BBA310: Management

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
12

Overview

This course examines the fundamental tasks that comprise the manager's job in organizations today. It explores strategies managers utilize in their role: decision-making, planning, organizing, controlling, and innovating. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including:

  • Managing people in diverse organizations
  • Leadership and motivation
  • Strategic management and decision-making
  • Managing change and conflict
  • Managing organizational structure, power, and politics

In the course project, Case Analysis Portfolio: Exploring Best Practices for Managers, you will analyze short business cases using the insights from your assigned readings and module themes.  The cases are combined into a portfolio paper that will also include an essay about the best management practices you have learned throughout the course.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Conduct a SWOT analysis for an organization and make recommendations on how the analysis can be used in making informed decisions on planning for the organization's future.
  • Assess a manager's practices and approaches to hiring, managing, motivating, and communicating with employees.
  • Assess a manager's approach to communicating during times of change and helping employees deal with stress as a result of change.
  • Assess a manager's approach to leading and motivating individuals and teams, and make recommendations for helping teams resolve potential conflicts.
  • Assess a manager's approach to decision-making.
  • Assess a manager's approach to managing organizational change.
  • Identify best management practices for application to one's own managerial role.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Special Requirements

Note: Readings from the course textbook, Organizational Behavior, are linked from within the course. It is not necessary to purchase the book separately unless students prefer to use or keep a hardcopy.

Required Texts
BBA310 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore