Courses

    The foundation course will begin preparing students to exercise leadership in business, government, and non-profit organizations It will introduce leadership skills useful in a variety of settings including community and civic activities. The course will help students to improve self awareness, understand multiple theories, importance of moral courage, build analytic and critical thinking skills, and adapt leadership practices to differences in individuals. Students taking this course will not receive credit for MGMT 3030.

    Provides an opportunity to learn and practice the foundational skills of negotiation and conflict management. This class provides a set of conceptual tools for diagnosing problems and obtaining agreement in difficult situations. Students will learn to identify and strategically execute a set of options that allow them to obtain their business objectives while building effective and harmonious work relationships. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Provides an opportunity to learn about and practice the skills required of all managers. These skills include leadership, negotiation, conducting performance appraisals, delegation, effective communication, interviewing and making hiring decisions, and managing employees with problem behaviors. Objectives include developing self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses as a manager, gaining familiarity with theory-based skills, and developing proficiency in the use of these skills. Students taking this course will not receive credit for LEAD 1000. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Examines concepts, tools and techniques used in the management of service operations. Focuses on how firms add value and compete with high quality and efficient services. Emphasizes the use of models for designing new services and improving the effectiveness of service processes. Studies the application of technology in the context of productivity, growth and the globalization of services. Formerly SYST 3030, OPIM 3030. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Focuses on acquiring accurate and timely knowledge to make effective operational, tactical and strategic decisions. This course focuses on how to create and use such knowledge. Topics include problem definition; critical factor isolation; data collection, storage, and querying; transformation of data into knowledge through appropriate analyses and aggregation; and the presentation of the knowledge to decision makers in meaningful ways. Formerly SYST 3100, OPIM 3100. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.

    Uses computer programming to teach a complex problem solving skill. Its two main course objectives are: (1) learn to use a structured problem decomposition method, designed to help decompose a complex problem into manageable sub-problems. This method is best exemplified in programming but is applicable to any complex business problem. (2) understand the core concepts of programming--such as variable, object model, and control flow--that will help you not only appreciate the power of programming behind modern technologies but also better understand business process models. Formerly SYST 2010, OPIM 2010 and MGMT 2010.

