| Course ID: | MGMT 7410. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Strategic Management in a Changing Environment |
Course
Description: | 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. |
| Oasis Title: | STRAT MGT CHG ENV |
| Nontraditional 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. |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Course Overview & Objectives
This course introduces the concept of strategic management and provides
guidance for applying strategic management principles to dynamic business
situations. The perspective of the course is firm-level and normative; we
will study how managers integrate their firms with their environments to
produce sustainable competitive advantage. |
| Topical Outline: | The following topics are covered in this course:
Fundamentals of Strategic Management
Performance Definition and Measurement
Competition: Analysis & Strategy Development
Resource Based Analysis & Strategy Development
Corporate/Multi-Business Strategies
Strategic Implementation
Adaptation and Change |
| Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge. |