OAD - Organizational Admin

Analysis of issues and techniques necessary to understand, plan and manage individual and family personal finances. Topics covered include opportunity costs, investment, taxes, cost/use of credit, cost/use of various types of insurance, housing and transportation decisions and retirement and estate planning. Particular emphasis on personal cash flow forecasting and management.

Introduces health care system in the United States. Stresses the system's historical development, features, financing, management, resources and politics.

Analytic understanding of organizational, professional, and interpersonal behavior that characterizes contemporary health care organizations. Topics include authority relations in health care settings, models of illness behavior and health services utilization, impact of organizational structure on employee and client attitudes and behavior, and the culture of professional medicine in relation to patient care. Prerequisites: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology, SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.

Focuses on the role of E-commerce in global business, including implications for business strategy, marketing, and global expansion. Included technical (IT) considerations.

Introduction to the theory and practice of production management as a functional area in the strategic management of operations and manufacturing in domestic and international companies.  Examines problems encountered in planning, operating, and controlling production of goods and services.  Other topics include the two major areas of production and operations management, operation system design, and operation and control of systems.

Examines the role of personal values and insight in the creation of companies and their ongoing management. This course explores the meaning of being an entrepreneur and how to combine idea (vision) and action (strategy) for personal and business success.

Examines the role of an organizational leader. Assesses individual skills and discusses the role of a leader in managing teams through environmental and organizational change. Includes extensive application exercises designed to develop leadership skills.

Students work as a group on an extensive business project that synthesizes learning presented in the current term.

Course exposes students to the concepts of capitalism, money, and banking and their effects on personal financial decision making. Topics include budgeting, the time value of money, interest, savings versus borrowing, spending strategies, greed, and investing.

Study of human behavior in work organizations. Focuses on individual satisfaction and motivation as related to organizational structure, nature of task and locus of power. Topics include small group formation, maintenance, organizational conflict, communications and leadership.

Research shows emotional intelligence (EI) is more important than IQ in determining outstanding job performance. Examines variety of instruments and writings used to build EI in workplace.

Examines interpersonal skills in dealing with people in a work setting. Emphasis on understanding others and exploration of personality types.

Emphasizes practical techniques in the areas of personal marketing, resume writing, interviewing and communicating for career advancement.

Basic course in negotiation. Emphasizes fundamental use of time, information and power to effect positive results at the bargaining table, Includes a review of the applicable employment laws affecting the collective bargaining process.

Examines development and continuing changes in legislative and judicial influence on the workplace. Special emphasis given to NLRB, OSHA, EEOC, and DOL agencies.`

Examines and develops skills in different dispute resolution methods. Topics include: mediation, MED ARB, problem solving, grievance handling, listening skills, fact finding and body language.

Provides survey of United States history as the backdrop of America's importance as an industrial economic power. Introduces individuals who played important roles in the development of U.S. commerce. Explores concept of change in the understanding of history.

Discusses process for managing organizations including planning, organizing, leading and evaluating. Examines administrative role in organizations and concepts relevant to its function and historical development of administrative thought. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology.

Examines performance in areas of productivity, creativity, wellness (physical, emotional, financial), relationship building and life management.

Introduces labor relations. Topics include organized labor and management community, historical and legal framework, union behavior, and elements of collective bargaining.

Focuses on basic methods of research design and analysis of data including descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include mean, median, mode, frequency distribution, range, standard deviation, probabilities of sampling selection, Z-score, T-value, regression and correlation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance and Chi-square analysis.

Study of the function of arbitration in labor management relations including preparation for arbitration, conduct of hearing, ethics, evidence, grievance handling, and proof of standards used by arbitration in reaching a decision.

Examines multidisciplinary factors that are combined to create the current relationship between employers and employees including effects of competition in the global market.

Introduces American legal system as it relates to business. Includes contracts, commercial paper, sales, agency, and property.

Introduces use of quantitative methods in business. Includes elements of matrix algebra, set theory, linear programming and mathematical functions relating to law of supply and demand and finance.

