSBE cand, 3401 or @; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, offered periodically)
Enables students, working closely with the instructional faculty, to explore one or more contemporary organization management issues in substantial depth.
MGTS
4821
- Staffing Work Organizations
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, spring, every year)
Theory and practice of staffing work organizations. Emphasis on design and implementation of staffing systems, legal requirements, and career planning.
MGTS
4831
- Compensation Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, every year)
Theory, design, and practice of employee compensation systems. Impacts of compensation, economic and institutional forces influencing employer compensation policies and practices, supplemental forms of compensation and administrative practices.
MGTS
4841
- Training and Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, spring, every year)
Elements of training and development program planning and delivery: learning theories and approaches, needs assessment, training objectives, design, training methods, transfer-of-training strategies, and evaluation. Assess, design, and evaluate human resource development systems. Develop training skills and techniques.
MGTS
4851
- Unions and Collective Bargaining
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, spring, offered periodically)
Nature of and basis for contractual relationships between employers and unions. Emphasis on background of labor movement, union organizing, bargaining relationships, labor law, and contemporary trends in private and public sector labor relations.
MGTS
4861
- International Human Resource Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE candidate or #; A-F only, fall, every year)
Course combines theories of culture with HRM applications to develop students' awareness cultural issues as they apply in the workplace.
MGTS
4881
- Human Resource Issues and Trends
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3801, LSBE cand or @; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Integrative, problem-solving approaches to contemporary human resource challenges, with emphasis on employment law.
MGTS
4895
- Special Topics: (Various Titles to be Assigned)
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-LSBE cand, 3801 or instructor consent; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, offered periodically)
Enables students, working closely with the instructional faculty, to explore one or more contemporary human resource management issues in substantial depth.
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