Master of Arts in Management

This course is a study of the major corporate finance and financial management theory, strategy, processes, functions, and other issues. Topics include the finance function, concepts of sources and uses of funds, analysis and estimation of need for funds (short- and long-term), short-term sources, working capital management policy, long-term sources, capital structure policy and implementation, capital budgeting and the cost of capital.

This graduate course provides a framework for an in-depth understanding of day-to-day, practical approaches/aspects of problems/challenges that impact the human resource management/leadership field; topical issues arising out of the three constants in life, as well as the workplace today: Change, Choices,and Consequences to those choices as applied to both civilian and military organizations.

This course prepares the graduate student for quantitative and qualitative methods used in management science. MGMT501 is a methodological foundation from which the student can apply proven statistical and scientific methods in the remainder of the graduate program.

An examination of characteristics of, and dynamic relationships among, individual, interpersonal and group behavior as related to complex organizations. Stress is placed on successful managerial strategies for minimizing workplace turbulence arising from employee behavior in the context of technological, structural, cultural and environmental factors.

This course will provide a framework for understanding individual and group behaviors within dynamic organizations. Topics to be covered will be human behavior principles in individual, groups/teams, and organizational settings. The main emphasis of this course will be on developing effective administrative/managerial skills in improving employee performance.

This course is an examination of individual dimensions of global executive leadership, organizational behavior, inter-group relations, and strategies for internal corporate communication. Course topics include management and global trade, special aspects of operating successfully in the global environment, the executive's role in solving conflicts and creating corporations in the world marketplace, cultural aspects of international operations management and ethical corporate strategies in an international context.

This course outlines successful Strategic Management and Planning techniques. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of Strategic Planning techniques that have been successful in the industrial base companies. This course has been designed and developed to provide management teams and leaders with state of the art practices and theories, strategies and techniques relative to the Strategic Management and Planning Process.

This course is designed for the participant who wants to understand staff/leadership positions within large complex organizations. The core of the course is found at the intersection of strategic leadership, strategic planning, and strategic decision making. The course has a national strategic perspective, with an emphasis on military and United States government planning, leadership and decision-making, but the essential elements to be discussed are also applicable to non-military, non-governmental activities.

This course is a study of the relationship between the military and the fields of research and technology with particular emphasis on the "pull - push" theory of that relationship.

This course is an application of modern politico-economic insights to improve general understanding of the resource dimensions of a range of national security issues -- from alliances, defense spending and budgeting, the defense industry, arms control and disarmament, and unconventional warfare to the effects of defense on economic growth and development.

This course covers the history of Operations Research, techniques of cost and operational effectiveness analysis, test and evaluation (T&E), quantification of logistics and transportation systems. This course is a prerequisite for DEFM601.

Following on the concepts explored in DM514, the student undertakes the study and application of various war-gaming and simulation models as essential elements of defense management. (Prerequisite: DM514).

Pre Reqs: Military Operations Research I(DEFM600)

Comprehensive final examination for students in the Master of Arts in Management program. The "Comprehensive Final Exam" is tailored specifically to each program and must be taken after students have completed 36 hours of study (i.e. during the semester following the final course) and successfully completed before the award of a degree.