Introduces development of personal and group norms required for work places. Topics include moral reasoning in business, employee rights and responsibilities of corporations.

Course focuses on quantitative techniques and methods as they are applied to business decision-making, including some of the most widely-used models in management science. Emphasis is placed on decision-making under uncertainty and the allocation of resources. Some topics in production and operations management are also covered.

Analysis of consumer behavior and configuration of target markets. Emphasis on management of organization activities designed to satisfy target market planning, pricing, promotion and distribution of the product or service.

The institutions and processes related to business law are considers, as well as the major frameworks of private and public law. Topics include commercial transactions, business torts and crimes, and regulatory law. Prerequisite: OAD 31863 Business Law recommended.

Examines problems women encounter and present as managers. Topics include psychological and type differences between males and females, organizational and political barriers to women's progress and adapting and succeeding in male-dominated environments.

Examines the role of management in providing a safe work environment through current topics and issues in job-related health, workplace accidents, workplace violence, and workplace safety. Facilitates understanding of Occupational Safety and Health Administration's requirements for employers.

Focuses on process and management of the personnel function including task specialization, selection and placement, development and training, collective bargaining, appraisal and compensation.

A study of how human resource information systems (HRIS) are applied in organizations to support organizational strategy, improve efficiency and flexibility, increase productivity and performance, and ensure compliance with employment law. It covers management issues central to HRIS effectiveness in organizations of all sizes and in a range of technical environments, focusing on microcomputer-based systems. Emphasis will be on how HRIS can be used to support strategic human resource management policies. Prerequisite: Computer literacy.

Investigation of policies and procedures used for effective employment and staffing, consideration of external and internal recruitment, selection procedures,internal staffing process, application of job design and analysis as related to procedures of employment.

Examines governmental budgeting process, procedures and cycles. Includes consideration of legislative taxation and appropriation processes at state and local levels. Evaluates contemporary approaches such as zero-base budgeting, planning programming budgeting systems and cost/benefit analysis.

Strategic management and its importance to business, government and nonprofit organizations. Topics include identifying mission and objectives, assessing the environment, identifying critical success factors and generating and evaluating strategic alternatives.

Provides critical examination of structure and function of health care systems in major, advanced, capitalist countries (e.g., Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden) in comparison to each other and to the United States. Emphasis placed on cost control, quality access, reform efforts, and cultural values. Prerequisite: OAD 22563 Introduction to Health Care Delivery System.

Survey of bankruptcy law. Includes history of bankruptcy, sources of bankruptcy law, functions and roles of select individuals in the bankruptcy process, Bankruptcy Code Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 law and procedures including preparation of necessary documents and Chapter 11 law.

Designed around special theories, practices, or interests of an individual or group.

An interdisciplinary exploration of special topics in the regulation of health care institutions.

Introduces students to the specific vocabulary used by health care professionals.

Introduction to the U.S. health care system, major components of the system, and historical development of current health care systems.

Addresses basic budgeting and management systems applicable to various health care industries. Exqamines development of business budgets using tools and models such as balance sheets, income statements, cash flow analysis, time value of money concepts and project planning techniques specific to health care organizations.

Emphasizes multiple perspective approach to understanding management of complex, evolving health care delivery and reimbursement systems. Introduces basic functional areas and their integration, management roles and processes, organizational culture and politics and the interaction of organizations and their environments.

Examines development (and non-development) of health care as social policy in the United States and other countries and the historical, social, economic and political context in which such policy evolves. Assesses health care reform proposals in light of current and forecasted societal need. Problem identification, analysis and solving skills emphasized.

Examines and applies basic human resource management theory and principles to various health care settings. Concepts studied include planning, job analysis, recruitment, performance evaluation, compensation, training, employee rights and labor law. Focuses upon current human resource issues in health care such as cost containment, downsizing, increased regulation and non-traditional employment arrangements.

