Subject: Business Communication (BCOM)

CRN: 10214

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Milton Thomas

Analyze communicative dimensions of organizations, including formal and informal communication systems, the development and effect of culture, the process of change, and the methods for diagnosing problems and assessing communication effectiveness. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 10220

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

Minneapolis: Schulze Hall 315

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  David Hirschey

Businesses increasingly use teams to get work done at all levels of the organization, but often teams are not managed effectively. This course examines when teams are the right choice (and when they are not), how to be an effective team member and leader, and how to diagnose and solve common team problems. The course also examines teams operating under special circumstances, e.g., cross-functional, temporary, global, and distributed (or virtual). Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 10222

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

Minneapolis: Schulze Hall 420

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Jim Gifft

The field of project management is young and constantly changing. Companies seek to reduce development cycles while increasing the technological complexity of their products. Corporate downsizing has increased the average workload and reduced the resources available for project development. Sound familiar? This course will discuss the fundamental basis for scheduling and project scope difficulties, and provide tools for creating practical solutions. We will become more aware of why we encounter similar pitfalls with each new project. Discover that you are not alone in encountering a chaotic project life-cycle, the complexity people bring, and the reasons why our organizations are continuing to become more chaotic. This course will examine the new phase development of project management. We will use numerous disciplines to create a more dynamic and flexible project management methodology. These disciplines include Industrial Behavior, Psychology, Human Behavior, Chaos and Complexity, Organizational Behavior, and Systems Theory to name a few. As project managers, we face impossible schedules, unrealistic specifications, and limited budgets. As leaders we face personnel issues, motivation requirements and organizational issues. This course will provide insight and practical examples of the areas of knowledge needed to practice effective project management in today's dynamic work environment. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 10224

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Kelly Leiker

Change in organizations has become pervasive. This course will examine how change occurs in organizations so students can better understand the process and develop a framework for understanding and managing change more effectively. The course will look at major world and societal changes that contribute to the amount and pace of change in business organizations, review the major theories that try to explain change, and explore diagnostic tools and actions needed for facilitation and implementation of change. Students will also be challenged to become more successful managers by recognizing their personal capacities to direct and experience organizational change while dealing with competing demands on their energy, time and attention. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 10225

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Danielle Hansen

This course explores the major concepts of negotiation inherent in any business or personal situation. The focus will be on interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. Through the analysis of bargaining and conflict situations, students will be able to learn their own individual "negotiating styles." Some of the major elements of the course include distributive (win-lose) negotiations, integrative (win-win) negotiations, the use of power in negotiations and negotiation ethics. Negotiation cases will be used extensively in the course to allow students to improve their negotiation skills through "hands on" scenarios. Beginning with relatively simple one-on-one negotiations, the course will progress to complex, multi-party negotiations where class members will assume different roles. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits