MGT (93) Management
Administered by Department of Management
Effective Fall 2008
93.244 Principles of Management (3) - Administrative organizational and
behavioral theories and functions of management, contributing to the effective
and efficient accomplishment of organizational objectives. Three lecture hours
per week. Prerequisites: 24 credits earned.
93.345 Human Resource Management (3) - Equips students with tools and
procedures to address human resource issues and problems. Three lecture
hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244 and must have 50 credits earned.
93.346 Labor and Industrial Relations (3) - Describes administration of the
relationship between management and the labor force, both where that
relationship is governed by a collective bargaining agreement and where it is not.
Includes development of the social and legal status of trade unions organizing,
negotiations, strikes, grievance procedure and union security. Three lecture
hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244.
93.347 Management Science (3) -Covers quantitative models such as linear
programming, goal programming, inventory models, forecasting models,
PERT/CPM in dealing with the dynamics of manufacturing/service operations in
an organization. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.244 and 93.343
93.355 Managing Multicultural Organizations (3) - Studies the impact of
increasing diversity in terms of gender, race, ethnicity and nationality on
management practice of multicultural organizations through enhanced decision
making. Examines ways in which diversity can be used to strengthen
organizations through enhanced decision making, creativity, innovation, and
expanding international and ethnic markets. Examines strategies for building and
maintaining functional multicultural organizations by reducing turnover,
interpersonal and conflict and communication barriers. The course emphasizes
workplace equity. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244. This
course is approved as a Diversity General Education Course.
93.362 Organizational Design (3) - Discusses the differences between micro and
macro perspectives in the study of organization and provides a macro view in
which the organization, as opposed to individual members, is the unit of analysis.
Provides students with an in-depth understanding of how organizations are
formed and how external as well as internal factors influence the structure and
design of the organizations. Also explores variables for designing and managing
organizations. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244.
93.391 Small Business Management (3) - Introduces environment of small
business in the United States. Describes types of small business and problems
associated with each type. Covers ownership, start up, franchising, finance,
accounting, personnel, risk management, inventory, advertising and marketing
and production processes. Special emphasis is given to incentives and legal
requirements of Pennsylvania with regard to small businesses. Three lecture
hours per week. Prerequisites: 60 credits, 98.331, 97.310, 96.313, 91.223,
91.220, 93.244.
93.400 Entrepreneurship (3) - This course focuses on three major issues: 1) how
to launch new ventures: creating and assessing opportunities and the associated
risks in their right perspectives; 2) managing innovation and entrepreneurship in
an ongoing business; and 3) attracting venture capital to new business
opportunities. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.244 and 96.300
OR 96.313.
93.432 Internship in Management (1-6) - Integrates classroom experience and
practical work experience in industrial, business or government work situations.
Allows students to translate academic theories and principles into action, to test
career interests and to develop skills and abilities through carefully planned and
supervised problems related to the field of management. Prerequisites: 93.244 or
approval of internship supervisor or department chairperson. GPA of 2.50, 75
semester hours and major or minor in business administration.
93.440 Small Business Internship and Seminar (1-3) - Teams of students work
with local businesses in a consultancy capacity to aid small businesses while
applying business principles. Work includes analysis of a problem, determination
of alternative solutions, and recommendation of the optimum course of action by
means of an oral presentation to business owners. Prerequisite: GPA of 2.5,
93.244, 97.310 and 98.331.
93.443 Managerial Decision Making (3) – This course covers application of
intermediate statistical techniques to typical managerial decision contexts.
Students transform accurate, relevant, and timely data into valid and reliable
information as a key first step in the decision analysis that precedes the basic
management practice: allocation of constrained resources. Decision processes
that support optimal choices are also presented. Content includes regression
analysis, analysis of variance, decision trees, and forecasting. The course is
software intensive; students develop extensive spreadsheet models. Three
lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.244 and 40.256.
93.445 Managerial Communications (3) - Prepares students for effective
managerial communication by providing preparation in the process and structure
of communication in a professional setting. Three lecture hours per week.
Prerequisites: 20.201, 25.103, 93.244 and junior standing.
93.448 Supply Chain Operations (3) - This course introduces students to the
scope of management activities inherent in operating organizations within global
supply chain contexts. Students experience how business disciplines interact and
contribute data and information, within and across organizations, to support
decisions necessary for successful operation of organizations and their extended
supply chains. Content includes process design and analysis, project
management, supply chain strategy, inventory control capacity planning, and
scheduling. The course is software-intensive; students develop spreadsheet
models, utilize interactive simulations, and experience enterprise systems. Three
lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 40.256.