Focus on leadership as action and understanding others and interpersonal theory as the connection between leadership and communication in an organizational context. Both didactic and experiential teaching methods used. Crosslisted with COM 36364.

Evaluates personal self- care approaches and identifies methods to improve self care interventions. Focuses on assessment of stress and tensions relative to personal, system and cultural value conflict. Emphasizes importance of effective self-care in contribution to overall personal and professional success.

Examines a variety of ethical theories and their application to practice and management of health care. Explores ethical concerns and conflict among patients, providers, regulators and the reimbursement industry.

Focuses on implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) and cost containment strategies and frameworks in the health care workplace. Creates understanding of concepts such as team building, communications and analytical and creative thinking.

Overview of advertising function and its role in the marketing mix. Examines advertising objectives and strategies, client-agency relationships and production techniques for various media. Crosslisted with COM 36964.

Emphasizes basic managerial functions applied to long-term care settings. Examines role and structure of long term-care services within integrated delivery system and community. Introduces financing mechanisms, legal and ethical issues and administrative skill building such as planning, organizing, communicating, delegating and change management.

This course focuses on quantitative techniques and methods as they are applied to business decision-making, including some of the most widely used models in management science. Emphasis is placed on decision making under uncertainty and the allocation of resources. Some topics in production and operations management are also covered.

Examines change as part of organizational development. Applies behavioral sciences to create high-performance organizations. Emphasizes communication and working with conflict that accompanies change.

Explores theories and approaches used in managing employees and the dynamics of formal and informal social units. Topics include individual perceptions and learning, employee motivation and job satisfaction, individual and cultural diversity in the workplace, group and organizational dynamics, organizational power and politics and organizational culture.

Analyze consumer needs and behaviors as related to health care. Examine relationship to development and marketing of products and services. Learn basic marketing activities designed to satisfy target markets: product design, pricing, market placement, promotion and distribution.

Examines relationships between employer and employee. Topics include development of appropriate and legally prescribed standards for measuring work performance, compensation, labor/employee relations, and recruitment, selection, training, development, and appraisal of employees.

Studies theories regarding organizations from sociology and social psychology perspectives. Develops understanding of theories presented in readings and ability to apply theories to organizational experiences.

Develops conceptual understanding of interpersonal and intergroup conflict in organizations and personal skills in resolving these conflicts as a principal party. Includes intervention strategies used by third parties to mediate conflicts, as well as participation in an organizational simulation.Crosslisted with COM 39664.

Development and enhancement of skills for effective writing in public relations settings. Emphasis on standard written communication. Includes development of presentations, press releases, newsletters and brochures. Crosslisted with COM 39764.

Students work as a group on an extensive business project that synthesizes learning presented in prior terms. Project includes design and implementation of a business project that produces income.

Students work on an in-depth individual business project that synthesizes learning presented in previous terms.

Students work as a group or on an individual basis on an extensive community service project that synthesizes learning presented in previous terms.

Examines development of leadership and management skills for employees of not-for-profit organizations, along with the relationship of management of a governing board. Topics include essential functions of management, leadership skills, contemporary process practices, strategic planning, and ethical issues.

Examines financing of an organization from the administrative viewpoint. Consideration of internal financial management as well as external financing and capital structures. Prerequisites: ACC 20364 Accounting for Business Operations, ACC 20464 Accounting for Financing and Investing Activities.

Covers background and application of the National Labor Relations Act (as amended) and its administration under the National Labor Relations Board and through courts. Includes review of applicable federal, state, and local laws pertaining to the collective bargaining process.

Provides formats, techniques and skills necessary for effective processing of grievances. Topics include system design, just cause and due process, investigative and research methods, contract interpretation standards, and methods of case presentation.

Introduces comparative legal traditions focusing on civil and common law. Topics include French and German Civil Codes, origins of Anglo-Saxon common law, and comparisons and contrasts between the United States legal system and Civil Code systems such as the French and German systems.

Overview of basic financial systems used in business settings. Includes business planning and budgeting tools and models such as balance sheets, income statements, cash flow analysis, time value of money concepts and project planning techniques.

