Bachelor of Arts in Management

This course develops skills for inquiry into the business environment from a legal and ethical perspective. Students explore the relationships between modern business and the environment, in addition to the ethical issues that arise when diverse interests intersect. Relevant topics will include contracts, commercial law (sales, secured transactions and creditors remedies), forms of business entities (including limited liability companies and corporations), agency, employer-employee relationships, real property concepts, bankruptcy, and negligence and strict liability concepts. Students will examine corporate governance and business ethics, with emphasis on case studies.

This course provides a technical and organizational foundation for understanding the use and importance of information systems and information technology in today's management environment. This course covers the hardware, software, and infrastructure that support management information systems. Information and decision support systems, knowledge management and specialized information systems, database management systems, telecommunications, the Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and wireless networks will be examined. This course also covers systems development, e-commerce, and the ethical and societal impact of management information systems.

This is an interactive course designed to help students achieve a greater understanding of the statistical methods and models available to analyze and solve business management problems. The course is designed for students majoring in a business administration or management course of study. Successful completion of this course will provide students with a working knowledge of the principles of statistics, the ability to analyze and solve problems involving probability, and a working knowledge of averages and variations, normal probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and testing statistical hypotheses. The emphasis of the course will be on the proper use of statistical techniques and their implementation rather than on mathematical proofs. Prerequisite: MATH110.

Pre Reqs: College Algebra(MATH110)

This course is a study of the management process including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Topics include the classical and contemporary management theories that provide a foundation for the manager in today's business environment.

This course examines human characteristics and their bearing on the management and resultant performance of organizations. It includes a review of theory and research on personality, motivation, values, stress, leadership skills, power bases, and communication. It is designed to provide an understanding of the attitudes and behavior of subordinates and superiors, as well as important insights regarding one's own responses to the organization.

This course is a study of the moral and ethical responsibilities of managers in the conduct of daily activity inside and outside of the business enterprise. The morality of profit-making, fair and equal treatment of employees, and the responsibility of the business firm to the society in which it exists are analyzed and discussed. Equally stressed will be the idea of the individual's responsibility within the organization.

This course is a study in the theory and techniques of communication within and between organizations. It takes an analytical approach to the development of content and presentation in management communications with an emphasis on the relationship of creative and logical thinking to the solution of management problems through written communications.

This course will focus on the forces that shape corporate strategic decisions, become familiar with the basic tools corporate leaders use to maximize the value of the company, and gain an appreciation of the issues and situations frequently confronting today’s executive. In addition, the student will learn to recognize the different characteristics of an industry environment and how to identify the threats and opportunities as well as the organizations strengths and weaknesses relative to its environment.

This course provides an understanding of the corporation, each of the business functions (to include accounting, finance, marketing, technology, management, and planning), and the relations between and among functions in the operation of the firm.

This course is concerned with the formulation and analysis of business strategy. Business strategy is the set of objectives and policies that collectively determine how a business positions itself to increase its returns and create economic value for its owners and stakeholders. Students will be introduced to analytical techniques for diagnosing the competitive position of a business, evaluating business strategies, and identifying and analyzing specific business options.

This course focuses on the actual tasks and activities of the entrepreneur-from researching venture feasibility, to launching the venture, to managing growth. Covered are descriptions of real entrepreneurs in action, facing the challenges that entrepreneurs must deal with, and making good and even some not-so-good decisions. This study relates the excitement of the entrepreneurial adventure.

This course is an overview study of the concepts and techniques in corporate finance. Topics include investments, financial environment, securities markets, financial markets, financial statements and analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, dividend policy, asset valuation, and decision-making.

This course is a comprehensive examination of modern practices in the selection, training, job analysis, evaluation, wage setting, incentive principles, merit rating, job efficiency, and labor/management relations of personnel as applied to both private and public sector organizations.

This course focuses on the principles, practices, and processes of dispute and conflict resolution. The course draws on interdisciplinary material from social science, decision theory, management/labor relations, and others.

