Undergraduate

The Undergaduate Classes course descriptions are listed below: Management (MGT) and Business Adminstration (BADM).

The courses are taught by the following instructors. Please click on their name to view their bio page.

Professors:  E.K. Winslow, S.A. Umpleby, P.M. Swiercz, J. Bailey
Associate Professors: D.C. Kayes, P. McHugh, G.T. Solomon,
Assistant Professors:  T.M. Nielsen, J.M. Jensen (Nowakowski)
Visiting Assistant Professor:  A. El Tarabishy
Professorial Lecturers:  M. Lovell
Associate Professorial Lecturers:  K.K. Frey, J.W. Rollins, J.S. Solomon

MANAGEMENT  (MGT)

110      Applied Human Resource Management (3)                      
Instructors: McHugh, Swiercz
The labor force and labor markets. The legal environment of human resource management. Human resource planning; employee recruiting, selection, training, development, compensation, motivation, discipline, health and safety.  Prerequisite:  BADM 130

115      Leadership (3)                                                                      
Instructors: Bailey, El Tarabishy, Swiercz
Leadership in organizations and society. Consideration of whether leadership is a personal trait or a structured behavior and whether it is universal across domains or situation specific. Modern and historical examples; issues of leadership in popular contexts.  Prerequisite:  BADM 130 (Fall)

116      Contemporary Topics in HRM (3)                                     
Instructors: McHugh, Swiercz
Contemporary practices in human resource planning, recruitment and selections training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations and international human resource management are analyzed. Students interact with practitioners through current actual situations, case analyses and presentations. Course is designed for seniors. Prerequisite: BADM 130 (Spring)

117      Employee Relations and Negotiations (3)                           
Instructors: McHugh, Swiercz
Course identifies the rights of employees and employers regarding employee influence in the workplace with an emphasis on the impact of unions on human resource practices. Students will have opportunities to enhance their negotiation and conflict resolution skills through bargaining, grievance, mediation, and arbitration situations and case analyses. Prerequisite: BADM 130 or consent of the instructor. (Fall)

190      Special Topics (3)                                                                 
Instructors: Staff
Experimental offering; new course topics and teaching methods. May be repeated once for credit.

191    Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (3)  
Instructors: Frey
Course offers students the opportunity to take an idea and make it a reality. Students learn the knowledge, build the skills and develop the self-efficacy to create a venture that adds value to themselves, others, or the world. Ventures in this context are as diverse as social projects, to arts initiatives, or new businesses. The idea and the action are student driven.  (Fall and Spring)

192      Small Business Management (3)                                         
Instructors: Rollins
Theory and practice of entrepreneurship. Effective management: planning, organizing, financing, marketing, and controlling the smaller enterprise. Team research project.
(Fall and Spring)

194      Product Development and Venturing (3)                           
Instructors: Solomon
Students form entrepreneur teams to develop new products. Prerequisite: MGT 192 or permission of instructor. (Spring)

195    Management of a Growing Business (3)  
Instructors: Frey
Course uses a five-module live case featuring local business owners to examine the data, dilemmas, and decisions confronting leaders of post startup entrepreneurial ventures as they address challenges. Students use actual speaker/company data and information to analyze venture dynamics, develop action plans, and make decisions before comparing their outcomes to what actually happened at the firm.  (Spring)

199      Independent Study (3)                                                         
Instructors: Staff
Assigned topics. Admission by prior permission of advisor. May be repeated once for credit.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION  (BADM)

066      Organizational Behavior (3)                                                
Instructors: Bailey, Kayes
Introduction to concepts of psychology and the social dynamics that characterize organizations. Decision making, motivation, attitudes, teamwork, power, and leadership. An experiential laboratory component uses case discussions and exercises to illustrate applications of theory and concepts. Restricted to School of Business freshmen.  (Fall and Spring)

130      Human Resource Management (3)                         
Instructors: McHugh, Jensen (Nowakowski)
How human resource management policies and practices affect the achievement of organization objectives: human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training, development, compensation, and unionism and collective bargaining. Prerequisite:  ECON 012 and junior standing (Fall, Spring, and Summer)

190      Special Topics (1 to 3)                                                          
Instructors: Staff
Experimental offering; new course topics and teaching methods.

195      Internship (0)                                                                        
Instructors: Staff
School of Business undergraduates may register for this course when they wish to have an internship recorded on the transcript. The supervisor must verify that the internship has been completed for a minimum of six hours per week. A $25 administrative fee is charged. May be repeated each semester, if desired.

199      Independent Study (1 to 6)                                                  
Instructors: Staff
Assigned topics with interdisciplinary focus. Admission by prior permission of advisor. May be repeated once for credit but in separate semester.

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