Delivery: Online
College Credit: 3 credit hours
Estimated Length: 44 seat hours
Price: $890
This course focuses on today’s global, technology-driven business environment, covering topics such as strategic planning and change management. It provides a detailed exploration of what is needed to develop a successful business in a multicultural environment: leadership, setting objectives, decision making, staffing, communication, motivation and organizing. Also, students will draw on management theory in order to apply the organizational concepts that are needed to function effectively as a manager today. The curriculum combines textbook principles with online activities. Industry-specific case studies apply textbook theory to real-life situations.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is 44 hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Benefits:
- earn three hours of college credit
- receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- develop a successful leadership style
- make better decisions affecting the organization
- properly motivate employees to work toward organizational goals
- recognize and address challenges related to multicultural business environments
- establish effective leadership and business goals
- plan and manage change
- successfully build and lead teams
- improve decision making about staffing
Outline:
Introducing Modern Management: Concepts and Skills
A manager’s task, management process and organizational resources, the key to management success and management careers
Society, Ethics and Sustainability
Fundamentals of social responsibility, social responsiveness, the social audit challenge, the philanthropy challenge, the sustainable organization challenge and managers and ethics
Management and Entrepreneurship: Handling Start-Ups and New Ventures
Fundamentals of entrepreneurship, types of opportunities, opportunity identification, opportunity evaluation, opportunity exploitation, financing exploitation, corporate entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship
Management and Diversity
Defining diversity, advantages of diversity in organizations, management challenges with diverse populations, strategies for promoting diversity in organizations and how managers promote diversity
Managing in the Global Arena
Fundamentals of international management, categorizing organizations by international involvement, multinational corporations, the workforce of multinational corporations, management functions and the multinational corporations, transnational organizations and international management special issues
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity in individuals, increasing creativity in organizations, innovation and creativity, the innovation process, catalyst for creativity and innovation: total quality management, the quality improvement process
Plans and Planning Tools
General characteristics of planning, types of plans, planning process steps, planning’s foundation, management by objectives (MBO) and planning tools
Making Decisions
Fundamentals of decisions, rational decision making, decision-making and intuition, decisionmaking tools and group decisions
Strategic Planning: Strategies, Tactics and Competitive Dynamics
Strategic planning and strategy, strategic management process, environmental analysis, establishing organizational direction, strategy formulation tools, strategy implementation, strategic control, tactical planning and competitive dynamics
Fundamentals of Organizing
Organizing and organizing skill, Weber’s bureaucratic model, division of labor, structure and types of departmentalization
Responsibility, Authority and Delegation
Responsibility and job descriptions, dividing job activities, clarifying job activities, authority, delegation and centralization and decentralization
Human Resource Management
Appropriate human resources, recruitment, selection, training and performance appraisal
Changing Organizations: Stress, Conflict and Virtuality
Fundamentals of changing an organization, factors to consider, change and stress and conflict and virtuality
Influencing and Communication
Influencing, emotional intelligence, communication, interpersonal communication and encouraging organizational communication
Leadership
Approaches to leadership, how leaders make decisions, leaders changing organizations, leaders coaching others and emerging concepts for modern times
Motivation
Process theories, content theories: human needs, importance of motivation and motivation strategies
Groups and Teams
Kinds of Groups, managing work groups, team development stages and collaboration and effective teams
Building Organization Culture
Fundamentals, functions and types of organizational culture, building a high performance organization culture and keeping organization culture alive and well
Controlling, Information and Technology
Fundamentals, the controlling process, power and control, essentials of information and the information system
Production and Control
Production and productivity, Quality and productivity, operations management and control and control tools