Management Courses
MGT2220 Principles of Management
Examines operational theories of management under the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Emphasizes the manager’s role in creating and maintaining an internal environment for performance. Students discuss cases in detail.
3 Credit Hours
MGT2240 Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
Examines the knowledge and skills needed to identify, grow, and sustain organizational talent within the context of organization behavior. Students learn about recruitment, talent development, motivation, teamwork, compensation, performance, rewards and recognition, safety, relevant laws, and cultural concerns.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT2245 Essentials of Human Resources Management
The course will cover the rapidly changing field of human resources within organizations. Students will learn to translate theory into practice within the following core topics: human resources strategy, workforce planning, training and development, performance management, employee relations and total reward compensation.
3 Credit Hours
MGT2250 Not-For-Profit Management
Introduces the theory and practice of management within nonprofit organizations. Students will consider best practices in managing various components of nonprofit organizations. Students examine the varying perspectives of nonprofit managers, volunteers, board members, policymakers, donors, and clients/customers.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT2252 Introduction to Sports Management
Explores various principles and practices in sports management. Emphasis is placed on career opportunities and strategies for general success for specific sports and in the field. Each student will research at least one professional sport played in the United States or internationally.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT2253 Fundraising and Resource Development for Nonprofit Organizations
Focuses on the theory and practice of philanthropy. Students are exposed to various methods of resource acquisition through ethical fundraising practices and innovative income producing approaches.
3 Credit Hours
MGT2268 Sales and Customer Service Management
Provides an integrated view of sales and customer service management. This course focuses on profitably growing a customer base and building customer satisfaction and loyalty. Topics of study include organizational structures, functional processes, performance measurement, and the use of technology for assessing performance.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3010 Marketing for the Entrepreneur
This course focuses on marketing from an entrepreneurial perspective. It encompasses concepts, principles, practices, and tools which will lead to a broader understanding of marketing in general and for success in business. The learner will be exposed to both traditional and more contemporary approaches to marketing while formulating strategies and plans to win and keep customers.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3100 Project Management – An Introduction
Explore the foundations of modern project management practice, including the definitions of a project, organization of the project office, the project life cycle, and the project management processes. The principles of the project management processes are reviewed, including the stages of the project implementation processes. The importance of scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management is presented. The ethics and social responsibility of the project management team is reviewed. A project charter, project plan and Gantt chart will be developed and the principles of identifying a project critical path will be presented.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3105 Human Side of Project Management
Explore the critical role of human interaction and dynamics in the project environment. Topics include staffing and management, communications channels, and project organizational structure and impacts on project effectiveness. The role of the project manager, the importance of leadership, planning and assigning work, customer relationship management, stakeholders, negotiations, and conflict resolution are also presented. Students will write a resources staffing and management plan, and will participate in a mock conflict management exercise.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3110 Supply Chain Management
This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of supply chain management. Process and product design, sourcing of materials, production and manufacturing principles, materials requirement planning, forecasting, inventory management, logistics and managing of operations, quality control, project management, capacity planning and lean management are presented.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3210 Logistics and Distribution Management
The concept of logistics and the role it plays in the supply chain management process is covered. Insight into the following areas of logistics is provided: domestic and global logistics, distribution planning, transportation modes, forecasting and inventory management, coordination of supply chain resources, warehouse management, reverse logistics in business success and the role of technology in successful logistics management.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3230 Destination Management
This course has been developed at the request of our partner school, Fresenius University, for their tourism students attending the Berkeley College Study Abroad program. Additionally, future goals of the Larry L. Luing School of Business® include the development of concentrations in tourism, as well as a potential baccalaureate program in tourism. This course will form the basis of these initiatives. Once this course is approved, it will be offered in both the Study Abroad program and as an elective course to incoming Berkeley College students.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3235 Human Resources Management in Tourism
This course has been developed at the request of our partner school, Fresenius University, for their tourism students attending the Berkeley College Study Abroad program. Additionally, future goals of the Larry L. Luing School of Business include the development of concentrations in tourism, as well as a potential baccalaureate program in tourism. This course will form the basis of these initiatives. Once this course is approved, it will be offered in both the Study Abroad program and as an elective course to incoming Berkeley College students.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3240 Employee Labor Relations and Law
This course will explore the complexity of the laws applicable to each phase of the employment life cycle. Students will learn how to identify human resources matters that have the potential to result in claims and/or costly litigation. The emergence of new United States labor laws resulting from the global pandemic and other developments as they occur will be presented. Court cases and presentations will be used to enhance student learning of the course content.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3245 Total Rewards
This course will introduce students to the many components of value that an employee expects in the employment relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of implementing a total rewards model will be examined and the rationale behind offering various benefit programs to employees will be explored. A case studies approach will be used to facilitate the learning.