Focuses on advertising from a managerial viewpoint. Includes administration, advertising research agency relationships, media selection, budget regulation and campaign planning. Crosslisted with COM 40363.

Advanced skill development emphasizing varied negotiations and ability to reach solutions. Students operate in teams and individually to bring about agreement involving at least four parties.

Utilizes experiences of sales and marketing practitioners to address topics related to selling techniques and management of sales personnel.

Survey of public relations, including goal setting, attitude and opinion research, planning, implementation, evaluation and change. Emphasis on communication theory as an integral part of the public relations process. Crosslisted with COM 40563.

Explores case law affecting health care administration. Includes subjects such as health care reimbursement, patient access to health care, organization and operation of the health care business and medical staff relations. Examines ethical issues such as defining death and harvesting organs, withholding or withdrawing medical care, surrogate motherhood and maternal-fetal conflict and patient confidentiality and AIDS.

Examines total quality management (TQM) process, its principles and applications such as teamwork, the managing of change, quality as an organizational value and customer focus.

Emphasizes various elements of marketing communications and their integration into the marketing function. Elements include public relations, advertising, sales promotion and support materials.

Course is designed to help develop and apply effective and efficient communication in the healthcare environment. Topics include written communication, communication styles and interactions within healthcare settings.

The course focuses, from a managerial perspective, on the study of the theoretical and practical sides of strategic, synergistic planning to effectively use promotional tools to help a organization achieve its promotion objectives. Students to learn to evaluate audience demographics and apply the appropriate communication channels and messages based upon the audiences' needs and the business realities of marketing campaigns. Emphasis is on strategic planning, implementation and control of promotional activities. Topics include an evaluation of the role of promotion in marketing and the economy and the formulation and analysis of promotional goals. Media strategy,sales strategy, creative strategy, integrated marketing communication objectives, and budget determination are also explored. Prerequisite: OAD 31863 Marketing. Crosslisted with COM 40863 Integrated Marketing.

Examines differences between domestic and international marketing and provides framework for analyzing major risks and opportunities (informed markets) to develop techniques for preparing and implementing successful international marketing plans.

Explores how the principles and practices of marketing are applied in the sports industry.  Topics include identification of target markets and planning, creating and assessing integrated sports marketing programs.  Course focuses on marketing of sports, teams, athletes, and the use of sports to market products.

Explores how the principles and practices of marketing are applied in the sports industry.  Topics include identification of target markets and planning, creating and assessing integrated sports marketing programs.  Course focuses on marketing of sports, teams, athletes, and the use of sports to market products.

 

Introduces international financial markets, theory of exchange rate determination, concepts and measurement of foreign risk exposure, financial instruments to hedge exchange risk and financing of multinational enterprises.

Experience in major area of study. Arranged individually and taken after completion of major coursework. Prerequisite: Consent of academic advisor.

Examines international business, its processes and institutions, especially the multi-national corporation, from several perspectives: historical, business, political, social, cultural, economic, and environmental. Attention given to impact and effect of multi-national corporations upon traditional societies and nationalistic governments. Considers the future of rapidly changing economies and financial markets in the world.

Practical experience in major area of study. Arranged individually and taken after completion of major coursework.

Investigation of management issues and concerns in international settings and exploration of the impact of cultural variables on management. Evaluates the assignment of expatriates, host country nationals and globally selected managers and employees. Considers the variability required in the implementation of major business functions in international settings.

Introduction to marketing research. Covers gathering information needed to solve marketing problems, problem identification, data analysis and interpretation and reporting research results.

Behavioral science approach to analyzing, predicting and studying consumer purchasing behavior. Links consumer behavior to marketing research and decision-making.

Provides theory and application in project planning, implementation, control and completion. Includes network planning, project evaluation and review techniques (PERT), critical path methods (CPM), management by objectives, management by exception, cost analysis and resource allocation/leveling.

