Course Listing For MGMT

MGMT 3000. Management of Organizations and Individuals. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT OF ORG AND IND.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 3000H.
Prerequisite: ACCT 2101 and (MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L).
Management functions and processes as applied to organizations and to individuals in organizations. Topics to be covered include strategy, job and organization design, ethics and social responsibility, diversity, global influences, leadership, motivation, human resource management, and organizational change. Other emerging managerial issues may be introduced.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered every year.

MGMT 3000H. Management of Organizations and Individuals (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT OF ORG/IND HON.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 3000.
Prerequisite: ACCT 2101 and MIST 2090 or CSCI 1100-1100L and permission of Honors.
Management functions and processes as applied to organizations and to individuals in organizations. Topics to be covered include strategy, job and organization design, ethics and social responsibility, diversity, global influences, leadership, motivation, human resource management, and organizational change. Other emerging managerial issues may be introduced.
Offered every year.

MGMT 4000. Operations Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: OPERATIONS MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000H.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Traditional management, total quality management, just-in-time and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Resource management (the integration of these philosophies) focuses on designing, planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and their relationships with other functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered every year.

MGMT 4000H. Integrated Resource Management (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTEGRATED RES MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Traditional management, total quality management, just-in-time and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Resource management (the integration of these philosophies) focuses on designing, planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and their relationships with other functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.
Offered every year.

MGMT 4240. Quality Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: QUALITY MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Managerial, behavioral, technological, and statistical concepts as related to Total Quality Management (TQM). Quality, continuous improvement and productivity are discussed. Focus is on understanding and being able to apply all the concepts throughout any organization (i.e., service, manufacturing, not-for-profit, and governmental).
Offered every year.

MGMT 4250. Productivity Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PRODUCTIVITY MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Personal, process, white collar, and organizational productivity concepts, issues, and measurements. Emphasizes combining these new management philosophies in achieving a competitive advantage of time, quality, and price and their impact on organizational profit. Constraint management and process management concepts are applied to support cross-functional problem identification, analysis, solution, and implementation.
Offered every year.

MGMT 4260. Service Operations Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SERVICE OPER MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Service sector performance and methods designed to improve service sector competitiveness. The operations management decisions in service businesses in relation to productivity, quality, work force management, location, capacity, the effect of new technologies, and international issues.
Offered every year.

MGMT 4800. Internship or Cooperative Education. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: INTERN/CO-OP.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000 or permission of department.
Students are permitted to enter businesses, governmental agencies, or other organizations for the purposes of obtaining practical and applied managerial experience. A paper or suitable project associated with a description and analysis of this experience is required. Only 3 credit hours may be applied toward the fulfillment of major requirements.
Non-traditional format: Internship.
Offered every year.

MGMT 4990H. Honors Thesis. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HONORS THESIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Individual research in the major field.
Non-traditional format: Honors thesis.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5000. Special Topics in Management. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPCL TOPICS MGT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Individual study, readings, or projects under the direction of a faculty member in Management or Management Information Systems.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5220. Project Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PROJECT MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
The planning, scheduling, organizing, implementing, and controlling of single and multiple projects. Project management is an increasing area of concern and requires significantly different approaches to these traditional activities. This course explores traditional and new techniques for this dynamic environment.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5400. Strategic Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRATEGIC MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5400H.
Prerequisite: (MGMT 3000 and MARK 3000 and FINA 3000) or permission of department.
The processes by which managers formulate and implement corporate and business strategies in order to achieve the economic and non-economic objectives of their organizations. The course will integrate the students' knowledge of the basic functional disciplines into a general strategic perspective for managing the whole organization.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5400H. Strategic Management (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRATEGIC MGT (HON).
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5400.
Prerequisite: (MGMT 3000 and MARK 3000 and FINA 3000) or permission of Honors.
The strategic management processes by which managers formulate and implement corporate and business strategies in order to achieve the economic and non-economic objectives of their organizations. The course will integrate the students' knowledge of the basic functional disciplines into a general strategic perspective for managing the organization as a whole.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5440. Business Ethics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUSINESS ETHICS.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Designed to help students deal with the ethical implications of an increasingly complex business world. Covers methods for analyzing and applying personal values, recognizing organizational and environmental forces that influence ethical behavior, and heightening the student's abilities to recognize ethical issues and engage in effective moral debate in a business setting.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered every year.

