Course Descriptions: Management

MGT500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.

MGT501: Management and Organizational Theory
Students will explore classic management and organizational theories as they apply to contemporary organizations, including, for example, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, educational institutions, public sector, private sector, for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Integration of the individual into the organization, an examination of the human factor in organizational dynamics and the processes of team building and evaluating organizational and managerial effectiveness will be considered.

MGT503: Business Law
This course concentrates on the legal aspects of business organizations. The law controlling agency, partnerships and corporations is examined. Emphasis is on the rights, duties and liabilities of principal, agent, partner, shareholder, officer and director. Students also are exposed to a survey of the law of contracts, personal property, bailments, bankruptcy, commercial paper and secured transactions. Students will use case studies as a basis for understanding how legal requirements are applied in a variety of business settings.

MGT509: Human Resources Management
This course will assist students in understanding the effective use of human resources to achieve organizational goals within the constraints imposed by ethical considerations and legal obligations. The processes used to determine human resource requirements, recruitment, selection, development, utilization and accommodation of human resources in contemporary organizations will be explored.

MGT510: Operations Management
This course introduces tools and techniques necessary to assure effective and efficient operations in both service and manufacturing settings. Managerial decision making, forecasting, queuing and inventory control are enhanced by use of techniques such as total quality management (TQM), statistical process control (SPC), supply-chain management, and quantitative evaluation of capacity, location, layout and resource planning. Prerequisite: Quantitative Analysis, Calculus and/or Statistics or equivalent or permission of instructor.

MGT518: Managerial Economics
This course focuses on the use of economics in managerial and strategic decision making. The course will provide a review of how economic tools, techniques and indicators can be used for solving organizational problems. The practical application of economics will be discussed utilizing a myriad of examples from a variety of organizations within both the public and private sectors. Microeconomics and Macroeconomics or equivalent or permission on instructor.

MGT530: Marketing Management
Students survey the role of marketing in business and in society. They explore consumer behavior, market segments, product positioning, new product development and policy, pricing, distributing, advertising and sales management. Case studies will be utilized to enhance critical thinking and analytical decision-making.

MGT534: Global Quality Management: ISO9001
This course will provide an overview of the field of quality management with a focus on implementation and maintenance of an internationally recognized standard for a quality management system. Students will learn practical application of quality management techniques by focusing on a project relevant to the student's work or career interests.

MGT536: Global Environmental Management: ISO14001
Major corporations throughout the world are requiring suppliers to meet the proactive ISO14001 Environmental Management System standards. This course will explore the role of a voluntary standard with a goal of pollution prevention and continual improvement in meeting environmental objectives. Students will learn practical application of the ISO14001 standard by building an ISO14001 compliant environmental management system to an organization of the student's choice.

MGT538: Global Business
This course presents the backgrounds, patterns and practical operations of global, multinational businesses. Topics include transnational corporations, global trade, global financial flows and international human resources management. The interactions between business policies and the host country's sociopolitical and economic environment are investigated. Use of case studies and business simulation models provide practical application of theories to enhance learning.

MGT540: Social and Ethical Issues: A Global Perspective
With the explosion of worldwide communications, the globalization of the economy, and the increase of international conflicts, this course takes a global perspective on major ethical issues impacting our daily lives as members of a world community. From business to world politics, students will examine enduring ethical concepts. Case studies will be used to explore contemporary applications to such issues as armed conflict, overpopulation, global degradation, and education/literacy. This course will encourage students to seek solutions to improve the world in which we live.

MGT555: Organizational Development
This course provides an overview of the field of organizational behavior with a focus on organizational culture, group behavior, interpersonal influence and organizational design, change and innovation. This course is centered on effective change management within organizations. Students will have the opportunity to improve skills in areas such as process consultation, managing change, team building and measuring organizational effectiveness.

MGT558: Current Topics in Human Resource Management
This course focuses on current topics relevant for human resource managers in contemporary business organizations. The primary objective of the course is to provide students with current information critical for both human resource planning and effective management. Current issues may include areas such as compensation management, employee benefit program management, effective and efficient training and development. Prerequisite: MGT509 Human Resources Management or permission of instructor.

MGT559: Legal Issues in the Workplace
This course provides an overview of laws and regulations that must be considered in human resource decision making. Topics include the Fair Labor Standards Act, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, sexual harassment, family leave, the Americans with Disabilities Act, substance abuse and enforcement of a drug-free workplace and various aspects of employer/employee relations. Prerequisite: MGT509 Human Resources Management or permission of instructor.

MGT560: Labor Relations
Students study collective bargaining as an ongoing dynamic process and develop a process model of collaborative bargaining. Special attention is given to resolution of negotiation impasses unfair labor practices and employee grievances. Unique features of public and private sector bargaining are highlighted. Prerequisite: MGT509 Human Resources Management or permission of instructor.