Prerequisite: MGT2245
3 Credit Hours
MGT3250 The Acquisition and Development of Human Capital
This course integrates the concepts and techniques required for creating effective talent acquisition and development programs. Current and aspiring human resources practitioners will learn how to conduct a needs analysis that aligns all aspects of talent management with the strategic goals of an organization. Topics for discussion include current trends in staffing and development, recruitment models, diversity and inclusion, training design, delivery methods and evaluation, employee on-boarding, performance management, and succession planning. As the workplace continues to change, approaches to managing talent evolves. Students will explore and critique current changes and make recommendations for how to best maximize the use of human capital during these changing times.
3 Credit Hours
MGT3318 Environmental Management
Examines the philosophical study of humans, businesses, and governments and their interactions both with other humans and their natural environment. This course explores a global perspective on environmental ethical issues and examines questions related to the responsibility of businesses as stewards of the planet.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3332 Operations Management
Explores production and operations management systems from the perspective of their ability to enhance value within organizations. Topics include the issue of performance and productivity, cost, competitive metrics, quality, and customer expectations.
Prerequisites: MGT2220, MAT2215
3 Credit Hours
MGT3345 Managing with Information Systems
Explores and discusses the nature of information systems and how managers can access and utilize company information systems. Students will learn the principles behind information and decision support systems and will examine individual, group, and executive decision support systems.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3346 Developing Managerial Competence
Introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of managing customers, people, and markets. Stresses a hands-on approach to improving a student’s ability to manage people. Course material focuses on promoting effective business practices and provides guidance for a variety of contemporary management challenges.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3347 Staffing
Introduces the methods and practices related to recruitment, selection, and retention of employees. Explores the strategic role of staffing in modern business organizations. Students will learn various techniques for attracting and retaining human talent in an organization.
Prerequisite: MGT2240
3 Credit Hours
MGT3348 Employee and Labor Relations
Examines the various legal aspects related to maintaining effective employee and employer relations. Students will explore the implications of various employment laws on employee and employer conduct and gain an understanding of labor-management relations through collective bargaining arrangements.
Prerequisite: MGT2240
3 Credit Hours
MGT3349 Compensation and Benefits
Introduces the role of compensation and benefits management in attracting and retaining talent in business organizations. Examines the theoretical and practical implications of various compensation models. Students will explore the rationale behind offering various benefit programs to employees.
Prerequisite: MGT2240
3 Credit Hours
MGT3350 Small Business Management
Explores the process of planning for, starting, and managing a small business. Topics include forms of ownership, management issues, financing the small business, the use of financial information as a decision tool, and legal aspects of running a small business.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3351 Small Business Start-Up
Provides an overview of key factors entrepreneurs must consider in assessing a business opportunity, developing a plan, and preparing for start-up. Topics include feasibility analysis, concept testing, strategy development, and implementation. Students will be required to identify and assess business opportunities.
Prerequisites: FIN3302, MGT2220, MKT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3352 Managing the Family Business
Focuses on key management issues that frequently arise in family-run businesses. Topics include legal issues related to ownership, planning and organizational structure, insurance, liability, and financial management.