MGMT 5500. Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formation. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NEW VENTURE.
Prerequisite: (MGMT 3000 and MARK 3000 and FINA 3000) or permission of department.
The contributions that new ventures and small businesses make to the economy and society as a whole. The course integrates the functional knowledge gained in the areas of finance, economics, human resource management, marketing, and operations in order to help prepare the student to manage small or emerging businesses.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5560. International Strategic Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTL STRATEGIC MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
The major problems that confront managers who operate across international boundaries from a base in a single country or who maintain affiliates and subsidiaries in several national jurisdictions. Major emphasis is given to the problems involved in crossing national boundaries.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5580. Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT OF NONPROF ORGS.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Strategic management of nonprofit organizations, from the entrepreneurship of start-up ventures to the evolving missions of established nonprofits. Specific attention is given to board roles, resource development, and fundraising, as well as to the history and legal basis of the nonprofit sector.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5820. Human Resource Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HUMAN RESOURCE MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
An introduction to human resource management. Human resource planning, staffing, training and development, compensation, safety and health, and labor relations.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered every year.

MGMT 5920. Organizational Behavior. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORG BEHAVIOR.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
The interpersonal skills that promote individual, group, and organizational effectiveness. Basic concepts, theories, and practices needed to understand human behavior within work organizations. The class activities are varied and interactive, including experiential exercises, discussions, case analyses, and collaborative learning.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5970. Organizational Change and Innovation Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORG CHANGE & MGT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
Key concepts and theories in organizational change and development. The focus is on the student's development of diagnostic skills necessary for the identification of organizational problems and opportunities and the effective management of organizational change.
Offered every year.

MGMT 5980. Leadership. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: LEADERSHIP.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000.
This course focuses on managerial leadership. A broad survey of theory, research, and practice on leadership in formal organizations. The topic of leadership effectiveness is at the core of this class. Case analyses, experiential exercises, and discussions are used to develop the personal and interpersonal skills needed in leadership roles.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7000. Master's Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MASTER'S RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a master's degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7010. Developing Leadership Skills. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
Leadership skills necessary for managerial work. Class activities are varied, including experiential exercises, discussions, case analyses, and collaborative learning. Activities focus on leadership skills, such as self-awareness, stress management, decision-making, feedback, listening, power and influence, motivation, empowerment, building effective teams, and self-leadership.
Non-traditional format: When this course is offered in the traditional format, it will be offered for three hours of fixed credit with three lecture hours. When it is offered as a PwC course it will be offered for two credit hours with 50% of the class time on campus for 14 days. The remainder of the course requirements will be completed via distance learning projects on the World Wide Web.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7010E. Developing Leadership Skills. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7010.
Leadership skills necessary for managerial work. Class activities are varied, including experiential exercises, discussions, case analyses, and collaborative learning. Activities focus on leadership skills, such as self-awareness, stress management, decision-making, feedback, listening, power and influence, motivation, empowerment, building effective teams, and self-leadership.
Non-traditional format: When this course is offered in the traditional format, it will be offered for three hours of fixed credit with three lecture hours. When it is offered as a PwC course it will be offered for two credit hours with 50% of the class time on campus for 14 days. The remainder of the course requirements will be completed via distance learning projects on the World Wide Web.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7011. Leading Evolving Organizations. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: LEAD EVOLVING ORG.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7010.
This course takes students through the stages of an organization's existence and its corresponding leadership needs, plus looks at specific situations such as leading in crisis. The course will focus on identifying and building leadership skills, and enabling students to match organizational lifestage to leadership style, facilitating appropriate career choices.
Offered fall semester every year.

MGMT 7110. Operations Management I. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: OPERATIONS MGMT I.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000 or MGMT 8010.
Traditional, total quality, just-in-time, and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Operations management is the integration of these philosophies and takes a systems perspective to long- and short-range planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and related functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.
Non-traditional format: For one-year MBA students.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7120. Operations Management II. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: OPERATIONS MGMT II.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000 or MGMT 8020.
Traditional, total quality, just-in-time, and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Operations management is the integration of these philosophies and takes a systems perspective to long- and short-range planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and related functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.
Non-traditional format: For two-year MBA students.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7120E. Operations Management II. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: OPERATIONS MGMT II.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4000 or MGMT 7120 or MGMT 8020.
Traditional, total quality, just-in-time, and constraints management philosophies applied to services and manufacturing. Operations management is the integration of these philosophies and takes a systems perspective to long- and short-range planning, scheduling, executing, controlling, and measuring operations and related functions in providing effective business processes to achieve organizational goals.
Non-traditional format: For two-year MBA students.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7130. Designing, Managing, and Improving Supply Chains. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: DES MAN IMP SUP CHN.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7110 or MGMT 7120.
Supply chain management, just-in-time, and total quality management philosophies are discussed, and organizational goals, strategies, strategic objectives, and performance measures are described. These topics provide the systems perspective for effective supply chains. Objectives are to provide the student the concepts and tools to design, manage, and improve the cross-functional links in supply chains.

