School of Business

This course is a study of the use of accounting information in planning, control, and special decision-making. It involves the uses of accounting data internally by managers in directing the affairs of business and non-business organizations. It focuses on the needs of the manager for financial information and timely reports on the firm’s operations in order to make sound managerial decisions.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how managers use the internal accounting activities.
• Discuss cash and/or assets that must be surrendered to achieve a specific organizational goal.
• Identify the process of choosing an investment project by estimating the future cash flows from the project.
• Analyze an organizational architecture in terms of decision making.
• Discuss costs charged by one segment of an organization for a product or service supplied to another segment of the same corporation
• Identify the budget forecast of expenses and revenues to occur within a future period of time.
• Review the basics of cost allocation theory by distribution or assignment of indirect, common or joint costs to different departments.
• Summarize the goals of internal managerial accounting systems.
• Discuss the assignment of indirect, common or joint costs to appropriate organizational departments.
• Discuss the assignment of indirect, common or joint costs to appropriate organizational departments.
• Discuss the effect of overproduction in terms of internal accounting systems.
• Discuss the implications of assigning inaccurate costs to organizational departments.
• Analyze an organizational architecture in terms of decision making.
• Summarize overhead manufacturing costs that cannot be directly traced to a product.
• Review the essential components of an internal accounting system.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of internal accounting systems.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

This course will provide a systematic, logical analysis of business decision and decision making using economic information combining elements of both micro- and macroeconomics by using real-world examples while highlighting relevant economic issues that are then explained with the appropriate economic theory. It addresses the larger economic forces that shape daily operations and long-term decisions, as well as discussing economic theory.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze the equation for economic profit.
• Compare the basic framework of demand and supply analysis.
• Evaluate marginal analysis.
• Apply the basic principles of regression analysis.
• Interpret why the marginal rate of substitution diminishes.
• Analyze and determine the relationship between price elasticity and demand.
• Contrast demand estimation and forecasting.
• Critique the production function and technical efficiency and how it relates to production and cost in the short run.
• Compare short run production and cost to long run.
• Express why managers use estimates of production and cost functions to make output.
• Outline the managerial decisions in competitive markets.
• Evaluate the managerial decisions in firms with market power.
• Discriminate between dominated strategies.
• Compare the profit maximization with price discrimination.
• Compile decisions under risk and uncertainty.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is a study of organizational culture and its influence on organizational behavior, employee attitudes, productivity and business operations. It includes the study of interpersonal and group processes, communication theory, and organizational design and restructuring.

Learning Outcomes:

• Examine the management competencies.
• Analyze the behavioral viewpoint of management.
• State the importance of ethics for individual employees and organizations.
• State the five competitive forces in an industry.
• Describe six strategies used by organizations to grow globally.
• Assess factors that influence organizational behavior.
• Outline the planning essentials for potential entrepreneurs.
• Discuss the effects of organizational diversification strategies on planning.
• Describe the characteristics of routine, adaptive and innovative decisions.
• State the major concepts of vertical organizational design.
• Describe four types of organizational change.
• Explain the strategic importance of managing human resources effectively.
• State how the organization context affects motivation and satisfaction.
• Explain what leadership means.
• Explain the communication process.
• Identify five types of work teams.
• Describe the core elements of a culture.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course focuses on corporate behavior and decision making from the context of ethical and global issues; the influence of political environmental, legal, regulatory, and technological issues and the impact of diversity on organizations. Through readings and case studies, an understanding of a wide variety of workplace issues, such as discrimination, product safety, international operations, right to privacy, advertising and product safety is developed.

Learning Outcomes:

• Think critical and comprehensively about ethical issues facing business.
• Defend viewpoints, evaluate issues, and analyze new information related to moral and ethical conduct required in business.
• Distinguish between moral, ethical, prudent, and law theories of ethical behavior.
• Interpret types of utilitarian theory.
• Identify, interpret, analyze ethics related articles and evaluate the arguments.
• Conduct a synopsis of a case by identifying major issues relating to ethical responsibilities; analyzing and evaluating issues and decisions made; recommend strategies, actions, or alternatives to follow.
• Recognize paradoxes and dilemmas in the field of business and understand the difficulties in resolving them.
• Identify issues in the workplace that managers face.
• Clarify one's own personal values relating to business ethics.
• Acquire exposure to international dimensions of ethics and cultures.
• Interpret views on social responsibilities of a corporation from the viewpoint of shareholders and stakeholders.
• Explain the normative theories of business ethics.
• Contrast governmental regulation versus self-regulation.
• Contrast individual responsibility and management system responsibility.
• Compare and contrast the following views to consumers: contract, care and social costs.
• Explain employee’s right to know about workplace hazards.
• Summarize governmental, public and business responsibility for ensuring environmental protection.
• Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the employment-at-will doctrine from both the employer and employee viewpoint.
• Describe the concept of right to privacy.
• Analyze the consequences of Affirmative Action.
• Outline the arguments supporting or opposing whistle-blowing.
• Characterize what actions constitute sexual harassment.
• Summarize manipulative advertising.
• Explain the salespersons responsibilities concerning information disclosure to the consumer.
• Compare and contrast the notion of “intellectual property,” as opposed to “physical property,” and explain the new challenges presented by recent technological advances.
• Summarize problems encountered by multinational corporations when conducting business in other countries.
• Contrast gift giving, bribery, and corruption.
• Summarize the principle of readdress.
• Explain the difference principle.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

