Undergraduate Catalog - Lake Erie College

MN 302 Training and Development (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even years
Pre-requisite(s): Sophomore status, MN 200
This course is a study of training issues, methodology, and
applications associated with the development of skills and
knowledge within the workplace, especially as it impacts
job performance and employee development. Topics
include learning theory and motivation, organizational
needs analysis, approaches to adult learning, types of
training and assessment techniques, together with key
organizational training topics, e.g., Orientation, Diversity.
Development and delivery of formal training sessions will
cap student learning.
MN 310 Operations Management (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall
Pre-Requisite(s): MN 200, MN 216
This course examines the production and operations system
of the firm and appraises the methods available to aid in
management decision-making. Production and inventory
control and general plant management techniques are
surveyed. Both manufacturing and service organizations
are analyzed.
MN 312 Human Resource Management (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall odd years
Pre-Requisite(s): MN 200
An examination of the concepts, practices and problems of
administering human resource functions in an organization.
This course is useful for those pursuing careers as human
resource managers as well as general managers. Topics
covered include recruitment, selection, placement, training,
safety, job design, performance evaluation, employee
services, unions, wage administration and employee
retention.
MN 315 Leadership (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring
A survey course covering the history, philosophy, theories
and concepts of leadership. This course will differentiate
between the roles of the manager and the leader and
provide the student with the foundations of leadership.
MN 320 Organizational Development (4 SH)
Basic, yet comprehensive, overview of organizational
development. Evolution of field, key concepts and methods
that drive organizational development; techniques to
diagnose opportunities for change; and tools to implement
and evaluate organizational development initiatives.
MN 323 Organizational Behavior (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
Pre-Requisite(s): Sophomore standing, MN 200
This course examines the social, psychological, anthropological
and cultural aspects of the workplace. Topics such
as goals, motivation, job satisfaction, communication,
diversity, technology, leadership, teams and conflict are
examined from a human behavioral perspective. Experiential
exercises are used to observe human behavior in
the classroom.
MN 325 Quality Management (4 SH)
TQM principles and practices, leadership, customer satisfaction,
employee involvement, continuous process improvement,
supplier partnership, performance measures,
statistical process control, ISO standards, benchmarking,
quality function deployment, concurrent engineering,
experimental design, Taguchi’s quality engineering and
product liability.
MN 410 Labor Relations (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall odd years
Pre-Requisite(s): MN 200 or permission of the instructor.
An evaluation of labor-management relationships, wage
determination and the factors affecting labor productivity.
Studies also include the objectives and techniques of
management and union leaders and the administration of
the labor relations function.
MN 430 Managing the Small Business (4 SH)
Pre-Requisite(s): MN 200, FN 320, MK 203
A study of the nature of entrepreneurship and discipline
required for owning or managing a small enterprise. The
course examines the risk-reward relationships in new
ventures, legal forms of businesses, roads to ownership
and funding resources for new and existing ventures.
MATHEMATICS (MT)
MT 104 Basic Concepts of Algebra (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
Pre-Requisite(s): Placement
For students with a weak mathematics background:
Intended to prepare students for MT 107 Applied College
Algebra. This course covers the material from secondary
school mathematics: Integers, rational numbers, exponents,
order of operations, algebraic and rational expressions,
ratio and proportions, operations on polynomials,
solving and graphing simple equations, inequalities, Linear
and quadratic equations. Students taking this course should
have had two years of high school math including Algebra
I. Placement is through the mathematics department.
This course does not fulfill the mathematics graduation
requirement.
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