MGMT 7130E. Designing, Managing, and Improving Supply Chains. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: DES MAN IMP SUP CHN.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7130.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7110 or MGMT 7120.
Supply chain management, just-in-time, and total quality management philosophies are discussed, and organizational goals, strategies, strategic objectives, and performance measures are described. These topics provide the systems perspective for effective supply chains. Objectives are to provide the student the concepts and tools to design, manage, and improve the cross-functional links in supply chains.

MGMT 7220. Project Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PROJECT MGT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Planning, scheduling, organizing, implementing, and controlling of single and multiple projects. This course explores traditional and new techniques for the dynamic environment of project management.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7260. Service Operations Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SERVICE OPNS MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4260 or MGMT 8260.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Operations management's role in service sector organizational performance. The concepts, skills, and research issues necessary to provide a competitive advantage to the service organization. Productivity improvement, quality of service delivery, work-force management, the impact of new technologies, and international issues.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7270. Advanced Operations Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED OPNS MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4260 or MGMT 8270.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7250 or permission of department.
Process management, constraint management, just-in-time, quality management and traditional management tools applied to cross-functional problems based on case studies and/or actual organization projects from services and manufacturers. Technical analyses, presentations, and writing skills are utilized. Constraint management logic-based analytical processes provide the problem-solving methodology.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7300. Master's Thesis. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 30 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MASTER'S THESIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and thesis preparation.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7400. Strategic Management. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRATEGIC MGT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Applied strategic management theory for business organizations in dynamic and competitive environments. Strategies for the analysis and development of conditions and resources likely to yield competitive advantage combined with the innovation, change, and behavior management imperatives necessary to sustain such competitive advantage.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7410. Strategic Management in a Changing Environment. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRAT MGT CHG ENV.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Elements of strategy with principles of large-scale organizational change. Practical issues related to mental frameworks and human behavior, environmental and competitor analysis, competitive advantage for single- and multi-business firms, stakeholder analysis, and change implementation.
Non-traditional format: Fifty percent of the class time will be face to face, meeting 14 days on campus. The remainder will be completed via distance learning projects on the World Wide Web.
Offered spring semester every year.

MGMT 7410E. Strategic Management in a Changing Environment. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRAT MGT CHG ENV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7410.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Elements of strategy with principles of large-scale organizational change. Practical issues related to mental frameworks and human behavior, environmental and competitor analysis, competitive advantage for single- and multi-business firms, stakeholder analysis, and change implementation.
Offered spring semester every year.

MGMT 7440. Business and Corporate Strategy. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS & CORP STRATEGY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Issues, concepts, and tools for formulating business and corporate strategies that will enable organizations to achieve their goals and objectives effectively and efficiently. Key concepts include industry evaluation, resource-based strategy, sustainable competitive advantage, experience curve analysis, sensitivity analysis, and key success factor analysis.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7460. Managing Change and Innovation. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: MANG CHGE & INNOV.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Managing constant change inherent in modern business, whether driven by technological, environmental, or human innovations. Includes conceptual and theoretical perspectives, as well as practical applications of modern frameworks for managing change.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7500. New Venture Formation. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: NEW VENTURES.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
The process of starting up new businesses, the primary determinants of new venture and small business performance, and the contributions that new ventures and small businesses make to the economy and society as a whole.
Offered fall semester every year.

MGMT 7505. New Venture Feasibility Analysis. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: FEASIBILITYANALYSIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A focus on two major entrepreneurial new venture creation tasks: First, the identification of new economic opportunities in both existing and new markets and, second, the effective and efficient evaluation of the economic feasibility of these opportunities.
Offered fall semester every year.

MGMT 7510. Developing Successful Business Plans. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUSINESS PLANS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Key tasks involved in creating successful business plans and different ways in which each task may be accomplished. The primary course activity involves the preparation of a business plan for a "prospective" new venture.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7515. Entrepreneurship. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying, analyzing, and evaluating new economic opportunities and, when appropriate, of assembling the resources needed to seize these opportunities. The student will identify the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and examine the ways they execute and implement this process.
Offered fall semester every year.

MGMT 7520. Implementing New Venture Plans. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: IMPLEMENTINGNVPLANS.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MGMT 7510 and MGMT 7500.
This course provides student teams the opportunity to start-up proposed business ventures while still in school. Each team will identify the key tasks necessary to start their venture which will be assigned to a team member who is responsible for completing all of their assigned tasks during the course with the help of one or more mentors.
Offered spring semester every year.