The course is organized around the project management life cycle to mirror the way a real-world project would be executed. It provides you with essential project management concepts and ties them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge developed by the Project Management Institute. Techniques such as PERT, Gantt and CPM for tracking the integrated nature of performance, cost and time in every project are included.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how projects are used in contemporary organizations.
• Explain the elements of a project schedule and the techniques used to estimate time in a project plan.
• Apply project initiation concepts in areas of project selection, risk assessment and data gathering and analysis.
• Summarize the roles and responsibilities of a project manager in modern organizations.
• Compare and contrast the various forms of project structures in modern organizations.
• Explain the human factors that can influence a project team’s effectiveness.
• Summarize the important elements in a project plan.
• Explain potential strategies for dealing with conflict in projects.
• Summarize how negotiations can be used to resolve problems associated with conflict among stakeholders.
• Combine elements of a project budget and the techniques used to estimate costs in a project.
• Distinguish the use of CPM for crashing a project and how to use resource leveling to balance load effectively on the project’s lifecycle.
• Explain how to use information systems for monitoring and controlling the execution of a project.
• Explain project audits and project termination.
• Summarize the range, scope and complexity of modern projects.
• Explain the role of the project manager.
• Apply modern project management tools and techniques.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course will be a review of managerial and statistical data techniques used for logistics analysis, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analysis, forecasting, data mining, and statistical analysis. Emphasis will be on analysis of business and economic data to support managerial decision-making, time series, and forecasting.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discuss the usefulness of applied data analysis to improve managerial decisions.
• Identify the process of data examination for better understanding of significance.
• Explain the statistical method of factor analysis.
• Analyze the statistical method of multiple regression analysis.
• Compare the usefulness of the statistical methods of Multiple Discriminate Analysis and Logistic Regression.
• Hypothesize the need for the statistical method of Multivariate Analysis of Variance.
• Illustrate the appropriate use of conjoint analysis.
• Justify how best to use the technique of Cluster analysis.
• Assess how best to utilize the techniques of Multi-dimensional scaling and correspondent analysis.
• Describe the complex statistical tool of Structural Equation Modeling.
• Appraise the appropriate application of SEM: Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
• Argue the appropriate application of SEM: Testing a Structural Model.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is a in-depth examination of marketing environments and marketing activities and their impact on organizational operations in competitive business settings. The course covers both domestic and international structure of the fundamental marketing functions of product, distribution, pricing, promotion, customer relations, advertising, and production. It discusses competition, consumer behavior, new product development and market strategies.

Learning Outcomes:

• Rank the necessary tasks are for successful marketing management.
• Demonstrate how strategic planning is carried out at different levels of the organization.
• Classify the key methods for tracking and identifying opportunities in the macro-environment
• Summarize how marketers can assess their returns on investment of marketing expenditures
• Assess customer value, satisfaction, and loyalty, and how can companies deliver them
• Illustrate how consumer characteristics influence buying decisions
• Explain the business market, and how it differs from the consumer market
• Identify different levels of market segmentation
• Compare the important decisions in developing a branding strategy
• Demonstrate how a firm can choose and communicate an effective positioning in the market
• Formulate a plan to analyze competitors’ strategies, objectives, strengths, and weaknesses
• Interpret how companies can combine products to create strong co-brands or ingredient brands
• Explain how services are defined and classified, and how do they differ from goods
• Demonstrate how consumers process and evaluate prices
• Decide what work marketing channels perform
• Examine the major types of marketing intermediaries that occupy this sector
• Generalize the major steps in developing effective communications
• Define the major steps in developing effective communications
• Measure how companies use integrated direct marketing for competitive advantage
• Assess the challenges a company faces in developing new products
• Classify the factors a company should review before deciding to go abroad
• Illustrate the important trends in marketing practices
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

This course covers the theoretical and technical concepts involved in investing in marketable securities. A framework for making intelligent investment decisions and achieving successful investment results is developed through a global outlook. It covers major issues of concern to all investors including risk-return trade off, modern portfolio theory with efficient diversification, asset allocation, futures, options, and other derivative security markets.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the general concept of investing and the overall investment process.
• Integrate understanding of the various financial instruments available to the potential investor.
• Insight as to how securities are traded on both the primary and secondary markets.
• Identify key differences between open-end and closed-end investment companies.
• Describe the major factors that influence the level of interest rates.
• Apply the concept of risk aversion in measuring a utility function and understand how risk aversion affects allocation.
• Calculate standard deviation and return for two security portfolios.
• Identify inputs required to use the index model and understand the characteristic line.
• Discuss the development and the theory of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
• Examine factor models and the arbitrage pricing theory (APT) and to be able to use (APT) to identify mispriced securities.
• Illustrate the concept of market efficiency.
• Identify the key errors made by individuals in processing information.
• Classify how tests of single and multiple factor models are structured.
• Calculate yields and prices of various types of bonds.
• Describe the major theories of term structure.
• Construct immunized portfolios appropriate for different investor categories.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that affect security prices.
• Summarize the value of a firm using the appropriate dividend discount model and the dividend discount-derived price/earnings ratio.
• Analyze a firm using the basic financial statements to perform ratio analysis.
• Formulate portfolio management strategies to modify the risk-return attributes of the portfolio.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the factors affecting option prices.
• Describe basic characteristics of futures contracts, short and long positions and profits from such positions.
• Show understanding of the various futures contracts available.
• Calculate various risk-adjusted return measures, and use these measures to evaluate investment performance.
• Devise hedge strategies to offset currency risk involved in international investing.
• Interpret how the life cycle affects investment policies for individuals.
• Apply the Black-Litterman model which allows the incorporation of forecasts.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course takes an innovative approach in focusing on managing return and risk in financial institutions such as commercial banks, savings and loan associations, investment banks and insurance companies. The central theme involves examining the risks facing financial institutions and the methods and markets through which these risks are managed.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze the special role of FIs in the financial system and the functions they provide.
• Describe the two major groups of Life Insurance Companies.
• Illustrate the activities of Securities Firms and Investment Banks.
• Explain the global issues involved in Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds.
• Assess the competitive environment of Finance Companies.
• Summarize the risks associated with financial intermediation.
• Explain the market value-based model for assessing and managing interest rate risk.
• Discuss the nature of market risk.
• Classify the different types of loans, and the analysis and measurement of credit risk.
• Define the risks associated with off-balance-sheet activities.
• Explain the restriction government can impose on debt repayments.
• Measure the importance of optimal management.
• Demonstrate the problem of liquidity risk as it affects FIs.
• Show how life insurance companies can control liquidity risk.
• Describe the mechanisms in place to protect FIs from liquidity crises.
• Discuss the function of capital as it relates to based models of credit risk.
• List the benefits of geographic diversification available in the domestic market.
• Define derivative securities.
• Illustrate the credit risk exposure associated with swaps.
• Explore the risk of securitization in improving the risk-return trade off.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