Prerequisites: FIN3302, MGT2220, MKT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3353 Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture
Explores the tools of financial valuation and their role in investment decisions faced by managers, entrepreneurs, and investors in small business. Topics include the assessment of capital requirements, cost of capital, financing sources, forecasting and cash flow, record keeping and accounting, and maximizing created value.
Prerequisites: FIN3302, MGT2220, MKT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT3355 Training and Development
Presents a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to developing training programs based on a “needs-centered” model of training and performance improvement. This course provides students with a background in learning theory and instructional design required to develop organizational training programs.
Prerequisite: MGT3349
3 Credit Hours
MGT4110 Advanced Project Management
Discover the methods and techniques of managing large and complex projects using advanced analytical methodologies and tools including project management software, cost accounting and budgeting, financial analysis, and time/cost performance indices. Explore the importance of communications plans, strategic management and operational management of projects, programs, and project portfolios. Work with project management software, emerging project management packages, and project baselines. Predict the impact of changes and delays on the project schedule and conduct analysis of critical path and bottlenecks. Develop a complex project management plan and calculate cost and schedule indices problems. Review the Project Management Body of Knowledge principles and methods.
Prerequisites: MGT3100 and MGT3105
3 Credit Hours
MGT4115 Project Risk Management
Explore the impact of risks in medium to very large scale projects. Examine principles of risk, quantifying probability and possible magnitude of risk and impact in projects, and the development of contingency and risk mitigation strategies. Review internal and external sources of risk, communicate consequences of risk to project stakeholders, and assess the impact risk on schedules and cost for multiple risk scenarios. Conduct risk workshops and plan and implement response plans.
Prerequisites: MGT3100 and MGT3105
3 Credit Hours
MGT4120 Supply Chain Risk and Financial Management
Supply chain disruptions, risk management as a key driver of organization success, global supply chain risk, enterprise risk management, and financial assets in the supply chain are examined. Regional challenges in relation to a multitude of factors including economic, political, and legal are presented. The basics of contract management, fraud in organizations, and hedging strategies for risk management will be analyzed. A case studies approach is utilized.
Prerequisite: MGT3110 and MGT3210
3 Credit Hours
MGT4210 Supply Chain Leadership and Resource Management
The challenges of supply chain leadership and resource management are examined. Supply chain strategy and a review of supply chain management practices are presented. The analysis of best practices in industries including retail, hospitality, and healthcare, provide lessons learned in crisis management of supply chains. Opportunities in supply chain innovation and technology are explored, as well as opportunities in global operations management, international management, and business challenges. Comprehensive plans for supply chain success will be created.
Prerequisite: MGT3110 and MGT3210
3 Credit Hours
MGT4240 Strategic Human Resources and the Future of Work
Students will learn how to successfully navigate the changing human resources environment as strategic business partners. The course will examine what it means to manage human resources through a strategic lens. The importance of managing for the future of work and the challenges human resources professionals are likely to encounter will be explored. Topics for discussion include data analytics, employee privacy, artificial intelligence, continuation of the virtual workplace, new workplace safety concerns, and robotics. A case studies approach will be used.
3 Credit Hours
MGT4420 Managing for Change
Integrates the concepts and techniques involved in implementing and managing a planned change process. This course includes discussions and case studies on changing the way work is done, changing communication and influence patterns, and changing managerial strategy.
Prerequisite: MGT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT4425 Management Simulation
Utilizes a robust simulation model to expose students to the complexities of managing a business in the global environment. Students develop expertise by creating various scenarios. ‘Introduction to Business and Strategy’ provides a realistic visual environment, multimedia content, and built-in tools for real-time team collaboration.
Prerequisites: FIN3302, MGT2220, MKT2220
3 Credit Hours
MGT4430 Leadership
Examines the leadership variables that affect the achievement of organizational goals. Topics include theories of leadership, power, and influence as they affect organizational behavior; team building motivation; group dynamics; organizational communication processes; and change management.
Prerequisite: MGT2220