Management Skills and Applications BUSA 7250

Course offerings

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

• Understand the continuing evolution of management concepts, roles, and philosophies.
• Identify some major advantages and challenges faced by the 21st century manager.
• Apply Ethical behaviour in the workplace.
• Identify responsibilities that organizations have to society.
• Maximize individual and organizational effectiveness within the organizational culture and environment.
• Lead organizations to create value for society.
• Understand the essentials of global management and cultural diversity.
• Identify the characteristics of entrepreneurship.
• Use planning and controlling skills to make informed decisions, solve problems and explore potential opportunities.
• Understand and apply essential planning processes and techniques.
• Apply control processes and systems.
• Implement strategic management skills.
• Maximize organizational and individual performance through the structuring of organizational, departments, and jobs.
• Describe how structural contingencies affect individual and group behavior.
• Identify and understand the impact of organizational culture.
• Plan and facilitate change proactively.
• Identify alternative change strategies and types of resistance to change found in organizations.
• Explain how the strategic management of human resources can lead to optimum individual performance.
• ​Develop skills to reach full leadership potential.
• Identify how situational contingencies impact leadership effectiveness.
• Understand individual differences in perceptions, personalities, attitudes and emotions.
• Explain how individual needs motivate behaviour.
• Understand the motivational implications of job designs and work schedules.
• Apply group behaviour concepts to achieve team outcomes.
• Identify ways of improving collaboration through communication.​

Effective as of Fall 2022

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