This course explores organizational theory that introduces the principles and concepts of effective management. It includes organizational structure and control systems, managing organizational technology and innovation, information processing and decision making, and applications in today’s management and leadership. Students will learn the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
Prerequisites
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
- Articulate objective and logical solutions to issues that arise in business management scenarios.
- Demonstrate an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives and how to apply general business management principles within racially and culturally varied business settings.
- Develop innovative and creative solutions to issues facing business today.
IO3: Human Relations/Workplace Skills: Demonstrate effective leadership, critical thinking, teamwork, and technical and information literacy competencies needed to make business-critical decisions to resolve interpersonal and organizational challenges that most often occur in the modern workplace.
- Organizational structure and control systems.
- Define organization structure and its basic elements
- Understand what is meant by organizational control
- Managing organizational technology and innovation.
- Describe what organizational culture is and why it is important for an organization
- Understanding strategic human resource management
- Information processing and decision making.
- Understand the decision-making process
- Using data analytics to support decision making
- Select and use appropriate resources to collect and translate business data into useful information for decision-making.
- Understand the role of accounting in business
- Understand information management
- Leadership skills
- Contemporary and behavioral approaches to leadership
- Theories of motivation