MGT561: Financial Management
Students become acquainted with the tools and instruments that allow financial managers to successfully manage current operations and predict long-term needs. Emphasis is placed on current industry practices with investigations of the investment, financing, and evaluation decisions necessary for organizations to meet their fiduciary responsibilities. The course is designed to show the application of finance theory to current management issues.

MGT562: Managerial Accounting
Students explore and analyze real-world issues in financial planning and analysis with emphasis on preparation of business plans and financial forecasts. Students use accounting software to record, summarize, report and analyze financial information. Prerequisite: Accounting I & II or equivalent or permission of instructor.

MGT565: Portfolio Theory and Security Analysis
This course examines the investment process within the context of a market economy where financial markets serve to allocate resources. Topics include capital markets, risk and return, defining portfolio objectives, portfolio construction, the role of diversification and individual security analysis.

MGT567: Creative Problem-Solving
This course provides students with both the theoretical and practical applications of creatively solving problems in a wide range of organizational settings including, for example, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, educational institutions, public sector, private sector, for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Students will work collaboratively and cooperatively to learn the connections between innovation, creativity, visualization, memory, thinking, overcoming mental barriers, problem definition, idea generation, idea evaluation, solution implementation and improved communication.

MGT575: Strategic Management and Business Policy
This capstone course enables students to concentrate on the determination and implementation of organizational strategy. The student takes the point of view an administrative leader who must integrate organizational activities such as human resources management, public relations, operations, marketing, finance, production disaster planning and critical incident management. Major topics are the determination of organizational strategy and the relationship between an organization's economic strategy and the personal values of senior administrators. This capstone course should be taken as one of the last 2 courses in the degree program.

MGT581: Special Topics
Theoretical, procedural and study abroad opportunities of interest to business studies are offered periodically. Details of these courses, when offered, will be announced on the Salve Regina University web site and in printed schedule booklets.

MGT590: Internship
Individually supervised project in an organization of the student's choice. The purpose of the internship experience is to meet clearly specified goals and objectives in an environment that will allow the student to test selected business administration skills by completing a pre-defined project as contractually agreed upon by the student, the internship agency (employer) and the Graduate Program Director. Note: This is a required course for students in the Five-Year MBA Program.

ADJ505: Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement: Constitutional Law and Civil Liability
Students undertake an in-depth study of decisions by the US Supreme Court and other appellate courts that affect rights of criminal suspects from the time of investigation to trial.

ADJ518: Public Policy and the Justice System:
Managing Homeland Security in a Multicultural Society
Using case analysis and personal experimentation, students explore aspects of government decision-making, factors that influence the decisions, and their impact on the justice system.

ADJ521: Management Issues in Law Enforcement
Students examine issues facing law enforcement from a management perspective, with an emphasis on structure, policies, discipline, budgetary problems, public relations, and civil liabilities.

ADJ552: Terrorism and Transnational Crime
This course examines the sources, activities and legal implications of international terrorism and globalized crime. It analyzes strategies and processes of responding and combating criminal networks and activities across borders and evaluates the impact such strategies and processes have on human and civil rights.

ADJ575: Comparative Justice Systems.
US law enforcement has, in many respects, become internationalized with the prevalence of world crime. This course presents a comparative analysis of criminal justice systems in several states, with a specific focus on police, courts, and corrections. Students examine different state processes and institutions of criminal justice and try to understand reasons for their variation.

ADJ576: High Technology Crime.
This course studies the response of law enforcement and information systems scientists to the use of computers and related technologies for criminal purposes. While no prior computer knowledge is required, students will use computers as a part of this class. Major policy issues surrounding this area will also be discussed.

HLC509: Toward Synthesis: On the Level of Mind/Emotions
This course begins with an explanation of the theoretical underpinnings of current principal psychotherapeutic approaches. It surveys the theories of Freud, Jung and Adler, extending to behaviorism, person-centered therapy, existential therapy, transactional analysis, rational emotive, Gestalt, reality and cognitive-behavioral therapies. The course explores the psychology of imagination and creativity, and challenges students to deepen their awareness of their own cognitive-emotional lives as related to their physical existence, creativity, and sense of meaning and purpose.

HLC532: The Psychology of Group Process
Students explore the various dimensions of group process, along with their own ability to function in groups in the light of their personal history in groups. Leadership strengths are studied. The use of art and movement for facilitating group process is investigated.

HLC586: Consulting with Systems
Working with any client requires skill and artistry. The client in this course is a complex system, such as a large organization. This course is designed to help students understand how to examine complex organizations as client systems; how to consult with large systems; and how to assume a variety of consultant roles and responsibilities. Students practice intervention skills, and apply learning to actual systems.

ISS501: Structured Systems Analysis
This course examines the structured systems development life cycle and rapid prototyping alternatives that may be applied to applications development process. Topics in this course include information systems planning in support of the organization's objectives, determination of requirements, an introduction to software project management, modern structured analysis, and preliminary design. Additional topics include: event-driven design, object-oriented methodologies, conversion of legacy systems to a distributed environment, and application maintenance. Appropriate case tools, project management and development software will be used to support these activities.