    Explores developments in such areas as employee relations law and procedures, employee and employer rights, worker involvement programs, environmental safety and health, and the effects of technology on emerging organization forms. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Allows students the opportunity to practice conducting job analyses and then use this information to develop employee selection and performance appraisal systems. Provides thorough coverage of employers' equal employment opportunity and affirmative action obligations, as well as various approaches to gender, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Examines theories of work motivation and relates themto the strategic use of compensation and other reward systems. Topics include procedures for managing base pay; linking pay incentives to productivity at the individual, group, and organizational levels; developing cost-effective programs of employee benefits; and the use of nonfinancial reward systems. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2150 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Explores how to determine where an organization needs to focus its development efforts, how to develop and deliver an effective training program, and how to evaluate the impact of development programs on organizational effectiveness. Explores individual, team, and organization-wide development, including such topics as skills training, team building, and managing change. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2150 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Although some companies are very successful in discovering and cultivating innovative technology-enabled business strategies, many fail in the process. Combines theories and frameworks with practical approaches to provide students with the skills required to help companies identify business opportunities, find appropriate information related technologies, and lead adoption efforts to success. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BCOR 2200 or 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Explores the key issues related to the design and management of supply chains. Covers the efficient integration of suppliers, production facilities, warehouses, and stores so that the right products in the right quantity reach customers at the right time. Focuses on the minimization of the total supply chair cost subject to service requirements imposed by a variety of industries. Formerly SYST 4050, OPIM 4050. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Covers the concepts and tools to design and manage business processes. Emphasizes modeling an analysis, information technology support for process activities, and management of process flows. Graphical simulation software is used to create dynamic models of business processes and predict the effect of changes. Prepares students for a strong management or consulting career path in business processes. MGMT 4120 and 5120 are the same course. Formerly SYST 4060, OPIM 4060. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Operational sustainability is not just an obligation, as set of strategies or a niche market to explore, but a critical shift in mindset of how businesses function. Sustainable operations examines business strategies in response to environmental and social challenges. The course takes a pragmatic business perspective on improving operations across the supply chain. Grounded in resource efficiency, life-cycle thinking and a dose of investigative skepticism, the course assists students to thoroughly understand the scope of costs, benefits and risks associated with driving businesses toward sustainable operations. MGMT 4130 and CESR 4130 are the same course. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite coureses of BCOR 2500 and 3010. Restricted to Business, AEBU, ARBU, CEBU, CVBU, CSBU, ECBU, MEBU, EVBU, ADBU, BNBU, NEBU or MUBU Majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Introduces multidisciplinary project management concepts, skills, and tools, including the relationship between project definition, organization, planning, scheduling, resource and risk management, control, costing, and performance. Presents both qualitative and quantitative tools for better project management. Formerly OPIM 4080 and MGMT 4085. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Compares systems of production/operations management in the United States with those in Japan, Europe, and Asia. Contrasts various regional and national approaches to business, quality management, labor practices, management styles, international competitiveness, productivity, distribution systems, trade practices, and strategies for penetrating foreign markets. Examines different sociocultural environments, government-business relationships, banking industries, operations strategies, and the potential for transferring industrial management practices and techniques between countries. Formerly OPIM 4065 and MGMT 4070. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Analysis of systems thinking and understanding the complex interactions of collections of people, processes, organizations, and technologies. Students learn to be creative and critical thinkers who can conceptually model the very complex systems we encounter in our world today. Formerly SYST 3000, OPIM 3000. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Covers the use and configuration of ERP (enterprise resource planning) technologies in businesses. Emphasizes the understanding of the usage of technology in facilitating business processes within firms. Covers many modules/functional areas, including sales, marketing, distribution, manufacturing, etc. Students learn the importance of technology to organizations through hands-on use of multiple ERP software, focusing on both business processes as well as technology. Formerly SYST 3101, OPIM 3101. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 52-180 units completed.
    Focuses on the usefulness and usability of systems in organizations. Examines the bottom line implications of information systems and how to create systems that are easy to use for all potential users. Creative and critical thinking to design and build systems are stressed through individual and team exercises. MGMT 4230 and 5230 are the same course. Formerly SYST 4510, OPIM 4510. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2500 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Privacy = the new currency. In a time where technology allows unprecedented aggregation of personal information use of "private" information is moving faster than social norms and laws can follow. We will dissect the technologies and social trends related primarily to privacy and use of information about individuals to reap profits. A good complement to business intelligence and analytics classes. Same as CESR 4440. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of BCOR 2300 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.

    Experimental course offered irregularly for purpose presenting new subject matter in organization management. Same as MGMT 5820.

    Offered irregularly to provide opportunity for investigation of new frontiers in Management. Prerequisites: Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Explores the complexity of corporate boards and the need for values-driven leadership. Students will consider several corporate governance topics including: financial strategy, international challenges, ethics, corporate social responsibility, board composition, compensation, and crisis management. Throughout the course, students will evaluate their own leadership and decision making abilities as they work together in student-run boards to address issues presented in a variety of case studies. Same as CESR 4828. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BCOR 2300 and 3010 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Business (BUSN) majors with 52-180 units completed.
    Covers the issues and challenges of running a firm in a competitive environment. It integrates and builds upon coursework in other functional areas. Discusses principles, frameworks, and techniques that helps understand how to analyze the competitive environment; firm sources of competitive advantage; competitive dynamics; and, specific types of strategies to promote firm performance. Focuses on specific company examples. Formerly MGMT 4000. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of BCOR 2300, BCOR 2500, and MGMT 3030 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 102-180 units completed.

    Intended only for exceptionally well qualified business seniors. Departmental form required. Instructor consent required.

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