Examines human resource functions of salary administration, job evaluation, compensation, legal requirements and benefit designs (including medical, life, retirement and flexible benefits). Emphasis on role of compensation and benefits in attracting, retaining and motivating employees.

Analysis of methods commonly used by organizations to evaluate human performance. Addresses relationship of performance appraisal to the overall management of an organization, salary administration, promotions and training.

This course examines differences between domestic and international human resource management from several perspectives: global staffing, international employee relations and regulations, organizational and employee development, international assignment management, global compensation and benefits, and strategic global human resource management. Students will study the global/international nature of human resource management practices.

This course provides practical human resource management (HRM) experience for students by providing an opportunity to create HRM systems that will be used by real organizations. Students will gain in-depth knowledge of a particular problem within an HRM system and will design an effective solution to that problem based on sound theory and techniques. The problem addressed must be outside the scope of the students' normal job responsibilities and verified by their project/faculty supervisor.

Studies current principles and practices in personnel planning, employee training and development. Topics include skill assessment, recognition of organizational and individual needs, establishing learning objectives and methodologies.

Explores learning approaches that are aligned with how the brain naturally learns. Student examines roles that emotions, multiple intelligences, meaningfulness, attitudes, stress, music, and movement play in the learning process. Provides practical skills to develop effective training programs for adult learners.

Course requires student to develop familiarity with history of workers' compensation legislation; the law and its amendments; process of administering and overseeing claims; legal and appellate mechanisms to resolve disputes.

Examines creation of high performance workforce including accurate job definitions, identifying necessary job skills, employee selection, employee development and recognition/reward strategies.

Examines impact of gender, ethnicity and other cultural diversity dimensions on the work organization and management and supervision of a diverse workforce for organizational effectiveness while encouraging individual professional development.

Examines contemporary career theory. Topics include self-assessment inventories, traditional and nontraditional job search techniques, career change and contract negotiation.

Examines environments within which small business concerns operate, emphasizing a balance between business and managerial functions. Topics include impact of governmental regulation and the entrepreneurial perspective.

Provides theoretical models and practical experience in the process of organizational change, from the planning stage to implementation and evaluation.

Studies the impact of the economic, legal, political, technical, international and social environments on administration. Presents relevant concepts from these areas and analyzes their interrelationships.

Focuses on integration of functional content areas in field of professional management. Apply theories and techniques of leadership to problems, cases and current issues.

An analysis of leadership roles and strategies to overcome obstacles facing women leaders. The course focuses on developing leadership styles, leading through strengths, learning negotiation strategies, and implementing action plans. Goals are accomplished through exploring multiple perspectives on leadership, leadership identification exercises, and building a supportive network. Cross listed with WMS 43465.

Examines management principles applied to governmental agencies and other public organizations especially at state and local levels, interfacing public organization with legislative process, regulatory process and public interest. Includes strategies for increasing organizational effectiveness.

Examines standards, values and impact of employee assistance programs (EAP). Emphasis on current EAP trends and their benefit to employees, supervisory personnel and management in business and industry.

Course covers a detailed review of Human Resource Management and preparation for the Human Resource Certification Institute certification examination. Students will study particular facets of HR management in detail and prepare students for the HRCI examination using the Society of Human Resource Management Learning System Materials.

Students focus on a selected business perspective which culminates in a travel-abroad experience.

Focuses on issues and methods involved in recruiting employees effectively including topics related to selection techniques and work design.

Examines the development of health care policy in the U.S. and the influences of societal, political, and economic environments on the health care industry. Explores the interaction of government and other regulatory agencies within the health care industries.

Focuses on the importance of the strategic planning process as the foundation for health care business plans, goals, objectives and performance appraisal. Special attention devoted to planning in the dynamic and volatile health care environment. Trace the development of the role of marketing in health care and work with the marketing process: product planning, pricing, promotion and distribution. Prerequisites: OAD 31863 Marketing.

Studies development of social policy related to U.S. health care for elderly. Investigates predicted trends in care delivery and reimbursement relative to an aging population. Examines complex set of policies, rules and laws at federal and state levels that influence and regulate delivery and reimbursement.

