Executive Passport Program Areas of Study
MGT305 Principles of Management (Required 3). This course exposes students to the fundamental concepts of organization and management. It emphasizes the role of a manager as a decision-maker and how managers, in every organization, plan, organize, motivate, and control in rapidly changing environments.
Prerequisite: Junior Standing.
MGT306 Organizational Behavior (3). This experiential learning course focuses on helping students understand human behavior in organizations through discussion, problem-solving, group projects, and modeling of behavioral decision processes. Topics covered include organizational culture, motivation and reward systems, leadership practice, and the future of human relationships in work environments.
Prerequisite: MGT305 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT308 Human Resource Management (3). The purpose of the course is to establish an understanding of how human resource management contributes to the productivity of the organization and to the job satisfaction of its members. Current issues, theories, tools, and techniques will be isolated and studied. Numerous hands-on applications will be employed to give the student a feel for what the job of human resource manager actually entails.
Prerequisite: MGT305 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT404 International Business (3). Designed to acquaint the student with the environment confronting
managers who enter the international arena. Analyzes the cultural, economic, legal, political and institutional factors influencing international operations. Examines the unique problems of developing organization, finance, marketing, labor and production policies and practices.
Prerequisite: MGT305 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT409 Managerial Ethics and Decision Making (3). This class is a modular experiential learning course that focuses on helping students to learn more about their own values and decision-making, consider issues of ethics and decision making in organizations, and evolve a “big picture” vision of the future and the challenges all organizations will face as our economic and social paradigm evolve. The class involves journals, learning portfolios, and other innovative learning requirements. The class qualifies as an Applied Ethics minor course.
Prerequisite: MGT305 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT430 Quality Management and Supervision (3). The course surveys various approaches to improving the quality of services and products. Focus is on Management issues such as job design, labor relations, self-managing work teams, and techniques to analyze and improve quality and productivity. Student teams apply their knowledge through cases and/or project assignments in an existing organization.
Prerequisite: MGT305 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT451 Entrepreneurial Management (3). This course offers students the tools to manage the growth process of a start-up company. Strategic, financial, marketing and personnel problems common to small start-up companies are investigated using the case method. This course is a part of the Joseph C. Prince Entrepreneurship Program.
Prerequisite: FIN311 or Permission of Instructor.
MGT495 Strategic Management (Required 3). This is the captstone course for the BBA degree and the Executive Passport program. An integrated concept of Business Administration which will relate the principles and problems studied in the various “functional” fields. Case studies are used.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing and MGT305, MKT315, FIN311, and ATG212.
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