93.449 Organizational Behavior (3) - Provides the tools and theories regarding
personal, interpersonal and group processes within the organization at the micro
level. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244, junior standing.
93.450 Managing Quality (3) - This course introduce students to quality
management programs, activities, and paradigms, and facilitates learning and
applying useful problem-solving processes typical in modem workplaces.
Statistical processes for evaluation and improvement of manufacturing and
service processes are also covered. Content includes the quality paradigms of
Crosby, Deming, and Juran, statistical process control, business process
reengineering, quality award programs, ISO certification, and Six Sigma. The
course is software-intensive; students utilize application software. Three lecture
hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.244 and 40.256.
93.456 International Management (3) - Develops an understanding of the issues
related to international business environment, refines this knowledge by the
analysis of current economical, social and political issues that can influence
international and global companies and prepares students to analyze
international business issues as a manager of a multinational/global company.
Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.244 and junior standing. This
course is approved as a Diversity General Education Course.
93.457 Business and Society (3) - Prepares students to manage social
responsibility and ethics issues related to business operations and the interests
of multiple stakeholders. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 96
semester hours earned, 20.201, 25.103, 93.244, 96.313, 97.310 and 98.331.
93.463 Employee Staffing (3) - Examines the procedures used by companies to
recruit and hire employees. Students learn how organizations seek to improve
effectiveness by ensuring each job is legally staffed by a fully capable individual.
Topics covered include job analysis, employee recruitment, selection techniques,
validation procedures and legal restraints on employee selection practices. Three
lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.345 and junior standing.
93.464 Compensation Management (3) - Examines the development of a firm's
compensation system. Students learn how companies design their compensation
systems in an effort to enhance their recruiting, motivation and retention of
employees. Topics covered include job evaluation, salary surveys, pay-forperformance programs, legal issues, and the design and evaluation of employee
benefits packages. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: 93.345
93.481 Business Policies and Strategies (3) - Prepares students in the area of
strategic decision-making for the total organization through strategic formulation
and administration using integrative analysis and strategic planning and process.
Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 90 semester hours earned, 93.244,
96.313, 97.310, 98.331 and senior standing.
93.483 Leadership (3) - This course examines theories of leadership and sources
and uses of power in the organization. Assumptions, beliefs and styles of
leadership in the context of organizational culture, productivity, performance and
effectiveness will be examined through case studies. Employee compliance,
control as well as satisfaction; stakeholders' support, commitment as well as
satisfaction issues will be addressed through in-depth studies of effective leaders
of select private, public and human services organizations. Organizational vision,
mission and social and ethical responsibilities, and workforce diversity will be
discussed in the context of transformational leadership. Three lecture hours per
week. Prerequisites: GPA of 3.0 and 80 credits earned, 20.201, 93.244, and
25.103.
93.498 Special Topics - Management (3) - Examines current or advanced issues
in the field of management not normally examined in depth in other courses.
Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: approval of the department
chairperson.
93.500 Managerial Principles (3) - Focuses on the fundamentals of the practice
of management, including administrative, organizational and behavioral theories.
Explores the functions of management and the aspects of the organizational
environment. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
Available as a distance learning course.
93.511 Statistical Analysis (3) - Covers statistical inference and its application to
the commonly used methods of estimation, hypotheses testing, prediction and
decision making relevant to business and managerial problems. Prerequisites:
Graduate standing. Available as a distance learning course. Three lecture hours
per week.
93.520 Business Research Methods (3) - Assists students in developing
knowledge of business research methods, suitable for workplace application, to
enable solutions and recommendations founded on legitimate and efficient data
and information. Content includes research process, research design, sources,
collection and analysis of data, and presentation of results and
recommendations. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Foundation
courses, 93.511 or permission of instructor. Available as a distance learning
course.
93.532 Professional Development Skills (3) - This course will help students
examine themselves and discover strengths and weaknesses, develop a
personal mission statement and career goals, and develop skills and selfknowledge essential to effective management. Bulk of class time will focus on
self-assessment or skill development and provide a foundation for enhanced
success in the MBA program and continued development in future careers.
Three lecture hours per week.
93.545 Graduate Human Resource Management (3) - Equips students with tools
and procedures to address human resource issues and problems. Three lecture
hours per week.