Principles and methods of health care finance applied to not-for-profit and for-profit settings. Studies valuation, analysis and management of assets. Introduces financial forecasting and financial decision-making using computerized models. Emphasizes financial statement analysis and development of financial policy. Case study and applications discussed.

Design and delivery of integrated long-term care services to meet psychological, physical, medical and social needs of residents. Discuss strategies for managing interdisciplinary assessment, service delivery and reimbursement. Focuses on regulation, policy and procedure designed to protect resident interests, safety and well-being.

Focuses on systems theory and applied systems models with particular attention to integrated delivery systems models and applications in the changing health care industry. Provides understanding of health care organizations. Identifies methods to simplify and improve operations.

Provides overview of risk management theory applied to health care settings. Includes risk management program design, roles of the risk manager and risk management information systems, summary of health provider liability law, adverse occurrence scanning and investigation and settlement techniques and litigation defense.

Continues exploration of management in health care organizations focusing on financial and regulatory environments. Examines budgeting as an application of planning and controlling. Utilizes managerial accounting as a tool to understand financial health of the organization. Explores interaction of various regulatory agencies with the health care industry. Examines managed care, insurance, and other reimbursement models.

Examines political and economic environment as it affects health care organizations. Provides general framework for understanding the making of public policy and applying this framework to health care policy. Prerequisites: ECO 20163 Macroeconomics, ECO 20263 Microeconomics.

Provides overview of management in health organizations with attention to management functions of planning, controlling and organizing. Emphasis on budgeting as application of planning and controlling. Covers setting of objectives, formulation of strategies, decision-making techniques of control and different approaches to establishing authority and responsibility in organizations.

Encompasses the history of leadership theory, leadership styles and the relationship of leadership to ethics, culture, shared governance, individual differences, organizational socialization, technology, decision-making and organizational viability.

Capstone course that guides studnet to an overview of basic management functions performed in health care organizations. Utilizes health care specific examples and cases to explore processes involved in planning and executing strategy, organizing and controlling resources, and effective leadership. Attention given to characteristics of effective management and organizational situations, and the improvement of practice of management.

Seminar for graduating students in which participants develop a major case study in the field of organizational leadership. Issues in a current organization, most often their own, are addressed. Draws from previous courses in the three interdisciplinary areas of communication studies, social and behavioral sciences, and business as issues are identified, analyzed, and discussed.

 

Capstone course that guides student to the integration of functional areas of a business firm and analysis of mission and objectives, external environment, and internal strengths and limitations of an organization. Includes formulation of strategies.  Prerequisites: OAD 40063 Financial Administration, OAD 30563 Management, and OAD 31863 Marketing.

Capstone course that guides student in the integration of functional content areas in the field of professional human resources. Addresses human resource issues and applies human resource theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of decision-making. Prerequisite: Completion by human resources majors of all required core courses for human resources.

Capstone course that guides student in the integration of functional content areas in the field of professional management. Addresses management issues and applying management theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of decision-making. Prerequisite: Completion of all required core courses in the major.

Course is designed for the student to demonstrate knowledge, skills and values relative to criminal justice. Outcomes will culminate in research paper focused on a topic in the major and integrating material from major courses.

Capstone course that guides students in integration of functional content areas in the field of health care management. Addresses health care management issues and applies health care management theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of decision-making. Prerequisite: Completion of all required courses in health care management or permission of advisor.

Capstone course designed to guide the studen in the integration of functional content areas in the fields of public relations and business. Course addresses public relations and business issues and applies applicable theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of decision making.

Capstone course that guides students in the integration of functional content areas in the field of marketing.  Addresses marketing issues and applies marketing theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of strategic decision-making.  Prerequisite:  All core marketing coursework.

Capstone course that guides students in the integration of functional content areas in the field of marketing.  Addresses marketing issues and applies marketing theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of strategic decision-making.  Prerequisite:  All core marketing coursework.