Course Description

This   course   is   designed   to   introduce   students   to   the   role   management   plays   in   a   project’s   development.   In   business, it is the manager who is ultimately responsible for organizing and prioritizing activities, planning projects, implementing resolutions and decisions, finding and allocating resources, budgeting, scheduling, controlling costs, evaluating projects and guiding the progress of a project toward completion. The course provides students with a hands-on learning experience that will enable them to learn what defines a project, develop project planning and oversight systems on their own, identify and implement best practices, learn the differences between process and project management, and establish operational links between the conceptual project and organizational objectives. Students will learn how to identify the inputs, outputs, tools and techniques for each phase of a Project Life Cycle. Since companies are increasingly aware that project management skills are vital to ensuring job security for all company workers, those who have mastered the key tools and concepts of effective project management can gain a significant competitive advantage in the contemporary marketplace.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Identify the attributes of project proposals.
2. Describe the essential skills a project manager needs to carry out his/her responsibilities.
3. Describe the process involved in identifying needs and opportunities in business.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of project management concepts and techniques such as:
constraints/limitations of project management, project life cycle, project selection methods, work breakdown structures, network diagrams, critical path analysis, critical chain scheduling, cost estimates, and earned value management.
5. Describe the stages involved in team development, and discuss some of the workplace barriers that jeopardize team effectiveness.
6. Effectively use project documentation strategies and communication tools.
7. Describe various types of project organizations.
8. Incorporate changes and/or updates to a project schedule.
9. Analyze time/cost tradeoffs.
10. Describe the project control process.
11. Perform cost performance analysis and control.
12. Use simulated cases and Microsoft Project to help plan and manage a project.
13. Appreciate the importance of good project management.
14. Discuss personal examples of effective and ineffective project management.
15. Demonstrate increased writing skills in formal presentations.

Course Description

This course introduces students  to  the  key  “core  competency”  areas  that  are  essential  for  a  progressive  and   forward-directed career in management. Core principles will, toward this end, provide skills required to ensure maximum productivity. The basic principles include: strategic management of human capital, recruitment strategies and pitfalls, effective planning, keys to motivation, evaluation of performance, human development initiatives, compensation issues, and the appropriate implementation of incentives of performance-based incentives. Course participants will analyze the importance of the HR Triad (employee, line manager, HR manager); they will acquire the necessary tools by which to foster mutual understanding and collaboration across organizational units. Specific case studies and other example drawn from a wide range of industries and a broad spectrum of circumstances are presented in the assigned readings and in ancillary materials available to students throughout the research enterprise.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Define, discuss, and apply the essential terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories underpinning effective organizational leadership.
2. Develop their own personal leadership orientation and philosophy.
3. Distinguish leadership from management skills.
4. Understand the basic terms used in leadership research such as: Traits, Behavioral, Leader-Centered,
Follower-Centered, Task and Relations Behavior, and Situational Theories.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse leadership theories such as: Dyadic Role-Making, Followership,
Contingency, Vroom and Yetton, as well as Participative and Charismatic Leadership.
6. Develop an understanding of leadership as it affects teams, self-managed work groups, meetings, and other
cultures.
7. Understand the role leadership plays in promoting change, facilitating decision-making, and inspiring and
training a new generation of future leaders.
8. Apply appropriate terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories to moderately
complex situations where leadership is required.
9. Generate methods to foster leadership activities in order to resolve organizational problems.
10. Evaluate the quality of leadership proposals by taking into account current research on the subject as well as
organizational constraints.
11. Discuss how empowerment and delegation contribute to effective leadership skills.
12. Illustrate how leadership entails both the ability to initiate change, as well as help others adjust to the changing environment

Course Description

This course examines the fundamental theories and techniques that are used by multinational corporations to develop and implement a global business strategy needed to effectively integrate the activities of their worldwide subsidiaries. Emphasis is on the three separate components to developing a successful global strategy: developing a core business strategy, developing an internationalization strategy, and developing a globalization strategy. The course provides graduate students with an opportunity for developing an understanding of how to link human resource development and organizational learning practices to strategic initiatives. The skills and knowledge learned will enable the students to successfully prepare to meet a variety of challenges they may face in their careers. Real world examples and real business applications will be utilized throughout the course.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course,delegates will be able to:
1. Identify and explain the impact that external environmental factors have on business strategy.
2. Discern between the causes and the symptoms of global business problems.
3. Use appropriate strategic assessment tools to identify multinational company wide problems.
4. Identify and explain problems associated with global long-term strategy formulation and implementation.
5. Apply management strategic knowledge  gained  from  textbook’s  chapters  reading  with  practical  case
studies.
6. Think through the strategic implications associated with solutions to business-related problems in foreign
markets.
7. Create solutions to problems associated with business-related problems in foreign markets.
8. Comprehend the difficulties encountered by people working in organizations and groups in different parts
of the world.
9. Critique how economic, political, social, and spatial relations have developed, persist, and change among
individuals, groups, and societies.
10. Communicate ideas and principles coherently to a business-related audience through written mediums.
11. Understand  the  complexities  in  the  behavior  of  the  individual  human  being  and  the  individual’s  relationship
with the larger world.
12. Identify various perspectives on understanding major global issues and the use libraries, computer
technology, and other information resources and technologies to locate materials, credit sources appropriately and responsibly, and integrate research materials drawn from various sources.