3 Credits This course covers the theory and practical applications of finance that builds successful companies by developing win-win relationships with suppliers, excelling in customer-relationship management, and providing high-quality services and products at a relatively low cost. It demonstrates the necessary skills to supply enough capital to accomplish these things and to support financial resources through capital generation, asset planning, and asset management.

Learning Outcomes:

• Establish an understanding of basic financial management principles.
• Examine risk, return, and portfolio theory.
• Analyze stocks & bonds in terms of valuation.
• Compare options and their valuation.
• Evaluate capital budgeting projects.
• Interpret cash flows relative to capital projects.
• Analyze corporate valuations using financial statements.
• Contrast corporate governance in relation to corporate valuations.
• Examine capital structure decisions of distributions to shareholders.
• Compare financing alternatives and decisions.
• Understand special topics in finance.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

3 Credits This course studies the collection of markets, institutions, laws, regulations, and techniques through which bonds, stocks, and other securities are traded, interest rates are determined, and financial services are produced and delivered worldwide. It explains the mechanisms by which financial assets are created, valued, and traded, and the critical importance of public and private information in determining the value of a financial assets to link the financial and non-financial markets in the global economy.

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate competency in the analysis and valuation of real and financial assets.
• Show an understanding of the operation of security markets.
• Develop proficiency and understanding of modern financial and real asset risk management.
• Achieve proficiency in the application of information-technology tools for financial analysis.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the roles of the finance function in organizations and markets.
• Become familiar with the conventions and terminology used by financial market participants.
• Become familiar with the publicly available sources of financial market information, on the internet.
• Apply various computational techniques for the pricing of fixed income.
• Apply various computational techniques for risk management of derivative financial instruments.
• Assess the relevance of the principles of intermediation of real world situations.
• Summarize the theory and concept underlying investment analysis and management.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory underpinning risk and return for both securities and portfolios.
• Develop the ability to reason out investment issues for yourself
• Acquire expansive and comprehensive knowledge of the debt capital markets
• Understand insolvency in the context of the debt capital markets.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course provides a framework for examining tax issues as they impact the business environment. The objective of this course is to show the student the impact of recognizing tax planning opportunities and applying basic principles of tax strategy. Applications covered in this course include acquisitions and mergers, business entity choice, tax arbitrage strategies, executive compensation, multi-national tax planning and others.

3 Credits Prerequisite: HRM 6503 This course presents a comprehensive staffing model that identifies all the key components of staffing, external influences, and staffing system management. Major areas covered are the model itself, external influences (economic, laws and regulations), staffing strategy and planning, job analysis, measurement, external and internal recruitment, external and internal selection, decision making, the final match, and management of the staffing system.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze people and organization’s matches.
• Recommend alternative employment arrangements.
• Compare and contrast alternative dispute resolution.
• Summarize staffing strategies.
• Compare and contrast temporary employment agencies and independent contractors.
• Summarize the future of affirmative action plans.
• Compare & discriminate between types of jobs – traditional, evolving, flexible, idiosyncratic, and team-based.
• Compare & discriminate between different recruitment sources – employee referral, internships and cooperatives, senior’s networks.
• Summarize mobility paths and policies.
• Explain and support targeted recruitment.
• Summarize and defend in-house temporary pools.
• Summarize the glass ceiling effect in organizations.
• Appraise the ADA guidance on pre-employment inquiries.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

This course explores four strategic choices in managing compensation. These strategic choices include concerns for internal consistency, external competitiveness, employee contributions, and administration. Each of these strategic decisions is examined in terms of the major compensation issues requiring resolution. The examination is made in the context of related theories, research, and state-of-the-art practices that can guide compensation decision-making.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain strategic perspectives reflecting the organization’s culture and values.
• Compare the various pay structures and the pay model.
• Defend the factors influencing internal pay structures.
• Generalize the reasons for performing a job analysis.
• Summarize the importance of job descriptions.
• Compare & discriminate between the methods of determining skill blocks and levels.
• Explain the role of administrative work evaluations.
• Test the effects of external competitiveness and the pay model.
• Rate and rank the principles of competitive pay policy.
• Decide the importance of balancing internal and external pressures in designing pay structures.
• Compare the environment for compensation and employee motivation.
• Support the factors of how to manage measuring and paying for performance.
• Summarize the role of performance appraisal in compensation decisions.
• Generalize the value of employee benefits.
• Appraise the importance of pay discrimination and comparable worth.
• Discuss the role of unions in wage and salary policies and practices.
• Compare & discriminate between the issues in budgeting and controlling salary levels.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course examines the history and development of labor relations, the structure of union organizations and the process of negotiations. The course begins by establishing the present state of the labor movement and models the decision process so that it can be used to decide whether or not to participate in organizing a union. Also covered are the laws and regulations governing collective bargaining, impasse resolution and contract administration.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the basic features of the contemporary U.S. labor relations system.
• Compare employee representation through labor unions to other methods of workplace governance.
• Analyze the basic elements of the employment environment and behavioral decision making.
• Differentiate between the major organizations in labor history and their contrasting strategies.
• Assess the criticisms of U.S. labor law and possible directions for reform.
• Discuss the range of possible management strategies toward labor unions.
• Discuss the basic procedural steps and legal standards for how new unions are formed in the United States.
• Illustrate the typical bargaining timeline.
• Compare the major third-party dispute resolution mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses.
• Explain the nature of U.S. union contracts.
• Classify the pressures for increased workplace flexibility.
• Formulate alternative arrangements for governing the global workplace.
• Analyze the extent to which the labor relations experiences in other countries can provide ideas and lessons for reform in the U.S.
• Outline alternative directions for union strategies in the 21st century.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course develops supervisory skills that can be used to improve job performance at the manager’s level. It focuses on contemporary issues such as: the changing workplace, management by wandering around, employee decision making and the need for trust, and contrasting views of empowerment and decentralization. It explains the blending of practice, theory, and skills necessary for effective supervision in modern organizational settings.

