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management

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Real Estate Property Management   (REE-341)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
The course is designed to provide the student with knowledge and skills necessary to manage simple income producing property. Topics include utilizing sound accounting and reporting principles in a property management business, securing, qualifying, and contracting with tenants and leases; determining rentals, merchandising space, collecting rent, tenant relations, and property maintenance.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Ownership development and management
  • Rental and leasing
  • The Management Plan
  • Financial reporting
  • Residential management
  • Foreclosure, receivership and other current topics.

 
Principles of Management   (MAN-301)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
This course is organized around the major functions of management including planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Topics of importance include cultural and social diversity of the workforce, total quality management (TQM), social responsiveness and ethics, and multinational markets and competition.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Investigate concepts and theories of management, with a focus on the five managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling.
  • Present information in areas of great interest to the business community: change management, conflict management, organizational communications, stress management, and productivity.
  • Identify the multiple demands placed on a manager, both from within and without the organization, and to indicate ways in which priorities can be established and a balance achieved.
  • Define the concept of management and why managers and organizations are needed.
  • Describe the communication process and the barriers to that process.
  • Identify the characteristics of decision making and the importance of delegation.
  • Explain the importance of employee training and development.
  • Recognize the symptoms of organizational conflict and describe its sources as well as the manager's role in conflict management.
  • Identify the phases of change management and describe the role and limitations of the manager in the change process.
  • Discuss the impact of productivity on corporate and managerial success.

Available by CLEP exam.  
Operations Management   (OPM-301)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
Operations Management is focused on the process of transforming inputs (labor, material, and capital) through a value-added process to produce goods and services. The course covers the functional aspects of operations in terms of value chains, performance measurement, process selection, design of facility layouts and work systems, forecasting, inventory and resource management, production scheduling, lean operations, quality control, and project management within a domestic and global business environment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the significance of operations management and connect it to business success.
  • Evaluate the role of value chains, performance measurement, and operations strategy in operations management.
  • Explain the role of technology in operations management.
  • Apply strategies of product and service design, including calculation of system reliability.
  • Discuss ways to apply process and value stream mapping for process design.
  • Explain key elements of process layout.
  • Evaluate the significance of supply chain management.
  • Explain the importance of forecasting.
  • Assess the benefits of effective capacity, inventory, resource, and schedule management.
  • Discuss quality management and apply the tools of quality assurance to the process of producing goods and providing services.
  • Assess the value of lean production principles.
  • Analyze the key issues associated with project management.

Available by TECEP exam.  
Concepts of Emergency Management   (EDM-300)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
An introduction to emergency management at the global, national, regional, state, and local levels. Topics include preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. The history of emergency management is reviewed, and its future in government and industry is discussed.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the four phases of Emergency Management; mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery applied across an All Hazards/Whole Community approach to Emergency Management.
  • Discuss scientific principles involved in the development of mitigation and preparedness policies, strategies and tactics.
  • Discuss scientific principles involved in the development of multi-level response and recovery policies, strategies and tactics.
  • Articulate the social science components of Emergency Management related to government, the private sector, to non-governmental organizations, and to individuals.
  • Discuss the Incident Command System as it relates to national preparedness goals.
  • Review and assess the use of emergency management related technologies across phases of Emergency Management.

 
Small Business Management   (MAN-432)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
Small Business Management is a course about planning, marketing, and managing a small business. It analyzes various theories and applications of management and addresses the current issues, ethical concerns, and legal regulations that have an impact on small business. The course also reviews the critical role that entrepreneurs play in our economy.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain general theories of management that can be brought to bear on small business management.
  • Assess the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship.
  • Discuss the importance of planning in the context of a small business.
  • Create business and marketing plans.
  • Explain the importance, use, and preparation of accounting systems that form financial statements.
  • Discuss financial reporting, budgeting, and management control.
  • Discuss different approaches used in managing a small business.
  • Relate the many ways of marketing a small business.
  • Discuss the social, ethical, and legal environment surrounding small business management.

