Master of Business Administration - Leadership Development Concentration
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BUS 7003 | Developing Leaders and Leadership Capability (3 Credits)
Course focuses on strategic and tactical approaches to developing comprehensive leadership, talent management, and succession planning processes for an organization. It involves defining leadership capabilities needed by a company at the individual, team, and organizational.
BUS 7004 | Leading Business to Create Value (3 Credits)
Course focuses on how leaders create value for the organization and key stakeholders. Students will compare various whole system approaches to assessing organizations. Topics include strategy, values, norms of behavior, reward systems, decision-making and accountability, processes and systems, and the role the elader plays in managing and align those components to add value to the business. Dynamics within organizations, including those at a persona, interpersonal and organizational level, will be assessed. Various approaches a leader can use to align and focus an organization, such as strategic performance management or the Balance Scorecard, will be considered for appropriate application and expected benefits to the business.
BUS 7006 | Servant Leadership (3 Credits)
Course explores the philosophu of life and leadership dedicated to the growth of others as well as values-driven institutions that contribute to just, caring, and sustainable societies. Topics include enhancement of student awareness of their values and how those values are reflected in their decisions and actions, the gap and tension between stated individual and organizational values that drive behavior, identification of points of leverage to affect change in operational systems, leadership philosophies, styles, and strategies, and contemporary concepts of values and system-level thinking integration.
HRC 7341 | Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (3 Credits)
Research shows emotional intelligence (EI) is more important than IQ in determining outstanding job performance. Examines variety of instruments and writings used to build EI in the workplace. Cross-listed with HRC 5734 and BUS 5734.
Master of Business Administration Courses
Module I
BUS 7000 | Organizational Behavior and Theory (3 Credits)
Examines human behavior as it impacts the work organization. Includes theoretical foundations of motivation, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, satifaction and performance. Cross-listed with HRC 7611 and BUS 5700.
BUS 7200 | Value Systems and Professional Ethics (3 Credits)
Study of personal and corporate value systems and decision making. Investigation of personal beliefs, purposes and attitudes, and their effects on self and others. Examines the ethical dimensions of organizational structures and practices. Cross-listed with HRF 7001 and BUS 5720.
Concentration Course #1
Module II
BUS 7450 | Strategic Marketing (3 Credits)
Covers the identification and selection of marketing opportunities, target markets and design, and implementation and evaluation of marketing programs. Cross-listed with BUS 5745.
BUS 7500 | Managerial Economics (3 Credits)
Application of economic theory to managerial decision-making. Emphasis on both quantitative and qualitative application of microeconomic principles to business analysis. Prerequisite: Students are expected to have completed undergraduate coursework in fundamentals of economics.
BUS 7600 | Managerial Finance (3 Credits)
Application of the theories and tools used in financial decision making. Topics include present value and capital budgeting, financial analysis and forecasting, market efficiency and capital structure. Prerequisite: Students are expected to have completed undergraduate coursework in the fundamentals of account and economics.
BUS 7700 | Management of Information Systems (3 Credits)
Examines the use of computer information systems in business organizations with emphasis on how information technology supports business functions and aids managerial decision-making. Explores current trends and emerging technologies. Cross-listed with BUS 5770.
BUS 7800 | Management Accounting (3 Credits)
Explore use and application of accounting information for planningm control and decision making. Topics include: cost analysis and allocation, budgeting and behavioral aspects of accounting systems. Prerequisite: Students are expected to have completed undergraduate coursework in accounting fundamentals.
Concentration Course #2
Module III
BUS 8500 | Graduate Seminar: Business Policies and Strategies (3 Credits)
Capstone course in which participants develop a major case study of business administration issues, programs and policies in a current organization. Draws from and utilizes concepts, theories and skills developed in previous courses. Prerequisite: Completion of all core courses in the MBA program or approval of advisor.
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