Learning Outcomes:

• Determine why supervisors must continually grow and develop as professionals.
• Assess the concept of authority as a requirement for any managerial position.
• Generalize the implications that communication has on effective supervision management.
• Compare the reasons why people behave the way they do.
• Support the leadership components of supervision.
• Examine the importance of decision-making skills.
• Defend the supervisor’s role in organizational planning.
• Measure tactical strategies for gaining acceptance of plans.
• Define the Discipline without punishment approach to progressive discipline.
• Assess the value of organizational tools that are used in supervisory organizing efforts.
• Generalize how labor unions continue to affect organizations and the supervisory position.
• Defend the hiring decision and the importance of documentation.
• Compare the performance and clarify the supervisor’s role in the process.
• Evaluate the unity-of-command principle in relation to using directives.
• Support work groups and their meaning for supervisors.
• Evaluate the nature and importance of the managerial controlling function.
• Distinguish between supervisory handling of employee complaints and grievances in a unionized situation.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course places training activities in the context of organizational strategy. It shows the important relationship between organizational practitioners and trainers and provides a model of the training process showing how it connects and contributes to achieving training objectives. It includes numerous examples of actual training solutions and the ways in which E-learning can improve the content of training programs by placing employees in virtual work environments that allow them to experiment and practice without fear of failure.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain how the training model can be applied to organizational improvement and problem solving.
• Analyze the strategic planning process, its components, and their relationships.
• Assess the cognitive and behavioral approaches to learning and their contradictory implications for instructional practices.
• Explain the purpose of a needs analysis.
• Evaluate the purpose of learning objectives.
• Design well-structured and compelling online training seminars.
• Assess different media.
• Integrate the elements in an instructional strategy.
• Summarize the interrelationships among the various levels of outcome evaluation.
• Demonstrate the key areas of organizational training.
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of managers at different levels in the organization.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

This course focuses on the understanding and management of human behavior in organizations for optimal organizational effectiveness and individual outcomes. Managing the dynamics of individual, group, and system relationships to achieve organizational goals is recognized

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the ways firms gain competitive advantage through people.
• Explain the linkages between competitive strategies and human resources.
• Discuss significant court cases affecting equal employment opportunity.
• Indicate the methods used in job analysis.
• Compare the advantages of internal and external recruitment.
• Describe decision strategies for employee selection.
• Identify the principles of learning and describe hoe they facilitate training.
• Outline the characteristics of an effective performance appraisal.
• Explain employee concerns in developing a strategic compensation program.
• Discuss the basic requirements for successful implementation of incentive programs.
• Describe the characteristics of a sound benefits program.
• Summarize the general provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).
• Explain the concepts of employee rights and employer responsibilities.
• Identify and explain the principal federal laws which provide the framework for labor relations.
• Explain the economic, political, legal and cultural factors in different countries that human resource managers must consider.
• Describe the components of a high-performance work system.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

This course explains the foundations of international trade and investment. Topics include: governmental intervention in international business; international monetary systems, balance of payments analysis, the foreign exchange markets and currencies.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define the basic theory using demand and supply.
• Explain who gains and who loses from trade.
• Explain the alternative theories of trade.
• Discover the improvements in production technologies and other intangible influences.
• Describe the effect of a tariff on producers and consumers
• Examine various kinds of nontariff barriers to imports and their effects.
• Identify different types of trade blocs and trade embargos.
• Determine what creates the global environmental challenges today.
• Identify the framework used to summarize a country's international transaction.
• Examine the forward exchange and international financial investment.
• Determine how well we can predict exchange rates.
• Describe the government policies toward the foreign exchange market.
• Describe how the open macroeconomy works.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Examine arguments proposing that import protection is good for the country.
• Explore how businesses and governments push for more exports than their country would sell under ordinary competition.
• Summarize the best available measures of growth rates in real gross domestic product.
• Determine the accounting processes used to keep track of flows of value both in and out of the country.
• Determine the exchange rate policy a country should have.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course examines the specific issues involved in entering overseas markets and in conducting international marketing operations, as opposed to entering domestic marketing organizations. Attention is focused on problems such as identifying and evaluating opportunities in overseas markets, developing and adapting marketing strategies in relation to specific national market needs and constraints, and coordinating strategies in world markets.

