| Course ID: | MGMT 7530. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Small Business Management |
Course
Description: | 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. |
| Oasis Title: | SMALL BUS MGT |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Overview & Objectives:
Small Business Management is a practically oriented course that focuses on
the translation and application of functional knowledge to the management
of small and private businesses. The class is divided into parts, the first
focuses on building a working awareness of small business management; the
second focuses on the practical application thereof. The first portion will
be devoted to lecture, discussion and issue-specific question and answer
sessions. The second portion will be devoted to consultation projects with
real firms. |
| Topical Outline: | The following topics are covered in this course:
· Small Business Management - Issues & Concepts
· Succeeding in Small Business - Keys to Success
· Financing Issues in Small Business Management
· Management Issues in Small Business Management
· Guest Lectures
· Company projects. |
| 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. |