93.547 Decision Models I (3) - This course facilitates translating business
problems into the appropriate mathematical formulations, applying the correct
quantitative models and interpreting the results, using sensitivity analysis to
respond to "what if" managerial challenges. Three lecture hours per week.
Prerequisites: Foundation courses; 93.511 or permission of instructor.
93.548 Decision Models II (3) - This course explores decision analysis theory and
multiple criteria decision making models. It facilitates translating business
problems into appropriate decision models, taking into account individual and
organizational preference structures and environmental uncertainty. Three
lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Foundation courses; 93.511 or permission
of instructor; 93.547.
93.550 Quality Management (3) - This course introduces students to quality
management philosophies that have developed over the past 20 years, including
those of Deming, Juran and Crosby. It provides students with opportunities to
learn and apply various problem-solving tools, to recognize strengths and
weaknesses of various management programs, activities and paradigms, and to
understand and apply statistics-based process evaluation and improvement. The
course includes opportunities to work on applied problems from the student's
own workplace and prepare results suitable for management presentations.
Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Foundation courses, 93.511 or
permission of instructor.
93.556 International Management (3) - Focuses on dynamic changes in
international business environment and increased foreign competition that
challenge managers. Addresses international issues and understanding of their
impact on markets, products and services. Develops understanding of
international business environment and issues that have the potential for
enhancing an enterprise's survival and success. Three lecture hours per week.
Prerequisite: Foundation courses.
93.558 Social Responsibility and Business Ethics (3) - Focuses on theories,
concepts and tools for managing social responsibility and ethics in different
organizational settings. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Foundation
courses; 91.524, 97.551, 96.535.
93.560 Operations Management (3) - Analyzes manufacturing and service
systems and application of managerial decision-making in resolving operational
policy problems. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Foundation
courses, 93.511.
93.562 Organizational Theory (3) - Provides a macro level understanding of
organizational structure, processes and management of external organizational
relationships. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.500 or equivalent.
93.566 Organizational Behavior (3) - Focuses on human aspects of an
organization, groups and individuals. Addresses behavioral concepts and
theories in leadership, motivation, performance appraisal, stress, job satisfaction
and inter- and intra-group processes. Three lecture hours per week.
93.567 People Management Skills (3) - This is an experiential, skill-building
course that focuses on the development of interpersonal management skills.
Students enhance their skills in areas of supportive communication, managing
conflict, motivating employees, delegating responsibilities, developing and
managing work teams, managing problem employees and facilitating change.
Three lecture hours per week.
93.581 Strategic Management (3) - Examines complex industrial situations to
determine better strategies to ensure a firm’s long-run survival and growth in
competitive markets. Emphasizes problem solving skills and implementation of
optimal decisions. Examines the factors that can result in performance
differentials by understanding how a firm attains a superior performance.
Analyzes and investigates strategic problem-solving processes that can enhance
control of the firm over the market and competition. Three lecture hours per
week. Prerequisites: Capstone course, to be taken in graduating semester;
91.524; 96.535; 97.551; 93.560.
93.582 HR Skills for Managers (3) - This course covers the skills needed by
managers to effectively implement practices to help an organization deal
effectively with its people during various phases of the employment process.
Through experiential methods, such as case studies and role-plays, students
learn how to perform such HR tasks as interview job applicants, provide and
communicate job performance ratings and carry out disciplinary procedures, all
within the context of prevailing legal and ethical standards. Three lecture hours
per week.
93.583 Human Resources Development (3) - Focuses on current research and
theories related to management and development of human resources in
organizational settings. Emphasizes theories related to motivation, training and
development, leadership, behavior and performance in an organization. Three
lecture hours per week.
93.584 Seminar on Leadership (3) - This course examines theories of leadership
and sources and uses of power in the organization. Assumptions, beliefs and
styles of leadership in the context of organizational culture, productivity,
performance and effectiveness will be examined through case studies. Employee
compliance, control as well as satisfaction; stakeholders' support, commitment as
well as satisfaction issues will be addressed through in-depth studies of effective
leaders of select private, public and human services organizations.
Organizational vision, mission and social and ethical responsibilities, and
workforce diversity will be discussed in the context of transformational
leadership. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: 93.500 (or equivalent)
93.599 Special Topics (3) - Addresses a variety of advanced topics in
management at the graduate level and permits the instructor to focus on issues
of particular importance and interest to the discipline. Prerequisites: Approval of
the department curriculum committee and the chair. Three lecture hours per
week. Prerequisite: Foundation courses.