Learning Outcomes:

• Summarizes international marketing opportunities.
• Differentiate between a global company and a multinational company.
• Illustrate the types of trade barriers that may confront a business.
• Understand the effect of the history of each culture on international marketing.
• Explore the strategy of planned change
• Analyze the importance of adaptation or accommodation to differences in behavior patterns.
• Appreciate the critical nature of jurisdiction when legal disputes arise.
• Examine qualitative and quantitative research and the problems of gathering primary data.
• Illustrate the connection between the economic level of a country and the opportunities created as economic growth occurs.
• Summarize the evolution of NAFTA and its implications for Latin America.
• Assess the need for strategic planning to achieve company goals.
• Explore the relationship between consumer perceptions of products and culture.
• Illustrate the important role of relationship marketing in maintaining competitiveness in industrial goods marketing.
• Generalize between the home country and foreign country middleman alternatives available to an international marketer.
• Assess the impact of anti-terrorism regulations on the export/import process.
• Grade the communications process as a way of better understanding the diversity that exists in developing an international promotional program.
• Design training programs and compensation systems for international employees.
• Examine foreign trade zones as an important means of controlling and possibly lessening some of the costs associated with price escalation.
• Describe the dangers of stereotyping foreign managers.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course studies the complexities of operating in foreign environments and managing multi-national organizational relationships. The responses to different cultural logics and objectives are compared and contrasted with domestic firms. The Multi-National Enterprise (MNE) must provide for management control, functionality, and geographic diversity over its product.

Learning Outcomes:

• Summarize the motivation needed to expand abroad.
• Illustrate the evolution of the multinational corporation.
• Compare culture and organization.
• Explain the new economics of competition as it pertains to international business.
• Demonstrate the development of transnational strategies.
• Assess the competition in global industries.
• Explain matrix management.
• Describe how to make global strategies work.
• Formulate a plan for creating world wide innovation.
• Discuss building effective R & D capabilities abroad.
• Explain cross-boarder collaboration.
• Plan the management of international joint ventures.
• Discuss the implementation of a multi-national expansion initiative.
• Examine the aspects of the evolving global role in transnational organizations.
• Summarize the social responsibilities of international businesses.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course covers the principles underlying the legal environment of global business identifying the current legal rules and regulations affecting businesses. The approach is patterned after the basic market-entry strategies of most firms as they expand into international markets: trade in goods and services, the protection and licensing of intellectual property rights, and foreign direct investments. It presents insights into new developments and trends that will greatly affect future transactions on a global scale.

Learning Outcomes:

• Assess the transition from Communism to Free Markets and Private Enterprise.
• Examine the role of the United Nations in International law.
• Classify the types of resolution dispute available in International Law.
• Explain sales law in the United States; Foreign Countries.
• Summarize the responsibilities of the Buyer and the Seller in a Documentary Sale.
• Illustrate the liability for the carriage of goods carried by Sea; by Air.
• Define Letter of Credit and the law applicable to the Letter of Credit.
• Explain the President's Emergency Powers in relation to international trade.
• Discuss the scope and coverage of GATT.
• Analyze the General Principles of Least Restrictive Trade.
• Distinguish between Dumping and Anitdumping within the scope of the GATT Agreement.
• Explain the administration of customs and tariff laws.
• Examine NAFTA's provisions and coverage.
• Compare the European Trade Union with other regional trade areas.
• Differentiate between The Export Control Act and The Export Administration Act.
• Explain the origins of the FCPA.
• Summarize the nature of the Gay Market.
• Describe how host-country corporate laws affect foreign investment.
• Differentiate between Nationalization, Expropriation, and Privatization.
• Assess the effects of discrimination outside the United States.
• Illustrate the effects of environmental law on global trade.
• Generalize the laws the regulate competition in international trade.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Assess information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course provides a comparative study of the institutional characteristics and internal efficiency of developed and undeveloped capital markets. The role of multilateral institutions, multinational corporations, states, and the structure of trade in the international short and long-term capital flow. It provides the information resources to make intelligent investment decisions.

Learning Outcomes:

• Distinguish international finance from domestic finance.
• Illustrate the institutional framework within which the movement of capital is accommodated.
• Analyze how the balance of payment date may be interpreted.
• Explain corporate governance structures across countries.
• Examine the institutional framework within which exchange rates are determined.
• Compare interest rate parity and purchasing power parity.
• Appraise exchange-traded currency future - contracts, options, and currency futures.
• Grade methods available for the management of transaction exposure.
• Analyze methods for managing and hedging economic exposure.
• Assess the changes in exchange rates have on financial statements of multinational companies.
• Discuss world financial markets and institutions.
• Explain the structure of the international bond market.
• Compare the primary and secondary markets through the world.
• Measure the usefulness of interest rate swaps.
• Assess the effects of fluctuating exchange rates on international portfolio investments.
• Classify the various issues associated with foreign direct investment by MNCs.
• Evaluate the cost of capital for the multinational firm.
• Examine the methodology used to analyze the investment of capital in a foreign country.
• Summarize the various issues associated with multinational cash management.
• Explain the microstructure of international trade.
• Examine the international tax environment.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course provides advanced theories and techniques of organizational development focusing on information regarding the design, management and control of organizational development programs in business. The public sector and social services organizations are summarized.

Learning Outcomes:

• Distinguish OD (Organizational Development) and planned change from other forms of organization change.
• Describe and compare three major perspectives on changing organizations.
• Classify the roles and ethical conflicts that face OD practitioners.
• Reinforce the definition of an OD practitioner as anyone who is helping a system to make planned changes.
• Define diagnosis and to explain how the diagnostic process provides practical understanding of problems at the organizational level of analysis.
• Clarify the concepts of group and job level diagnosis.
• Describe the methods for diagnosing and collecting data.
• Grade the importance of data feedback in the OD process.
• Discuss issues, considerations, constraints, ingredients, and processes for interventions.
• Distinguish the different elements of a successful change program.
• Differentiate the process of institutionalizing OD interventions and the factors that contribute to it.
• Explain the human process interventions aimed at individuals, interpersonal relations and group dynamics.
• Review and understand the effectiveness of these interventions in producing change.
• Examine the process of downsizing and reengineering.
• Rank the major types of employee involvement interventions.
• Approach work design from three different perspectives: engineering, motivational, and socio-technical.
• Explore three interventions concerned with managing performance of human resources.
• Summarize human resource management interventions: career planning and development, workforce diversity, and employee stress and wellness.
• Compare and contrast two different classes of strategic interventions: competitive and collaborative.
• Explore a framework that categorizes different types of organizational change efforts with emphasis on the features of transformational change.
• Examine how OD can best be applied in worldwide firms and global social change organizations
• Discuss how OD is practiced in four non-traditional settings.
• Explore the trends affecting how OD is likely to be practiced in the future.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