MGMT 7530. Small Business Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SMALL BUS MGT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Examines the special challenges facing small businesses in today's society. Integrates from a general management perspective the functional knowledge gained in the areas of finance, economics, human resource management, marketing, and operations in order to help prepare the student to manage such businesses.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7560. International Strategic Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTL STRATEGIC MGT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
The formulation and implementation of integrated corporate strategy by multinational business organizations. The planning, direction, and control of the many flows linking the multinational company to its affiliates while operating within a plurality of political, economic, and sociocultural systems.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7570. Global Management Strategy. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: GLOBAL MGMT STRAT.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A study of how managers formulate and implement global management strategies and learn to manage key environmental factors, such as politics and culture. Focuses on strategic thinking with respect to the challenges implicit in managing the global corporation.
Offered spring semester every year.

MGMT 7580. Management of Nonprofit Organizations. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT NONPROFIT ORGS.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000 or permission of department.
Management of nonprofit organizations, from the entrepreneurship of start-up ventures to the evolving missions of established nonprofits. Specific attention is given to board roles, resource development, and fundraising, as well as to the history and legal basis of the nonprofit sector.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7800. Organizational Diagnosis and Intervention. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORG DIAGNOSIS.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7010.
Methods for gathering and assessing information about problems affecting the performance of the organization (diagnosis), as well as designing interventions to correct the problems.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7810. Change Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CHANGE MGMT.
Prerequisite: MGMT 7010.
The formal and informal structures within an organization. Topics include designing organizational structures, jobs, teams, and work-flow processes; aligning the design of structures with organizational strategy; and assessing supporting relationships, such as decision-making and authority networks.
Offered every year.

MGMT 7990. Directed Study. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIRECTED STUDY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Direct study in management topics for MBA students, giving particular attention to specialized problems in an area related to a student's academic interests.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

MGMT 8990. Directed Study. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 40 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIRECTED STUDY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in management or MIS topics giving particular attention to specialized problems in an area related to a student's academic interests.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9000. Doctoral Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCTORAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9005. Doctoral Graduate Student Seminar. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOC GRAD STU SEM.
Advanced supervised experience in an applied setting. This course may not be used to satisfy a student's approved program of study.
Non-traditional format: Seminar.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.

MGMT 9010. Management Research Methodology. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT RESCH METHODLGY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
The requirements that science places on management research. The importance of theory as a source of research questions, the role of constructs and variables, sampling, measurement, and the design of research to facilitate valid explanations of management phenomena.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9020. Concepts of Organizations. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CONCEPTS OF ORGS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
General exploration and analysis of the academic literature surrounding organizations.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9030. Doctoral Research Seminar. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOC RESEARCH.
Management research with particular emphasis on preparing students for research in different aspects of management.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9280. Operations Management Research Seminar I. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: OPNS MGT RSCH I.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Operations Management literature examining applicable research concepts, theories, and frameworks in the OM field.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9290. Operations Management Research Seminar II. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: OPNS MGT RSCH II.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Selected research topics focusing on providing an understanding of specific areas in the field of Operations Management (OM) and on identifying potential dissertation topics and areas for future research.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9300. Doctoral Dissertation. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 30 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCT DISSERTATION.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9400. Strategic Management Theory. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRAT MGT THEORY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Evolution of major strategic management concepts and theories through in-depth discussions of the literatures which built the field's foundations. The benefits and limitations of key authors' contributions will be reviewed from the prospects of research, teaching, and management practice.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9500. Strategic Management Research. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: STRATEGIC MGT RSCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research in the fields of strategic management, ethics/social responsibility, and entrepreneurship/small business. Includes a discussion of current "cutting edge" literature survey methods, model building and hypothesis generation, research designs, sample and site selection, data gathering methods, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques.
Offered every year.

MGMT 9610. Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO SEM.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A foundation in structural equation modeling methods and techniques. The course progresses from measurement models, including the application of confirmatory factor analysis, to testing actual structural models with single and multiple indicator variables. Emphasis is placed on students actually using the tools.
Offered fall semester every year.

MGMT 9620. Advanced Topics in Structural Equation Modeling. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV TOPICS IN SEM.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Building upon an introductory understanding of structural equation modeling (SEM), this course covers a number of advanced topics, including the analysis of mean structures, multisample analysis, measurement invariance/equivalence, multi-level modeling, latent growth modeling, moderation, mediation and latent class analysis. Emphasis is placed on students actually using the tools.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.

MGMT 9810. Seminar in Organizational Behavior. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SEM IN ORG BEHAVIOR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Classic and current theory and empirical research in organizational behavior. Individual differences, perception, job design, groups, leadership, power, motivation, organizational socialization, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover, absenteeism, withdrawal behaviors and individual performance. The course may also include emerging topics in organizational behavior.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

MGMT 9820. Contemporary Topics in Organizational Behavior. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: TOPICS IN ORG BEHAV.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Contemporary research topics in organizational behavior. An introduction to research areas and streams that are considered emerging and current, not classic, including emotions in the workplace, workplace mentoring, teams, careers, employee engagement to the work context, cynicism, and others.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.