 
Materials Management and Inventory Control   (OPM-311)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
Integrated approach to the control and physical movement of raw materials, components and finished goods from the supplier through the manufacturer and distributor to the ultimate user. Emphasis is placed on the concepts, methods and functions of inventory control and its relationship to the area of materials management.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the overall objectives of Materials Management
  • Explain the overall process of managing inventory
  • Identify specific planning and control activities of materials management
  • Discuss what integrated approach would you recommend to optimize the operations of materials management
  • Assess how the basic elements in purchasing play a crucial role in materials management
  • Elaborate on different cost reduction techniques; such as: variety reduction, standardization and simplification, and inventory control
  • Discuss the single period inventory management system
  • Identify the details that materials management professionals should consider when selecting a vendor
  • Analyze the benefits of Just in Time (JIT)
  • Explain the continuous review inventory system
  • Articulate how economic order quantity (EOQ) and reorder point (ROP) maintain a balance inventory
 
Women in Management   (MAN-304)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
Focuses on obstacles women face when implementing traditional management functions and steps they can take to deal with these difficulties. Reviews the history of management, women's contributions to management thought, and factor contributing to an increased percentage of women executives over past 25yrs. Addresses question of what organizations can do to select, develop, and retain capable women executives. Specific topics include networking, mentoring, career planning, and managing dual careers.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify the obstacles faced by women aspiring to and/or holding managerial roles.
  • Discuss strategies that can be used by women to prepare for or succeed in management.
  • Discuss key aspects of the history of women in management roles and their contributions to management thought.
  • Identify factors that have contributed to the increase in the percentage of women executives over the past 25 years.
  • Describe strategies that organizations use or can use to select, develop and retain capable women in management roles.
  • Discuss advantages women experience from networking, mentoring and career planning.
  • Explain how managing dual careers presents particular challenges for women.
  • Use case studies to illustrate selected examples of the above learning outcomes.

 
Food Service Management   (HMM-152)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
A practical guide to food service management including an overview of both restaurant and institutional activities. Effective management is stressed with special emphasis on organization of food service planning, menus and styles, supervising personnel, and controlling food and labor costs. The laws and regulations affecting food services are also covered.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify the management characteristics and challenges for specific food service segments.
  • Analyze and evaluate the job responsibilities of specific food service managers.
  • Discuss and apply hospitality operational concepts, theories and practices within specific food service operations to achieve budgeted financial and cost controls.
  • Integrate and apply interdepartmental communication and technology application activities within specific food service operations for effective management and guest satisfaction.
  • Apply the ethical and legal considerations utilized by management in specific food service segments.

 
Total Quality Management   (OPM-411)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
Total Quality Management explores the theories, concepts, and techniques of total quality management (TQM). The course examines the origins of TQM and how its techniques and tools can be properly integrated into both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Specific topics discussed in the course are the impact of quality on profitability, Lean operations, Six Sigma, global effectiveness, quality culture, and employee empowerment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the total quality approach and connect it to global competitiveness.
  • Analyze the role of strategic management in total quality management.
  • Apply strategic management concepts to the task of gaining and sustaining competitive advantage.
  • Discuss the role of ethics and social responsibility in quality management.
  • Analyze leadership issues, including the creation of a quality culture.
  • Apply methods for achieving customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Demonstrate understanding of key management issues such as empowerment, education, and training of employees as well as strategies for overcoming obstacles.
  • Apply tools for information analysis including charts and diagrams as well as problem solving and decision making tools.
  • Discuss key process quality methods, including quality function deployment.
  • Apply continual improvement methods and benchmarking.

 
Critical Issues in Nonprofit Management II   (MAN-482)   3.00 s.h.  
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Course Description
This course provides students and practitioners alike with the opportunity to investigate four major issues of concern to nonprofit organizations including 1) mission-based management, 2) social entrepreneurship, 3) volunteer management, and 4) strategic alliances.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Analyze the ethical, business and mission related issues surrounding social entrepreneurship.
  • Compare and contrast the social entrepreneur approach to the nonprofit and non-social business in achieving the aims of social entrepreneurs and their clients.
  • Explain and show examples of how "B-Corps" (benefit corporations) can be an advantage or disadvantage to social entrepreneurs.
  • Develop criteria for evaluating appropriate partners for effective strategic alliances between competing and complementary nonprofits.
  • Formulate an integrated service delivery approach with a program partner with complementary services within your geographic area of delivery.
  • Summarize the human resource, cultural, financial and other conditions necessary for mission based management.
  • Compare/contrast mission-based management with other management styles in nonprofits, government and business.
  • Compare/contrast volunteer management to the management of paid consultants (1099 workers) and traditional (W2) employees with a focus on the advantages/disadvantages, effective management styles, worker motivations in each type of employment.
  • Demonstrate through your own work, case studies and current literature.
 
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