This course reviews the latest strategies in the theory and practice of strategic management. It discusses how to think in an integrated way about strategic management. Features include core concepts and analytical tools and cases that showcase the important kinds of strategic challenges managers face.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop students’ capacity to think strategically about a company, its present business position, its long-term direction, its resources and competitive capabilities, the caliber of its present strategy, and its opportunities for gaining sustainable competitive advantage.
• Build students’ skills in conducting strategic analysis in a variety of industries and competitive situations and, especially, to provide them with a stronger understanding of the competitive challenges of a global market environment.
• Demonstrate students hands-on experience in crafting business strategy, reasoning carefully about strategic options, using what-if analysis to evaluate action alternatives, and making sound strategic decisions.
• Acquaint students with the managerial tasks associated with implementing and executing company strategies, drill them in the range of actions managers can take to promote competent strategy execution, and give them some confidence in being able to function effectively as part of a company’s strategy-implementing team.
• Integrate the knowledge gained in earlier core courses in the business school curriculum, show students how the various pieces of the business puzzle fit together, and demonstrate why the different parts of a business need to be managed in strategic harmony for a company to operate in winning fashion.
• Develop students’ powers of managerial judgment, build their skills in assessing business risk, and improve their ability to create results-oriented action plans.
• Have students become more proficient in using personal computers to do managerial analysis and managerial work.
• Illustrate students consciousness about the importance of exemplary ethical principles, sound personal and company values, and socially responsible management practices.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course was created to provide a current 21st Century snapshot of the world of leadership development and organizational change. It discusses social systems that begin to reduce resistance to change and development through more employee and customer-centered programs. Organizations studied are widely recognized as among the best in organizational change and leadership development today

Learning Outcomes:

• Illustrate why change is both a creative and a rational process.
• Identify why there are limits on what the manager of change can achieve.
• Identify the theoretical underpinnings of these six change management images.
• Understand environmental pressure propelling organizations toward change.
• Gain an awareness of the interaction between forces for stability and forces for change.
• Compare first order and second order change.
• Apply a range of diagnostic instruments relevant to various aspects of the process of managing.
• Identify the signs of resistance to change.
• Describe the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to the management of resistance to change.
• Explain the organization development approach to change.
• Explain the change management approach to change.
• Plan your change language to ensure that it is coherent and aligned with desired changes.
• Formulate contingency approaches to change.
• Identify the attributes of what makes a meaningful vision.
• Summarize current arguments concerning the relationship of vision to organizational change.
• Examine communication strategies appropriate to different images of managing change.
• Identify key elements involved in the communicating change.
• Plan your change language to ensure that it is coherent and aligned with desired changes.
• Recognize the difference between the appearance of change and change that has become consolidated within an organization.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

3 Credits This course develops cross-cultural competency for meaningful human relationships for success as professionals, managers, or technicians. It explores the interaction of how ethnicity affects today's organizational structure while fashioning a postindustrial knowledge culture amidst worldwide chaos. Also emphasizes the importance of culture and its impact on human behavior and performance as it develops diversity consciousness

Learning Outcomes:

• Integrate proven frameworks, models, and paradigms relevant to working skillfully in today’s global business and geopolitical world.
• Analyze human and organizational relationships by identifying cultural characteristics related to age, gender, status, and degree of kindred, as well as by wealth, power, and wisdom.
• Form an appreciation for the impact of culture on the development of the moral system for evaluating what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or not.
• Become a global leader who not only has the ability to learn the customs, courtesies and business protocols of their counterparts from other countries, but must also understand the national character, management philosophies, and mindsets of the people.
• Operate effectively in a global environment while being respectful of cultural diversity.
• Manage accelerating change and differences.
• Develop flexibility in approaching others, cope with situations and people disparate from his or her background, and the desire to reexamine and alter personal attitudes and perceptions.
• Recognize what is involved in one’s image of self and one’s role, personal needs, values, and standards, expectations, all of which are culturally conditioned.
• Understand the impact of cultural factors on communication and the willingness to revise and expand such images of him as part of the process of growth.
• Integrate awareness of verbal and nonverbal differences in communications with persons from another culture even when the people speak the same language because of differences that alter communication symbols and meanings that can lead to misunderstandings.
• Develop cultural sensitivity by the integration of the characteristics of culture in general with experiences in specific organizational, minority, or foreign cultures effectively translating cultural awareness into effective relationships with those that are different.
• Develop skills that allow the successful transition into an unfamiliar culture or the ability to deal with employees from diverse backgrounds and avoids ethnocentricity.
• Become a modern multicultural manager by understanding that management philosophies are rooted in culture and developing the insight to appreciate the universal character of management.
• Apply effective intercultural performance through the application of cultural theory and insight to specific cross-cultural situations that affect performance on the job including the deployment process, overseas adjustment, and culture shock.
• Build cultural synergy by combining the best in varied cultures and seeking the widest input, multiple effects, and complex solutions that can result.
• Apply the general characteristics of culture to the specifics of how people work at a point in time and place studying specific industries, organizations, or professional groups.
• Understand that a unique global culture with some common characteristics may be emerging through the influences of mass media and telecommunications.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.

