1997-1998 - The University of Scranton

Intro to Business 3 credits
Nature, types, and principles of business. Factors
to consider in starting or choosing a business organization.
Overview of business functions—
finance, marketing, production, accounting, and
management—in an analytical framework.
Attention to business environment: legal, governmental,
social and ethical. Enrollment is restricted
to Associate Business Degree students. Non-business
students may take this course as a free elective
with the permission of the Dean of Dexter
Hanley College.
MGT. 251 Prof. Wormuth
Legal Environment of Business 3 credits
The nature, sources, formation, and applications of
law. The judicial function, the court system, litigation
and other methods of resolving disputes, legislation
law from judicial decisions, law by administrative
agencies, regulation of business activity,
antitrust law, consumer protection, environment
and pollution control. Substantive review of tort,
criminal and insurance law. Full review of property
rights for both personal and real property.
Attention to business organization, principal of
agency, partnership and corporation.
MGT. 351 Staff
(W)Principles of Management I 3 credits
(Prerequisite: Junior standing) Survey course
examines key aspects of organizations and their
management e.g., dynamic environments and their
effects, organization design and structure,
roles/functions of managers, managing technology
and change, global management, and alternative
types of organizations. This course examines the
expanding role of the manager from the traditional
areas of planning, organizing, controlling and
directing to addressing current topics including
issues of workplace diversity. Course will address
the knowledge and skills that managers must
develop in working with others who are different
from themselves.
MGT. 352 Staff
Principles of Management II 3 credits
(Prerequisite: Mgt. 351) Survey course examines
the individual in the work setting working with a
variety of people inside and outside the organization.
This course deals with such issues as motivation,
leadership, communication diversity at the
work place, and with individual effectiveness,
interpersonal relations and group skills.
MGT. 361 Dr. Biberman, Staff
Personnel Management 3 credits
(Prerequisite: Mgt. 351) This course will describe
and explain the preparation of job descriptions,
demographics of labor resources, recruitment policies,
interviewing techniques, hiring contracts, aptitude
testing and performance evaluation, labor
turnover and labor mobility, employee morale,
complaints and grievances, disciplinary procedures,
employee health and safety, wage and hour administration,
and government regulations relating to
labor. The handling of absenteeism, alcoholism, and
drug addiction, and other functional duties of a personnel
department will also be covered.
MGT. 362 Dr. Goll, Staff
Employee-Management Relations 3 credits
(Prerequisite: Mgt. 351) This course will focus on
employee-management practices in contemporary
society. It examines the employee participation in
unions and their spill-over effect on nonunion settings.
Course topics include unions, the collective
bargaining process, wages and benefits, seniority,
grievance procedures, and arbitration.
Discrimination in employment and equal employment
opportunity will be discussed, as well as
future issues in union and nonunion settings and
international employee-management relations.
MGT. 455 Drs. Brumagim, Goll, Tischler
(W)Business Policy and Strategy 3 credits
(Prerequisites: Seniors only, Fin. 351, OIM 352,
Mgt. 352, Mkt. 351) This is the capstone course
for all business majors. Concepts and skills developed
in the prerequisite courses are integrated and
applied to the overall management of an organization.
Topics will include setting objectives, designing
strategic plans, allocating resources, organizational
structuring and controlling performance.
MGT. 460 Dr. Goll, Prof. Hewitt, Staff
Organization Theory 3 credits
(Prerequisites: Mgt. 351) Study of the forces both
within and outside the organization that determine
the structure and processes of an organization.
Topics to be covered will include technology and
size influences, conflict, boundary roles, matrix
structure, political factors and sociotechnical systems.
MGT. 461 Dr. Tischler
Management of Administrative 3 credits
Processes and Change
(Prerequisite: Mgt. 351) This course examines the
process of administration from an open systems
framework. The effects of change, (particularly
technological and environmental change) on
administrative systems life-cycles are discussed.
This course also investigates the effect of total
quality management on administrative systems.
Particular attention will be given to the managing
processes across administrative subsystems.
Topics will include: open systems theory, administrative
systems design, total quality management,
administrative transactions analysis and management,
administrative control of change processes.
MGT. 462 Dr. Brumagim, Staff
Project Management in 3 credits
Organizations
(Prerequisites: Mgt. 351) This course will examine
advanced project management concepts from all
phases of the project lifecycle (from requirements
specification through post-project assessment).
Special emphasis will be placed on understanding
projects within the context of complex organizational
settings by utilizing an open systems perspective.
Linkages with more permanent administration
structures within the organization will be
reviewed. Finally, the effect of current management
trends (such as total quality management) on
project management will be discussed.
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