This course provides an overview of the Human Resource Manager’s role in managing and providing oversight for employee pay and compensation. It covers the responsibilities of the organization, legal implications of employee benefits plans and various alternative plans available to employees and their employers. The course explores the effects of various benefit plans and the resulting impact on the organization’s success in attracting and retaining a quality and adequate work force, paramount in today’s competitive climate.

This course provides a basic overview of the Human Resource Professional’s role in employee and labor relations. The course explores the rules of collective bargaining, labor unions, union stewards and legal implications covering these issues and many more. The rights of the employee and the organization in dealing with labor laws, ethnic, racial and gender considerations and relations in both the public and private sectors will be explored as well.

This course provides a basic overview of various automated information systems that are available to support today’s Human Resource Professional. The course will increase the student’s ability and awareness to utilize systems such as RESUMIX, Peoplesoft, Modern Systems and other automated processes. The course also explores other methods to increase recruiting, simplify interviews and permit easier employee or prospect access to an organization’s human resource offices. The course also focuses on systems security and individual privacy as well as legal implications to users and organizations.

This course provides basic instruction in the Human Resource Manager’s role in organizational and individual development. It provides an overview of the elements that go into the full development process; to include training needs assessment, methods of training to be employed, individual, group and on the job training and evaluation of training and developmental effectiveness. The course also examines the relationship between employee morale and company profits and the impact of training and development on these indicators.

This course will be an extensive overview of the Human Resource Manager’s role in initial recruiting and staffing for organizations. Major focus will be on the legal implication of equal opportunity standards, determining recruiting needs, identifying selection criteria, internal and external sourcing, evaluating recruiting effectiveness, application, interviewing and selection procedures. The instruction will also examine career development, planning and organizational exits due to layoffs, discharges, retirement and related employer defenses against litigation. THIS COURSE IS THE SAME AS MGMT422. Please register for this course to fulfill MGMT422 on your academic plan.

This course is designed to familiarize the student with the basic structures, strategies, tactics and techniques involved in collective bargaining and negotiations. It examines both interest based negotiations and the more traditional position based negotiations. Focus is on collective bargaining and labor negotiations, however, the approaches and strategies are useful in a wide variety of negotiation contexts.

This course is designed to provide students with a solid foundation about leaders, the leadership process and motivation. Topics include the theories of leadership and motivation, leadership power, leader behavior, leadership characteristics, the role of gender, substitutes for leadership, and dysfunctional leadership. MGMT312 serves as a self-assessment of the student's own leadership and motivation skills, knowledge, and attitudes and addresses the questions: Who am I as a leader? What are my most distinguishing leadership traits? What leadership style am I most comfortable being around? How do I influence others? and How do I motivate others?

This course outlines advanced management principles and techniques found in today's marketplace. Change and transformation are constants in today’s environment. Re-organization is an on-going process in business and industry as well as in government. This course discusses the principles, techniques, and philosophy underlying those changes. The world is changing rapidly - downsizing, reorganization, re-engineering, and new management concepts and theory are evolving. Management practices found in the military and in the business world five years ago are no longer practiced. This course brings the student up to date on these developments from the organization system engineering development viewpoint.

A detailed and practical course involving the study of principles to be used in formulating and executing the strategic plan of businesses.

This course is designed to provide a solid foundation for undergraduate study in the online environment. Students will be introduced to learning theory, the tools available in the online classroom and campus, and online research. Identification of personal learning style allows students to improve their study/learning techniques and prepares them to succeed in college level courses. Students will be introduced to formatting and citation styles. APUS policy and procedure is addressed. There is an emphasis on written communication to assist students in the transition to the online environment.

This course is a capstone course designed to allow the student to review, analyze and integrate the work the student has completed toward a degree in Management. The student will complete an approved academic project or paper that demonstrates mastery of management study. This is a capstone course to be taken after all other Management courses have been satisfactorily completed. Student must have SENIOR standing to register.