This course describes the role of IT in management, including current professional practices and methodologies. It includes presentation of systems theory, decision theory, organizational models, types of IT, planning and IT development. The course examines the organizational philosophies that seek to bridge the gap between management of information systems and the information needs of management in making sound decisions

Learning Outcomes:

• Illustrate the use of the Information Systems components in transforming data resources into information products that are useful to a business
• Measure how businesses can use competitive strategies to increase the value of the business and have a competitive edge
• Compare and contrast the major types of computers and their technologies.
• Rank the popularity of software packages for end user’s productivity and collaborative computing.
• Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of managing the data resources of the business through a database approach compared to a file processing approach
• Compare the trends in the industries, technologies and Internet technologies in telecommunications.
• Explain how Internet and other information technologies support business processes within the business functions of accounting, human resource management, marketing, production, and operations management.
• Compare and contrast processes of an e-commerce system and identify how they are implemented in e-commerce applications
• Summarize how neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, virtual reality, and intelligent agents are used in business
• Use the development process and the model IS components as the framework for solving a business problem
• Compare and contrast how ethical issues in information technology affects business employment, individuality, working conditions, privacy, crime, health and solutions to social problems.
• Summarize the effects of global business/IT strategy toward a transnational business strategy
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

3 Credits Prerequisite: MGT 6500 and MGT 6507 This course is designed to present a collage of works from a provocative group of management writers. It introduces graduate students to the thoughts, philosophies, views, and experiences of a number of authors whose works capture the attention of today’s management community. Topics include: focus on motivation, ethics, global perspectives, environmental trends, managing diversity, corporate strategy, leadership styles, and other key concerns of managers.

Learning Outcomes:

• Integrate and synthesize knowledge from different fields.
• Distinguish between textbook knowledge and real world application.
• Identify real work problems and areas for intervention.
• Identify research that is being conducted on current problems or potential problem areas.
• Recognize constraints and limitations to intervention and change.
• Consider the impact of topics in management on the diverse facets of business practice.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.

This course provides an understanding of the fundamental descriptions of business data, and how numerical information enables good analysis. The use of SPSS is introduced and the tutorials with examples and business applications help to identify the best ways to review descriptive business information, using the easy tools introduced and demonstrated in SPSS tutorials. Business applications cover such areas as forecasting, comparative data analysis, descriptive statistics, charts and graphs, tables and a wide variety of bivariate techniques. Quality assessments, best decision evaluations, and other numerical tools are also explored. Along with good business applications, a wide variety of web based support tools are used to facilitate clear understanding.

Learning Outcomes:

• Operate SPSS software to analyze statistical business applications
• Analyze and manage numerical data and develop best business solutions
• Identify correct statistical procedures to solve measurements
• Select best statistical procedures for reporting hypotheses
• Illustrate tabulated and graphics solutions and present findings in correct APA format
• Formulate, develop, and compare hypotheses using the scientific methods
• Interpret finding of different statistical testing procedures
• Locate, recognize, and evaluate statistical resources to substantiate findings
• Use analytic software to solve t-test, chi-square, ANOVA, regression and correlations
• Test various assumptions on data and determine what hypothesis to reject or support
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is organized around the various concepts and essentials discussed in the PMBOK, plus it helps to prepare the student to take the PMP and CAPM certification exams through the Project Management Institute (PMI). Special attention is given to the triple constraints composed of project planning or scope, project budgeting, and project scheduling. Also, the importance of allocating resources is discussed, plus, the proper methods for monitoring, controlling, and evaluating project tasks and deliverables.

Learning Outcomes:

• Determine the basic differences between a project, non-project, and program.
• Apply differences in negotiation styles for project managers.
• Explain various approaches to project management and importance of flexibility.
• Compare and contrast various project selection methods and various projects available in your location.
• Analyze various problem situations that can occur, during the project life cycle and possible “trade-offs” to consider.
• Summarize the systems approach to project management and how it differentiates from micromanagement.
• Appraise desirable characteristics of project team members.
• Determine possible problems from the client visiting the project cite on numerous occasions, and how to report problems to management.
• Explain how to treat conflicts and the proper course of action.
• Chart the pros and cons of the Gantt chart and DMS.
• Explain the use of master project plans and the benefits of using a template project action plan.
• Assess the importance of multidisciplinary teams for projects.
• Determine how to improve budgetary estimates.
• Discuss the various types of risk associated with a project budget.
• Discuss the utility of the program budgeting process for projects.
• Evaluate and discuss the various subtopics associated with risk management in the PMBOK.
• Explain critical path management and its association with critical path.
• Explain the use of PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, and GERT in project management design.
• Explain the importance of resources allocation to a project and using a resource calendar.
• Evaluate the differences between fixed delivery and fixed limit protocols.
• Determine the pros and cons of “trade-offs” and “labor pools.”
• Evaluate the proper utilization of scarce resources during project duration.
• Determine the proper information system to use for monitoring and reporting.
• Determine the effective use of multidisciplinary fields, such as psychology.
• Assess how an audit team handles the audit process.
• Explain how to use the proper psychological approach to reduce anxiety on the project team members during the audit process.
• Design a formal case study analysis and essay response evaluation for six of the major areas covered in the PMBOK.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

This course explores the principal means by which operational and strategic changes are managed in contemporary organizations for both profit and not-for-profit enterprises. The course objectives illustrate the importance of project management as to its proper role and position in strategic management.

Learning Outcomes:

• Determine the importance in learning and understanding the history of project management.
• Explain the utility of the various phases of the project life cycle.
• Explain strategic planning and implementation, plus, how to monitor for resource consumption.
• Develop the proper approach to “selling” project management within your parent organization.
• Determine the importance of project strategic fit for an organization.
• Explain the differences and importance of both strategic management and strategic planning.
• Determine what types of information and project audit you would provide the board of directors.
• Evaluate project stakeholders and how are they important to project success.
• Determine the impact of an adversarial stakeholder, plus, what role does a vested interest play in determining stakeholder behavior.
• Explain how you determine and address the impact of strategic and environmental issues, plus, assess the relevance of these issues.
• Explain the importance of organizational design and matrix organizational forms, plus, the advantages and disadvantages of each form.
• Determine how to implement portfolio management in an organization and how to select the proper project processing criteria.
• Devise a project design for making project trends more visible and determining how to allocate resources properly among projects.
• Determine differences between the continuous improvement model and stage project management maturity model.
• Indicate the ethical and legal impacts from obtaining competitive intelligence via improper means, plus, the act of benchmarking sources of information.
• Indicate the importance of a project control cycle and the personal nature of control.
• Explain project planning and various modern planning practices used.
• Determine the factors that impact project termination, plus, the importance of strategic fit.
• Differentiate between the various leadership roles in an organization.
• Explain how project managers can improve their verbal and written skills, properly interpret nonverbal signals, and conduct effective project team meetings.
• Compare good and poor communications techniques and skills.
• Determine what constructs make a quality project team from a self-directed and self-managed team perspective
• Apply the various skills and tenets that motivate team dynamics to develop successful project conclusions.
• Explain how you would champion the acceptance of continuous improvement via projects and effective project management within your organization.
• Determine how alternatives will play a vital role in the future success of the organization’s growth and expansion.
• Properly apply alternative teams and determine how to gain acceptance by the organization of these new paradigmatic approaches in project management.
• Plan formal case study analysis and essay response evaluation for six of the major areas discuss in both the primary course textbook, Project management: Strategic design and implementation, plus, the PMBOK.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

This course is designed around the various organizational and managerial responsibilities and skills required for effective project management. The Learner is introduced to the concepts composing organizational structures and the paramount importance of obtaining skilled staff and team members from the parent organization. The Learner also explores the topics of managing conflict and interfacing with organizational executives and stakeholders to obtain their project objectives. Other areas discussed include managing the network, organizational scheduling, determining project variables, and identifying and implementing special organizational skills to accomplish project tasks and objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

• Interpert the impact of various organizational structures on project management.
• Hypothesize the differences and impact of “project-driven” versus “non-project driven” organizational structures.
• Evaluate and assess issues concerning project management through formal case study analysis.
• Demonstrate your level of comprehension and mastery of the course learning objectives through case study analysis.
• Scrutinize the basic characteristics and tenets for determining who should be considered for project management.
• Explain the different roles and functioning processes that distinguish between organizational management and project management.
• Illustrate how human behavior and patterns relate to the Maslowian and McGregor theories.
• Recommend how to deal with the various characteristics that differentiate functional management from project management.
• Determine how to interpret the impact or intent of various communications pathways relative to project and functional team member interactions.
• Classify various types of conflict situations and alternative resolutions.
• Determine when confrontational approaches should be considered and when they should not be employed.
• Review intangible compensation structures for rewarding project team members.
• Determine the state of confidential information and how it should be appropriately handled, plus, managing projects in unionized environments.
• Determine methodologies to improve interact and interpersonal skills in working with both other project managers and functional managers.
• Demonstrate how to effectively engage upper-level management and develop a “win-win” relationship.
• Plan what “variables” the student needs to capitalize on, as in their project management strengths.
• Formulate the various reasons upper management and executives will either accept or reject the decision to establish project management within the organization.
• Determine what communications skills and styles work most effectively with various levels of management and customer interaction.
• Develop critical path charts and how to identify critical paths given specific project information.
• Determine the pros and cons of PERT versus WBS charts, plus, the proper integration and implementation of both tools.
• Provides the student an opportunity to research a project management area they need improvement on or expand their management skill-set.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is based on the project management concept of integration. The Learner is exposed to the integration concepts that include the characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation, and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully meeting the customer and other stakeholder requirements and managing expectations. The Learner also reviews the different methodologies for applying the various project management knowledge areas, skills, and processes in different orders and degrees of rigor to achieve desired project performance. Also discussed are the integrative protocols that every project manager and their project team must address for every process and the level of implementation required for each of these processes to accomplish the project objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discuss the seven integrative management processes.
• Categorize the inputs, tools & techniques, and outputs associated with each of the seven integrative management processes.
• Evaluate and assess issues concerning project management through formal case study analysis.
• Recommend how to implement proper planning and scope management for a project.
• Discuss the five Project Scope Management processes.
• Analyze the areas that can be stressful for a project manager during the course of managing a project and its team members.
• Chart the six Project Time Management processes that are discussed in the PMBOK.
• Examine the events impacting cost overruns and out-of-control project spending.
• Explain the areas that affect international project costs and cost control measures.
• Appraise the three Project Cost Management processes that are discussed in the PMBOK.
• Apply the various concepts and terms associated with quality and quality management.
• Discuss the three Project Quality Management process and the importance of each.
• Assess making decisions under certainty, risk, and uncertainty.
• Explain the Monte Carlo process and importance of “lessons learned.”
• Evaluate the basic types of project contracts.
• Explain what is procurement and the various cycles associated with this concept.
• Compare the concepts of pricing and estimating for project management.
• Exhibit how pricing and estimating impacts contracts.
• Incorporate and expand a student's knowledge on their area of interest discussed during the course.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

The Project Management Capstone course provides the student with an opportunity to demonstrate they have achieved an acceptable level of academic and practical knowledge relative to the skills and discipline required for effective and efficient project management. The Capstone Project topic selection protocol is individualized based on the specific interests, professional requirements, and organizational latitude provided the student.

Learning Outcomes:

• Review internet resources relevant to your Capstone Project topic.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and incorporate emerging relevant technologies to the field of project management.
• Prepare a written document based on the Capstone Project protocols presented in this syllabus
• Assess how to recognize and compensate for constraints and limitations during the Capstone Project preparation process.
• Create a valid and reliable method for addressing project management issues, problems, and situations.
• Determine the proper research approach and research design methodology for assessing the Learner’s Capstone Project topic.
• Evaluate information critically and effectively as it impacts your Capstone Project topic.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.